Thomas ZimmerJul 11, 2023

This is the horror Republican laws are intended to inflict on women and girls - they are supposed to punish those who dare to deviate from the reactionary order and scare everyone else as a constant reminder of what awaits those who defy patriarchal rule.

This is the society the Right wants.

https://jezebel.com/nebraska-mom-pleads-guilty-to-giving-abortion-pills-to-1850621217

Nebraska Mom Pleads Guilty to Giving Abortion Pills to Her Teen Daughter

Jessica Burgess faced eight years in prison for helping her then 17-year-old get abortion pills. A plea deal brought it down to two.

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Show threadThomas Zimmer
Debating whether or not Republicans *really* want to erect a cruel regime of white patriarchal dominance is futile. The proof is in the pudding, and the pudding is the state level: Wherever they are in charge, Republicans are embracing an authoritarian vision of society that mercilessly upholds a discriminatory “natural” and/or divinely ordained order.
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Show threadLove4ALLJul 11, 2023
@tzimmer_history Nothing is Divine about their plans, ideals, attitudes, or behaviors. All laws and self-proclaimed Messengers of God hang from the tree erected by the Greatest Command: "To love God with all one's being, and to love one's neighbor as oneself". No one can claim God's mandate without that love being their ideal, goal, and method. Without that love, they are just another miserable lying hypocrite, doing the enemy of love's will to divide us, sow chaos, misery, and oppression.
Show threadComrade elronxenuJul 12, 2023

@tzimmer_history I'm reminded of that great quote about Conservatism:

It's rooted in a single precept, that there must be an in-group who the law protects but does not bind, and an out-group who the law binds but does not protect.

Show threadZhi Zhu 🕸️Jul 12, 2023

@elronxenu @tzimmer_history

“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.

There is nothing more or else to it,
and there never has been."

~Frank Wilhoit, composer
https://crookedtimber.org/2018/03/21/liberals-against-progressives/#comment-729288

Show threadComrade elronxenuJul 13, 2023
@ZhiZhu @tzimmer_history Yes, best to get the quote right, rather than from memory.