• halowpeano@lemmy.world
      311·
      9 months ago

      This is also in context of the Republican effort out control education. Banning topics they don’t like, rewriting history, homeschooling, and diverting public school funds to indoctrinating “Christian” private schools.

    • some_guy@lemmy.sdf.org
      21·
      9 months ago

      Wow, this got a lot darker.

      ETA: I think you’re right. That’s why it took the mirth out of my mood.

      • 21Cabbage@lemmynsfw.comEnglish
        10·
        9 months ago

        I just remember the absolutely miserable comedy central roast that some jackass thought would be a good idea to invite her to.

        • not_that_guy05@lemmy.world
          1·
          9 months ago

          I mean it was a good idea. Roast the living shit out of her and pretend to be a joke. I did not see any friendly faces when they were throwing the jokes. Public humiliation.

      • frezik@midwest.social
        9·
        9 months ago

        She was tied at the hip to the Bush Administration, and when the whole country turned against Bush, she wasn’t savvy enough to make the pivot like Tucker or Hannity (might be some sexism tied up in that, too). The Republican party now hates everything Bush did, and pretends they weren’t all the same people supporting him at the time. Coulter’s the one who got stuck with all the baggage, and Fox News wouldn’t have her on anymore.

        Don’t shed a tear for her. She’s not worth the salt.

        Coulter is also somewhat more pro-gay rights than your average Republican. She’s against gay marriage, but is more friendly with the Log Cabin Republicans than your average right wing commentator.

      • squiblet@kbin.social
        8·
        9 months ago

        Hmm, Musk-X doesn’t even work. I can see that post, but her feed only shows out of order posts with the top one being from 2020. “Replies” gives an error. Musk sure is (literally) killing it.

        • mateomaui@reddthat.comEnglish
          2·
          9 months ago

          I think you still have to be logged in to see other posts than just the one being directly linked to. He tried requiring sign in for all access, but that screwed with embedding and google results, so they pared it back to this.

          edit: just checked and now you can see more than I was expecting, so idk what’s going on. The fact that you cannot see anything on the feed past 2020 is definitely weird.

          edit2: wait, no, there are tweets past 2020. Looks like all the tweets visible have 20K or more likes, so maybe they’re doing something to show the most popular ones only (out of order? wtf?)

    • Currens_felis@lemmy.mlEnglish
      2·
      9 months ago

      It’s times like this when I wonder if conservative media hosts are that dense or if they’re trolling everyone.

  • callouscomic@lemm.eeEnglish
    632·
    9 months ago

    No. This opens the door to laws that clearly apply based on on political affiliation. Do not open that door. It will eventually be used against you.

    • InputZero@lemmy.ml
      28·
      9 months ago

      I hate to tell you this but the door is basically open and there’s a loud mouth running for president and his cronies who’s trying to finish the job.

      • Fades@lemmy.worldEnglish
        3·
        9 months ago

        you’d think so, but according to modern day society, you’d be wrong

      • Telorand@reddthat.com
        3·
        9 months ago

        I agree that rights should be universal, and it’s something for which we should strive, but I disagree that it’s not a right unless it is universal. There’s plenty of awful examples throughout history of people who had certain rights while others did not.

    • ChillPill@lemmy.world
      101·
      9 months ago

      Fooling these earth voters is easier than expected.

      Yes. All they want to hear is bland plesentries embellished by an occasional saxophone solo or infant kiss.

  • SpaceCowboy@lemmy.ca
    41·
    9 months ago

    Or maybe people who are against abortion could simply choose not to have one. Ya know the way it was for like 50 years before Roe was overturned.

    Of course we know they just want to impose their values on other people. So people having the freedom to be able to make choices for themselves goes against their way of thinking.

    • tocopherol@lemmy.dbzer0.com
      13·
      9 months ago

      Not even just 50 years, remedies to cause an abortion or suppress menstrual cycles have been in use for hundreds of years. Just now reading about the history apparently Ben Franklin may have manufactured a public discourse on abortion because he knew it would help sell papers.

      • Flying Squid@lemmy.world
        113·
        9 months ago

        Political affiliation is not genetic. Plenty of WASPs are on the left. I mean John Fetterman is a WASP. And there are plenty of examples of people who go the opposite way politically from their parents.

        • tacosplease@lemmy.world
          7·
          9 months ago

          Protestant is the P in WASP. Is Fetterman religious?

          I mean all politicians in the US have to act like they’re religious, but how many regularly go to church? Fetterman doesn’t strike me as the Church type, but maybe.

          • Flying Squid@lemmy.world
            43·
            9 months ago

            He went to Albright College, which is a private Methodist university. Maybe he isn’t religious now, but that sure doesn’t sound like something someone who isn’t religious would do.

  • Maddie@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
    386·
    9 months ago

    Wouldn’t work.Their end goal is to disenfranchise women entirely. They start by making choices about our bodies for us, they end up making every choice for us.

    They want control, power, not acceptance of their views for their own circle.

    • PhlubbaDubba@lemm.ee
      211·
      9 months ago

      “The only person you’ll make happy is the Mexican who’ll get paid to dig your grave.”

      JESUS CHRIST!

      • sebinspace@lemmy.world
        14·
        9 months ago

        “It’s not too late to change that. You could kill yourself.”

        That wasn’t a joke, he was out for blood

        • qarbone@lemmy.worldEnglish
          6·
          9 months ago

          That line and diction were absolutely savage. He turned to look her in her beady, dead eyes.

