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[–] 148 points 10 months ago (12 children)

It’s on the Project 2025 list. As such, I expect it to fall, like Roe.

Heritage is clearly funding this erasure of what We The People want.

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  • [–] 20 points 10 months ago (11 children)

    What can we do? Surely we outnumbered these people

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  • [+] 115 points 10 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) (5 children)
  • [–] 136 points 10 months ago (3 children)

    They do and now they have a surveillance state to make sure the riots don’t happen again

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  • [–] 10 points 10 months ago

    The false narrative that basic rights were earned through "civil debate" has been parroted by right wing talking heads for so long.

    Most people are uninformed, and have an impression that rights just kind of happened via peaceful protests or debates, either due to their own ignorance or learning a very whitewashed version of history.

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  • [–] 65 points 10 months ago (6 children)

    The U.S. should revisit if we need a supreme court anymore.

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    [–] 64 points 10 months ago (6 children)

    Gosh it is almost like these MAGAts are just doing whatever the hell they want. I have a few things we can do when we get back in power.

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    [–] 59 points 10 months ago (69 children)

    All the people that didn't vote are partly responsible for this.

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  • [–] 18 points 10 months ago (7 children)

    "The overall turnout of eligible voters in the 2024 general election was 63.7%. This was lower than the 2020 record of 66.6% but higher than every other election year since at least 2004."

    People did vote. Constantly blaming the small group of disillusioned voters is just weird.

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  • [–] 26 points 10 months ago (6 children)

    "The small group" of more than one in three people that didn't vote.

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  • [–] 10 points 10 months ago* (4 children)

    Oh, you were actually aiming at 100% turnout. Well, that's just silly.

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  • [–] 11 points 10 months ago* (2 children)

    mandatory voting looks like a small price to pay for a (more) healthy democracy, Australia seems to be doing a lot better than the other British colonies right now

    of course with the US, something like that would have to be combined with an extensive overhaul of public education (moving away from the "breed compliant factory workers"-goal), because healthy democracy also requires an educated population capable of knowing when they're being lied too

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  • [–] 10 points 10 months ago (1 child)

    Argentina has mandatory voting and they have Milei. How healthy is that?

    Argentina also votes on Sunday (a change way simpler than reforming education) and last elections they had 77% turnout. A lot of people simply don't participate in the democracy and there's no way around it. No one serious expect 100% people to vote and blames the 30% that doesn't for the outcomes.

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    [–] 51 points 10 months ago (2 children)

    So much for individual freedom and small government, huh.

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  • [–] 49 points 10 months ago

    The small government is the biggest lie pushed by the right wing side of our country. In fact, when you read where the money comes from, it actually comes from a "Dark Enlightenment" coalition of techno-fascists looking to dismantle democracy.

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  • [–] 48 points 10 months ago (3 children)

    So predictable. The angry assholes hated losing that ruling, as well as losing the culture war around it. That's why they didn't really give up, but switched to harping on bathroom bills and "men in women's sports". The wedge was trans and they were going to hammer on that until they got enough Confederates in office to, yeah, attack trans, but also go after gays, even if, or even especially because of, the culture being against them for it. They hope to deport, imprison, threaten and smash down enough people to reverse that culture war, too, believe that.

    They won't be happy until they turn on streaming services or their television or go to the movies and won't have to see any gays, unless it is for comic effect or the like. They definitely don't want to see anything normalized...

    This might not be reversed in the near future - maybe. But the weirdoes on the right will treat this just like they did abortion. They won't give up, even if it takes them 50 years to take the rights of others away.

    I just have no idea why gays voted for Taco. Or any Confederates for that matter. It just makes no sense at all. I know some gays IRL who have voted for Taco. Twice. But I guess there was actually a group called "Jews for Hitler", too, until the Nazis shut it down...

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  • [–] 14 points 10 months ago (1 child)

    That’s why they didn’t really give up, but switched to harping on bathroom bills and “men in women’s sports”.

