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Don't forget, Indiana also just convicted a woman of killing her fetus when she tried to commit suicide: http://www.wncn.com/story/28664509/first-woman-in-us-sentenced-for-killing-a-fetus
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RuanGacho posted:Government corruption requires public compliance and complatancy to exist. Government Corruption would exist otherwise, its to what level it would exist that would change. But most government corruption now is driven more by Citizens United and complacency than anything else.
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Xibanya posted:This is from the party that brought you that rear end in a top hat who thought you could observe a woman's uterus by having her swallow a camera. This is from the party that we had to make a website for this: http://www.dayswithoutagoprapemention.com/ 
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Apr 1, 2015 15:59
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Monkey Fracas posted:I suppose one positive outcome of this is that some businesses that are both hateful and dumb enough to put up like "NO FAGGOTS" signs in their windows or something will go out of business. Seriously, just add an amendment to the law that requires business who wish to discriminate to have a sign. And watch them burn to the ground.
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Apr 1, 2015 16:04
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His Purple Majesty posted:You're implying that businesses that explicitly discriminate would fold when I think that the opposite would happen. Remember chik fil a? Chic Fil A still largely caved (or spent more timing hiding its donations to groups like the AFA and others) publicly. They just did it as quietly as possible. CommieGIR fucked around with this message at 16:27 on Apr 1, 2015 |
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Apr 1, 2015 16:24
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Fried Chicken posted:They posted signs in Jim Crow south. Notice how that turned out. And if you want to argue it's different, consider Chik-fil-a being unambiguous about their hate and consider how that ended up. Again, Chic Fil A quietly said they were withdrawing support and funding for groups like the AFA and others. While I'm sure they are still donating under the table, their latest financial transparency reports show them only funding their own Foundations and no others. They did it as quietly as possible so as not to spook the Conservative crowd that was throwing money at them. And Jim Crow still eventually got wiped out.
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Apr 1, 2015 16:30
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Fried Chicken posted:We had 100+ years of "no colored allowed" signs being fine and dandy, I don't see posting a "no gays allowed" sign having any more of an impact. We're in a different sociological climate, the sort of climate that allowed Jim Crow is no longer politically acceptable, regardless of what the Tea Party and GOP say. While during the Jim Crow era you could pass racially and religiously biased legislation and expect it to stick, now the GOP passes it not hoping that it will stick, they KNOW it will not, they pass it to appear to be listening to their constituents, and can just shrug when it gets struck down. Its not the same.
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SpiderHyphenMan posted:Mods change my name to Powerful Gay Blitzkrieg. "Mein Panzer ist Homosexuell"
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Apr 1, 2015 16:43
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McAlister posted:Can't quote as it's the new thread but on the rennie gibbs thing. I confess, I didn't read the link in its entirety. 
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Apr 1, 2015 16:45
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TheDisreputableDog posted:No, she didn't try to commit suicide, just threw the baby a dumpster after delivery. quote:"Purvi Patel's conviction amounts to punishment for having a miscarriage and then seeking medical care, something that no woman should worry would lead to jail time," said Deepa Iyer, Activist-in-Residence at the University of Maryland's Asian American Studies Program and former director of South Asian Americans Leading Together. Different case, same state.
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Accretionist posted:Where are you getting suicide from? It was a different case, same state: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bei_Bei_Shuai Either way, we're charging someone who has a miscarriage, largely criminalizing miscarriages. Regardless, this is setting a dangerous trend, and in Tennessee, they've enacted a law where women who use drugs while pregnant will go to jail after the birth, largely criminalizing someone who needs help and counseling, not prison time and a record. quote:Shuai's case is the first in the history of Indiana in which a woman is prosecuted for murder for a suicide attempt while pregnant.[6] The feticide statute under which she is also prosecuted was intended, when enacted in 1979, to cover acts by violent third parties such as abusive boyfriends.[4] Women's groups in the U.S. warned that Shuai's prosecution could set a precedent for criminalizing a pregnant woman's actions, such as smoking or drinking, or having a miscarriage.[4] The problem with the case I linked is that multiple states are starting to prosecute stillbirths and miscarriages. That is the issue at hand. CommieGIR fucked around with this message at 17:45 on Apr 1, 2015 |
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Apr 1, 2015 17:41
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Fried Chicken posted:So we have an exclusive on the "new" RFRA That's funny considering the people who helped write the bill:  EDIT: I just noticed we're talking about the "New RFRA". My Mistake. CommieGIR fucked around with this message at 18:27 on Apr 1, 2015 |
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Apr 1, 2015 18:21
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Fried Chicken posted:The new one is written by the "business leaders", the original version (the one in that picture) that is presently law was written by a social conservative bill mill with Eric Miller and the rest signing off on it before it went to the state GOP and got signed into law. Sorry if I was unclear there No no, you were clear, I didn't read it properly. 
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Oh Georgia, do we REALLY want to be Indiana that badly?
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Apr 1, 2015 20:06
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Accretionist posted:From the end of last thread, I thought this deserved more attention: Sounds about right. They are still pushing for Abstinence only sex ed in the South despite our loving awful Teen Pregnancy rates (and the weird idea that if you tell kids not to do something, they won't do it.)
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Apr 1, 2015 20:19
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Slate Action posted:It doesn't reduce pregnancies, but it does increase the amount of votes you get which is of course the real objective. Somebody think of the easily exploitable children and the Quiverfull movement 
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Apr 1, 2015 20:38
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http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2015/04/01/todd-gardenhire_n_6986582.html?cps=gravity_2425_-1375174207172446721quote:On Tuesday night, a Tennessee Senate committee voted to deny some 280,000 state residents access to health care, rejecting a plan to expand Medicaid that would have cost the state nothing.
