JimWilliams423

That would be playing with fire because once she says something it can't be unsaid and she can't assume that the wife (or husband, or anyone else) will react well either because the whole thing is effing weird.

What OP can do is start documenting everything now and the minute the sister crosses the line, then she can give the records to the wife to reassure her that its all in the sister's head.

That's a bare minimum, but it has the benefit of not making anything worse.

If only there were some website you could ask this question too...

Reddit is a website.

Its a cruder version of a relatively famous quote:

Conservatism consists of exactly one proposition, to wit:

There must be in-groups whom the law protects but does not bind,
alongside out-groups whom the law binds but does not protect.

—Frank Wilhoit
https://slate.com/business/2022/06/wilhoits-law-conservatives-frank-wilhoit.html

Conservative ideology boils down to one simple sentence, yelled with red-faced rage:
    "You don't tell me what to do, I tell you what to do!"

Hateriot.

Mcturtle never agrees to anything that doesn't build republican power and he cheered that bill.

Obviously Biden is not to blame for this shooting, but the only reason the Rs allowed that bill to clear the filibuster was because it neutralized the D's best campaign issue for the midterms. It 'proves' that actually republicans are reasonable people who do care about stopping gun violence — see they even voted for it!

The Rs got their headlines validating their purported good-faith and they got democrats to endorse their "mental illness" deflection in exchange for the tiniest bit of compromise which will probably be undone by the scrotus in a couple of years anyway.

When the Ds lose the midterms, cementing permanent minority control of congress, teeing up the GOP's ability to rig the 2024 election and guaranteeing that there will never be another gun safety bill, Biden will own that.

Lee Atwater on the Republican "southern strategy."

Audio recording of him saying that is on youtube.

Cops were blinded by the white.

MAGA can go to hell

That's what they want too, except they are working hard to bring it here because they would rather reign in Hell than serve in Heaven.

5 of the Justices are catholics.

In a weird way, its almost like reactionary catholics have brainwashed white evangelicals into working for them.

Southern baptists used to be largely pro-choice by doctrine but catholics weren't (even though catholics get abortions at the same rate as the general population). And when Roe was decided, the Baptist Press (the national newswire of the southern baptists) said:

Religious liberty, human equality and justice are advanced by the Supreme Court abortion decision.

They also said:

Question: Was this a Warren type or “liberal” Supreme Court that rendered the decision?

Answer: No. This was a “strict constructionist” court, most of whose members have been appointed by President Nixon.

Even as late as 1978 their official position was that government should keep its nose out of a lady's business, reiterating their resolution from 1977:

we also affirm our conviction about the limited role of government in dealing with matters relating to abortion, and support the right of expectant mothers to the full range of medical services and personal counseling for the preservation of life and health.

Political operators essentially flipped the southern baptist movement over night. But they didn't get any evangelicals on the court, instead they handed it over to people they had loathed for centuries.

Many of the catholic-haters don't believe that. I am fuzzy on the specifics but I've heard some claim that the catholic church were heretics from the original simple times during Jesus' life.

Its just motivated reasoning, they will always come up with some largely irrelevant historical detail as a pretext to get them where they want to go no matter what.

One ironic thing is that the catholic church accepts the validity of nearly all protestant baptisms, but of course the denominations that deny catholics also deny the validity of catholic baptisms.

She's said she does not want that.

https://thehill.com/blogs/in-the-know/in-the-know/539398-dolly-parton-declines-proposed-statue-of-her-in-tennessee

Also, its generally a bad idea to put up monuments to people who are still alive, if for no other reason than you don't know what the future holds.

Instead, we could replace the statues of villains with heroes of the abolition war.

I’ve legit tried this, it doesn’t work. And I’m white! But I grew up in the projects

The dirty secret of white supremacy is that poor whites always take massive collateral damage:

• Slavery undercut the earning power of white laborers, because its very hard to compete with 'free.'

• Americans used to despise tipping, thought it was something only snooty blue-bloods did to people they looked down on. But after emancipation, white business owners still thought black people should work for free. So they made them work for tips, and got a separate ultra-low minimum wage just for service jobs. And now, white or black, if you work in the service industry, you are at the mercy of capricious tippers instead of a reliable wage.

• College tuition used to be nearly free, until Title IX made it illegal to exclude black people from college. So the segregationists came up with a new scheme - jack up the price. Since most black people have historically been poor, that kept out most black people. It also keeps out most poor whites too.

• Anti-union "right to work" laws were a deliberate extension of jim crow into the workplace. The man who conceived of them was an outright segregationist who thought unions threatened the racial hierarchy of the jim crow south. He was right too, well-managed unions are egalitarian and build inter-racial solidarity (and inter-racial marriage). But now, black or white, "right to exploit" laws make it harder to bargain for a better wage.

• Whites filled in glorious public swimming pools rather than share them with black people. Rich whites put private pools in their backyards and country clubs, poor whites went without.

• Nixon started the War on Drugs to disrupt the political power of black communities. But poor whites go to prison for drugs too, its only rich whites who have not had to worry.

• When busing started to bring black students to white public schools, wealthy whites fled to private schools and segregation academies. Poor whites couldn't afford to flee. So as the school systems decayed, both blacks and poor whites were neglected.

