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The only definition I can think of to define a human being is based on the definition I would use to define a woman, a man, or an ear of corn.
When defining nouns, I think it’s okay to show people pictures of what a human, woman, man, or ear of corn look like, and expect people to figure out what is a human, woman, man, or war of corn.
https://www.webmd.com/baby/interactive-pregnancy-tool-fetal-development?week=8 shows the pictures of human development in the pregnancy. At conception, the pregnancy doesn’t look like it contains a human being. I just don’t think it does. 8 weeks is a different story. At 8 weeks, that looks pretty human to me, so I wouldn’t legalize killing an 8 week pregnancy. Basically, I think abortion should be legal up until 8 weeks into pregnancy and banned beyond this point. You find out you’re pregnant at 6 weeks, so you still have time to abort under this model. Make this the federal standard.
I don’t believe bodily autonomy arguments are good, and if anyone believe that bodily autonomy is a good argument, let me know and we will see if bodily autonomy is a good argument. But here is kind of why I do think bodily autonomy is a good argument:
Let’s say that there are these 2 people in a relationship (a man and a woman). Let’s say the woman is being a total asshole to the man, the worst asshole you can imagine, and she causes the man so much emotional stress from the relationship. Let’s also say the man cannot do the following things:
1) Tell her she is being annoying while expecting it to reduce stress, because this would be like a pregnant female telling her fetus to stop being annoying. She can do it, but don’t expect it to deliver results because fetuses don’t speak English.
2) Break up with her, because this would be like the pregnant female breaking up with the fetus. If she does this, the fetus is aborted. If breaking up with your girlfriend resulted in her death, people wouldn’t let you brake up with a girlfriend you chose to get into a relationship with.
His only 2 options are:
1) Suck it up; deal with the stress for 9 months.
2) Kill his mentally abusive girlfriend through painless methods. A gunshot to the back of the head does this.
Should he be allowed to pick the 2nd option? Absolutely not; suck up the mental pain because your temporary pain is not worth your girlfriend’s life. You chose to get into this relationship knowing the hypothetical consequences, so you deal with the girlfriend for 9 months.
Now you know why I don’t believe bodily autonomy is a good argument.
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Texas law states that if you have 10 kids, you don't have to pay property tax.
They also banned abortion because the Texas government claimed a zygote is a kid.
So what am I going to do? I want to move to Texas, and If I'm able to own multiple houses, I want to freeze 10 zygotes in a freezer, pay at most $7000 for freezer fees, and (if I own dozens of properties), save $tens of thousands on property taxes. And I'm able to do all of this because the Texas government believes that a zygote is a human being that should be treated exactly like a baby.
Now lets say your pro choice, but you never want to be the parent of an aborted baby. Well, if you move to Texas, you have a vested interest in Texas keeping abortion banned so you can freeze zygotes in a freezer to avoid paying property tax. If Texas decides to legalize abortion, you may feel good about it since your pro choice, but you also are going to have to pay a lot of property tax money to Texas, so you may want abortion banned in the state just so Texas classifies a zygote as a human being so you can keep your property tax savings. I mean, if your pro choice but never want to be the parent of an aborted baby, then the abortion laws don't effect you. Now, if you get a girl pregnant accidentally and you want to abort, then that's a different story; you go to a state that will legalize abortion, you abort, and you come back. But you still live in Texas (and you would vote for pro life republicans so you can keep you can avoid paying property tax,keeping abortion banned in Texas). You can pay for the travelling fees with the money you saved from property tax.
Now, if everyone in Texas took advantage of this, your going to have a lot of embryos stored in freezers and no property tax coming into the Texas'es state treasury. So then Texas might do at least one of the 2 things that they don't want to do:
1) Don't classify a zygote as a human, so legalize abortion so they can collect property tax money. This is going to lead to potentially hundreds of millions of zygotes being killed, but if they aren't people, this is legal.
2) Impose an income tax on it's residents (because property tax no longer generates any revenue if every person took advantage of this).
They might increase the sales tax, but the sales tax only raises so much revenue. But they need to raise taxes to generate revenue instead of the property tax, or they could not count zygotes as human beings so they can have no income and sales tax and rely on the property tax.
Not only this, but ANY state where abortion is banned because of the belief that it kills a human being, the residents there can use a similar hack and avoid paying federal taxes (and maybe state taxes as well because the state may have child tax beneftis) because the federal government provides an average of about $5000 per child that is a dependent of the family as a tax cut and if zygotes are human beings, no matter how pro choice you are, you have a vested interest in your state banning abortion so you can freeze a zygote and collect the tax savings that resulted from that zygote being dependent on you. If you ever decide to get an abortion, you can head over to a blue state for one. The federal government is going to have to do something similar to Texas, where they either legalize abortion nationwide or eliminate the child tax credit, but if they eliminate the child tax credit, then all the families that have zygotes stored in freezers are going to kill their zygotes illegally (unless the federal government legalizes abortion nationwide) if they live in red states.
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People claim vaccine mandates are in the name of public health. I'm just curious as to how far does the, "public health" argument go? Like would you mandate boosters for example?
Why Do Vaccinated People Represent Most COVID-19 Deaths Right Now? | KFF claims that the majority of dead people from COVID are vaccinated people (60%) while COVID vaccination rates - Search (bing.com) states that less than 2/3 of the US population is fully vaxxed or more.
In other words, being vaccinated alone barely prevents you from dying of COVID.
To be fair, the article calls for getting people to get boosters. But only about 1 in 3 Americans have the booster. Are you REALLY going to mandate something that less than a third of the country has for every job out there and to enter restaurants?
Comparing vaccine mandates to the Holocaust as what MTG did; horrible comparison; really, that's just pathetic.
But vaccine mandates nonetheless aren't worth keeping around because excluding the majority of society from public life over a vaccine that not taking it makes you less than 1 pt more likely to die of COVID than without the vacciene.