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Apr 1, 2015 21:42
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haveblue posted:Also from the not-poo poo-you-joke-about department: California enacts water restrictions. As climate change starts to hit home.
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ComradeCosmobot posted:I don't think California is the center of climate change opposition. Maybe ask all those eastern states who got tons of snow and cold who are asking "if global warming why cold?" I mean't like the US home, not California in general.
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Apr 1, 2015 21:53
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Joementum posted:Quote of the night, “We shouldn’t discriminate based on sexual orientation.” ~ Jeb Bush. Wow....um, this kind flies in the face of his previous claims.
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VitalSigns posted:Deporting all Muslims is an assault on religious freedom, we just have to point that out to Republicans and they'll reconsider "The only correct religion is my religion"
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Joementum posted:Quote of the morning, "What's going on right now between us and Israel used to be accompanied by a kiss on the cheek and thirty pieces of silver. We're truly looking at a Pontius Pilate President." ~ Rep. Mike Kelly (R-PA). Obviously, Israel is the King of the Jews, and the only way we can complete their purpose on this earth is to crucify Israel so that all our sins can be forgiven. I mean, Mr. Kelly does realize that the crucifixion and Judas' betrayal was necessary, right? Does he even understand his own religion? CommieGIR fucked around with this message at 13:07 on Apr 2, 2015 |
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CroatianAlzheimers posted:This is a rhetorical question, yeah? Yes.
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Gravel Gravy posted:Also this makes the US sound like a prostitute. And we all know what Jesus thought of them 
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quote:Appearing yesterday on CNN, Senator Tom Cotton (R) urged critics of Indiana’s “religious freedom” law to get “perspective,” suggesting the treatment of LGBT people in Indiana compared favorably to countries where gay people are executed. gently caress you Tom Cotton. gently caress you and the letter you wrote to Iran, and the letter you wrote to the UN saying that Obama cannot negotiate Climate treaties.
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FlamingLiberal posted:God I love that response. "At least we are not killing the gays like Iran...... ....yet" - Tom Cotton I'm waiting for his next media quote "At least we painlessly execute gays, compared to ISIS that throws them off buildings" - Tom Cotton
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Apr 2, 2015 16:27
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Jerry Manderbilt posted:Wouldn't be surprised if he and a lot of his base would sincerely like to hang gays. On that note, after Duke announced their opposition to Indiana's RFRA, a noose popped up on campus. http://www.dukechronicle.com/articles/2015/04/01/noose-reported-bryan-center-plaza#.VR1hsfnF-30 Probably has more to do with racism, but either way, the fact that nooses are showing up says a lot about some of the people Tom Cotton and others represents.
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Apr 2, 2015 16:35
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VitalSigns posted:Oh God this reminds me of the Dinesh D'Souza movie my dad took the whole family to that was basically this for two hours. Dinesh D'Souza: The ultimate irony considering how his country treats class differences.
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Apr 2, 2015 16:55
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Fried Chicken posted:Speed build a nuke plant, except direct all steam to desalinization instead of generation. Repeat as necessary. Problem solved. California.txt They are so busy shutting down ALL their nuclear plants (Fukushima ) to replace them with....Solar and Natural Gas. Solar I am okay with, but Natural Gas is such a irony considering how environmentally damaging is.
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Crowsbeak posted:I thought it better to burn methane than to have it released into the atmosphere. The problem is not that methane is not cleaner burning than coal, it really is, but the fact that the extraction method and the heavy leakage is kind of an issue, considering methane is a much more potent greenhouse gas than CO2 and the average leak rate from extraction is 3-5%
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Apr 2, 2015 18:29
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Radbot posted:How could that message not be interpreted as a direct middle finger to at least half those groups? Or was that the intent? "I love you all so much, but gently caress you"
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Apr 3, 2015 16:06
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Spaceman Future! posted:Regular millionaires blow money just as stupidly but have built in mechanisms already in place to replenish their bank account after the impulse second wine cellar. See: Donald Trump
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UIApplication posted:BACK That Gay Marriage Slippery Slope? There it is.
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Axetrain posted:His dad may have been a "different kind" but Rand is pretty much your standard boilerplate Republican, hasn't he cleansed himself of any libertarian divergence? Does he draw the same libertarian lite types his dad did? If they have been paying attention at all I would think they have moved on by now. No, he still pushes a lot of the Libertarian stuff still, but he's started to court mainstream Republican values more vocally.
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Petr posted:ITT white liberals with bellies full of beef, fresh produce, and flavored vitamin water use their smartphones to post about how poo poo life is and how hosed are the middle class. Won't anybody think about the dog loving minority?
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Scrub-Niggurath posted:My breakfast today was steak, a $100 bill, and a tall glass of the tears and sweat of poors Today, I lit a cigarette in front of a beggar using a $100 bill, and then took a dump in his collection cup while singing the national anthem. Liberalism at its finest, I tell you. Gravel Gravy posted:We do, that's why we have beastiality laws. They have their rights too!
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blunt for century posted:Did you get that $100 from getting paid to vote several times, or is it welfare tax dollars? Bailout funds, so corporate welfare
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Gravel Gravy posted:Why would you mix scotch with Coke? So he can bear to see his trophy wife screwing his publicist yet again.
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"Tom morrow, I become an even more hateful Libertarian rear end in a top hat appealing to the Tea Party"
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Mr Interweb posted:I accept the fact that Cruz may actually be a supremely knowledgeable person (dude did go to Harvard and Princeton, after all) but my problem has always been that none of that poo poo matters when you decide to become a Republican presidential nominee*. I mean, what's the benefit of getting a PhD in geology from MIT if you still happen to be an avowed flat Earther? Plenty of morons that can memorize text books and answer test questions.
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