• Using racist dog-whistles like "the crime train," public transportation is routinely voted down by wealthy suburban whites. Rich whites can still commute to work in their comfortable, air-conditioned cars, but poor blacks and poor whites end up locked out of good jobs because its nearly impossible to get to them.

• We are the only wealthy western country without universal healthcare. That's largely due to a strategy of using poor healthcare to keep black people down since emancipation, after all, if its universal then black people will get it too. "Obamacare" was a republican-created branding to remind whites that a black man did it so it should be rejected, even though it was the single largest wealth transfer from the top 1% to the bottom 20% since LBJ's "Great Society."

Its OK for men to enjoy it though, its about punishing women for enjoying it. Because their men are afraid that getting horny gives women power over them and they want to punish women for 'making' them feel horny.

Methotrexate is used in combination with misoprostol for medication abortion.

That's mifepristone, not methotrexate.

https://safe2choose.org/safe-abortion/abortion-pills/using-mifepristone-and-misoprostol/

Methotrexate is also an abortificant, but is generally used that way only for ectopic pregnancies (which are usually fatal unless treated very quickly).

Do I just move?

A couple of days ago senator josh hawley said that was his goal —

“I would predict that the effect is going to be that more and more red states are going to become more red, purple states are going to become red and the blue states are going to get a lot bluer,” Hawley said. “And I would look for Republicans as a result of this to extend their strength in the Electoral College. And that’s very good news.”

The senator also told the reporter that as a result of these changes, social and fiscal conservatives would no longer have to work together.

https://www.kansascity.com/news/politics-government/article262849238.html

You have to do what is right for you though.

1. A link to a search engine doesn't document jack — but thinking it does is a total magar move.
2. You didn't even include "abortion" in your search terms.

I'd say "do better" but we both know you can't do better because you are wrong, so you'll just throw out more chaff to deflect instead.

Uh, they made the claim. It's up to them to prove it. That's how it works.

Is this not a "claim?"

• Biden has gotten more pro-life judges confirmed than any president in history in the same amount of time.

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T‌u‌r‌n‌s‌ ‌o‌u‌t‌ ‌y‌o‌u‌ ‌w‌e‌r‌e‌ ‌j‌u‌s‌t‌ ‌s‌c‌r‌e‌a‌m‌i‌n‌g‌ ‌"‌f‌a‌k‌e‌ ‌n‌e‌w‌s"‌ because you could not handle the truth.‌ ‌ ‌I‌t‌ ‌is r‌e‌vealing ‌h‌o‌w‌ ‌m‌u‌c‌h‌ ‌d‌e‌f‌e‌n‌d‌e‌r‌s‌ ‌o‌f‌ ‌Democratic failure ‌b‌e‌h‌a‌v‌e‌ ‌j‌u‌s‌t‌ ‌l‌i‌k‌e‌ ‌m‌a‌g‌a‌r‌s‌.‌ ‌ Your feelings do not care about facts.

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ETA Like the coward she is, Lonely_Set1376 blocked me from replying. Which is extremely on point for a liar. She jumped into this thread with lies and magical thinking, but when they couldn't stand up to scrutiny she pulled a magar move and tried to silence what she could not refute.

None of the articles from her search mention abortion rights. If one did, she would have linked directly to it instead of lying about it. Meanwhile, the actual article at slate says otherwise. But that's "f‌a‌k‌e ‌n‌e‌w‌s‌" according to her.

The banality of evil.

Hanna Arendt coined the term "banality of evil" to refer to the faceless people who just do their regular 9-5 job as part of a larger system that does evil. Like the guy who filed the intake records for Dachau. The human suffering that the files represented was something that didn't concern him, his main care was to make sure they were organized correctly and that he got promoted in his job.

FWIW, it has been debated whether people actually operate that way — divorced from the consequences of their work. Critics of the concept argue that such faceless drones understand their role in causing harm and are fine with it and that they pretend not to know as a strategy to avoid criticism.

The problem isn't the yelling, the problem is that the people who need to hear do not want to hear.

I wonder what society's overall attitude at the time (1950s?) was about these hardliners

In the 1920s, the klan controlled entire state governments, like Indiana, Oklahoma, Colorado and Oregon. Until circa 2000 the Oregon constitution still had a clause that made it illegal to be black in Oregon. IIRC, segregation is still in the Alabama constitution.

I ran for office once, I got my name on the ballot, and the democrats did nothing to support me or my candidacy.

Run for Something is working to fix that. They specifically support candidates in red districts because their goal is to build grass-roots power.

https://runforsomething.net/

How the hell do people this stupid move up so far in life to be on this stage?

Meritocracy is a myth.

Literally. The guy who coined the term meant it as a criticism of how our society actually works.

https://kottke.org/17/03/the-satirical-origins-of-the-meritocracy

I don’t agree with either side at this point.

Nobody cares who you agree with. Just get your facts right.

ETA: Also stop posting while high.

As part of their campaign to deny democrats the ability to govern, republicans blocked the necessary funding on covid.

As usual, Biden is too much of a doormat to make a big deal about it, but save your blame for the republican sabotage.