“We don’t believe those rights should be subjected to majority vote.”
Conservatives are testing new tactics to keep abortion off the ballot following a series of high-profile defeats.
In Arizona, Florida, Nevada and other states, several anti-abortion groups are buying TV and digital ads, knocking on doors and holding events to persuade people against signing petitions to put the issue before voters in November.
Republicans are also appealing to state courts to keep referendums off the ballot, while GOP lawmakers in states including Missouri and Oklahoma are pushing to raise the threshold for an amendment to pass or to make it to the ballot in the first place.
The emerging strategy aims to prevent abortion rights groups from notching their third, and largest, set of ballot measure victories since Roe v. Wade was overturned. And while conservatives celebrated the fall of Roe for returning the question of abortion rights to the people, these efforts are seen as an implicit admission that anti-abortion groups don’t believe they can win at the ballot box — even in red states — and that the best way to keep restrictions on the procedure is to keep voters from weighing in directly.
Conservatives: “States’ rights!”
Voters: “Ok.”
Conservatives: “Wait…NOT LIKE THAT!”
Conservatives: “Muh 2AAAAY!”
Groups Conservatives Hate and Threaten: sigh “When in Rome Crazy Conservative Fascist Land…” buys guns “But we’re not going to cuddle with them while we rock ourselves to sleep or name them Betty lou.”
Conservatives: “Wait…NOT LIKE THAT!”
POC, women and LGBT folks are, and have been, the biggest gun buying demographic for a few years. Ain’t that somethin’? This old white guy is here for it.
Gun are not magical protection talismans. Learn, train, go learn and train more. Know your rights, know the laws in your area.
There’s a steep learning/practice curve. For example, the safety rules are childishly simple. What’s not simple is practicing them religiously, practicing until mere knowledge becomes reflex.
And then you have to ask, and answer yourself, under what conditions am I willing to take a human life?
"I do not kill with my gun; he who kills with his gun has forgotten the face of his father. I kill with my heart.”
― Stephen King, The Gunslinger
Think on it.
If you’re willing to go through all that, get a fucking gun. If not, do not.
As someone who served (for school, not the cause), I disagree.
If these fascists get their way and start coming for “undesirables,” better a poor shot than no shot at all. Training dramatically increases the chance of hitting someone, but again, better to have a chance than none at all.
And you can learn the basics in a couple outings. Guns are not a steep learning curve, especially if you focus on a single model. They’re so easy to learn, a willfully illiterate Alabamian can do it. The bar for a successful IKEA assembly is far higher.
Gun people, by that I mean gun fetishizers, just like to play pretend it’s highly technical to be a basic user. Like 90s dads with camcorders.
They’re a dangerous tool largely designed to be user friendly, nothing more.
They only like states’ rights when it’s a way infringe on individual rights.
Regardless of the rhetoric, conservatives will always be regressive on women’s rights, minority rights, and human rights in general.
Unless you’re a wealthy white male (as in Wealthy; rich doesn’t cut it), voting republican is against your best interests.
Hell, even if you are wealthy, it’s not in your interest. Long term, they are just going to create an environment that is going to be hostile to them just existing. Both the actual environment and society.
This is what baffles me about today. Strip our rights, steal our labor, and slap all that wealth within your fortress. Nothing is left to make society work after, so whats the goal? I won’t go to work if working gets me nothing. The snake has found its tail.
See: absolutely constitutionally legal slavery. You’ll work once the pain is bad enough and you’re not allowed to die. Also see: neofeudalism.
“I do not want to see abortion put in our constitution,” said Rep. Brad Hudson, a Missouri Republican. “I believe the right to life is a fundamental right that all human beings have and certainly should not be taken away because of a vote by a simple majority.”
All of them said that each states’ citizens should determine its legality. Could it be that they are fucking liars?
The party of “We-Can’t-Get-What-We-Want-So-We’ll-Change-The -Rules!” at work.
republicans are concerned about two freedoms: the freedom to do what they want, and the freedom to force you to do what they want.
