“This impacts me now, therefore I allow myself to be rational.”
Cool, I guess.
“This impacts me now, therefore I allow myself to be rational.”
Cool, I guess.
A good representative of the people doesn't wait until it affects them personally, they have empathy for others in situations that they may never experience. Better late than never, I guess.
Such an important distinction and observation, thank you for highlighting and stating it plainly
Problem is that having social power actually affects the brain, suppressing the parts that do empathy.
It will always be harder, neurologically, for someone with power to engage their empathy or to consider the pain of others in their decisions.
Hence gestures at the world.
“I've had enough of politics as performance art,”
I wonder how many republican politicians don't believe the propaganda they are told to spread for money.
Most fascists are in it for personal gain. Hitler's inner circle were notoriously power hungry and backstabbing towards each other.
Probably a lot. I can't look at some of these issues and really believe that someone could look at them and think absolutely not. Who is going to marry someone this day and age and go you don't deserve rights. How can you look at the bombing of children and say oh yeah that's fine. How can you see all of these people dying from gun violence and just think this is fine
It's sad seeing all the negativity in this thread. Breaking free from the cult takes a lot of effort and we should hope that more do the same.
At the same time the dem party needs to get their shit together so anyone coming over doesn't regret their decision.
Only when it directly affects them.
So now Democrats have another right leaning, MAYBE centrist to drag them down and to the right. Cool.
The legislator in the title is Cyrus Javadi. He is a Oregon state level legislator, serving in the lower house. His district is the coastal area west of Portland, and he is now serving his second term, after winning with around a 5% margin.
This makes no difference to the makeup of the Oregonian legislature. Democrats have a majority in the state senate, and a super majority in the house, by two members. It doesn't swing the state's legislature, but it is always a good thing when people can see the errors of their ways and make a change.
That's cool. He still needs to be primaried next election.
Last year, Javadi voted with then-fellow Republicans to recriminalize drug possession in Oregon, leading to nearly 2,600 arrests solely for possession in the year since. Javadi is also anti-abortion, enthusing “The Constitution wins!” after the Supreme Court overturned Roe v. Wade in 2022 in a Facebook post that misleadingly stated “abortions are legal for any reason up to the moment of birth in Oregon.” (Post-viability abortions are extremely rare, and usually occur because of a life-threatening complication or an inability to access care at an earlier stage.) In 2024, Javadi sponsored an unsuccessful bill to place restrictions on abortions after 15 weeks.
Yeah ... oof
when your entire platform is based on hate and violence, there isnt much leeway to do anything actually "conservative"
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