There are but 2 non arbitrary positions you can take with regard to vacciene mandates, don't mandate any shots or mandate the updated booster. Mandating the updated booster excludes the vast majority of America (Less than 4% of U.S. adults have gotten updated Covid booster shots (nbcnews.com)).
So the only consistent option is no vacciene mandates.
If 99.9% of the US population got their boosters, then you could conceive of mandating the booster; but when it's about 1/3 of the country, it's not pragmatic.
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I’ve noticed that the word, “woke” is defined very differently by the left and right
The left defines woke as being aware of racial struggles. The right defines it as political correctness and sensitive outrage against people for opinions.
The dictionary definitions, like most definitions, lets the left have their way because the left makes up the majority of America’s population. But I think DeSantis viewed the term in the right wing definition, which is pink haired college kid who gets offended when Ben Shapiro talks about his ideas.
I don’t think DeSantis should have said Florida is where woke goes to die if the left is correct on what it means to be woke. But there needs to be a new term to describe the pink haired gender studies major who gets offended at everything right wingers and their supporters say. Whatever that term is, “call it snowflake”, or DeSantis said Florida is where snowflakes go to melt, would it still be offensive? Surely we can all be against snowflakes.
When I refer to snowflakes, I do not refer to BLM supporters, Medicare for all supporters, or supporters of any left wing cause. I refer to people that block over political disagreement and people that are unwilling to hear opinions they dislike, whether left or right. Some of the biggest snowflakes I have met are on the right. I got kicked out of a GOP club for being anti war and anti ICE and leaning into these talking points under the justification of small government (now they all oppose the war in Ukraine, but still want to fund our military a lot for no reason other than a false sense of safety). Those people are snowflakes, and Florida should be where they go to melt too. But there are many people on the left that are snowflakes and they should ALSO be called out on it.
Love your neighbor. It doesn’t matter if they are right wing, left wing, LGBT, unvaccinated, undocumented, pro life, pro choice, believe that marriage should be between a man and a woman, believe Caitlyn Jenner is a man. As long as they are a good person that doesn’t harm anyone else and that treats others well, you do the same.
The left defines woke as being aware of racial struggles. The right defines it as political correctness and sensitive outrage against people for opinions.
The dictionary definitions, like most definitions, lets the left have their way because the left makes up the majority of America’s population. But I think DeSantis viewed the term in the right wing definition, which is pink haired college kid who gets offended when Ben Shapiro talks about his ideas.
I don’t think DeSantis should have said Florida is where woke goes to die if the left is correct on what it means to be woke. But there needs to be a new term to describe the pink haired gender studies major who gets offended at everything right wingers and their supporters say. Whatever that term is, “call it snowflake”, or DeSantis said Florida is where snowflakes go to melt, would it still be offensive? Surely we can all be against snowflakes.
When I refer to snowflakes, I do not refer to BLM supporters, Medicare for all supporters, or supporters of any left wing cause. I refer to people that block over political disagreement and people that are unwilling to hear opinions they dislike, whether left or right. Some of the biggest snowflakes I have met are on the right. I got kicked out of a GOP club for being anti war and anti ICE and leaning into these talking points under the justification of small government (now they all oppose the war in Ukraine, but still want to fund our military a lot for no reason other than a false sense of safety). Those people are snowflakes, and Florida should be where they go to melt too. But there are many people on the left that are snowflakes and they should ALSO be called out on it.
Love your neighbor. It doesn’t matter if they are right wing, left wing, LGBT, unvaccinated, undocumented, pro life, pro choice, believe that marriage should be between a man and a woman, believe Caitlyn Jenner is a man. As long as they are a good person that doesn’t harm anyone else and that treats others well, you do the same.
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2 issues that should be considered, abortion and transgenderism.
Me personally, I don't care about either one of these issues; not enough scientific evidence is there for me to believe a zygote is a human being and I'm not trans.
But the left and the right believe something very different.
The left's argument:
"Abortion bans and not calling transwomen women negatively impact women and transgenders."
The right's argument:
"Abortion legalization harms the unborn and transwomen are men pretending to be women because that's science"
When the left claims that all these science groups claim that transwomen are women, the right proceeds to ask, "What is a woman?" of which the left has no decent answer that encompasses transwomen and ciswomen and excludes transmen and cis men. They also don't have a good definition for what a man is. The right has their definition; it's based on chromosomes, but the left won't accept this definition because they believe transwomen are women.
I asked Quora people (who were both pro choice and believed transwomen are women) who they would rather support, a pro lifer that believed transwomen are women or a pro choicer that agreed with Matt Walsh on transgenderism.
To my surprise, the left on Quora cares more about transgenderism than abortion, so they perferred the pro lifer that believes that transwomen are women.
Now if your on the right, you believe that abortion should be banned and that transwomen are men pretending to be women. What issue do they care about more? I would imagine abortion, because from their perspective, 800,000 dead unborn children per year is a bigger issue than whether or not you call the few trans people you know by their preferred pronouns. To confirm this, my conservative brother told me he cares more about abortion than transgenderism.
So here's the deal I would support: The moment the right can define what a woman is in a way that excludes (cis and trans) men and includes cis women and transwomen and the moment the right can define what a man is in a way that excludes (cis and trans) women and includes cis women and transmen, they can enact a right to life amendment in the constitution that outlaws abortion nationwide (you can have an exception for rape and/or mother's life if you want that, you can enact exception for fetal defects if you want, you can leave these rare situations up to the states if you want; the left got their victory with transgenderism, now you get to have your victory with abortion laws written in the constitution so they won't be able to be overturned unless 3/4 of the states vote for that).
From my experience, the left cares more about transgenderism (an issue where the right has their way since the majority of America agrees with the right on this issue) and the right cares more about abortion (an issue where even with Roe gone, a majority of states have abortion legal.)
But then the right has to define women in a way that would get the trans community what they want, which is to be recognized as their perceived gender.
Lets make a deal!
Then once these very polarizing issues are settled, we can focus on something less divisive.
