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J.D. Vance Endorsed a National Abortion Ban in the Grossest Way Possible (www.rollingstone.com)

submitted 4 months ago by jeffw to c/politics

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[–] partial_accumen 143 points 4 months ago (1 children)

“I certainly would like abortion to be illegal nationally,” Vance said in the episode, explaining why regulating abortion at the state level wouldn’t work. “Let’s say Roe v. Wade is overruled,” he said. “Ohio bans abortion … you know, in let’s say 2024. And then, every day, George Soros sends a 747 to Columbus to load up disproportionately black women to get them to go have abortions in California. And of course, the left will celebrate this as a victory for diversity.”

J.D., abortion is legal in Ohio because voters put it on the ballot as a citizen lead imitative. We got reproductive freedom (including abortion) written into our goddamn State Constitution because our republican "representatives" continuously refused to listen to the will of the people.

[–] [email protected] 47 points 4 months ago (2 children)

From a neighbor one state away, congrats again on that BTW (and on recreational marijuana).

[–] apocalypticat 27 points 4 months ago (3 children)

Thank you neighbor. You should also know those authoritarian fuckers are doing all that they can to make ballot initiatives illegal or impossible to get through.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 4 months ago

You should also know those authoritarian fuckers are doing all that they can to make ballot initiatives illegal or impossible to get through.

@Montana Secretary of State

[–] admiralpatrick 4 points 4 months ago

At least you have them. We don't :'(

[–] [email protected] 3 points 4 months ago (1 children)

They're trying that here in Missouri for the same reason: the people keep overriding the legislature with ballot initiatives.

How fucked is it that, for all of us.

[–] apocalypticat 3 points 4 months ago

A reminder that democracy is constantly under attack and that we should never give up the fight.

[–] MintyFresh 9 points 4 months ago

Lol Indiana sucks donkey dick.

[–] [email protected] 71 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago) (2 children)

Learning about Vance over the last few days has been intriguing (I didn't even know he existed until a couple of weeks ago).

The overall impression I get...

Imagine that for every situation an individual is in, there's a number of different lines of dialogue they can choose (like a romance game).

Then imagine that each response is labeled - there's the kind response or the strong response or the selfish response or the funny response or whatever.

It's as if in essentially every single situation, regardless of any other factors, J.D Vance chooses the asshole response.

[–] Nightwingdragon 19 points 4 months ago (2 children)

The dialogue setup in the video game Fallout is exactly this. Just a useless tidbit for those who don't know.

[–] EleventhHour 5 points 4 months ago (1 children)

I was thinking exactly this, lol

[–] meco03211 5 points 4 months ago (3 children)

Whenever you're asked for help you get the option of yes, yes, sarcastic yes, and not yet but it'll be a yes later.

[–] EleventhHour 5 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago)

And every once in a while, you get the, “I know we were just trying to murder each other, but have you thought about a relationship?” options, which can be interesting when you find out the apocalypse made everyone bisexual, including the robots

[–] [email protected] 2 points 4 months ago

This sounds more like Starfield.

Do you wish to say: yes, snarky yes, aloof yes, or ok fine

[–] Jesus_666 2 points 4 months ago

Of course this is mostly a 3D Fallout issue. Fallout and Fallout 2 had more intricate dialogues, Fallout Tactics isn't an RPG, and Brotherhood of Steel is obviously perfect and doesn't have any issues.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 4 months ago (1 children)

Wasn’t JD Vance a Fallout character?

[–] Passerby6497 8 points 4 months ago (1 children)

I thought fallout characters had better writing.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 4 months ago (1 children)

He's one of those Fallout 2 NPCs that only has floating dialogue.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 4 months ago

Worse, he is a Fallout Tactics random stop NPC.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 4 months ago (2 children)

So absolutely identical to Trump? I get why he was picked now.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 4 months ago

Vance was picked because he is Peter Thiel’s little bitch, and Thiel is Musk’s bitch. No other reason.

[–] SatansMaggotyCumFart 42 points 4 months ago (2 children)

No wonder Trump picked him.

I liked when JD Vance called Trump America’s Hitler.

[–] disguy_ovahea 14 points 4 months ago

He didn’t change his opinion of Trump. He changed his opinion of Hitler.

[–] barsquid 3 points 4 months ago

Repubs like it too.

[–] [email protected] 40 points 4 months ago

I think these articles should also include his pre-VP consideration comments on Trump and his policies. Gold like these:

In a February 18, 2016, USA Today column, he wrote, "Trump's actual policy proposals, such as they are, range from immoral to absurd."

In April 2016, Vance said, "Trump is unfit for our nation’s highest office".

In a private message in 2016, Vance wrote, "I go back and forth between thinking Trump is a cynical asshole like Nixon who wouldn't be that bad (and might even prove useful) or that he's America's Hitler."

[–] Myxomatosis 12 points 4 months ago

I’m so sick of this guy already.

[–] [email protected] 10 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago) (1 children)

in the Grossest Way Possible

For those that don't want to click through:

“I certainly would like abortion to be illegal nationally,” […]

“Let’s say Roe v. Wade is overruled,” he said. “Ohio bans abortion … you know, in let’s say 2024. And then, every day, George Soros sends a 747 to Columbus to load up disproportionately black women to get them to go have abortions in California. And of course, the left will celebrate this as a victory for diversity.”

[–] Decoy321 7 points 4 months ago

Woooow. That's just unbelievably stupid. What's even more depressing is that people actually fall for this shit.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 4 months ago (2 children)

Wait. Don't they hate black people? Why would they want more around if that were so. None of this makes sense. "I feel like I'm taking crazy pills!!"

[–] [email protected] 27 points 4 months ago (1 children)

Unwanted pregnancies lock people and their future kids in worse material conditions.

[–] CharlesDarwin 5 points 4 months ago

It also creates a group they can point at while nattering on about "choices".

[–] [email protected] 10 points 4 months ago

What's the point of being the master race if there's nobody to be master of?

[–] [email protected] 6 points 4 months ago

Can JD Vance STOP WEARING GIRLS MAKEUP? That's ILLEGAL!

[–] [email protected] 5 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago)

The grossest way possible? I don't see what he's saying here that's outside the norm for the pro-life side. Black women have abortions at approximately 4.5 times the rate of white women. If you believe allowing abortion is harmful, then such harm happens disproportionately often to black people.

(A similar argument can be made if you believe that banning abortion is harmful. Either way, black people are more affected.)

[–] Fedizen 3 points 4 months ago

man this guy sucks. He's like if hillary clinton was a die-hard republican.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 4 months ago

This is the best summary I could come up with:

Vance sat down with Aimee Terese — a pundit and podcaster little known to the American public, but prominent in the sloppy trenches of hyper-online digital reactionaries — and removed his filter.

And then, every day, George Soros sends a 747 to Columbus to load up disproportionately black women to get them to go have abortions in California.

The news that came out of Ohio after Roe was overturned and the state banned the procedure wasn’t George Soros loading up 747s in Columbus to transport women to California for abortions.

No, the national news story out of Ohio was about a 10-year-old girl who had to travel to Indiana for an abortion, after she was raped by her mother’s boyfriend.

Last year, after Ohio voters enshrined the right to abortion access in the state’s constitution through a ballot referendum, Vance was distraught.

“There is something sociopathic about a political movement that tells young women (and men) that it is liberating to murder their own children,” he added.

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