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Missouri Republicans were able to swiftly overturn abortion rights and paid sick leave using an uncommon procedural move, sparking outrage from Democrats and advocates who say the legislature has ignored the will of the people.

In November 2024, Missouri voters passed two major ballot initiatives: Amendment 3, which reinstated abortion rights lost after the fall of Roe v. Wade, and Proposition A, which guaranteed paid sick leave for over 700,000 workers, the Missouri Independent reported.

Both passed with strong support across party lines, with Proposition A earning 58% of the vote. Since their passage, conservative lawmakers have worked to undermine or reverse the measures, citing economic concerns and ideological opposition.

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[-] [email protected] 113 points 2 weeks ago

It kinda seems like the US' democracy is completely worthless.

[-] [email protected] 52 points 2 weeks ago
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[-] [email protected] 14 points 2 weeks ago

Each state has its own Constitution, legislature, executive branch, and judiciary.

[-] [email protected] 12 points 2 weeks ago

And they're all worthless.

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[-] [email protected] 57 points 2 weeks ago

Missouri is not a victim, this is the exact experience they desire.

Roughly 60% of Missouri residents, during the 2024 election, voted for a traitor, felon, and fascist.

Aggressive ignorance is the new American pastime.

https://www.cnn.com/election/2024/results/missouri

[-] [email protected] 74 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago)

Absolutely bonkers to go “40% of the state voted against Trump, therefore everyone here wanted and deserves to have the measure they passed by 58% overturned.”

[-] [email protected] 17 points 2 weeks ago

40% of the state did not vote against fascism. Your response is disingenuous and maliciously misleading.

33% of the state did not even bother to show up and vote. Not voting is tantamount to approval of either option.

https://www.sos.mo.gov/CMSImages/ElectionResultsStatistics/Nov2024OfficialVoterTurnout.pdf

[-] [email protected] 17 points 2 weeks ago

40% of people who voted didn’t vote for fascism. Using the votes of someone’s neighbors to determine whether or not they deserve healthcare is deranged.

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[-] [email protected] 6 points 2 weeks ago

Ok but then 60% didn't vote for fascism either, you'd have to compare it as 27% against, 33% don't care, and 40% for.

[-] [email protected] 5 points 2 weeks ago

If we're counting people not voting as voting for fascism, then Trump has an overwhelming mandate to take over the nation.

[-] [email protected] 10 points 2 weeks ago

Well, i mean - he did take over the nation, so - ?

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[-] [email protected] 3 points 2 weeks ago

Are these apathetics not still showing that he does? Are those non-voters of Missouri protesting or fighting back or are they just continuing on with whatever while willfully ignorant that their country has a fascist dictator who's holding people without trial in inhumane conditions or sending them to be tortured and killed in el Salvador.

[-] [email protected] 4 points 2 weeks ago

You act like the voter turnout in missouri was less than most other states.

[-] [email protected] 7 points 2 weeks ago

Also there are a lot of misinformed voters, who were told that things like P2025 are just jokes to "trigger the left".

[-] [email protected] 3 points 2 weeks ago

Being a misinformed voter is a choice.

They are not poor victims.

They are lazy asshats that wanted to believe obvious but comfortable lies, over having to do 10 minutes of work and dealing with uncomfortable truths.

I'm sick and tired of this handwringing for the poor, willfully ignorant voters who couldnt be bothered to question a single thing, or listen to anything that challenges their preconceived notions.

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[-] [email protected] 50 points 2 weeks ago

Republicans aren't fit to govern.

[-] [email protected] 22 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago)

Republicans aren't fit to ~~govern~~ breathe

[-] [email protected] 30 points 2 weeks ago

Yeah, just like when the idiots in Missouri voted against Right to Work and elected Republicans to the state government and lo and behold, the newly minted Republicans attempted to pass Right to Work.

They are not smart people.

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[-] [email protected] 26 points 2 weeks ago

"We the people" folks must be ready to protest right?

Republicans do not want to represent. They want to rule.

[-] [email protected] 11 points 2 weeks ago

Dems/liberals/progressives aren’t “people” to Republicans. They’re the outgroup, the “other”, effectively dehumanized.

[-] [email protected] 26 points 2 weeks ago

Keep voting Republican, Missouri.

[-] [email protected] 21 points 2 weeks ago

Proof 1,056,344 that both sides, in fact are not the same.

[-] [email protected] 21 points 2 weeks ago

Nazis don’t believe in voting.

[-] [email protected] 20 points 2 weeks ago

Wait... You guys don't even have paid sick leave....?

[-] [email protected] 18 points 2 weeks ago

We have to use PTO for normal sick days and file for short-term disability for illness that lasts weeks or a few months. And if you have a job without those benefits you get nothing.

The U.S. tied its Healthcare to employers to keep its citizens slaves to corporate America.

[-] [email protected] 8 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago)

Its how wages have stayed so stagnant for 20 years.

cause people cant fight or leave, cause their healthcare depends on it.. especially if they have a very ill spouse/child

and they've taken so long to implement the 15 dollar minimum wage, that by the time its fully rolled out it will just be the new 7.25 with all the buying power it'll have with inflation and everything else, so nothing will fundamentally change for anyone.

[-] [email protected] 6 points 2 weeks ago

And people get shamed for using it.

[-] [email protected] 12 points 2 weeks ago

Freedom to work while you're sick!

[-] [email protected] 6 points 2 weeks ago

I had to explain to my teenage son why I had to keep going to work when I broke my toe last year. And that was basically it. Lol

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[-] [email protected] 20 points 2 weeks ago

People are acting like this is the first time republicans have willfully ignored the results of an election.

[-] [email protected] 17 points 2 weeks ago

People still think votes matter? We lost that back in November.

[-] [email protected] 15 points 2 weeks ago

One of the worst states in the country easily

[-] [email protected] 12 points 2 weeks ago

There's a reason it sounds an awful lot like "Misery".

[-] [email protected] 9 points 2 weeks ago

Its the Florida of the midwest

[-] [email protected] 8 points 2 weeks ago

Could be worse. Could be Alabama.

[-] [email protected] 3 points 2 weeks ago
[-] [email protected] 3 points 2 weeks ago

At least we have Northwest Arkansas. Missouri just has alcoholism.

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[-] [email protected] 7 points 2 weeks ago

Nope... Florida sucks but no where as much as MO.

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[-] [email protected] 15 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

Yeah, they're afraid of the backlash of recent events. There's nothing empathetic, or altruistic about it.

[-] [email protected] 11 points 2 weeks ago

you can spell missouri without misery.

[-] [email protected] 4 points 2 weeks ago

They just won't let you

[-] [email protected] 11 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago)

Next election on the ballot.

Ballot measures by the people cannot be revoked / overturned / undone or in any way shape or form be contradicted, other than through a future ballot measure at the following election. ANY ATTEMPT TO DO SO BY AN ELECTED OFFICIAL IN ANY MANNER WHATSOEVER RESULTS IN THEIR IMMEDIATE DECAPITATION IN A PUBLIC SQUARE.

[-] [email protected] 4 points 2 weeks ago

Sort of. They changed the law to repeal the paid sick leave from Proposition A.

They couldn't force a change to the state constution that grants abortion rights. They did force a new amendment to go on the ballot to overturn the rights grated by Amendment 3.

The new amendment would remove the right to abortion with some exceptions not in the previous abortion restriction laws. It will be up to the voters.

Hopefully they don't pass the new restrictions but it could go either way.

[-] [email protected] 4 points 2 weeks ago

this is definitely LAMF

Missouri voted for a Republican government.

Missouri voters thought liberal views were going to be allowed?

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