You can propose counteroffers to this idea if you want; but both sides get what they want out of this deal. But I want some sort of deal to be made so we can focus on something less divisive.
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The left: We don't believe a zygote or embryo is a human being.
Also the left: We support a woman's right to choose whether or not to have an abortion (but we want to reduce the abortion rate of zygotes)
Me: If you believe that zygotes aren't people, why would you care what the abortion rate of zygotes is? If I kill a pig for meat, nobody (except vegeterians and vegans) cares about how many animals get killed for food, because it's viewed by the majority that farm animals aren't human. If you REALLY believe a zygote or even an embryo isn't a human being, why would you want to reduce the rate at which they get killed? They aren't human after all, so it shouldn't matter how often they get killed. Collect stats on it if you want for data's sake, but don't advocate for reducing the death rate of something you think is just a clump of cells.
The right is consistent on this front. They believe a zygote is a human being so they want less of them killed. You can agree or disagree with that, but it's worth respect. The left isn't being consistent. They want to reduce the death rate of zygotes but they don't believe zygotes are human beings, so why aim to reduce the death rate of zygotes?
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I 100% agree.
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Anytime a head of state sends their country to fight an offensive war, they got to send one of their children to fight in it. The UN makes this international law and enforce this law like all other laws are enforced.
Let’s see how quickly the wars end. This is for Yemen, Ukraine, Palestine; end the bloodshed!
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If you like Trump, try to convince me to vote for him.
If you don’t like Trump, try to convince me to not vote for him.
The Never Trumpers and the MAGA crowd have made up their minds. I have not. If Trump wins in 2024, it won’t be because of the Never Trump Crowd or the MAGA crowd. It will be because of swing voters like me.
So make your case. I’m going to tag one never Trumper and one person that I think is in the MAGA crowd, but anyone is free to convince me to vote, or to not vote for Donald Trump if he runs in 2024 and beats DeSantis in the primary. Let’s say it’s 2024, Biden vs Trump rematch.
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I think the answer is yes. If you don’t like the rules of your religion, then leave the religion. Not mandated by law, but what I think people should do. I’m not religious; I can’t follow the rules of any religion 100%.
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So not all republicans are white supremests, but pretty much all white supremests are republicans.
But why? If you believe the way white people have done things in this world is the best out of any other race, you would have to believe the following ideas are great ideas:
1) Secure the border; keep non white people out.
2) Universal healthcare.
3) Free college
4) High taxes on the wealthy to fund social programs
5) Abortion is legal; and paid for by the government for all that want them up until 12 to 20 weeks into pregnancy.
6) Hate speech is banned
7) Transwomen are women
It sounds like claiming white culture is the best culture in the world is akin to saying social democratic policies are the best in the world (except for immigration).
Social democracy is western civilization.
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https://costplusdrugs.com. If you need any life saving drugs, go to Cuban for them.
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I don’t believe a zygote or embryo is a human being. But I think a fetus is a human being.
In addition, Forbes states only 34% of the US population supports abortion being legal for 2nd trimester or more.
Because of this, I support a national abortion ban at 12 weeks into pregnancy. If a state wants to ban all abortions (except for rape and maternal life), that’s fine; 39% of the country agrees with them.
Here is the compromise try at I support: National abortion ban at 12 weeks. Every state must legalize abortion for rape victims up until 12 weeks (because abortion at that point is self defense; if I got raped, I’m not paying child support) and for maternal life up until the moment of birth (because I think maternal life outweighs fetal life for these rare cases).
The states are going to make their own laws regarding abortion in this framing. If you want an abortion and you live in a red state, you must travel to a state that will perform your abortion.
Punishments for illegal abortion:
Any woman that gets a late term abortion (24 weeks or more) when their life or health did not require it and if there was no fetal defect should be put to death; that’s murder, and the penalty for murder should be death. Since this is very few people, it’s pragmatic to implement this. The fetus endured pain from that abortion (and it was a lot of pain), and since they had plenty of time to abort beforehand, the proper penalty is the same as stabbing an infant; the death penalty; especially when you can do a c section and be fine; late term abortions of healthy babies without the mother dying without an abortion should be punished with death.
The penalty for illegal abortions that aren’t late term should be a lifetime sales tax imposed upon both genders of the aborted baby equally (10%). These abortions are common so they have to be treated as such.
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Where I stand on issues - Google Sheets is where I stand on every issue I could think of. I've updated it since last time. I think I changed my stance on transgenderism thanks to YouFoundLxam. I may have changed my stance on a few other issues as well.
If you disagree with anything I said here; feel free to let me know.
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Most left wing voters are against:
1) Fossil Fuels
2) Nuclear energy
When asking them their ideal energy source, they say renewable energy sources. If they REALLY supported renewable energy sources, they would own solar panels if they could afford it. But they don't, implying that they want OTHERS to use solar energy and to pay for panels but they personally don't want solar energy. This seems hypocritical.
Every pro solar politician should be required to buy solar panels out of their $174,000 a year salary if they tell the rest of us to get panels. Otherwise, why should I get solar panels?
I think America with our current population should build 300 more nuclear power plants to provide clean and cheap energy and to make Ameria more energy independent.
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If you fired every unvaccinated person from their job, the unemployment rate would skyrocket. It’s not worth raising the unemployment rate to 8% from 3% over a vaccine mandate. I don’t want to pay for the unvaccinated people’s welfare.
I don’t think a company should be allowed to fire you for ANY of the following reasons:
1) Your unvaccinated
2) Your LGBT
3) You post politically incorrect things on the internet (or if your super woke; I don’t want AOC supporters fired from their jobs).
4) You are undocumented.
5) Your race, religion, or gender
We need to make it easier to get jobs to minimize the welfare state.
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This is what the conservatives have become:
Conservatives: We are pro life. I think they are more right here since I think there should be a punishment for abortion. But the penalty should be a lifetime 10% sales tax on anything bought for the rest of their life, but the sole person who ensures the tax is the father of the aborted baby. Any parent of an aborted baby should be barred from public office unless the pregnancy was conceived through rape, there are fetal defects, or is a threat to the life of the mother.
