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Post by bbbearsmom on Apr 11, 2023 17:00:35 GMT
each campus in every state to get the kids to vote. Meantime in Republican states they are working to make it more difficult for college kids to vote.
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Post by lani on Apr 11, 2023 20:12:16 GMT
I told her he was never rational, he just hid it better. See, I think he is rational, he's just going nuts on the culture wars because he thinks that works for him.
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Post by birdgal on Apr 12, 2023 19:53:22 GMT
Republicans have lowered the bar as far as it can go.
Is it me or do they spend most of their time making life more difficult for people, even those who support them?
They behave like a far out cult instead of a reasonable political party. It's a shame.
How can rational Republicans support or vote for them? I don't get it. They're angry and unreasonable. If they want to win an election perhaps they could present a reasonable person as a candidate instead of trying to tear down the opposition.
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Post by finreporter on Apr 12, 2023 21:00:40 GMT
Pearson and Jones now both reinstated to their positions in TN. Well that certainly backfired on the clearly racist intentions of the republicans in charge!
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Post by bbbearsmom on Apr 12, 2023 23:24:15 GMT
Missouri is going to cut out the funding for public libraries from its state budget. In other news one of their state senators or representatives reiterated his support for marriage for girls as young as 12.
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Post by luanne on Apr 12, 2023 23:58:24 GMT
Missouri is going to cut out the funding for public libraries from its state budget. In other news one of their state senators or representatives reiterated his support for marriage for girls as young as 12. Disgusting. My sister lives in Missouri. As a former teacher I'm sure she's not happy about any of this.
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Post by birdgal on Apr 13, 2023 0:53:43 GMT
If you call it marriage you can't call it rape. Why 13? Why not 12 or 11 or younger?
What kind of pervert wants to have sex with a child? It's gross, disgusting, and against the law! No problem though. We will just change the law.
Why not? Maybe instead of having the man your daughter baby sat for drive her home you could pick her up instead.
When I was 13 the father of a child I sat for drove me home and he grabbed me and stuck his tongue in my mouth when I was getting out of the car. Gross thing. Disgusting pervert. Waste of human flesh!
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Post by finreporter on Apr 13, 2023 1:38:54 GMT
From what I read they are holding the funding hostage until the libraries agree to rid themselves of books that have any references to pro-LGBTQ+ or anti-racist themes. Man, having any form of progression in this country (a black president, a female VP who is also a woman of color, a black SC justice, outspoken progressives in the house and senate) certainly makes the GOP backlash make the tea partiers look like child’s play.
My kids went to an Auschwitz exhibit at a museum yesterday for a school field trip (extremely heavy and intense but important topic for their age group to learn about and start understanding its gravity) and I told them that it’s shameful the many forms the disregard for life that take place throughout history and even in more subtle forms today. Lower quality of care for people of color is a well known issue and documented in many ways. I know it doesn’t compare to the atrocities of the Holocaust and numerous other horrors and genocides that have taken place around the world but it’s like we as a human species always find a way to hurt what some see as inferior to some arbitrary ideals that don’t mean anything in the grand scheme of things.
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Post by lani on Apr 13, 2023 14:46:29 GMT
My understanding for the extremely young marriage age support in some states is when an unplanned pregnancy occurs you marry the girl off so she won't abort.
My other favorite is requiring a woman to carry an unviable pregnancy to term. Sounds like mental, emotional and physical torture.
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Post by birdgal on Apr 14, 2023 9:37:39 GMT
So she won't abort? Aww. How sweet. So the life of the girl, the child who was sexually attacked, is not really that important.
So how come these concerned adults blabbering on about the right to all life don't give a hoot about the victims life or her future?
Anybody know? Please don't tell me it's God's will. Does that make child molesters, murderers, theives, and people who shoot and kill children in school all part of God's plan?
Nope. Not good enough for me.
Please don't blame God for the actions of evil human beings.
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Post by DotRen on Apr 14, 2023 11:36:48 GMT
birdgal, "Please don't blame God for the actions of evil human beings." Absolutely right. God gave us free will. The people who choose evil are doing it on their own. lani, that's scary. I've seen a lot of articles about women forced to carry a fetus to term that has no chance of living, and endangers the mothers physical and mental health -but hey, drag queens are the real problem, right?
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Post by birdgal on Apr 14, 2023 16:22:45 GMT
I think I said this in another post but it's worth saying again and again and again.
When society puts the same amount of pressure, guilt, stress, blame, shame, etc on the man as much as the child he had sex with maybe, just maybe, I'll listen to them.
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Post by finreporter on Apr 14, 2023 17:24:59 GMT
Ron "loves his white rain boots" Desantis has now said that they will allow a rape victim to abort as long as they can show documentation they were raped. Like many rape victims actually feel comfortable reporting that. What a creep he is.
Edit to add, my best friend is a middle school counselor. She once told me the most tragic story of a 12 year old who was impregnated by her own adult brother who was in and out of jail. The mother actually did take her to get an abortion, which I was impressed by because you never know how those situations will go. My friend was tasked with working with the 12 year old student to help her navigate being able to continue going to school and completing assignments and simultaneously battling that mental fuckery she had to endure. Many Repubs in power would not allow the choice for that 12 year old victim, judging by the insane laws that are being passed around the country.
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Post by birdgal on Apr 14, 2023 18:04:58 GMT
Let me see if I have this correct. According to republicans A little girl who is raped by a perverted man or boy, even a relative, must give birth because it's God's will? Sounds like open season for little girls and women and has absolutely nothing at all to do with a God. It has everything to do with sick, demented, criminal men and boys who should be locked up for life and kept away from society forever. I don't believe in a male God. Very convenient for males who are mentally deranged to pretend their criminal behavior is all part of their male God's plan. But, I'm an Atheist so what do I know? I was brought up Catholic, joined a Protestant church in my 20's. Now in my 70's I'm happy to report I don't believe in any man made religion. Which they all are. It's easy if you try. RIP John.
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Post by birdgal on Apr 14, 2023 21:22:06 GMT
Documentation? Sure, no problem.
Excuse me rapist before you attack me would you mind signing this document that I have with me all the time? It states you have raped me. It has the time and date of your vicious attack. Just sign on the dotted line, OK? Thank you very much.
Have we completely lost our minds? Or, do we really and truly have such little regard for girls and women? I believe it's both.
She was asking for it, look how she dresses, she smiled at me and on and on with bull so deep there isn't a shovel big enough for it.
Stop it! Get yourself a blow up doll, or pay a hooker, or do yourself, see a shrink, etc.
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