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As someone who is not from the US I have to say: this "meme" is very biased and one sided. Most of you do not even understand how one sided it is. You are taking your moderate opinion and comparing it with the most extreme opinion of the other side. If the other side did this they would say:
One side just wants that they stop killing babies
The other side wants to brainwash children into mutilating their own bodies.
"And it's our job to do that when we circumcise them!"
The challenge is, especially in the US, the moderate side of the right arguments don't seem to be made anywhere. All the party is pushing are the extreme views so it does appear to be exactly this in the media (which is where the majority of people are influenced by regardless of it's right or not).
If all they are pushing is the extreme views, perhaps it is because those have become their CORE views
Then all you have to do is point at scientific evidence showing no children is mutilating their body, nor "babies are being murdered". Right wingers reject empirical evidence. Your example holds no water at all and completely misrepresent what even the left advocates for. And keep in mind that abortion is even popular on both sides of the aisle.
I personally enjoy killing babies early in the morning and save their blood for the evening, i d hate that to stop
You're missing their point
Bad faith framing of the issue by utilizing a false equivalency based on half-truths.
God I hope this is a feeble attempt at sarcasm. Otherwise you likely live in Uganda or Indonesia, in which case, my condolences.
Is it cuz you're only attracted to the cis kids?
You're comparing a bad faith manipulation of policy descriptions to objectively stated goals of both sides
Killing babies and brainwashing children are known shock and scare rhetorical isms within the US, in the US the Left wants to institute healthcare, and the Right wants to, in brief, repeal the 20th century and a decent chunk of the 19th too.
You may be right but for Republicans that usually doesn't matter.