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user-inactivated  ·  3200 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: Oklahoma Lawmakers Pass Bill That Makes Performing An Abortion A Felony

The only time a politician mentions abortion is when they need to raise money, fast, or they are hiding some corrupt crap and need the outrage machine to look somewhere else for a few days.

Nobody I know gives a flying shit about the whole bathroom issue. Noboy outside of the media cares either, as most real people have never met a trans person and most likely never will. But the same bill in North Carolina they just passed prevents cities from raising the minimum wage, prevents cities from running their own municipal broadband, does something (still not sure what exactly) to underfund Pre-School education programs and guts the cities rights to pass their own worker safely laws. It's a power grab by the legislature to kneecap the cities.

Nobody cares about the real issue because the media sucks.

Have a look at the power grab





steve  ·  3200 days ago  ·  link  ·  

I'm going to curl up on the couch for a while....

user-inactivated  ·  3200 days ago  ·  link  ·  

Isn't being an adult grand?

steve  ·  3200 days ago  ·  link  ·  

Well... This and the cost of healthcare, uncertainty of retirement, contaminated food chain, global warming, and a looming financial crisis... What's not to love?

user-inactivated  ·  3200 days ago  ·  link  ·  

OTOH, buying booze and cigarettes is less of a hassle than when you were a kid so, you know, there's that.

user-inactivated  ·  3200 days ago  ·  link  ·  

That all depends on how old you and what what circle of friends you rolled with :)