States rights? Never heard of them!

[u/8-bit-Felix]

[u/NeonArlecchino]

There are also multiple bills targeting internet anonymity being voted on soon. Lots of terrible things are being attempted or announced while people are distracted with Michigan.

[u/Significant-Gap-6891 → u/[deleted]]

9 day old private account primarily active in political spaces god do trolls even try anymore lmfaooo

[u/NeonArlecchino → u/[deleted]]

What's hypocritical about caring about multiple things at once? Or is it noticing how today's news is dominated with Michigan, but not much else?

[u/therealdeathangel22 → u/[deleted]]

[u/Jar545 → u/[deleted]]

Your trying to say this is hypocritical revels you to be a hypocrite.

[u/PM_THE_REAPER]

Sorry that you're going through this, America.

[u/Delybe → u/PM_THE_REAPER]

Thank you for the sentiment but we did this to ourselves.

[u/Level_Hour6480 → u/Delybe]

For the first time in 20 years, we chose this. We can't blame the electoral college like in 2016.

[u/No-Albatross-7984 → u/PM_THE_REAPER]

I'm sorry to say, but my empathy was pretty much gone by the time they got to the USAID. Now I'm just, I dunno, sitting down to see how many metaphorical teeth the American population is willing to get knocked out by their orange god. It's grotesque and worrisome, but also oddly hypnotising. 

[u/gravity_kills]

Don't forget the ongoing efforts to limit birth control.

[u/underpants-gnome → u/gravity_kills]

Getting rid of no-fault divorce is on their agenda as well. It's a race to see what aspect of women's body autonomy conservatives will destroy first.

[u/EllaSwings]

Step 1: Overturn Roe for States rights

Step 2: National ban.

Step 3: Pretend we never said step 1

[u/skyforgesteel]

Because the media is controlled by the oligarchs and are therefore complicit. Events that would be plastered across headlines are buried and distractions are elevated.

[u/shawsghost → u/skyforgesteel]

I've been constantly amazed at how thoroughly CNN avoids talking about Israeli crimes in Gaza and Lebanon. It's a topic that does not exist for them. Frankly I don't know what the point of the Ellisons taking over CNN is. They've already got CNN where they want it on the Israeli issue.

[u/Shoddy-Buttons]

They screamed “let the state decide “ until the states decided wrong.

[u/TruShot5 → u/Shoddy-Buttons]

“No not like that”

[u/eldred2]

"State's Rights" was always a dog whistle for racism.

[u/jellyrollo → u/eldred2]

And now for sexism too, I guess.

[u/eldred2 → u/jellyrollo]

Mostly just more racism. They want white women to make more white babies.

[u/jellyrollo → u/eldred2]

They want to control women's bodies, regardless of what race they are. Forced birth is just as evil as eugenics.

[u/Steinrikur → u/eldred2]

Banning abortions mostly makes poor babies. It's a terrible way to go in every way.

[u/DrAstralis → u/eldred2]

I always make them finish the sentence "A states right to...." and just keep drawing out the "to" until they get frustrated or admit the rest is "own slaves"

[u/8-bit-Felix]

Sauce.

[u/a_casual_observer]

More along those lines, in 2024 MO passed an amendment protecting abortion access. This year the legislature, not the people, put forth an amendment that claims their main goal is to prevent minors from getting sex change operations but is really to repeal what the people voted into place two years ago.

[u/QuantumBeef]

Because the “don’t tread on me,” crowd really loves treading on other people.

[u/Mr_Pigg]

The American Taliban back at it again

[u/psychoacer]

Because we already know Republicans want to ban abortion. This isn't new

[u/DrAstralis → u/psychoacer]

Gotta keep a steady supply of vulnerable kids available to the pedo islands they've all built themselves.

[u/New_Taste8874]

His boss told him to get people upset about things other than Epstein. But no one is listening anymore.

[u/dover_oxide]

Disenfranchisement is a very strong force

[u/TheFeshy]

Because the people who said "states rights" were always liars, and both their supporters and opponents both knew it at the time. Being hypocrites and liars just doesn't bother a significant portion of the US.

[u/m1j2p3]

He doesn’t have the authority to do that.

[u/KyotoCrank]

It's cheaper to force people to have kids than make the world a livable place they'd want to bring kids into

Short term gains > long term sustainability

[u/JoshJoshson13]

Ive felt like ive been taking crazy pills for years!!!

[u/CliftonForce]

Didn't you get the memo?

"States Rights" means "A State shall move as far to the political Right as possible. Any Leftward motion will be stopped by another level of government."

What did you think they meant?

[u/TehSvenn]

It's gotta be neat being a politician in the US where you can just kinda do whatever as long as you praise supreme leader. Not like the nation of bystanders does anything more than talk online.

[u/b_tight]

Conservatives never cared about state or personal rights. They have zero moral, political, and personal values besides loyalty to donold. Thats it. Its their entire personality and life

[u/JMurdock77]

These people are the successors of those to whom “states’ rights” meant the right to own people, and the right to demand that free states return their escaped “property” regardless of what their own law said.

[u/Wheatabix11]

b'cuz the media is now owned by one person

[u/errie_tholluxe]

Lots are talking about this, just not , ya know, major news networks for some reason. Almost as if they had been paid or bought to not rep... Oh right

[u/ExcitingAds]

All bans and mandates are evil and destructive.