Publicly announcing an intention to ban the pill is the sort of thing you do if you feel so confident that your guys have so thoroughly rigged the system that it doesnāt matter that itās a profoundly unpopular idea. Overwhelming majorities can just eat shit.
I will never understand why these people are so against birth control. Even the irreligious ones are against it. They *never* explain themselves and the rest of us just accept that they oppose it and never demand an explanation. I'll never understand.
Genuinely, I've tried to reach some other conclusion based on conservative ideas & behavior and cannot. At the heart of all modern conservative thought is the idea of a natural & immutable hierarchy, and women are "supposed" to be at the bottom.
Itās all about hierarchy for them. About who gets to tell who what to do. And also, importantly, about who does not EVER get to tell them what to do. Race, gender, nationality, all of it plays into it. You can guess who they think should be on top of this rigid hierarchy they have in their heads.
This, and alsoā¦ theyāre just bad people. The bottom line to every question for why the GOP/Trumper/Christians of White America do what they do is simplyā¦ theyāre terrible fucking people, and they love being that way. Itās literally always because of their entitlement and their cruelty. Always.
Not sure why ableism is so often the one left off the list. Still too common a bias, such that pointing it out makes too great a proportion of readers uncomfortable? Still "invisible"?
I forget where I read it, but someone said that conservatives in the suburbs are extremely furious and jealous that people in the city are living sexier and more fun lives than them and so they want to stop it from happening. Which I buy
They are monumentally incurious and self-centered. They think that the pill is only used to have promiscuous sex. They refuse to consider or learn that it has any other use than that.
So they think banning the pill will prevent women from having any agency outside of their relationship.
It's also control.
"no you can't do that" - direct control. Especially limiting people's ability to have fun.
Secondly: the more kids people have, the more "bound" they are to a life where they can't rebel because "what about the children?"
The more insane reasons include the "Replacement Theory", which claims birth control is only marketed to the Right Kind Of Peopleā¢ so that other people can outbreed them.
After all poor families have more children 'so they can claim benefits for them'. Such as Elon Musk, who has 11 kids.
Counterintuitively, it's also the sort of thing that desperate parties and individuals do if they feel they need new reasons to drum up support among their base.
The GOP doesn't have complete control yet, and their allies keep losing elections.
They're terrified.
Publicly announcing an intention to ban the pill is the sort of thing you do if you feel so confident that your guys have so thoroughly rigged the system that it doesnāt matter that itās a profoundly unpopular idea. Overwhelming majorities can just eat shit.
She tried to straddle the fence on this. She's claiming that they're babies but she's not SURE she agrees with the Alabama decision.š
She wants just enough wiggle room to trick the gullible bigots who would sign off on her as long as they could lie to themselves about what she really is.
That isn't what happened in any actual fascist government - it took the biggest war in human history to oust Mussolini and Hitler, and both Salazar and Franco died in their beds.
Every day the situation over in the US terrifies me. I keep thinking it couldn't get any worse and then it does. Unfortunately we have idiots here in the UK trying to follow your trajectory. There really is no hope left is there?
I take it as yet another indicator he and his closest inner circle 18 maybe 24mo back committed selves to a 2nd CĆøÅ«p Attempt. Getting sworn in, period. If win via EC violence is for auto-coup & revenge. If no EC win itās then a violent Coup and then extensive violent revenge fantasy fulfillment.
- This is Me having a hypothesis which I Myself am confident in. Iām open to new info and analysis etc. I also know Iām mainly cribbing from smarter people who study & teach about rise of Nationalism, Fascism, how they work, how they generally think, & their local rise & falls across last century+.
- Oh, I agree with that assessment entirely. I donāt think āthinkingā as you or I might describe the act of doing that was involved in the slightest in their version of āthinkingā.
"Our ancestors, helped by the French and a pair of queer Euros way more than we like to talk about, when the military tech tree was a bush, ran off an enemy very busy elsewhere. Thus we will prevail, with rifles, against a force able to drop nukes from space and kill individuals by mouse click."
- Iām suddenly reminded of a Star Trek TNG episode where Lt Cdr Data gets stranded (sent) onto a pre-warp planet and has to get the early industrialized settlers to believe they had zero chance fisghting against warp capable military coming to ādelouseā the planet. Of them.
Every single major pro life group has always intended to ban the pill. They are confident nobody believes them because their supporters have been ignoring that for decades.
If you're a MAGA-fan these days, your chances of getting laid let alone become a Father are getting darker by the day. Guess this is the last resort effort to forcefully "produce" future MAGA's.
Tbh, no Woman/Girl in her right state of mind would let any of those morons near her clothed or naked!
