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[–] bobburger@fedia.io 2 points 11 months ago

Honestly I think they're just to pretend like that doesn't exist. I would be interested to hear their stance on it though.

There isn't a lot of self consistency with the conservative logic around abortion. Abortion is murder to them, but they drive by abortion clinics every day and do nothing. You'd think a building dedicated to murdering children would demand a stronger response.

Abortion is murder, but it's okay to murder the child if it wasn't conceived under the right conditions.

Abortion is murder, but we can leave it up to the states to decide when it's murder and when it's okay.

Just a lot of mental gymnastics.

[–] bobburger@fedia.io 12 points 11 months ago (2 children)

They've backed themselves into an ideological corner.

For years the right has campaigned against abortion on the premise that "life begins at conception". Because of this stance IVF puts them into a tricky situation: continue to maintain their extreme view that life begins at conception and oppose IVF, or accept IVF and concede that life doesn't begin at conception.

If they accept IVF then that undermines their entire argument against abortion, which is obviously not a choice you make if your goal is to make all abortions illegal. So conservstives take the ridiculous stance that IVF embryos are babies, and since some embryos are lost during the IVF process, IVF must be murder.

[–] bobburger@fedia.io 9 points 11 months ago

That's very true, I should of said "from a civility standpoint it's an improvement".

[–] bobburger@fedia.io 34 points 11 months ago (2 children)

Pretty much every Trump debate has been like this. This one was actually an improvement from 2020 and 2016 because his microphone was turned off so he wasn't able to just yell over the other person and constantly interrupt.

[–] bobburger@fedia.io 27 points 11 months ago (1 children)

Newsome would have to resign as Governor and I'm not sure he wants to do that for a long shot presidential campaign.

Newsome polls very poorly against Trump and he also isn't very popular in his home state as Governor.

[–] bobburger@fedia.io 6 points 11 months ago (1 children)

What is wrong with you? It's very clear that the issue that makes organizing in the Texas 33rd is the extreme gerrymandering. What question did you think you were answering when you confidently answered "the interenet"? Were you just saying random shit hoping no one would call you out on your bullshit?

[–] bobburger@fedia.io 17 points 11 months ago (8 children)

You could just say you don't understand how federal laws are passed in the United States and I'm sure someone would you the ELI5.

This video is a pretty great introduction to how laws are passed.

Once you understand that hopefully you'll understand why Joe Biden can't just do all the things he'd like to.

[–] bobburger@fedia.io 8 points 11 months ago

One of my links shows AOC has opposed the genocide of Palestinians since 2021. How far back do we need to go?

It's pretty apparent you have no evidence to support any of your claims and are trying to move your own goal posts.

At this point you're just spreading misinformation and poorly trying to push some kind of weird narrative.

Have a good day.

[–] bobburger@fedia.io 5 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago) (2 children)

I know it's hard to provide a source for a negative, but do you have any showing she is friendly to Israel and the AIPAC?

These suggest she is harshly critical of Israel, the AIPAC, and the invasion of Gaza: CNN, March 2024

NY Times, September 2021 This article shows a history of being critical of supporting Israel

Times of Israel, November 2023 This is a biased source, but it contains the tweets where AOC directly condemned the AIPAC

NY Times, November 2023 MSNBC, June 2024

The last article seems to be about the "Zionist lobbyist on her live-stream", where AOC said:

Criticism of the Israeli government is not inherently antisemitic and criticism of zionism is not automatically antisemitic. That being true does not mean that we should not recognize criticism and when that criticism crosses a line into real harms against our Jewish community.

Do you have the quote where she said "criticism is Israel is antisemitism"?

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