Reality: Herschel Walker paid for an abortion. But he denies it but still calls himself a Republican.
Conservatives: We will vote for him. He is on our team.
Conservatives: Child rape must be punished with death. I think they are right here; I don’t want my tax dollars feeding them. They beloved this in 2008, and a majority of the American population supports the death penalty for rape I think (I’m not sure, but this is out of my experience)
Reality: Roy Moore is a child rapist.
Conservatives: We will vote for him because he’s a republican. Alabama’s governor would support him even if he was a child rapist because all she cares about is the party of the politician.
Conservatives: We need to cut welfare. I shouldn’t pay for my neighbor’s bills. I think every person that uses government assistance should be required to have a government job so society gets improved for those living off of taxpayers. Exceptions are for those with bad disabilities, but if you have kids, you should not be allowed to live on welfare.
Reality: Many welfare recipients vote Republican. Not all. Maybe not even the majority, but many. They often have more kids than what they can afford to raise, like what happens in Kiryas Joel. This not an insult to all people living there, but the able bodied people living anywhere in the US should be required to get off of government funds or get a government job within a year. After that, the welfare state is virtually eliminated. I would rather have blue voters on welfare than red voters because blue voters that are on welfare don’t vote against their economic interests. With few exceptions, I criticize EVERYONE on welfare, whether they vote blue or red.
Conservatives: Never criticize their own voters for living on welfare.
Conservatives: We don’t like identity politics. I agree with them here; I ignore race, gender, sexual orientation, gender expression and even documentation status. I see it (everyone does), but I ignore it.
Reality: Donald Trump appoints someone to the Supreme Court just because she’s a woman. Fox News ends up praising minority conservatives like Nicci Haley for being minority female conservatives when their ethnic background or gender shouldn’t matter. They point to Dave Rubin as “one of the good ones”, but they should “IGNORE” his gayness.
Conservatives: They have tokens just like the left.
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Let’s say you had to pick between getting $1 right now and getting $1 million a day for the rest of your life in 80 years (assuming you live that long and never die). Most people would pick the 2nd option because people think in the long term.
Now let’s say I ask you,
“What do you value more, 70 years of living a middle class life in earth and going to heaven and not getting much reward, or giving away all your wealth because Jesus tells you too and getting to go to an eternal heaven with significantly more reward than being middle class for 70 years because the reward is more intense than being a billionaire and the reward lasts for an eternity whereas you being a billionaire does not?”
If you were being logically consistent, you would claim the eternal reward is better than the earthly reward. But if you REALLY believe that, you would agree to sell all you have and give the money to the poor so you can maximize the eternal salvation’s reward.
Since most Christians don’t live this (the priests do, so credit to them for sticking to their values) but since most Christians don’t, should I call their bluff?
This is one reason why I don’t want to be religious.
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The definition of a woman is someone without a dick and the definition of a man is someone with a dick? I think that answers Matt Walsh’s question.
But let me know what you guys think. Whether you agree or disagree, let me know. I don’t block. Free speech!
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There are 2 e options to solve Israel vs Palestine. They are:
1) One state solution (it doesn’t matter if this state is Israel or Palestine). In BOTH of these nations, Jewish people make up about half of the population and Muslims the other half. The Muslims won’t be able to successfully prosecute the Jews in Israel because they make up half the country (and vice versa with the Muslims).
2) A 2 state solution. The bigger Israel gets, the more Muslims will be inside Israel and the bigger Palestine gets, the more Jews would be in Palestine. Exceptions apply, but this is the general rule.
So if you advocate Israel owning all of Palestine, rather then view someone who wants Israel eliminated as the enemy or even someone that disagrees with you on the issue, relieze you want the same thing, a one state solution where half the population is Jewish and the other half is Muslim. It doesn’t matter if you call this country Israel or Palestine, the end result is the same.
And it doesn’t make sense why Israel would even exist. If America accepted 300 million migrants from Latin America (let’s say they they are all fleeing prosecution for something) and they return the favor by breaking away and being their own independent country, that wouldn’t seem fair, would it? If you are a refugee and a country lets you move there, you should become as integrated with your host country as you can be to prevent separatist movements. I have no problem with immigrants (even if they are undocumented). But we have room for BUT one flag and that is the American flag. We have room for but one language and that is the English language. And if any migrant wants their place in America joining another country or separating from America, then they should get deported. A hyphenated American is an oxymoron. Either one is fully an American or one does not belong in America. If they don’t belong in America, they should get deported. Most of the undocumented are NOT in this category, but the ones who favor the land they live on joining a foreign state should get deported.
So if you’re a Jewish refugee and you head to Palestine to escape Nazi prosecution, fine, you’re welcome. Just don’t create a separatist movement from Palestinian land once you arrive. If you’re a Jewish refugee and you want to come to America; you’re absolutely welcome here under the condition that you don’t try and create a country out of American land. You will not (and should not) face any legal prosecution for being Jewish. But you’re an American now. Not a member of some Jewish country made from American land (I treat the Jews living in the Middle East the same way). Don’t create separatist movements out of the countries that saved you from prosecution from foreign states.
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There is photographic evidence of Ron DeSantis attending parties while 23 with high schoolers that he taught. It’s possible he had sex with these highschoolers. If this is the case, he is a rapist and should have his head cut off for rape. If Donald Trump is a rapist (there is photo evidence of him being friends with Epstein), he also needs his head cut off. Rapists, murderers, and kidnappers all deserve a public beheading so taxpayers aren’t feeding them with a prison sentence. This is no matter what political beliefs they have.
And there is something that I noticed. The left thinks Donald Trump and Ron DeSantis are rapists and they hate them. You know who the left also hates? Mike Pence. But nobody has made any rape accusations against Mike Pence. So this leads me to believe that if your facing a rape accusation as a politician, it’s probably accurate.
