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[–] [email protected] 2 points 7 hours ago

So, in the state where it's completely OK to sacrifice an innocent child, because the vaccine has "bad stuff" in it - most likely the people saying that could not list ingredients, of course, while other pregnant women who've lost their pregnancies are regularly suspected of sabotaging, or otherwise finding ways to abort their pregnancies. The same state that's also trying to extradite a doctor from NY over sending abortion medication to a TX resident.

So, the lesson here is to not abort an unwanted pregnancy, but instead, let the child be born, then decide you have an issue with vaccinations, before tossing your child into parks, play dates, and the brick & mortar petri-dish all parents know schools to be? I'm just trying to figure out the rules here....so a fetus is a person, but a child is not? Or maybe women don't get to make choices with their bodies, but parents get to make choices for their children's bodies? Of course parents make choices on their children's behalf every day, but these choices?

Oh, and lets not forget, that meanwhile, Catholic Health Initiatives-Iowa, a faith-based health care provider, is arguing in a medical malpractice case that the loss of an unborn child does not equate to the death of a “person” for the purpose of calculating damage awards. Gee, what an awfully convenient twist in the rules, when money enters the scene - depending upon how this all plays out.

[–] [email protected] 10 points 15 hours ago (2 children)

are there even any leftists left in shitter?

[–] [email protected] 3 points 9 hours ago

Bernie Sanders?

The guy the DNC fought against to give us Hillary.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 13 hours ago

Lots of addicts who can't leave, yes

[–] [email protected] 27 points 21 hours ago (1 children)

There is no viable party that is against the military industrial complex.

If you take a step back and look at the Democrats and Republicans, they agree and overlap on far more many issues than they differ. Indeed, in the context of a lot of foreign governments, both of our parties would be considered dangerously right-wing. Yet, there's no serious opposition in the US, as you say.

The issue has been falsely bifurcated in the USA where looking elsewhere is "throwing your vote away". Yet, without an alternative party, there are many problems in the USA which are just non-starters, like pacifism. Totally unthinkable under either party's operational guidelines.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 15 hours ago* (last edited 15 hours ago) (3 children)

I have to wonder, why DOESN'T the US have any other significant parties? Like you clearly have them but they're practically irrelevant.

Here in Canada we also have a winner takes all voting system (which is unfortunate. But we hope to change in the future) but smaller parties like the NDPs and greens still manage to hold some relevance even if at least at a regional or provincial level.

Hell, in 2011 the NDP was the opposition against Harper's CPC with the Liberals doing worse than they ever had.

During the Ontario Provincial election while the Liberals lost seats to the Tories the greens held both their seats and NEARLY got a 3rd.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 13 hours ago (1 children)

It's no accident. Both parties collude to make sure a 3rd does not arise. The saying "voting 3rd party is throwing your vote away" is very, very common. Your classification of these parties as practically irrelevant is very accurate, because I don't believe any other party has cracked double digit % at the federal level.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 6 hours ago

I was wondering about that though. I'm not from the US so I don't understand the depths of the system. But wouldn't a third party only have to get a super tiny amount of votes, to become part of the government? Let's say Democrats and Republicans have 48% of the vote. And there is a third party that got 4% (in actual Electors) .

They would either have to include the small party and make some concessions to them, or agree with the other big party on a president.

Like that it should at least be possible to push a single topic through, like free Medicare. And then just work with whichever party is less against it.

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[–] [email protected] 13 points 21 hours ago* (last edited 21 hours ago)

123 Murdered so far...

https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2025/4/14/us-attacks-on-yemen-killed-123-people-since-mid-march-health-authorities

We need to burn the slaver's constitution and replace it with a modern document if anything.

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