Ohio has voted in favor of abortion rights and legalized recreational marijuana.
NinaBambina
Who the fuck is Ninabambina?
Issue 1 was for abortion rights (etc). Issue 2 was for legalizing marijuana.
Both have now passed.
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I think GOP has to sort of catch up to where people are little bit and they could actually start winning.
Buying pussy wasn't on the ballot. If you want it to be, bust your ass and get it on a ballot like the marijuana folks did.
Remember the story of Lysistrata, pussy is powerful.
I've never had an abortion and if I found out I was pregnant today, I wouldn't even consider it - but another woman's decision is not mine to make. Plus, I don't know every abortion seeker's reasoning for getting one; convenience? Rape? Fetus is not viable? Ectopic pregnancy? It is not my job to make myself privy to that info. That's where the "right to privacy" comes in.
The alternative was a "heartbeat bill" that left no exceptions for rape, incest, or age. My thinking is that even some of the people with NO signs on their yards probably went and silently voted yes because even THEY don't want their daughters forced to birth a rapist's child.
At the of the day, Ohioans voted for freedom on both issues, both were passed quite handedly, and I'm glad to have been able to be a part of that history.
In the year 6565, ain't gonna need no husband, won't need no wife, you'll pick your sons, pick your daughters too, from the bottom of a long glass tube.
Wait, this otherwise perfect baby has brown eyes. I wanted green. Kill it and start over. Yeah baby that's how and why we abort em. Now let me go protest on behalf of terrorists like a good democrat.
I see no reason why weed, cocaine, or any drug should be illegal. Prohibition didn't work for alcohol, and eventually weed will be legal everywhere. Have fun with it.
What's more interesting are psychedelics like shrooms. I wonder if Big Pharma will try to ban those like they tried to ban weed? I hope not .. they're natural, for goodness sake.
In fact, according to the Pew Research center the state is 42% Republican, 40% Democrat and 18% independent so I would call it solidly purple right now.
I lean strongly Republican on most issues, but not on abortion. As a Catholic I see it as a sin but that doesn't mean it should be illegal. A sin is a violation of your faith but shouldn't necessarily be a violation of the law. Many religions see premarital sex as a sin but I doubt many of the people here want it to be illegal. The Catholic church discourages birth control including condoms but I bet a lot of us are glad they are legal. There are many things that various religions see as a sin that many of us would be appalled if they were illegal.
You're so full of shit you'd never need to pay for fertilizer.
That said, Republicans had better get their act together and quickly. Abortion is a losing issue for them, and it's not worth giving up all their other efforts just because they can't be flexible on a single issue.
Democrats support abortions. Democrats want to kill off as many future democrat base voters as possible. Why does any GOP voter oppose this? Yes, stop those future gangbangers, welfare leeches, terrorist-supporters and enablers, tax and spend idiots, and bureaucrats before they even leave the womb. We are already overpopulated and overspending on entitlements. Close the border, end chain migration, deport each and every single illegal, end birthright citizenship, abort future democrats, and restructure entitlements. Look at how many simultaneous crises that would solve!
It’s not just democrats. It’s women. And, increasingly men as well. It’s odd in a way. I know plenty of right wingers: they like free markets, small government, strong military, Jesus, guns guns guns, nascar, redneck music, etc etc. What the fuck any of that had to do with abortion is beyond me. I don’t believe all these red meat eating, gun toting, ass kicking, “bomb ‘em all and let god sort em out” macho men give a fuck about some little blob in some woman’s guts that might grown into a human if everything goes right for 9 months.
I sometimes think it’s just the result of an arbitrary us vs them where libs ended up with abortion and cons ended up with guns or whatever.
I agree with the $500CHJ incel that the dichotomy of national politics in a polarized partisan government is terribly problematic. I'm a conservationist. I believe species, green spaces, and the natural environment should be protected. The Republican party is led by the "drill, baby, drill" chant. I believe in low taxes and a small government beholden to the people. The Democrat party thinks more government is better government and has no problem stealing my entire paycheck to fund it.
Even in the beginning, it was Revolutionaries against loyalists. Individual colony proponents against those seeking a stronger federal government. Federalists v Democrats. American government- call it a democratic Republic or a Jeffersonian democracy- was created by the Founding Fathers with the understanding that unanimous consent would be improbable. The Constitution was written to give equal voices to everyone and to have small government being as unobtrusive as possible. This is why it was written with the House writing and passing laws onto the Senate for deliberation and consent. This is also why the Senate was created to pass many proposals before them with a 60% approval instead of a 50%+1. This is why the filibuster was an available option.
It's been acknowledged before, but it is an imperfect system which is the best system yet devised.
Get some sleep this stuff is way above your intellectual capacity.
A jerk who can’t even chew bubblegum and fart simultaneously
Please get some help.
Sidestepping inane middle-school civics lectures about Democracies vs Republics... most Americans are closer on abortion than either political party would like us to believe. Very few on the right view an un-implanted yet fertilized egg as a life, and equally few on the left view a 1 day short of 9 months abortion as anything short of murder. In the middle is considerable common ground: most Americans believe that abortion is acceptable up until the end of the first trimester.
https://news.gallup.com/poll/235469/trim…
Most pro-choice people are against abortion after viability, and "partial birth" abortions are federally illegal anyway, and killing an *actual* baby is infanticide, which is homicide. But the forced-birthers act like women in the US are regularly popping out babies who are then beheaded in front of them. I know a lot of forced-birthers don't like science, but there is a distinction between and fetus and a baby (and also an embryo, and a zygote, etc).
Anyway, Ohio voters passed Issue 1 by about 57%. Ohio is not a blue state whatsoever. Democrats don't make up 57% of voters - LMAO! This was something that not only democrats, but independents and republicans voted in favor of, too.
I think Ohioans, and the majority of Americans, just feel like the government shouldn't have full control over their or their children's reproductive health. That doesn't sound too crazy to me.
Let’s see how they try to spin this, LOL.
You know better, I know that, try to be better.
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As far as freedom of religion, it doesnt truly exist. Look at all the people looking to ban certain religions from being practiced. Look up the ground zero mosque case, a situation where both democrats and republicans claimed a mosque shouldnt be built in certain places. Some politicians even “explained” how they would use eminent domain to confiscate the property and prevent a mosque from being built. Some politicians or people against the building of the mosque even provided “logic” for their claims and claimed they also wouldnt want a shinto shrine built in pearl harbor or any nazi imagery present near a synogague or in germany.
So freedom of religion, even if practiced without violating other peoples rights, doesnt exist. Freedom of belief and speech, exist for the most part currently, but there are numerous republicans and democrats who want to get rid of that too.
Basically the way it works is, freedom of speech and religion and expression and property rights exist, UNLESS your use of religion or speech or property rights offend the beliefs of particular right wingers or left wingers. A mosque or shinto shrine or nazi imagery in “certain” places are “offensive” thus arent allowed.
“Certain” historical beliefs and types of speech isnt allowed.
Now republicans often claim to be more pro free speech, more pro free religion and more pro property rights but that’s debatable if thats the case. They still support restrictions on speech, religion, and property rights but its just a different variety than what left wingers want to restrict. The right will stick up for property rights if its protesters looting and destroying and stealing but that seems to be about it.
Sign of things to come in every red state in 2024. Vote Biden or get the fuck outta my country!