• 5C5C5C@programming.dev
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    10 months ago

    This is exactly what I thought about abortion rights but they really went and plowed ahead on that.

    Now they’ve shifted the culture wars over to trans rights and whatever other kinds of bigotry they can muster up. There’s really no bottom to the depths of horribleness that they’re willing to plumb.

    • TheDoozer@lemmy.world
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      10 months ago

      And the abortion rights thing bit them in the ass, because it galvanized a lot of voters.

      I think that dog catching the car moment hit home, and they won’t let it happen again.

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        10 months ago

        Part of the problem was it was unexpected, and it shows. If Republicans could have decided, they definitely wouldn’t have had it passed for the reasons that you have indicated.

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      10 months ago

      important distinction that it wasn’t the legislature that repealed abortion rights. it was a couple of true believers, unconcerned about reelection, that the party cheated the system to get them onto the supreme court. if they’d known their nominees were lying about their stances on roe, i doubt they’d have been confirmed.