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[–] themeatbridge@lemmy.world 75 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Just a reminder that he, and your local representatives all have offices where they can receive letters, emails, and phone calls from their constituents. If you don't like that your rep wants to murder babies, you should probably let them know.

[–] Seasoned_Greetings@lemm.ee 23 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (2 children)

What's that going to do? I mean, I'm all for telling off the politicians that represent me (fucking Mike Johnson can eat a dick) but the GOP genuinely doesn't care what their voters have to say. They locked down their vote by making it us vs them. Their own voters could tell them they're doing horrible and they'd still get those votes without changing anything because conservatives have been successfully brainwashed into thinking democrats are all evil.

GOP politicians are in a position where they can literally just laugh in your face about a complaint like this..

[–] Carighan@lemmy.world 3 points 1 year ago

What’s that going to do?

It makes them happy, as clearly their propaganda is working.

[–] AngryCommieKender@lemmy.world 5 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

https://potatoparcel.com/products/spring-loaded-glitter-bomb

That may get their attention.

Edit: Ooh! They even have an American Blend glitter choice that's red white and blue. May have to personalize the card with that one so they know you're upset.

[–] themeatbridge@lemmy.world 6 points 1 year ago

I'm not going to condone sending prank bomb packages to representatives. That's how you end up on a list.

Also, glitter is basically a war crime. Shiny microplastics you can never remove from every crevice, it's like party herpes. Which, I suppose is also regular herpes.

[–] Jimmycrackcrack@lemmy.ml 69 points 1 year ago (5 children)

So abortions bad, but killing babies good?

[–] PunnyName@lemmy.world 39 points 1 year ago

Brown babies.

[–] Sterile_Technique@lemmy.world 32 points 1 year ago (1 children)

They don't give a fuck about abortion, they just use that as a tool to be cruel to women.

Once you acknowledge that the cruelty is the point, a lot of their hypocrisy and self-contradiction suddenly makes sense.

[–] CileTheSane@lemmy.ca 3 points 1 year ago

Once you acknowledge that the cruelty is the point, a lot of their hypocrisy and self-contradiction suddenly makes sense.

And people should be shouting from the rooftops pointing that out. Loudly and consistently.

[–] Zachariah@lemmy.world 26 points 1 year ago (1 children)

“Pro-life conservatives are obsessed with the fetus from conception to 9 months. After that, they don’t wanna know about you. They don’t wanna hear from you. No nothing! No neonatal care, no daycare, no Head Start, no school lunch, no food stamps, no welfare, no nothing. If you’re pre-born, you’re fine, if you’re preschool, you’re fucked.” — George Carlin

[–] msage@programming.dev 3 points 1 year ago

Not until you reach - The Military age!

[–] postmateDumbass@lemmy.world 4 points 1 year ago

Harvesting adrenochrome bad, killing for racism good.

[–] Sanctus@lemmy.world 38 points 1 year ago

That conversation was brutal. Dudes a sociopath

[–] JeeBaiChow@lemmy.world 35 points 1 year ago (1 children)

So.. these are the people they want instead of Biden? Lol @it all.

[–] Linkerbaan@lemmy.world -4 points 1 year ago

Biden has the exact same policies as them. What's your point exactly?

[–] the_q@lemmy.world 31 points 1 year ago

As long as the babies are brown, right GOP?

[–] BreadstickNinja@lemmy.world 25 points 1 year ago (1 children)

At least he's honest. More than can be said about most people defending the genocide in Gaza. Most are too ashamed to say outright they don't see Arabs as human.

[–] gregorum@lemm.ee 15 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

We don’t need them to be honest to know that they’re garbage humans. We need them to stop being garbage humans. More importantly, we need a way to stop them from doing harm.

Don’t get distracted by praising them just because they took the mask off. They don’t deserve praise for that, praise for being openly monstrous. If anything, this is the time to call them out more loudly for not even making the effort to hide it.

[–] Carighan@lemmy.world 3 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

We need them to stop being garbage humans.

Not very likely, short of sending them on a one-way trip to Mars. Then they become human garbage instead.

[–] tryptaminev@feddit.de 4 points 1 year ago

I'm perfectly fine with them being garbage humans in the confinement of a prison, where people who commit, support or entice genocide belong.

[–] Catoblepas@lemmy.blahaj.zone 24 points 1 year ago (2 children)

“I would encourage the other side to not so lightly throw around the idea of ‘innocent Palestinian civilians,’ as is frequently said,” he said on the House floor.

“I don’t think we would so lightly throw around the term ‘innocent Nazi civilians’ during World War II.”

I’m not saying we should go back to representatives getting into physical brawls and duels, in fact it is a terrible idea. But some people clearly have just never faced consequences in the form of getting their ass kicked and it really shows.

[–] ChonkyOwlbear@lemmy.world 19 points 1 year ago

I'll say it over and over again. The founding fathers wrote the Constitution assuming duels would keep lawmakers accountable.

[–] DigitalTraveler42@lemmy.world 3 points 1 year ago

First we need to do something about all the guns, now rather than brawl weak pieces of shit will pull out their guns to do a bit of mass shooting.

[–] southsamurai@sh.itjust.works 5 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Something, something, tree of liberty

[–] HikingVet@lemmy.ca 5 points 1 year ago

I'm sure his blood would kill any plant that had to feed on it.

[–] HowShouldIKnow@lemm.ee 3 points 1 year ago

Audrey II isn't so picky.