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The States: Maybe A National Divorce Is A Good Idea After All

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I admit I was wrong on that...I guess I take for granted how smart we are in Blue States :^(
 
But what's it going to take to make people understand what the implications are? A few dozen women dying? Hundreds? Thousands? Everyone having two degrees of separation or less?

It's not the media's job (anymore) to make sure you're informed. There are no risk-free decisions in life. Ignorance is a choice.
 
Deutsche Gopher Fan said:
It’s never gonna sink in for many.

this is first write up on these cases where the idiot woman hasn’t reaffirmed her staunch pro life stance
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I read one a few months back about a woman and her husband who wen through this in, I believe, Texas. I recall them switching their position on this.

It's impossible to fight "This is just god's will" or "it's all part of his plan".
 
dxmnkd316 said:
But what's it going to take to make people understand what the implications are? A few dozen women dying? Hundreds? Thousands? Everyone having two degrees of separation or less?

It's not the media's job (anymore) to make sure you're informed. There are no risk-free decisions in life. Ignorance is a choice.
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What's the medias job if it isn't too inform? That is a bizarre take since that is literally all they exist for.

Yes they are mostly entertainment now but that is not their purpose...that is just rich phucks wanting more money.
 
dxmnkd316 said:
But what's it going to take to make people understand what the implications are? A few dozen women dying? Hundreds? Thousands? Everyone having two degrees of separation or less?
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If gun deaths are an indicator, there is no number. A sufficient number of people are so callous and so vicious that every woman could die in agony and they would smile and fondle their beads.

The Right's inebriation is permanent. We're just going to have to outvote them and then push them completely away from any heavy legislative equipment. They are under the influence. These people are quite literally high.
 
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Handyman said:
What's the medias job if it isn't too inform? That is a bizarre take since that is literally all they exist for.

Yes they are mostly entertainment now but that is not their purpose...that is just rich phucks wanting more money.
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The media's job is to make money. It is not news, it is a mirror which lets the audience adore itself.
 
Whether or not you think someone "should have known better", I can't believe we have to debate the concept of empathy towards other human beings even if we think "bad choices" were in play. It's not as though we're talking about smoking 3 packs a day, or eating nothing but fast food, or force feeding children an endless array of hatred and bigotry and expecting a positive outcome and it's rarely as simple as, "Well you could have moved". My goodness that is what the orcs repeatedly spewed (and we rightly criticized) when many of us were frightened at the concept of Trump being POTUS. Be better.
 
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Empathy and sympathy are different.

Presumably everyone not a sociopath or Republican, but I repeat myself, empathizes with anyone in pain.

But sympathy presumes that a person comes by their misfortune by accident and without the ability to avoid it. The Nazis announced their plans with great fanfare going on fifty years before they achieved it. How can anyone claim not to have known?

We still empathize, we'd still stop and help. But not without internally shaking our heads and thinking, "well... duh."
 
50% of African-Americans live in the South, right? Might be more. Persistent poverty, generation after generation, means even if they know what’s going on, many of them likely can’t leave, even if they want to. I don’t judge for not leaving. I see too many people even where I live unable to leave town, much less cross state lines. I am one of the fortunate ones. We could move back home (Minnesota) if need be. I just got a good situation going on right now with my job and my life situation.
 
Kepler said:
Empathy and sympathy are different.

Presumably everyone not a sociopath or Republican, but I repeat myself, empathizes with anyone in pain.

But sympathy presumes that a person comes by their misfortune by accident and without the ability to avoid it. The Nazis announced their plans with great fanfare going on fifty years before they achieved it. How can anyone claim not to have known?

We still empathize, we'd still stop and help. But not without internally shaking our heads and thinking, "well... duh."
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Correct. I have a ton of empathy for her, but zero sympathy.
 
I don't need the difference mansplained - I made my commentary specifically because I've seen very little (if any) empathy. Que sera...
 
Slap Shot said:
I don't need the difference mansplained - I made my commentary specifically because I've seen very little (if any) empathy. Que sera...
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That's fair and I get it. But at some point you become exhausted. To think that a country like ours could compile a Supreme Court and a ton of legislature's in the 2020's that would set back women's health care over 100 years is beyond the pale. And to think that people are just not educated about it, STILL, is mind boggling.
 
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That's fair and I get it. But at some point you become exhausted. To think that a country like ours could compile a Supreme Court and a ton of legislature's in the 2020's that would set back women's health care over 100 years is beyond the pale. And to think that people are just not educated about it, STILL, is mind boggling.
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Maybe travel to a non blue state some time.

And Slap Shot is correct there is no empathy in any of your comments. You guys are doing the abortion equivalent of blaming the rape victim for dressing like a slut in a bad part of town. I get that our heart only bleeds so much but we are better than this. Otherwise we are no different than them.
 
Handyman said:
Maybe travel to a non blue state some time.

And Slap Shot is correct there is no empathy in any of your comments. You guys are doing the abortion equivalent of blaming the rape victim for dressing like a slut in a bad part of town. I get that our heart only bleeds so much but we are better than this. Otherwise we are no different than them.
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LOL. No empathy, ok. The woman from the article is not some backwoods Appalachian living off the land. Fine you want to turn me into some asshole go right ahead.
 
psych said:
50% of African-Americans live in the South, right? Might be more. Persistent poverty, generation after generation, means even if they know what’s going on, many of them likely can’t leave, even if they want to. I don’t judge for not leaving. I see too many people even where I live unable to leave town, much less cross state lines. I am one of the fortunate ones. We could move back home (Minnesota) if need be. I just got a good situation going on right now with my job and my life situation.
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Everyone can leave. Have you seen the Central Americans at the border? The poorest shotgun shack black Alabaman is Elon Musk in comparison.

Do not deny poor black people agency. That's racist.
 
ScoobyDoo said:
LOL. No empathy, ok. The woman from the article is not some backwoods Appalachian living off the land. Fine you want to turn me into some ******* go right ahead.
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A bit of hyperbole here Scoobs. I'm not judging you and I'm certainly no saint my friend.

I'm saying that in a perfect world women would not find themselves in a situation where their life is at risk because the governor of their state is a draconian POS, but I think it's a bit simplistic to blame someone for not moving to another state and I wouldn't wish that situation on anyone.
 
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I'm saying that in a perfect world women would not find themselves in a situation where their life is at risk because the governor of their state is a draconian POS, but I think it's a bit simplistic to blame someone for not moving to another state and I wouldn't wish that situation on anyone.
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I didn't see anyone blame them, I saw people point out that it's not a great idea to live on the side of the volcano that killed your mother and her mother and her mother and...

We ridicule the Right for their magical thinking. We have our own people who close their eyes tightly and pretend Reality is what they wish it was, and who are then shocked when it turns out their wishes don't mean jack against the power of dogs and clubs wielded by thugs.

If you choose to live in New Orleans, you have to expect the flood. I'll help you when it ruins you, but I won't pretend you shouldn't have known better. You have brain cells and opposable thumbs, too.
 
Millions of women inhabited these states before these laws were enacted. Again my point (for my last attempt to get through) is that to expect all of them to just move is not only the epitome of lacking empathy, but also sophomorically unrealistic
 
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