This doesn’t mean we should assume you’re guilty, innocent until proven guilty. But there are 3 options, and I will rank my ideal options:
1) Believe evidence. There has to be evidence beyond a reasonable doubt because of the fifth amendment. This requires a trial. But since Trump has had these rape accusations for years and said, “Grab them by the pussy. They let you do it. I don’t even wait.”, the media focused on the wrong pet of that quote. They focused on, “Grab them by the pussy” when they should have focused on, “I don’t even wait”, implying he doesn’t wait for consent. If he is freely and cheerfully admiring to not wait for consent, he is a rapist and should be put to death. Unfortunately, Trump won’t get a trial because if he hasn’t gotten a trial by now, he’s not going to get one it seems and I think this will also be true of DeSantis. So as much as I would like to believe evidence, it’s not pragmatic to because NOBODY IS GETTING A TRIAL.
2) Believe survivors. They don’t have to be women, they can be men. Whenever a man is a sexual assault victim (like with Matt Schlapp), NOBODY was saying we need evidence to believe he sexually assaulted. If Matt Schlapp had sexually assaulted a woman, people would be demanding that she prove it. The right believes survivors when the accused rapist is Bill Clinton (it’s why they say that Clinton is a rapist). But when the accused rapist is Trump, they claim he’s innocent.
3) Believe accused perpetrators. This is my least favorite option.
So I would LIKE to believe evidence and trials consistently, it since they almost never show up for rape cases, I have to believe survivors since I think that’s more pragmatic to do than to believe the accused perpetrators.
But let me know what you guys think. Whether you believe, “Underdog, you’re wrong on this.” or, “Underdog , you bring a good point.”. I don’t block.
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Claim 1: Anybody who is without health insurance and is in the hospital should die because I don’t want my tax dollars taking care of them.
Claim 2: I want lower taxes, and if that means some people die from lack of Medicaid, so be it.
If both claim 1 and claim 2 are implemented, the result will be the same. Why is one considered hate speech while the other is free speech according to the Bernie Sanders crowd? Either they are BOTH hate speech or none of them are.
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That people are no longer judged by the color of their skin or their sexual orientation or their gender expression or their vaccination status or any of their political opinions (even if you believe in right wing or left wing culture war) or whether or not they want to own an AR 15 without a universal background check or their documentation status but by the content of their character. This applies to companies firing you. We need to make it as easy as possible for people to get hired to minimize the welfare state.
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According to Kyle Kulinski, Matt Walsh wants to execute the homeless.
He’s basically the “What is a woman?” guy. If you agree with him on this issue, I have no issue with that. But strongly criticize someone who advocates killing the homeless people. If you’re pro life for the fetus, that fetus grows up to be homeless, and you want them killed over it, you’re not pro life. You don’t have to adopt the homeless, but wanting to kill the homeless is barberic.
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Debate this. I should get to see both sides.
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Do I:
1) Say something stupid enough for people to not respond afterwards?
2) Convince people of my side.
3) Cause you to get tired out, so you don’t feel like responding?
I think it’s one of the 3.
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Currently, out of the meat that is made by companies, it’s 100% meat.
I would support a federal policy that requires them to go from 100% meat to 99.5% meat, .5% plant based protein. Every year, the meat concentration goes down .5% until in 200 years, society doesn’t use it anymore.
This I think has the following benefits that would benefit Americans:
1) Eventually no more animals are dying from meat consumption anymore
2) More protein is in the meat that gets consumed, because meat (which is about 25% protein) gets replaced by something that is 100% protein.
3) Health benefits, because less saturated fat.
4) Environmental benefits, because less pollution.
5) Incrreased carrying capacity, because plant based products are more sustainable for the human race.
6) Fairly popular. I’ve asked 3 people in my personal life what they thought of this, most of whom eat meat. They all like it.
7) Society gets used to it no problem, because it’s tiny adjustments every year, and society won’t notice the taste difference.
Like if you agree, comment if you don’t.
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The left: Put them in a woman’s prison! Transwomen are women.
The right: Put them in a men’s prison! Protect out girls!
Me: I don’t care if you think transwomen are men or women. I don’t want tax dollars feeding prisoners; we spend $182 billion a year on our prisons. Give the prisoner lashings! That’s your punishment.
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Yemen has gun laws very similar to Texas. Gun ownership is very common in Yemen, more guns per capita than any other country in the world except the USA. Yemen has a tyrannical government, and the armed Yemeni population wasn’t able to use their 2nd amendment to defend against a tyrannical government. If Yemen can’t use their AR 15s to defend against a tyrannical government, how could Americans?
I don’t want to ban Ar 15s. I just don’t see their use in defending against tyranny.
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War is not pro life (and I am). End the wars! I don’t care if it’s Biden or Trump. End the wars! End the bombings!
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Here’s what I think about furries:
If you want to dress up as an animal, I think it’s in poor taste, but you should be allowed to do it. Free country. I don’t support people bullying you for a choice I think is in poor taste.
However, 1 in 3 furries believe that aren’t 100% human (https://www.vox.com/platform/amp/2014/12/10/7362321/9-questions-about-furries-you-were-too-embarrassed-to-ask).
If society is to believe that these furries aren’t 100% human, I’m not judging; I don’t judge for things that are victimless. However, there are some questions people are going to have to answer.
1) Is there any peer reviewed scientific evidence that confirms that some furries are in fact the animal they claim to be and not a human being? If there are none, I fail to see why this should be taken seriously. Your personally allowed to believe you are an animal besides human, but don’t expect any resonable person to believe in your crazy delusions. Delusions that you should be allowed to have and express, but delusions nonetheless.
2) Let’s say you believe you’re a Fox and you’re 10 years old. Well, Foxes don’t get free schooling, so we would have to kick you out of school. If any actual Fox was in school, they are getting killed because they are a threat to the people in the building. Either that, or they would at the very least be expelled. If you identify as a deer, it’s all fun and games until someone shoots you for venison. If you REALLY expect society to treat you as a deer, it means we can kill you for food (unless society goes vegan. I try to be as vegan as I can be in my personal life, but I know most of society won’t join me, but society would have to be at the very least vegetarian in order to outlaw killing deers or any animal people identify as for food.)
