cross-posted from: https://lemmygrad.ml/post/3774875

Pro-life hypocracy

    • zifnab25 [he/him, any]
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      7 months ago

      What frustrates me with these is that you've got two major cohorts of Pro-Life types.

      One (typically the larger) is genuinely sold on the idea because they're lodged in this media bubble that screams "Dead Babies! Evil Doctors! Joe Brandon White Genocide!" 25/8. And you can maybe probably kinda reason with them to a point, if you can get over the hump of "Don't ever trust a leftist, they are demons who only exist to trick you". At the very least, you can often get them on board with broad shit like health care and housing, specifically for pregnant/nursing mothers (although that can quickly go down the rabbit hole of "Faith Based" whatever).

      Still, point is, they're not just a bunch of sociopaths. They've just had their brains buffed smooth by ideology.

      But then you've got another group - the more activist, more insider, and more cut-throat ideology types - who absolutely know this is a canard to get people to unwittingly vote for tax cuts and trillion-dollar Pentagon throw-away budgets. And you should 100% come at them with a hammer. But they're so relatively few and far between that you're the one who comes across as a psycho for impaling one of these vampires to death with a stake.