(June 27, 2022 at 10:30 pm)firebird Wrote: Hi everyone,
I've been lurking around a little bit after this shitstorm of a week in the US and decided to come join. 42 year old guy, been more or less atheist since I was a teenager. Thankfully I live in a state that's safe from the Roe v Wade reversal (Massachusetts), but I've still been equal parts terrified, furious, and tired, and just needed a place to scream a little. I have two young daughters who keep me insane in all the good ways. Some of you may have known me from another forum that I used to post on occasionally.
Look forward to meeting you all.
^^^^^^^^ This is lagit fear. This response is exactly why nobody should take, even the states that have not gone of the deep end, for granted. This is not paranoia. I have been warning, for years since the orange jackass started opining his sphincter and spewing hate to stir up his right wing base, that he needed to be taken seriously.
Although American history is unfortunately full of vile events done by our government, it has at the same time, provided opportunity to allow minorities to rise up out of the ranks of the vilified and scapegoated, to be part of a far more equal society. But unfortunately at the same time, we are still dealing with those who so much needlessly fear change, willing to burn down the house to save face.
We, meaning supporters of pro choice, are not the evil monsters the right wants us to be. We do not like abortion either. We do not go door to door and tell females to get banged so we can kill something and throw a party over it. We would love every baby to be healthy and wanted too. But that is simply an impossible utopia that will never exist. For that reason, all we are saying is it is best to simply leave that choice up to the female and her doctor. All banning abortions will do, is make them more dangerous.
And I have never understood why, while humans claim this God is "All powerful" why it would need mortals to get between two parties when they are not part of the beef. Are they claiming their "All powerful" God cant punish us by himself? And why would he need humans to advertise and speak for him anyway?
I just saw a video of Boebert at a campaign event where she claimed it was the right of the church to dictate to the government. That makes my skin crawl and send sends a chill up my spine. There was a time when these nutballs were relegated to the street corner and nobody knew who they were, and you could simply roll your eyes walking past them and move on. But no, not now, she holds a very high seat of power, for now, and so do many like her, male or female.
It is sad you have to live in fear for the future of yourself, and your family and America, but you are not wrong in being worried. Nothing in life is a given, and to say a right wing minority could never dominate the entire country and crush even the bluest of blue states, would be a grave mistake. All one has to do to know what the tyranny of the minority looks like, would be Saddam in Iraq who was a Baathist minority ruling over most Sunnis and even Kurdish Christians in the north of Iraq.
Do not worry at least in this one aspect. You are not alone in your rightful concern. There probably far more people than you expect that are just as concerned as you. Stay strong, you have a lot of support.