3) What is a human? If you want me to believe that furries that identify as a non human animal are that animal, you need to be able to define what a human being is.
Until all of these questions are answered, I fail to see why ANY sane person should believe these delusions. Not judging anyone that is a furry, but if you are a furry, I do not believe you are any animal besides a human being. At least as of now.
Now watch the media’s tricks against me unfold.
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Normally, democratic politicians are better for the stock market. But under Biden, my stock prices are $6500 worse than they would be on average. I really hope Biden does better things for the stock market so my stocks do better. If my stocks were $6500 higher, I’d have no problem voting for Biden. But they are crap right now, and because of that, Let’s Go Brandon!
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What if all politicians got paid only minimum wage? This does 2 things that I think would be useful:
1) There are over half a million politicians in the US (https://myemail.constantcontact.com/Trivia-Time--How-many-elected-officials-are-there-in-the-United-States-.html?soid=1102356662894&aid=0IhxAITNdoQ). Assuming each person gets paid $100,000 a year and we cut their salary to minimum wage, this saves about $50 billion a year.
2) It lets our politicians live their values. If the minimum wage is $7.25 an hour, that’s what our politicians get. This both would cause the minimum wage to rise to $15 an hour (maybe $20 an hour if our politicians want a higher salary) and this helps we the people. I don’t want to pay the welfare of minimum wage workers, so it makes sense to give them a higher wage.
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I don’t think it’s fair; the US government spent the money needed to create these drugs, so the US government should own the patents and not private companies. But I guess it’s okay if healthcare companies post BLM in their profile.
I don’t care if you post BLM in your profile; you shouldn’t steal from the taxpayer. The US government paid for the production of the drug patents; we the people should own them, not corporations.
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The Trump mob: We believe in small government and that fathers should stick with the families they create.
Me (a normal person): So are you against ICE? They are big government and they increase the single motherhood rate?
Conservatives: Absolutely not; expand the government for ICE, let them create more single motherhood, and fuck any sort of consistency.
Me: It’s shit like this that prevents me from being a republican.
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The radial left: “It’s so unfair that women were legally raped by men all the way up until the 1970s. We need to give every woman millions of dollars based on rapes that other women endured.”
Me: Giving every woman $2 million based on hundreds of years of rape would cost about $320 trillion. That is 50x higher than the US federal budget.
The radical left: Doesn’t matter; pay up your bigot!
If you think this is crazy, this is what I think of giving black people millions of dollars for slavery.
Me: Giving every woman $2 million based on hundreds of years of rape would cost about $320 trillion. That is 50x higher than the US federal budget.
The radical left: Doesn’t matter; pay up your bigot!
If you think this is crazy, this is what I think of giving black people millions of dollars for slavery.
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I think the following deal should be made between America and Cuba.
Cuba gives us every single Cuban that wants to flee communism and censorship (probably the majority).
In exchange, America gives Cuba an equal number of pro communist Americans. Note being part of ANY of the following groups of people:
1) People that don’t like Trump
2) People that like Medicare for all
3) People that like Bernie Sanders
Just being in any group out of what is above doesn’t make you egilable for forced relocation. It takes a defender of the Cuban regime to warrant forced relocation to Cuba. And I’ve met people that defend Cuba. They love Cuba because their infant mortality rate is 4 per 1000 whereas America’s is 8 per 1000 and that Cuba has a higher life expectancy.
If you value QUANTITY of life over all else even if it’s slight, this makes sense. But most Americans (and most normal people) would rather live 6 months less and have their infant have an extra .4% chance of dying if their income quintuples and their kid is significantly less likely to live in poverty and extreme poverty (Cuba has a lot of poverty). Quality of life matters just like quantity.
But the hardcore ideologue communists (doesn’t include your typical Bernie Sanders supporter) don’t see it that way even though over 95% of America does. This is fine for them, they get to go to Cuba and live there. They would help make Cuba a multicultural paradise, with Anglos and Latinos, and the Cubans that move here would assilimination and learn English.
I think this is a win for everyone involved.
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Convicted rapists and murderers deserve the death penalty because I don’t want the government spending $27 billion taking care of horrible people. Spend that money giving our teachers a raise.
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https://youtu.be/HY_AOBCBsjI. Shall not be infringed. Under no pretext.
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Biden is keeping Title 42 in place, which are deportations.
In my America, nobody is getting kicked out of the country. If the migrant is on welfare, we kick them off; strongly pressure them to get a job. If the migrant rapes or murders, we chop their head off in the middle of Times Square; let the socialists in NYC protest the death penalty of rapists, but do it anyways because we aren’t having tax dollars feed the men that rape or murder.
Let every household decide for themselves whether or not to accept undocumented immigrants; if the undocumented immigrant is a father, the household will accept them. Don’t let the counties decide; let families decide for themselves if they want an undocumented immigrant in their house or not. This is called parental rights and family values. I don’t want undocumented dads abandoning the kids they create through reckless sexual habits. If they produce a kid in America, then they should be forced by the state to raise the kid they create in America or pay child support and get sterilized if they decide to be a deadbeat dad.
The claim that the undocumented will take jobs from the native born citizen: Population growth in the US has NEVER led to the unemployment rate rising significantly. It doesn’t matter if this population growth was because of births, documented immigration or undocumented immigration. Population growth is not correlated with the unemployment rate.
The claim that the undocumented won’t be vaccinated against COVID: I don’t care if they got the jab. The government under no circumstances should violate the right to refuse to get vaccinated against a disease with a .1% death rate. End this authoritarian socialism.
Let’s Go Brandon. Fuck Joe Biden.
But let me know what y’all think. I don’t block. I believe in small government to a very big degree.
