While Eva Burch spoke on the Senate floor about her planned abortion, almost all of her GOP colleagues found something else to do
The cruelty is the point.
She added that, if GOP lawmakers are unwilling to respond to the reproductive health care needs of women, she hopes that voters will get a chance later this year. A push to enshrine the right to abortion in the state’s constitution is well on its way to qualifying for the November ballot.
What a bullshit country. Absolutely embarrassing.
Their plan is working. We’re too busy talking about basic rights while they fuck us over on shit like climate change and education.
Yes, but I’m not going to let them lynch, deport or force birth on any of my homies. If they want to burn the planet down they’re in the same shit we are, but they aren’t being effected by the changes to basic rights that they’re proposing.
If they want to burn the planet down they’re in the same shit we are.
They have considerably more wealth. If/when food and water get scarce they’ll have a considerable advantage, if the current system continues as it is.
Bruh, we are busy discussing our fucking genital identities and who to gets to fuck whom.
I wish it was about climate and education, but literally both sides think they’re immune to propaganda and are on the right side of history.
Conservative voters clearly want some sort of change but aren’t articulate enough to know what it is or eloquent enough to ask. They want someone to get into the government and fuck up the process as an act of protest. But they don’t know how to ask for that. Instead they vote in the loud, viscous remains of a person with a fragile ego to be the damage they want done to those who they think wronged them.
Cruelty is the point.
The issue is that a lot of people have every good reason to be pissed at the state of the world and to be angry that it isn’t changing for the better. The Republicans sure aren’t ever going to make things better, but their entire marketing technique is based on harnessing that anger. Democrats, on the other hand, seem to mostly be afraid of even acknowledging that the anger and its causes even exist, and that’s one of their biggest weaknesses.
“We’re the Democrats we can’t possibly be responsible for any of this frustration and anger. Also have you heard those young people talking about workers rights and not supporting genocide? Ah to be young and naive.”
Why do we allow our politicians to refuse to do their job and just leave when they don’t want to deal with something?
Fucking make them go, listen, debate or kick their ass out.
It’s like when the government refuses to comment on something. Motherfucker you are a servant of the state, you are under our mandate. We tell you to speak, you fucking speak you dancing fucking monkey.
We need a new system. We can’t be running shit the same way in the AI age and a global population of, what, 9 billion?
Our old systems of governance did NOT scale.
Consider the population of the US in the 1700’s. We have about a hundred times that now, but the same amount of representatives.
That means that every representative today has power over a hundred times more people than originally when the constitution was written.
That changes everything.
A lot of time the government refuses to comment on something because doing so would conflict with law, undermine an active criminal or civil case, or they are still working on it.
Saying “the government” in one broad general statement shows some degree of ignorance as to how the very systems you say “do not scale” work.
Yeah big parts of it are fucked up. A lot of politicians are power hungry sociopaths. But there are a whole lot of civil servants that work their asses off every day for below market rate pay in spite of how fucked up it is trying to make it better in a tangible way.
Maybe saying “the political system” might be more accurate than “the government” because a lot of the government is working pretty well despite the political system being so fucked up.
No… The house of representatives has grown multiple times with the last permanent growth in 1913. It did temporarily grow by 2 when Alaska and Hawaii were made states, but went back to 435 after those states got their appropriations of representatives.
cant wait until someone proposes a gun ban, on the precedent of the abortion ban. Will be a funny day.
But that doesn’t really make sense, there is no federal law about abortion, the constitution protects gun ownership.ax
yeah, that’s my point.
There was a federal law about abortion. We dont have it anymore.
Except it was written nowhere near as explicitly.
idk man it was pretty explicit, considering the fact that the second it was removed, legislation went into place in order to ban it on a state level. Seems pretty explicit to me.
Wdym? The SCOTUS ruling was explicit, the constitution never mentioned it though.
yeah, idk if you noticed, but generally, theres this pretty cool thing about the US government where its really fucking bloated, and so anything can come from anywhere. It’s not like amendments are set in stone either. I mean slavery would be a thing still otherwise, and women wouldn’t have rights.
Yeah no but amendments have to be explicitly changed.
Technically, both gun ownership rights and abortion rights were based on supreme Court interpretation of the 2nd and 14th amendments (respectively). Given the reversal of the right to abortion under the 14th amendment, an argument could be made that a similar reversal is due for the 2nd amendment as well. The 2nd amendment could simply be interpreted to mean that gun ownership is only a right as part of a "well regulated militia.'. In my opinion, that is the plain meaning of the provision anyway, but I’m just a gun toting liberal that doesn’t get sexually aroused or validated by the size of my firearm.
A single Republican even bothered to stay to listen to her. Kudos to Sen. Ken Bennett for that, albeit small, act.
