Cons: "We don't want to ban abortion, we just want to return sovereignty over the issue to the states."
States: make abortion a right
Cons: "No, not like that..."
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Historically relevant:
https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/santorum
Noun
santorum (uncountable)
(neologism, sex, slang) A frothy mixture of lubricant and fecal matter as an occasional byproduct of anal sex. [from 21st c.]
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rick_Santorum#LGBT_issues_and_%22santorum%22
This guy was named after the mixture of cum and lube leaking out of a person's asshole, why do we care what he thinks?
Came to the comments to see if that was still a thing. Great work!
Thanks, Dan Savage.
You did what to the comments?
It's actually blocked as a censored word in some videogames in-game chats, on par with swear words and such :)
I think it might have been Deep Rock Galactic. I can't be certain though.
You forgot the very important adjective "frothy"
Yeah, poor guy. I can’t be easy to be named after a foul mixture of shit and cum.
And lube!
Don't forget the third ingredient, lube!
In the right wing talking sphere they’re talking a lot about how it should be one vote per household. Normalizing business and home owning men being the only voters.
These people hate America.
"Ankh-Morpork had dallied with many forms of government and had ended up with that form of democracy known as one man, one vote. The Patrician was the Man; he had the vote."
Terry Pratchett, Mort
Or from Unseen Academicals:
"Everyone is entitled to a vote unless disqualified by reason of not being the Patrician"
I'm literally reading Unseen Academicals right now and that line sure did stike a chord.
That's some Handmaids Tale shit right there, I tell you hwat
This guy's name means jizz-poop leakage.
Yeah, democracy sucks when the people are ignorant, vile, and selfish.
What the people in Ohio did was realize that empathy and human rights were good. They rejected fascist culture war bullshit and I wish them the best. I hope my state could act like this.
On one hand yes. On the other hand a lot of us want weed and abortions for ourselves
So, you weren’t planning on sharing? lol
There's a reason that most of the "founding fathers" only wanted slaveowning rich white men to run the country.
okay, Frothy Mix
I didn't even realize Rick Santorum was still alive.
Why is anyone even asking this guy for his opinion?
he should be fine then, since the US isnt run as any kind of democracy at all, certainly not a pure one.
Isn't this guy named after the mixture of frothy cum and shit after anal sex? Must be hard having a name like that.
“That’s not fair, we worked really hard disenfranchising these kids. Putting popular policies forward is cheating.”
This is the perfect situation where a purely democratic vote is appropriate (not that we should even have to vote on this, but I digress). This doesn't affect your wholesome, small-town voter at all. All they have to do is not have an abortion, and they can make abortion illegal within their own life just like that. Of course people are going to vote for the freedom of their own choice as to whether they have to carry a parasitic body within their own. They should have that freedom to do it or not to do it.
That's a lot of talk for used lube...
Christian supremacists screamed the exact opposite, every time their bigoted ballot measures got struck down.
It's the civil rights, stupid.
My problem isn't capitalism, my problem is that capitalism has determined that a democracy is hurting it's profits.
My problem is definitely capitalism.
Have you heard about Central America? Or any oil rich country? Capitalism is a double edged sword, they’re just swinging it at home now.
Capitalism would be great if we could run it under constrained conditions that don't exist outside of a single pub somewhere in Birmingham.
The frustrating part is that hybridizing socialist-style societal safety nets with reasonable, regulated, capitalism-with-guardrails is possible and has been done. It’s just that in most western countries, huge corporations, “too big to fail” banks, and rich people have successfully worked themselves into positions of regulatory capture, which lets them operate with zero consideration for anything besides short-term profitability.