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[-] Emerald@lemmy.world 23 points 2 hours ago

The Anti-DEI people hate women? Whodathunk

[-] madjo@feddit.nl 41 points 6 hours ago

Look at how Teheran women were dressed in the 70s, and contrast that to how they're dressed now. The same future awaits American women.

[-] Treczoks@lemmy.world 12 points 2 hours ago
[-] prole 9 points 1 hour ago

Margaret Atwood is rolling in her... checks google... Well-appointed Canadian home.

[-] elucubra@sopuli.xyz 4 points 6 hours ago* (last edited 6 hours ago)

Yeah, no. US society is nothing like islamic societies. A faction if the rabid right thinks like this, and the rest of the right may agree to an extent, but they are aware that they can't sell that to the majority. Plus, too many women jusdges.

[-] ZILtoid1991@lemmy.world 21 points 3 hours ago

All it takes is heavy propaganda that exaggerates the upsides and downplays the downsides, while shutting down dissidence.

[-] Phoenicianpirate@lemm.ee 8 points 2 hours ago

And they will still hate Muslims (and label all of them insane radicals) for Islam's views on women. Even though Islamic views on women are actually better than what Christian nationalists believe.

[-] raspberriesareyummy@lemmy.world 9 points 3 hours ago

oh to be so naive again...

[-] throwback3090@lemmy.nz 1 points 3 hours ago

You being pessimistic does not make you wise.

It does, apparently, make you condescending. But not wise.

[-] svcg 7 points 2 hours ago

And you saying "yeah, no" doesn't constitute a rebuttal. There's nothing in the Qur'an that isn't in the Bible vis-à-vis the treatment of women. The only difference between Islamic societies is that they've convinced more people to take it literally, and it absolutely can happen in the US.

[-] throwback3090@lemmy.nz 1 points 15 minutes ago* (last edited 12 minutes ago)

I didn't say yeah no

I said the person I responded to was being rude to the person they responded to

It's possible to disagree on a subject without implying the person you disagree with is a dumb child.

[-] raspberriesareyummy@lemmy.world 5 points 3 hours ago

whatever you need to tell yourself to sleep at night.

[-] throwback3090@lemmy.nz 1 points 14 minutes ago

I do not get any better or worse sleep by telling you you're rude. You may be under the delusion you are responding to someone else.

[-] perestroika@lemm.ee 35 points 7 hours ago* (last edited 7 hours ago)

Scanning the article, the practical threat (besides crazy ideological stunts) seems to be stealth disenfranchisement of this type:

House Republicans passed a bill (which stalled in the Senate) this session to require citizens to have a passport or birth certificate matching their name to vote. This would be a back-door ban on voting for any woman who took her husband's last name and doesn't have a passport, an estimated 69 million women. It would also disproportionately affect Republican women, who are more likely to be married, more likely to have changed their name and less likely to have a passport.

[-] _stranger_@lemmy.world 1 points 15 minutes ago

It won't affect republican women because the people running those voting stations won't enforce the rule for "their own".

[-] Krik@lemmy.dbzer0.com 3 points 3 hours ago* (last edited 1 hour ago)

A passport always contains the current last name. If you took on a new one you have to get a new one issued. That's standard pretty much all over the world.

Edit: Ok, a lot of users wrote that there's no ID card/paper that's common in other parts of the world. In my country a driver license is not enough to prove my identity because it's not an ID card.

Guess you are fucked then.

[-] Showroom7561@lemmy.ca 13 points 2 hours ago

Birth certificates can't be changed and need to match, and that's one of the forms of ID listed.

Passports aren't free, and not everyone has one to begin with. This blatantly stonewalls women, especially underprivileged women.

[-] jj4211@lemmy.world 7 points 2 hours ago

No one in my family has a passport. So with this law only the men could vote, unless they spend the money to get a passport despite not aiming to travel.

[-] boonhet@lemm.ee 8 points 3 hours ago

Americans are pretty weird about their ID things.

Other than a driver's license, most of them don't have any ID.

They don't have any sort of unique ID number either. They have a social security number, which is not guaranteed to be unique. Two people can have the same SSN. One person can have two SSNs. You're apparently supposed to keep your SSN secret, but they're assigned somewhat sequentially and they get leaked a lot. It's a clusterfuck.

[-] throwback3090@lemmy.nz 1 points 8 minutes ago

The sad thing is this is kinda solved in the advertising space. Like, they know who I am, uniquely, including emails, phone numbers, and drivers license. The data is available, but banks (the primary users of the SSN) are perpetually stuck with 30yo tech.

[-] coriza@lemmy.world 1 points 45 minutes ago

It is supposed to to keep your SSN secret and not carry the card with you everywhere but you have to memorize it and everyone and their dog is gonna ask for it. It is kinda scary how many times you have to give it out to random people over the phone or email.