    I'm so glad democrats circled the wagons around vulnerable minorities on this one. Can you imagine if they just ignored it and let republicans set the narrative, or worse, ran the "men in women's sports" hate in their own ads?

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    [–] 37 points 10 months ago (4 children)

    Well, Trump has taught us that you can ignore the Supreme Court if your party controls Congress. So if there ever is another Democrat president with Democrat control of Congress, just revert all this and ignore whatever the SC says.

    We should only be elevating Democrats who make it clear they are ready to play hardball.

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    [–] 37 points 10 months ago (1 child)

    Do you mean that when the concurrence for the overturning of Roe v Wade said that they should also have another look at marriage equality, that meant that this was on the roadmap? Huh. Who could have possibly seen this coming?

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    [–] 35 points 10 months ago (10 children)

    They might just punt it to the states like they’ve been doing. Welcome back to the 90’s.

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  • [–] 42 points 10 months ago (9 children)

    I won’t be surprised when inter-racial marriage and slavery are back on the docket.

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  • [–] 25 points 10 months ago (1 child)

    They’re starting with trans, working their way to gay. Trans was their gateway item, it helped get them elected. (They tried gay marriage during campaigning, it didn’t stick, there was too much public support). Even so, now that they’re in, they’re going there.

    This is all per Project 2025. They’re not going to touch slavery, but the items with a religious, Heritage mandate will be torn apart.

    They’re going to hit hard when they get to women, not just an erosion of legal status but bodily autonomy. Ownership, by men, in terms of loss of legal status in re to pregnancy. Remember, MAGA ran on a reaction to women’s lib.

    They’ve already declared decreased fertility, the current 1.6 replacement rate, a matter of national security.

    They’re just grabbing more power (and money) and beating the public down into a more complacent state before kicking 51% of the population in the head.

    P25 dismantles HIPAA and ends death with dignity at the national level as well. The religious mandates are pretty awful. I do not have much hope that gay marriage will survive the Supreme Court.

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  • [–] 13 points 10 months ago* (2 children)

    Slavery never ended though. Hell, I'm pretty sure it's not even illegal

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  • [–] 34 points 10 months ago

    Fuck Kim Davis

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  • [–] 27 points 10 months ago (9 children)

    Yep, this was the logical follow-up to Dobbs.

    Thanks, non-voters.

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    [–] 25 points 10 months ago

    I thought I never had to hear about Kim Davis again. I never want to hear or think about that toad again. What a shame

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  • [–] 22 points 10 months ago (4 children)

    Once again, 'both sides'ers.

    This is what they were ranting about doing all along. You allowed this to happen.

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    [–] 19 points 10 months ago (2 children)

    Stay tuned… interracial marriage will be on the chopping block.

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    [–] 18 points 10 months ago* (1 child)

    Would they hear the case if a court clerk said she would no longer hand out marriages for anyone not religious as that is offensive to them?

    Or maybe people who are left handed marrying people who are right handed? The abomination!

    Where does this bullshit stop?

    Government should NOT be interested in marriage. They simply should not care. The MOST they should do is have ready to made contracts if they want to manage divorce, child support, and death wealth distribution. Those are contracts. Contracts are made between consenting adults. The government either lets their citizens enter into contracts or not.

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    [–] 17 points 10 months ago

    This is my 0% surprised face

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  • [–] 16 points 10 months ago (4 children)

    Good thing so many of us "protested" the election, what could possibly go wrong, right?

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    [–] 14 points 10 months ago

    Wait until they challenge the equality of man and woman in a marriage...

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  • [–] 13 points 10 months ago (4 children)

    Yet another freedom that Yankees are happily throwing away lmao god it's like watching an entire nation commit self harm hahah

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    [–] 9 points 10 months ago

    I am so ready to pack my shit and never come back if marriage equality falls.

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