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[–] [email protected] 135 points 1 month ago

That's the Republican party in a nutshell today. They can't answer because everything that comes out of their mouth is terrible for most people, and they know it.

[–] [email protected] 117 points 1 month ago (1 children)

They want to punish and control anyone who isn't a cis het white Christian evangelical male.

It's Christofascism. Period. End of sentence.

[–] [email protected] 32 points 1 month ago (1 children)

If you look at the history of fascism, you'll find the "christo" part to be surplus to requirements.

Its only when they're non-christian that we need to distinguish them.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 month ago (1 children)

I mean, the abrahamic religions seem to all try to create fascist states. Look at Israel as well as a few middle eastern fascist movements.

Then again, China has also satisfied a lot of the qualifications of fascism in the past century and they are mostly athiest IIRC.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 month ago

Better to look at the three most Christian counties in Europe. Well, at least, the most Christian in the 1920s and 30s

Spain

Italy

Germany

They also had something else in common.

I don't think we can look at patterns of counties that america has taken every chance to fuck over they can, nor a people who wanted socialism but had fascism forced on them. For me, a better yardstick is the counties that chose fascism, embraced it and ran with it.

[–] [email protected] 85 points 1 month ago

As an Australian - Defunding Planned Parenthood should only happen in conjunction with the introduction of Universal healthcare.

Don't need a third party, non-profit-that-chases-profits clinic if you're got a taxpayer funded public hospital that provides those services.

[–] [email protected] 74 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (1 children)

Also federal money cannot be used to fund anything related to abortion at Planned Parenthood due to federal law already.

[–] [email protected] 40 points 1 month ago (1 children)

The video cuts off at "We don't want government funding for abortion...". I can probably guess what else was said but why cut it off there? It doesn't match up with the point they are trying to make.

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

There is already federal law that stops funds going for abortions specifically

[–] [email protected] 11 points 1 month ago

Exactly. Defunding will remove everything else that Planned Parenthood already does which ironically will driving back up the abortion rate.

[–] [email protected] 18 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Always about the talking points, never about the solution. Fuck all the politicians.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 month ago

Well yeah, it's an election, do you think they're going to do anything remotely risky this close to the election? Solutions are for Congressional barter, talking points are for pleb voters.

[–] [email protected] 11 points 1 month ago

It's because he doesn't want to say the answer:

  1. He wants to get rid of contraception too and force people to have kids.
  2. He doesn't care if that means people die of cancer.
[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 month ago

Does anyone have the full clip? I'm having trouble finding it.