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I never thought this would happen, but according to my own spreadsheet, I agree with the left over 50% of the time now.
Here is the spreadsheet:
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Matt Schlapp gropes a guy’s crotch without his consent. Now, he is innocent until proven guilty, but if he is found guilty, the conservatives should fire him for this. He is an adulterer. He is a sexual assaulter. He is gay (I don’t judge him for this, but the right wing base does). But I hate sexual assaulters and I hate cheaters. They need to be lashed 100x. Family values people. Same thing with Herschel Walker. He preaches pro life things, but he paid for a woman’s abortion that he got pregnant. He has had 4 different kids with 4 different women; wasn’t in the house raising one of them. And the right still voted for the guy because he calls himself a Republican. If the republican candidate was proven to be a child rapist, most right wingers would back him simply because he is a Republican. This happened with Roy Moore vs Doug Jones. In Underdog land, child rapists no matter their party would get their head cut off, not be in public office.
Family values my fucking ass.
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The current planned parenthood CEO is Alexis Johnson.
All that needs to happen for the right to support planned parenthood is Alexis Johnson needs to state all of the following beliefs:
1) Abortion is healthcare (what she already believes and what planned parenthood claims is true). Abortion should be free.
2) Our southern border needs to be secured.
3) Our law enforcement police officers need to be protected. Back the blue. Blue lives matter.
4) The 2020 election was rigged and Donald Trump should be our president.
5) America first. The left used to be America first with not wanting to fund other country’s wars, but now this is a right wing talking point and the parties switched on isolationism. The left used to be isolationist, now the right is.
6) The right of the people to keep and bear arms shall not be infringed.
7) The government can’t force us to take the COVID vaccine (call the vaccine the jab to appeal to right wing conservatives even more).
8) Transwomen need to stay the hell away from women’s sports (this is something the TERFs already believe but TERFs like Dave Chapelle are already pro choice but the right still loves the guy and the left hates him).
9) Groomers are bad and drag shows are not for kids. The right has been really hammering the “drag shows are bad for kids” talking point and if planned parenthood agrees with this, the right would give planned parenthood credit and even celebrate planned parenthood (just like they loved Herschel Walker who paid for an abortion and is a deadbeat dad multiple times).
If planned parenthood even for 10 weeks leaned in on the fact that they want abortion to be free, but lean into 8 other hot button right wing issues to a comparable degree on a per issue basis, the right wing base will become pro choice. They voted for Walker who paid for an abortion because he leans into right wing talking points. I expect they will treat planned the same. If the left is on code, they will ignore planned parenthood acting right wing for the sake of trying to get the right wingers on board (and still get legal abortions if they want them).
Me personally, since I have standards, I don’t care if planned parenthood leans into right wing talking points, I will still want women and men responsible for abortion to be prosecuted by delaying their social security by 3 months per abortion and using the saved revenue to sponsor a starving American kid, but the right is too much into group think to do that. They will back planned parenthood if they do this. The left would also probably dislike planned parenthood after that. We saw this with Caitlyn Jenner. The left used to love Caitlyn Jenner and the right used to hate her. This is despite Caitlyn Jenner calling herself a Republican.
For some reason, if someone is a Republican transgender person that strongly believes in transgenderism and leans into that, the left loves her even more and the right hates her even more just because she calls herself a republican. If Jenner was a democrat, the left and the right would be like whatever to the party affiliation. But as soon as Jenner calls themselves a Republican, the left loves her and the right hated her (because the ONE time she disagrees with conservatives she reveals). But as soon as Caitlyn Jenner ends up stating how she is actually a Republican (she doesn’t think transwomen belong in women’s sports), then the left starts to hate her and the right starts to praise her.
But wait, she claimed she was a Republican and the left loved her and the right hated her. You both should have reliezed that being republican meant you didn’t want transwomen in women’s sports.
But back to planned parenthood. If planned parenthood shows all the Republican women who got abortions, and if planned parenthood calls themselves republican, the left would love planned parenthood even more and the right would hate them even more. But if planned parenthood leans into why they are Republican (even if they don’t believe these things; just say them enough and the right would back you just like how people on the left and right now call Caitlyn Jenner, “she”, but only people on the left call liberal transwomen she), the right would back them.
The right wing base will back anyone that is right wing on the culture war, even if it violates their own principles. This is because the right doesn’t really have that many principles (neither does the left, but I think this applies more to the right). If you appeal to the right wing base by agreeing with them on the right wing current thing, they will back you even if it goes against their values because all they care about is winning elections.
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I hope all the conservatives against the US getting involved with Ukraine in the name of isolationism (they call it America first) have that same attitude about the US getting involved with the genocide in Yemen.
War is horrible; it turns children into orphans. It kills many innocent lives. It costs the government trillions of dollars. The US should end all help that we give to countries like Russia and Saudi Arabia that commit genocide and should give green cards to any and all refugees from war that head to our shores.
I don’t think this policy would lead to American citizens losing their jobs. This argument claims the unemployment rate would rise, but America’s population has increased over the centuries with barely vetted immigrants and it hasn’t led to the unemployment rate increasing for the native born.
An open border policy with green cards for all who come here has the potential to get us out of debt according to the math I did and would be great for the stock market (half of Americans own stock, so this benefits them significantly).
But let me hear your thoughts, whether you agree or disagree. I’ve never blocked anyone for any political claim in my life.
War is horrible; it turns children into orphans. It kills many innocent lives. It costs the government trillions of dollars. The US should end all help that we give to countries like Russia and Saudi Arabia that commit genocide and should give green cards to any and all refugees from war that head to our shores.
I don’t think this policy would lead to American citizens losing their jobs. This argument claims the unemployment rate would rise, but America’s population has increased over the centuries with barely vetted immigrants and it hasn’t led to the unemployment rate increasing for the native born.
An open border policy with green cards for all who come here has the potential to get us out of debt according to the math I did and would be great for the stock market (half of Americans own stock, so this benefits them significantly).
