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[-] comador@lemmy.world 93 points 3 weeks ago

So long as they can also set up a semen surveillance department to prosecute men for leaving their jizz between couch cushions and fleshlights.

[-] just_another_person@lemmy.world 6 points 3 weeks ago

You and JD Vance sound like you could be BFFs 🤣

[-] Breezy@lemmy.world 18 points 3 weeks ago* (last edited 3 weeks ago)

Pretty sure JD would HATE this! Imagine if he has to report all his couch fucking for each of his sperm tax right offs.

[-] todd_bonzalez@lemm.ee 14 points 3 weeks ago

You know the couch-fucker jokes aren't compliments right?

[-] just_another_person@lemmy.world 5 points 3 weeks ago

They aren't? Oh man...

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[-] Myxomatosis@lemmy.world 72 points 3 weeks ago

What a fucking psycho. Dude looks like he has a freezer full of chopped-up body parts at his house.

Stored as thin sample slices in binders, as tradition dictates

[-] flicker@lemmy.world 13 points 3 weeks ago

Binders full of women, you say?

[-] MyOpinion@lemm.ee 56 points 3 weeks ago

Next they will be tracking every time a girl takes a shit or walks outside. These people are sickening.

[-] TimeSquirrel@kbin.melroy.org 50 points 3 weeks ago

It's a hop, skip, and a jump away from making them cover up head to toe in public and banning them from driving or being seen outside without a man.

The extremist terrorists were with us in the house the entire time.

[-] MyOpinion@lemm.ee 18 points 3 weeks ago

The GOP is the American Taliban.

[-] CharlesDarwin@lemmy.world 6 points 3 weeks ago* (last edited 3 weeks ago)

The DHS reported on the extreme right being the biggest domestic terrorist threat ages ago. The right freaked out, as expected, and it was quickly played down.

But the DHS was right.

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[-] innermeerkat@jlai.lu 51 points 3 weeks ago

Jesus Christ USA, are you alright?

[-] shininghero@pawb.social 67 points 3 weeks ago

No, we're not. Please send help.

[-] Invertedouroboros@lemmy.world 16 points 3 weeks ago

Fuck it, I'd welcome an invasion at this point provided whatever country did it super pinky promised not to do half the shit Republicans do.

[-] xmunk@sh.itjust.works 9 points 3 weeks ago

I thought yall had plenty of those bootstraps you keep talking about. Couldn't you help yourselves with those? /s

[-] Jimmyeatsausage@lemmy.world 10 points 3 weeks ago

They stopped making those...it was cutting into shareholder profits.

[-] skulblaka@sh.itjust.works 9 points 3 weeks ago

Bootstraps ran out back in the 60's, we've just been getting shoelaces

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[-] CharlesDarwin@lemmy.world 15 points 3 weeks ago

No, we are infected with lots and lots of xtian nationalist bullshit and an antiquated system that overly represents them. We need a system that allows us to ignore them since they are a minority - and let them bray as much as they like, but utterly powerless to tell anyone else how to live their lives.

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[-] LEDZeppelin@lemmy.world 48 points 3 weeks ago

This needs to be a political ad in every swing state

[-] chronicledmonocle@lemmy.world 40 points 3 weeks ago

This article is clickbait garbage. What they said is SO MUCH WORSE, but calling it "Menstrual Surveillance" is fucking stupid. While menstruation and pregnancy are obviously related, they're not the same thing.

What they actually said is that they want to have states he able to monitor pregnancies so they can know if a woman becomes pregnant, but then suddenly isn't anymore, so they can question them for an abortion, either illegally in state or out-of-state. Given they're also pushing to monitor menstrual cycles alongside pregnancies, it's full on police state shit that goes even further than what is described.

Clear. Concise. Factual. That's all you need. The right already gives you what you need to show how fucked up they are. You don't have to clickbait. It's dystopian enough on its own.

[-] InverseParallax@lemmy.world 7 points 3 weeks ago* (last edited 3 weeks ago)

Having lived in the south, nothing about this is remotely surprising.

100% guarantee most neighborhoods are starting networks that watch local girls to try to monitor if theyre gaining weight and then take a trip, not that they need to be recruited, they're just idle pedophiles anyway.

Now they have something to threaten girls with for their silence...

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[-] riskable@programming.dev 35 points 3 weeks ago

Republicans are all about the nanny state. Tracking periods, banning books, deciding who gets to have what medications/medical treatments (instead of doctors), trying to control what websites publish, etc.

[-] lolcatnip@reddthat.com 15 points 3 weeks ago

Except nannies are supposed to care for children, not persecute them.

[-] homesweethomeMrL@lemmy.world 7 points 3 weeks ago
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[-] dirthawker0@lemmy.world 10 points 3 weeks ago

Government small enough to fit in your uterus.

