goalscrounger
Well-known member
Click on that Dicks post and read the comments and you can disappear down a scary rabbit hole.
I don't often comment on the political situation over here, but I am embarrassed to call America my home today. I'm lucky to live in a state with a strong Democratic governor (for now anyway, elections later in the year could change that as, outside of Chicagoland there are plenty of right-leaning Conservative voters in rural Illinois. Hopefully any liberal voters who were on the fence will vote for Pritzker now to ensure that women's rights are not decimated in this state at least).
The sickest part of all this is reading about people "celebrating" the ruling. People who have absolutely NOTHING to do with any woman who may want/need an abortion in the US right now. What right does Karen from Baton Rouge or Scott from Green Bay have to decide the futures of other people? Add in the ****ed up attitude to guns and it baffles me.
The US is a vast and varied country, but (as someone further up the post said) the real differentiator isn't geography but politics. In strong Republican areas it is genuinely a different world and has parallels to the radical regimes that the US love to persecute for their ideals. It is time the Democrats to become a bit less democratic for the good of the country before it is too late (and yes, I am aware of the irony of that statement!)
I don't often comment on the political situation over here, but I am embarrassed to call America my home today. I'm lucky to live in a state with a strong Democratic governor (for now anyway, elections later in the year could change that as, outside of Chicagoland there are plenty of right-leaning Conservative voters in rural Illinois. Hopefully any liberal voters who were on the fence will vote for Pritzker now to ensure that women's rights are not decimated in this state at least).
The sickest part of all this is reading about people "celebrating" the ruling. People who have absolutely NOTHING to do with any woman who may want/need an abortion in the US right now. What right does Karen from Baton Rouge or Scott from Green Bay have to decide the futures of other people? Add in the ****ed up attitude to guns and it baffles me.
The US is a vast and varied country, but (as someone further up the post said) the real differentiator isn't geography but politics. In strong Republican areas it is genuinely a different world and has parallels to the radical regimes that the US love to persecute for their ideals. It is time the Democrats to become a bit less democratic for the good of the country before it is too late (and yes, I am aware of the irony of that statement!)