[-] ricecake@sh.itjust.works 1 points 1 hour ago

SSN is about the worst identifier, but they have revamped the process to remove some of those issues. It should no longer be possible for people to be issued the same number, and they're no longer sequential or assigned in geographic blocks.

Doesn't change the existing ones, but going forward.

[-] perestroika@lemm.ee 2 points 2 hours ago

you have to get a new one issued

This is the part that's mistaken: you don't need a passport if you don't travel to foreign lands. As far as I know, Americans usually prove their identity using a driver's license, rarely using a passport.

[-] raspberriesareyummy@lemmy.world 4 points 3 hours ago

Most citizens in the divided states of southern north america do not have a passport though. And a birth certificate doesn't have your current last name on it if you took someone else's in marriage. That's the point.

[-] caffinatedone@lemmy.world 21 points 8 hours ago

For the believers, I think that tmany would be fine with this. It reinforces their preferred structure of a patriarchy in which they have a well-defined place and role (head of the domestic household, subservient to the man). No worries about having to deal with a fickle job market or figuring out what you want to do with your life. Your life path is set (get married, raise kids, take care of family), and, for some, that well-defined role the status that it conveys is really comforting. It provides a sense of security.

It's why, I expect, while there are many who fight it, there are plenty of women in Muslim societies who are fine with things as they are. We emphasize with those women who chafe at that and fight it since we've history valued the individual rights of self-determination and freedom, of course.

Thats a big allure of the American taliban to some folks. It provides structure and defined roles in a chaotic world.

Of course, republican men like it for the power, but more importantly, that women voters mostly vote against them. Stopping women from voting would cement them in power.

[-] Allonzee@lemmy.world 29 points 12 hours ago

Republican women: dehumanizing themselves to pwn the libs since Reagan.

[-] Gammelfisch@lemmy.world 50 points 14 hours ago

Project 2025 will create the Christian Taliban. I highly doubt the dumb fuck female MAGA voters will realize what they voted for.

[-] GlendatheGayWitch@lemmy.world 23 points 12 hours ago

Some of them want to be subservient. I've heard some even lament voting before. The Christian brainwashing is pervasive to all parts of life.

[-] CharlesDarwin@lemmy.world 9 points 11 hours ago

Some of them are stupid enough to want it.

[-] gamer@lemm.ee 33 points 15 hours ago

My prediction for a future military incel recruitment poster:

Join the America Russia North Korea (ARNK) alliance in our war against the WOKE DEI Euro Chinese Soros COMMUNIST SCOURGE and you will be guaranteed a VIRGIN wife! ENLIST TODAY!

[-] Zink@programming.dev 18 points 14 hours ago

Shorten it to just ARK and it will be even more on the nose with a biblical reference!

[-] KmlSlmk64@lemmy.world 2 points 28 minutes ago

Considering that if the US started to support NK against South Korea, I don't think it is inconceivable that they would become just one Korea. (By North overrunning South)

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[-] Birch@sh.itjust.works 78 points 18 hours ago

I can't help but think of how this cartoon from the beginning of November got it completely backward

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[-] DarkFuture@lemmy.world 88 points 19 hours ago

Imagine how little self-respect you'd have to have to be a woman and vote Republican.

[-] ZILtoid1991@lemmy.world 5 points 3 hours ago

Not a USA citizen, but a Hungarian, but I think some stuff still holds ground in the USA ground: They primarily think these right-wing radicals are just "jolly little conservatives", and not radicals, since they call themselves "conservatives". Contrary to the naive liberal belief, conservatism isn't just a jolly little belief of personally held traditions and healthy patriotism, it's just "fascism lite" which will turn full-out fascism once the checks and balances are removed, or getting extremely frustrated with social change.

And also there's the whole "you will get more conservative as you get older" propaganda, which makes a lot of young people "skip the liberalism and fast-forward to the inevitable", and they either want to remain conservatives because "jolly little belief of personally held traditions and healthy patriotism", or they believe they can't leave. Many also go down the hate road, and they'll get called all kinds of names if they forgive wrongdoers who were part of a minority, and they don't weaponize that wrongdoing into genocidal thoughts. We seriously need to counter this whole "you will get more conservative as you get older" with something. Can someone contact Innuendo Studios? I have an idea for an episode of "The Alt-Right Playbook" if he still haven't made one on this topic.

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[-] Siegfried@lemmy.world 4 points 11 hours ago

Ok, i would like Americans to guess what approximate percentage of the venezuelan population WANTED to vote against Maduro on last ellections.

[-] Juice@midwest.social 38 points 18 hours ago

What if wanting to believe that there is some nice place that good people go when they die, leads people to support the mass murder and immiseration of countless women, children, queer people and BIPOC?

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