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[–] [email protected] 130 points 3 weeks ago (3 children)

It's in keeping with the conservative idea of small government, and minimal interference in personal freedoms.

[–] [email protected] 35 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

Well, ovum are very small so this fits within the bounds of "small government" because we're governing small things. Why? What did you think we meant by the "small government" phrase we've been saying all of these years? -Conservatives probably

[–] [email protected] 22 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

“I want a government small enough to fit up your ass.”- Vance probably.

“So your for gay rights?”

“Wait… what?”

[–] [email protected] 5 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

"I want a government small enough to fit my micropenis in" - JD couch fucker Vance

Source: me

[–] [email protected] 4 points 3 weeks ago* (last edited 3 weeks ago)

I realize you’re joking, but he doesn’t have a micro-penis. He bought a very big one from fleshlight .

[–] [email protected] 10 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

shifted away from being more anarchistic in nature to authoritarian. its going to see the split between libertarians (who are more anarchistic) and religious fundamentalists (who are more authoritarian)

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[–] [email protected] 6 points 3 weeks ago

The brain trust should streamline ejaculation surveillance programs instead. Ejaculation without a pregnancy? Right to jail. Right away.

[–] [email protected] 46 points 3 weeks ago (6 children)

It's almost like they're trying to lose this election. What next? Virginity inspections?

[–] [email protected] 38 points 3 weeks ago (2 children)

I don't think you understand how many oppressive shitty people are in this country. The Taliban are alive and well here in America.

[–] [email protected] 23 points 3 weeks ago

Hitler wrote in Mein Kampf of the Southern policies of Jim Crow as an inspiration for Germany's genetic policies.

We needed to finish reconstruction, instead we let the filth slime back into power.

[–] [email protected] 11 points 3 weeks ago (2 children)

I do, I just don't think they're the majority.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 3 weeks ago

Thanks to the electoral college, they don't need to be a majority to get a Trump presidency.

[–] [email protected] 20 points 3 weeks ago (2 children)

Genuinely surprised they haven't called for jus primae noctis yet.

[–] [email protected] 13 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

Sounds foreign, they won't like that.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 3 weeks ago

They don’t speak French

[–] [email protected] 4 points 3 weeks ago

Please, they'd all offer their wives and daughters willingly.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 3 weeks ago

Nah, this is due to their base's support being absolutely unwavering. This is a level of propagandistic control never before seen in the United States. Joseph Goebbels would fucking blush.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 3 weeks ago

Please, they'll run up the score in the south, get 80-90% easily.

Yes, even the women somehow.

[–] Grandwolf319 2 points 3 weeks ago* (last edited 3 weeks ago)

Nah, it’s more like when you have a hammer, everything is a nail.

Conservatives only have one play, it’s to just keep going more right (as in, privatize things more and more to keep “fixing” things).

They have already gone after abortion.

What’s that? Fertility rate is low? We just got to try harder!

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[–] [email protected] 43 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

"Early menopause? Nah, we think you have had 4 abortions this year. Prove you didn't or go to prison."

I guess we shouldn't expect better from the party of bad female anatomy, sex education repression, and couch fucking. Weirdos.

[–] [email protected] 16 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

The party that believes that a successful pregnancy is proof that women weren't legitimately raped

[–] [email protected] 6 points 3 weeks ago

Todd Akin, Missouri’s Republican Senate candidate, sparked controversy with a claim, made in a TV interview posted Sunday, that victims of “legitimate rape” very rarely get pregnant because their bodies prevent them from doing so.

Speaking to Charles Jaco on the Jaco Report on St. Louis’s Fox station, Akin was answering a question about allowing abortions in the case of rape. He said, “If it’s a legitimate rape, the female body has ways to try to shut that whole thing down.”

https://www.politico.com/story/2012/08/akin-legitimate-rape-victims-dont-get-pregnant-079864

Todd Akin did apologize and then decided to make it worse.

In July 2014, WND Books published Akin's book, Firing Back: Taking on the Party Bosses and Media Elite to Protect Our Faith and Freedom. In it, he said that he regretted apologizing, because "by asking the public at large for forgiveness, I was validating the willful misinterpretation of what I had said." He also defended his original comments and attacked various Republicans for "wronging" him...

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Todd_Akin#Aftermath

[–] [email protected] 38 points 3 weeks ago

This is gross and weird, and I can't understand the psychology that goes on inside of people who are so lacking and self-awareness and are this messed up in the head.

[–] [email protected] 34 points 3 weeks ago (3 children)

Menstrual Surveillance Programs.

Menstrual Surveillance Programs!

Menstrual Surveillance Programs!!!

[–] [email protected] 5 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 7 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 3 points 3 weeks ago

Take off every zig.

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[–] [email protected] 33 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

Ok. Were there. We’re at THAT point in this shitty timeline. We need to start clearing our calendars for the next few years. Where’s everybody meeting?

[–] [email protected] 22 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

Right under the Tree Of Liberty.

[–] [email protected] 11 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 8 points 3 weeks ago* (last edited 3 weeks ago)

I've got my tricorne hat on and everything.

[–] [email protected] 31 points 3 weeks ago

It’s like they’re using an abusive spouse handbook to make policies lmao

[–] [email protected] 23 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 6 points 3 weeks ago

They're working towards making that a mandatory policy too

[–] [email protected] 22 points 3 weeks ago

Damn that's a pretty weird small government stance to want to constantly sniff out menstrual blood

[–] [email protected] 17 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

Trump: anyone who can grab a pussy can be a pussy inspector.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 3 weeks ago

His reforms of the FBI will be very thorough, they will finally take their original role as Female Body Inspectors.

[–] [email protected] 15 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

"Under his eye" feelings intesify

[–] [email protected] 2 points 3 weeks ago* (last edited 3 weeks ago)

Blessed be the fruit

[–] [email protected] 14 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

Trump the period checker and chief.

[–] [email protected] 12 points 3 weeks ago

Probably likes to think of himself as more of the period ender

[–] [email protected] 14 points 3 weeks ago (2 children)

Guess I'll end up in jail or dead then because ain’t no way I'll participate in bullshit like this.

At what point do we start Civil War II? Where can I sign up?

[–] [email protected] 10 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

Or people can stop voting these prices of human shit into office.

[–] [email protected] 14 points 3 weeks ago

Sadly, America has proven that it is full of dumb-dumbs and there will always be people who will vote pieces of shit into office.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 3 weeks ago

i don't know if the red states would object to the blue states seceding or vice versa, so instead we'd be looking at american interventionism 3: this time it's personal

[–] [email protected] 8 points 3 weeks ago

I don't know if I trust this program. Let's first test it by surveiling how frequently men are unsuccessful in creating a baby. /s

As proud as I am of my 100% failure rate, I'd likely feel uncomfortable with something tracking where, when, and with whom (or more often, what) I'm tricking my body into believing it's attempting to pass on genetic code.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 3 weeks ago

Well of course those perverts are ok with this.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 3 weeks ago

wtf? Is T.I. making policy for these fucking weirdos?

[–] [email protected] 4 points 3 weeks ago

I can't speak for effectiveness myself, but there are FOSS alternatives out there for my android peeps.
All found on FDroid which (as far as I'm aware) is android only.

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