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[–] [email protected] 2 points 7 months ago

Are you completely insane?

[–] [email protected] 7 points 7 months ago (2 children)

This is how you get increased suicides and abandoned infants.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 7 months ago

This guy looks like a rapist. Why do they all look like that?

[–] [email protected] 4 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago)

The problem is (a) Republicans don't care if the issue isn't their own, and (b) Republicans seem to lack the capacity for identifying systemic failures. It's like an object-permanence thing with them. If they can't physically see the thing happening directly with their two eyes, then there is no relation. Like they're blind to negative externalities or indirect side-effects. at the macro level.

In other words... There's a reason these folks don't normally make great engineers or scientists.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 7 months ago
[–] [email protected] 13 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago) (1 children)

Anyone that actually believes this shouldn't be allowed to continue breathing.

I'm done being nice about this.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 7 months ago (2 children)

I mean .. we could shove a 10 cm bowling ball up his ass against his will and see how he feels thereafter

[–] [email protected] 0 points 7 months ago

Wow, not a single downvote against violent comments. Honestly taken a back by that.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago) (1 children)

You KNOW he's just going to respond "I've had bigger shits" and then cry about it in a closed room. If logic was ever going to work on these morons, it would've happened decades ago.

e. I feel like it's also important to note that there are dumb as fuck women who also believe this fucking nonsense and these laws would have far less efficacy if it didn't have their support (looking at all those ladies with (R) beside their name)

[–] [email protected] 2 points 7 months ago (1 children)

I know, it sucks. It took years of therapy and separating from my ex and other unhealthy relationships to realize you can't debate crazy.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 7 months ago (1 children)

I think it was worth your time trying. There's always the possibility somewhere down the line that the individual(s) you spoke to will encounter a situation in their life that will force them to reflect on their views and attempt to update them from archaic to pre-modern.

Discussion is never a failure, in my opinion, but I absolutely believe it can be seriously draining.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 7 months ago

It's crazy making which is definitely draining.

[–] [email protected] 18 points 7 months ago (1 children)

These people should get intragastric balloon shoved up their ass and inflated so they can feel some of the "greatest healing" first hand. It should be done against their will as well since they claim it's not an issue. You know, not to be left out of the whole greatness. Not quite fair that only females get to experience it.

If anyone complains how "god didn't meant for balloons to be in our assholes", just make a counter argument: if that were true why did it make us fart then. Clearly air is suppose to be there.

[–] [email protected] 10 points 7 months ago (1 children)

If anyone complains how “god didn’t meant for balloons to be in our assholes”, just make a counter argument: if that were true why did it make us fart then. Clearly air is suppose to be there.

Or use their own argument, “God doesn’t make mistakes.” If that balloon is up your ass, even though you didn't want it there, then too bad. God wills it so.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 7 months ago
[–] [email protected] 12 points 7 months ago

If you give them an inch, they will take a mile.

"We would never take a mile, you have our promise"

And here they are taking a mile.

Suprisedpikachuface

[–] [email protected] 8 points 7 months ago

Would a rapist not take this as encouragement? Would this not make women feel incredibly unsafe? Why do men have no equivalent laws that restrict what they can do with their own body?

[–] [email protected] 10 points 7 months ago

I'll bet he thinks forced marriage to said rapist is a Great Healing Agent too. (He's never advocated this as far as I know, and I'm not trying to put words in his mouth. But c'mon, we gotta Bring Back the Nuclear Family, no?)

[–] [email protected] 8 points 7 months ago

what do you expect. missouri republicans see women as brood mares, and brood mares aren't people.

I'm this close to expecting them to call women "fee males".

[–] [email protected] 10 points 7 months ago

"The greatest healing agent," says the rape enabler.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 7 months ago

So's flushing these fucking GOP turds down the toilet.

Them not existing anymore would heal the fuck out of me.

[–] [email protected] 31 points 7 months ago

republicans love rape

[–] [email protected] 30 points 7 months ago

Why the fuck are repulitards like cartoon villains except without the humor?

[–] [email protected] 3 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago)
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