But let me hear your thoughts, whether you agree or disagree. I’ve never blocked anyone for any political claim in my life.
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Here is my ideal penalty for abortion:
Wages get garnished $9 a day for a year (both the woman who gets the abortion and the man who is the father of the aborted baby pay this). The revenue goes to sponsor a starving American child, getting that child out of poverty. If you take a life from abortion, you should be required to save a life by some other method and child sponsorship is a cheap way to save a life to make up for the life you took.
There are 1.6 million American children that need sponsorship every year and about 800,000 abortions a year. We are able to reduce child poverty by 50% with this plan in place.
If a woman gets raped, rape victim insurance pays for the child sponsorship. How this would work is the following:
Every female pays a penny a day to a government fund and in exchange, if all of the following apply to a woman:
1) She gets raped
2) She gets pregnant from the rape
3) She successfully prosecutes the rapist using her pregnancy as proof.
Then she gets $20,000 restitution. If she aborts, she gets $13,000. The remaining $7k goes to sponsor the kid. The rapist gets killed.
There are many ideologues in this country that want life in jail for women who gets an abortion. There are also many people that would be opposed to ANY punishment for women that get abortions, including one that helps to reduce the poverty rate. My plan punishes the woman and the man who is the father of the aborted baby in a way that does not tread too much on liberty while also helping to significantly reduce the poverty rate.
If you’re an extreme ideologue (Polytheist, ebuc, brother D) and you comment, I’m going to do my best to ignore you. You can’t be reasoned with; your too far down the rabbit hole. But the majority is not as partisan as you, so I welcome the majority to comment here.
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The far right: The democrats are racist. They started the civil war over slaves.
The far left: The republicans are racist. Their voter base is along states that more or less broke away from the Union.
Me: Neither party is racist. 1928 United States presidential election results map by county - 1928 United States presidential election - Wikipedia is an election map from 1928 and 2020 Presidential Election by County - 2020 United States presidential election - Wikipedia is a county by county map of 2020.
Pretty much everyone agrees that in 1928, the democrats were the more racist party. In terms of 2020 though, there is a huge amount of overlap between red counties in 1928 and red counties in 2020, between red counties in 1928 and blue counties in 2020, blue counties in 1928 and red counties in 2020, between blue counties in 1928 and blue counties in 2020.
NYC in 1928 voted with the rural south. For one to believe that the democrats were racist in 1928 means they would have to believe NYC was racist in 1928. Now the rural south and NYC are about as different politically as it gets. On the flip side, urban California, especially Los Angelos, voted the same way as rural Oklahoma and Wyoming. In 2020, over a dozen states that voted for the republican party voted republican in 1928. On the flip side, Virginia and Georgia are 2 former confederate states (and Maryland and Delaware were slave states at the time of the civil war), Virginia is a blue state and Georgia is a purple state. Florida was historically purple until DeSantis made it red.
What I'm trying to get at is there is not much of a strong correlation between whether a place was racist in 1928 and if it's democrat or republican in 2020. If politicians don't want to be viewed as racist and if the south is still racist today, Democrats aren't going to want Warnock to win in Georgia because if Warnock wins in Georgia, then democrats have 1 more senator on their team that was from a state that was pro confederacy and they have a racist state backing them (if Georgia is indeed racist which the state isn't).
It's no longer a north south divide that separates American politics and segregation doesn't play a big part in politics anymore, so both sides shouldn't be accusing the other of racism. It's an urban rural divide. Rural NY in 1928 and 2020 voted for republicans. Urban NY in 1928 and 2020 voted for democrats. Nobody in power considers NY a racist place. The former confederacy used to side with NYC. Now they side with Upstate NY.
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Transwomen have female brains, so if they transitioned, they should be classified as women. I define a woman as anyone that is a ciswomen or transwomen. I don't think you need to define the terms, "ciswomen" and "transwomen" to define women because it would be like saying to define the Americas as North America and South America, you have to define North America and South America. Or if you want to define water bottle as a container that holds water, you have to define container and water. I don't think you need 2nd order definitions to define first order definitions.
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1) Elon Musk; he pays for Tesla employees to get abortions if they want them because Tesla's home state (Texas) outlaws abortions.
2) Israel. Israel has taxpayer funded abortion with extremely left wing abortion laws. Palestine does not.
Pro life voters should back Palestine for banning abortion and oppose Elon Musk because he pays for Tesla employees to get abortions.
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The claim that a zygote isn't a human being: https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=3211703 states 95% of biologists disagree with that. Trust the science, just like with vaccines and climate change.
If you support legalizing abortion, at least acknowledge it kills a human being. There are times when it is okay to kill human beings (murderers, rapists). You just need a good enough rationale. The main rationale used to justify abortion is, "My body my choice" if you are a female and, "Their body, their choice" if you are a male.
However, how far does this argument go? If there is a conjoined twin that decides, "My body my choice. My conjoined twin is causing me so much embarrassment and pain. My body, my choice. I want to kill my twin." do we let that twin kill their twin? Absolutely not (Although I have heard the never trump crowd say this is okay from my own personal experience). Normies will claim it's different because a zygote isn't a human being, but 95% of biologists believe a zygote is, so I have to believe that and apply the knowledge. Just as conjoined twins share the same body, a pregnant female shares the body with an unborn kid.
There is the occasional argument that people will make which is the fear that a kid will end up living a horrible pain filled life unless aborted. However, lets say that there was a child that got raped several times by their parent. Do you kill the child over that? No; under no pretext is it okay to kill somebody without their consent just to prevent them from having pain. This applies as much to a child rape victim as it does to an unborn baby (who will almost certainly live a less messed up life than a child rape victim).
Overpopulation doesn't justify killing someone, like ever.
So I would want abortion banned and convince states to do it on their own. Don't do a federal ban because that's how you get civil war.
Anyone is free to address what I have to say, but Polytheist witch and ebuc are trolls, so if they didn't comment, I'd appreciate it. If they did comment, I am making it my goal to not respond to them.
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