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[–] mojo@lemm.ee 45 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Just as Texas intended

Sacrifices must be made up appease the religious extremist voter base

[–] PeterPoopshit@lemmy.world 23 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (2 children)

You have to remember more than half the people in Texas vote for this shit while believing they live in the most free place in the world. Should freedom mean the freedom to take away other people's freedom or should it mean the freedom to do what you want?

The takeaway from this is if you live someplace like this the average person is not your friend. Get out while you still can.

[–] mojo@lemm.ee 10 points 1 year ago

Freedom means guns, and more freedom means more guns, brother

[–] braxy29@lemmy.world 1 points 1 year ago

You have to remember more than half the people in Texas vote for this shit

it's not that simple. we're gerrymandered as fuck with less voting access than in the past.

[–] MeetInPotatoes@lemmy.world 21 points 1 year ago (1 children)

6 Catholics overturned Roe too. Catholics only represent 23% of the population and tend to have much stricter views on abortion than Jewish and Hindu folks for instance. Maybe we shouldn't let 6 people from the same freaking religion decide anything with religious overtones. But if we do, and in the case of abortion...maybe it shouldn't be the people that think Jesus got magically beamed into Mary's womb from orbit.

[–] DarthBueller@lemmy.world 4 points 1 year ago

To correct you and also amplify the irony: Roe was overturned by 6 Catholic justices whose views on abortion diverge greatly from the 64% of American Catholics and 40% of American Catholic Republicans that believe that abortion should be legal in most or all cases.