• DankZedong
    32•2 years ago

    I swear to Allah that the US could ban gay marriage, ban every form of Social security and make hunting black people legal and half the country would still be like ‘vote!!!’.

    Voting does not fucking work you absolute twats.

    • Muad'DibberM
      27•2 years ago

      Dems currently control the house of reps, senate, and presidency. They had super-majorities during the Obama era, for years. They did absolutely nothing in that time to codify abortion rights into law.

      • DankZedong
        26•2 years ago

        Yeah but you’ve got to consider that they did not do anything because Joe from Auburn, AL and Camilla from Buffalo, NY didn’t vote hard enough. There’s no other reason, just votes. It’s all votes, you see.

    • DankZedong
      19•2 years ago

      ‘Sweaty, you should vote harder! Not voting is what the Republicans (and the Kremlin!!!) want. I am very smart, you see 😎 Just one more democrat vote and it will be all right. Just don’t look at the entire history of the US.’

  • @Leia_Round@lemmygrad.ml
    28•2 years ago

    This country is so fucked. We’re witnessing the fall of the empire into fascism. You’ve got politicians with elected positions openly talking about being Christian Nationalist. Idk how long before political assassinations start becoming the norm in this country, but I feel like we’re getting closer and closer.

  • seahorse [Ohio]
    23•2 years ago

    It would be cool if someone took care of some powerful conservatives. You know, bring them some soup.

    • @bobs_guns@lemmygrad.ml
      16•2 years ago

      If the SCOTUS term is a lifetime appointment then the only practical way for the people to recall bad justices is to end their lives.

  • @panic@lemmygrad.ml
    18•2 years ago

    This is what happens when a country abandons feminism to a brand. I hope USAmericans can follow the example of feminists in the Global South. This looks like hell of an opportunity to radicalize liberals.

    LGBT and racial minorities rights come next

    • nixfreak
      7•2 years ago

      I never understood why “Feminists” was such a bad topic?

      • @panic@lemmygrad.ml
        14•2 years ago

        Any movement that empowers an oppressed class and questions the oppressor will face opposition. In the “first world” anti-feminism had a very successful campaign and what revolutionary ideas existed were abandoned.

        I believe that the idea of “gender oppression is a problem in the third world not here” is what absolutely killed it. The first world feminists just forgot they were part of the same struggle as third world feminists.

        It’s almost like there’s no real liberation under capitalism

        • JucheBot1988
          8•2 years ago

          Also, first-world feminism was quickly diverted into fashionable causes that did no particular harm to the ruling class, and often alienated working-class men and women. For example, insisting that prostitution is “empowering,” or that wanting to bring industrial jobs back is somehow a dogwhistle for 1950s-era sexism. (I’ve seen both these views expressed in mainstream publications like Vox).

          With the abortion issue in particular, first-world feminists shot themselves in the foot. While upholding a woman’s right to bodily autonomy, they also supported neoliberal economics; which of course meant that they supported a system which forces many poor and working-class women to terminate a pregnancy solely for economic reasons. Most Americans support abortion rights. But the “dirty secret” nobody likes to talk about is that, statistically, people with lower incomes are more likely to oppose abortion. Why? Because while working-class women have the most abortions, they are also (paradoxically) the ones with least choice in the matter. Many of them would have liked to carry the pregnancy to term, but were forced to terminate for economic reasons; in other words, the abortion was no more “free” than wage-slavery is. Nearly every poor American has either been in this situation, or knows someone who has been in it. Thus there is an inchoate sense among certain sectors of the working class that abortion amounts to deliberate violence against them by the ruling class; and this view is growing.

          What first-world feminists should have done is insist on proper care for mothers, and wages high enough to support a family on, so that abortion would never become coerced in this manner. But they did not; instead, they talked about the necessity of abortion, not to give women full reproductive autonomy, but to “ensure a child will never grow up in poverty.” Now a wealthy country like the US certainly has the resources to deal with poverty in other ways, or even to eliminate it entirely, so this argument rings very hollow. What it comes down to is that only wealthy white women have a right to choose, while working-class and minority women had better get in line and make an appointment, stat. Of course, this creates a lot of resentment and anger among working class women and men.

          In short: working-class feminism is the only real feminism.

  • Muad'DibberM
    17•2 years ago

    Senate and House of reps just went on recess, sick timing. Straight to the bunkers.

  • Breadbeard
    3•2 years ago

    if your girlfriend needs an abortion, sign the paperwork with your ak-47