[-] frezik@midwest.social 27 points 3 weeks ago

Miller replied, "Well, he's made it very clear that he's not gonna go and weigh in and try to push various states in how they want to go and set up their particular rules and restrictions. That's gonna be up to the states."

Just in case it wasn't clear, they belive that any level of tyranny is fine as long as it's state government doing it, not the federal government.

[-] InverseParallax@lemmy.world 14 points 3 weeks ago

Only because they are less likely to control the federal government.

In the past they demanded free states enforce the fugitive slave act, and sent people into free states to kidnap free men into slavery.

[-] Anissem@lemmy.ml 25 points 3 weeks ago

Handmaid’s Tale is a great show

[-] shalafi@lemmy.world 10 points 3 weeks ago

Started watching that with my wife last night. The rewatch angers the fuck out of me far more than it did in 2017.

[-] xmunk@sh.itjust.works 7 points 3 weeks ago

I really don't like these past few seasons though. It's much too dark for me!

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[-] Infynis@midwest.social 22 points 3 weeks ago

I cannot wait for Walz vs. Vance. Vance seems like what these people are, distilled. It'll be poetic to watch him get torn apart by a teacher

[-] just_another_person@lemmy.world 21 points 3 weeks ago

There's a great reason they are keeping him from doing real public events, and have instead opted to do these tightly controlled bits. He can't even do those and come off as relatable anyway, so the debate is going to be pretty wild.

[-] BenLeMan@lemmy.world 21 points 3 weeks ago

Aren't these weirdos just ASKING to be sent tons of used hygiene products for their perusal? I'm sure if enough ladies volunteered, that would soon quench their thirst for knowledge about your bodily functions.

Or...they would totally get off on this. Yeah, it's probably a fetish.

[-] solsangraal@lemmy.zip 19 points 3 weeks ago

the old "states' rights to impose their own laws in other states." because that worked out so well for them in the 1800s

[-] Zomg@lemmy.world 18 points 3 weeks ago

Seems Taliban-ish to me, which is sadly ironic.

[-] InverseParallax@lemmy.world 7 points 3 weeks ago* (last edited 3 weeks ago)

How is it ironic? The party was hijacked by the dixiecrats whose single issue was Jim Crow.

They're talibangelists, just with a slightly different prophet.

Trump is their second coming of Jesus, because he tells them exactly what they want to hear, therefore he must be God.

[-] nemonic187@lemmy.world 18 points 3 weeks ago

This chinless taint stain looks like a canned ham got dropped on the floor of a merkin factory.

[-] homesweethomeMrL@lemmy.world 7 points 3 weeks ago

Daaaaaaaaang

[-] Hadriscus@lemm.ee 16 points 3 weeks ago

Good lord, and I thought they went parodic with Homelander

[-] leadore@lemmy.world 13 points 3 weeks ago

I wonder how they would go about all this. Medical records will have to be divulged to the State so it can track who is pregnant. They'll have to outlaw home pregnancy tests, including buying them through the mail. Otherwise women could privately find out they're pregnant and go out of state for an abortion without the State knowing. They'll also have to monitor phone and email communications for everyone, not just the pregnant person, to make sure any attempt to contact out of state health providers is intercepted. Or maybe they'll just slap an ankle bracelet on pregnant women.

They'll probably also enact laws like the abortion travel ban that Amarillo, TX has on the ballot this November:

The ordinance, first proposed by anti-abortion activists, aims to forbid the use of the city’s roads and highways to seek an abortion out of the state. It would punish anyone aiding a woman seeking the procedure, including by providing funds or transportation, and be enforced through private lawsuits, similar to a 2021 state law that prohibited abortions after about six weeks of pregnancy.

[-] Empricorn@feddit.nl 10 points 3 weeks ago

10 years ago, this would be an Onion headline.

[-] reddig33@lemmy.world 10 points 3 weeks ago
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[-] 800XL@lemmy.world 8 points 3 weeks ago

Two things:

  1. That guy looks like he's intimately familiar with video cameras and 1-way mirrors
  2. I wonder if that one southern Senator fond of underage girls has already volunteered to lead the program?
[-] jaggedrobotpubes@lemmy.world 7 points 3 weeks ago

Giant cunts and enemies of mankind.

[-] TransplantedSconie@lemm.ee 6 points 3 weeks ago

Snopes is going to have to update their article about this.

[-] AbidanYre@lemmy.world 6 points 3 weeks ago

Bunch of weirdos

[-] CharlesDarwin@lemmy.world 5 points 3 weeks ago

Nothing weird about this bunch of so-called "Americans".

[-] Semi_Hemi_Demigod@lemmy.world 5 points 3 weeks ago

"Americans"

Don't sugar coat it. They're as real an American as I am. More actually, because they like being an American.

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