      • neonspool@lemmy.world
        2·
        9 months ago

        i mean that assumes that Republicans are an ethnicity. any Democrat concerned about “race suicide” can just become a Republican. (of course this is actually dumb)

        i read that article, and the only concern in legalized abortion was the possibility of forced sterilization programs, and this is an incredibly unlikely event for the U.S. in this current time, as it would assume that certain ethnicities are not free to choose their party.

        even if that was eventually the plan, that kind of insanity would call for a pretty obviously needed revolution, even among many Republicans who have non-ethnic principles.

        what she said isn’t actually a good idea of course… but the point of the meme is that she is more or less saying the exact same thing as “people who choose to want abortions should be allowed to get abortions!” since being a Democrat or Republican is a choice. this is literally pro-choice in a cloak. lol

        i’m Canadian though so i have no fkin idea who Ann Coulter is (i thought this suggestion was a joke actually), but if she’s Republican, then this goes against the common Republican pro-life narrative, because she’s offering abortion as a choice to anyone at all, then this is effectively the pro-choice position.

    • ShittyRedditWasBetter@lemmy.world
      1425·
      9 months ago

      If by based you mean smashing 45% of the country into single issue voters and then using that to strip bodily autonomy based on party association… sure?

      • Dojan@lemmy.world
        351·
        9 months ago

        I mean if you wanted access to abortion you wouldn’t vote republican, right? They’re openly anti-women, people of colour, LGBTQ+ people, etc. so if you fall into any of those categories, voting republican is an odd form of self-destruction.

        • ShittyRedditWasBetter@lemmy.world
          438·
          9 months ago

          Again you’re just generalizing. 40% of GOP voters support abortions in most cases. I’m also quite tired of the baseless they are racist comments. It is a progressive dog whistle.

          • Dojan@lemmy.world
            36·
            9 months ago

            Ugh, you don’t get it, do you? Their personal beliefs don’t matter if they support a party that works against them. It just goes to show that they don’t hold as strongly to the belief that women should have control over their own bodies, as they do to whatever is making them vote republican.

            In the grand scheme of things, words aren’t worth anything, actions are. Stating your support for “abortions in most cases” is just words, voting for a party that will outlaw it is an action.

            The best way to avoid being labelled racist is to stop being racist. Here, again, actions speak louder than words. Doesn’t matter if you scream out at the top of your lungs that you love minorities and have black friends, if you then start marching with the KKK and the proud boys.

            • ShittyRedditWasBetter@lemmy.world
              231·
              9 months ago

              Again you are acting like we don’t live in a fptp voting system and just generalizing the entire base. It’s a terrible and inaccurate way to view the political spectrum. Those people mostly aren’t comically evil as most of you would believe.

              • dragonflyteaparty@lemmy.world
                21·
                9 months ago

                No, I don’t think that other poster does believe they’re comically evil, but it’s fair to say that they’re ok with outlawing abortion if they vote for someone who runs on outlawing abortion.

          • YeetPics@mander.xyz
            251·
            9 months ago

            So not all GOP supporters are nazis, but all nazis are GOP supporters. Stay mad, racist.

      • sarcasticsunrise@lemm.ee
        261·
        9 months ago

        Don’t threaten me with a good time. If that’s what they, or you desire is to enforce unwanted theocracy upon the meager 55% of us (citations needed, social programs are overwhelming popular amongst voters, sorry bud) than I don’t give a flying fuck about your bad faith opinions

      • AquaTofana@lemmy.world
        9·
        9 months ago

        I agree. I’m very confused as to how this would result in less Democrats?

        I was raised in heavyyyyy Conservative family, and the entire family, including the youngins’ now, all espouse those same beliefs. I veered hard Left only when I left home, traveled, and was exposed to people from other walks of life from my own.

        I feel like this would hurt the Republicans more than anyone, because while yes, more Democrats would obviously get abortions, a lot of Democratic women DO want children/family. They’d just like to stop after two children or whatever, not end up with like 8. So it’s not like they’d be choosing to have an abortion every single time they get preggers.

        And a lot of Republican women want the same thing: to have a child or two, but not 8.

        Both women I’m certain want the option for it if they’ve had particularly difficult/traumatic pregnancies and still want to be around for their current children.

          • AquaTofana@lemmy.world
            3·
            9 months ago

            I do, I showed my husband and I was jokingly like “How dare Ann Coulter make a point that I agree with? 😂”.

            But moreover, I don’t think she’s making a rational point at all. I just don’t think the idea that this will result in less Dems either.

            That may be her “ultimate goal” or whatever, but I also think it would backfire on her magnificently.

            (And before anyone comes at me, I’m pro-choice 100% of the time, IRL)

    • Smoogs@lemmy.world
      82·
      9 months ago
      
decrease the number of Democrats and increase Republicans

      So you assume brain choices are inherited? They can be learned. But they aren’t hereditary. Plenty of people are related to people differing political opinions so I thought that would have been enough to be debunked as an assumption.

      • tocopherol@lemmy.dbzer0.com
        11·
        9 months ago

        You are right that you aren’t born with whatever politics, but they said that was her point, not that in practice it’s a direct thing. I’m sure it’s easier to instill Republican beliefs into someone born in a Republican family rather than Democrats or other political affiliations.

        • Smoogs@lemmy.world
          12·
          9 months ago

          They can be learned.

          I don’t know who you are arguing as if that wasn’t even mentioned.

    • Haywire@lemm.ee
      3·
      9 months ago

      Thanks for the clarification. When I start to agree with her I begin to wonder about myself.