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[–] DirkMcCallahan 200 points 1 month ago

Conservatives did this. Trump was the tool they used, but this would have happened under Jeb! or any other Republican president as well.

Don't let the rest of the party off the hook. They all own this.

[–] [email protected] 148 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (32 children)

Democrats did this by not codifying

This kind of gaslighting should not be tolerated. Everyone take a moment and block that troll.

That's like saying that the burgler that bypassed your locks by smashing a window is fully justified because you didn't put cages over the glass. Reproductive rights were protected by 50 years of precedent. Roe was established case law for decades and was overturned by a court that rejected how the judicial branch was working and has worked for centuries by ignoring precedent, accepting a case on weak standing to challenge it, and arguing that the established case law was wrong on shakey arguments.

Don't let right-wing nuts lie to you about objective reality.

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[–] negativenull 124 points 1 month ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 47 points 1 month ago

We can help make that happen

Canvass, Phone bank, Textbank, etc. for Texas Democrats:

https://www.mobilize.us/texasdemocrats/

Write letters to likely dem voters in Texas to make sure they turnout!

https://votefwd.org/campaigns

[–] Myxomatosis 78 points 1 month ago (8 children)

I’m a nurse and there is no amount of money you could possibly pay me to work in Texas again. That entire state is hostile towards healthcare workers.

[–] just_another_person 41 points 1 month ago

...and women, and LGBTQ folks, and logic, and laws...

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[–] _bcron_ 60 points 1 month ago

Amber Thurmond should still be alive. And there are a lot of people who should still be alive, and I certainly wish that she was. - JD Vance at the debate

We've got to do so much better of a job at earning the American People's trust back on this issue where they frankly just don't trust us. - Also JD Vance at the debate

Not hard to connect these dots JD

[–] [email protected] 40 points 1 month ago

Today is the last day to register to vote in the Nov 2024 election in Texas. Vote.gov

[–] banshee 37 points 1 month ago

I'd like to take this opportunity to blame Citizens United and the lack of regulation on the advertising industry.

Social media companies seek greater engagement to increase their main source of revenue: advertising. Extremist opinions on topics like abortion receive greater engagement, so algorithms optimize accordingly.

[–] [email protected] 30 points 1 month ago (3 children)

I think a lot of people forget the automatic abortion bans specifically set up for the overturning of Roe v Wade. Republicans have wanted this for over 50 years. It's like pointing a remote control rocket launcher at your neighbor's house and then lobbying to get rocket launcher related domestic terrorisms legalized. Okay, maybe a bit extreme, but still your pregnant neighbor dies with an unborn child in either case, so...

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[–] [email protected] 20 points 1 month ago (1 children)

We need to post birth abort some of these Supreme Court justices

[–] [email protected] 9 points 1 month ago

Won't someone rid us of these meddlesome justices?

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