“We recognize that an abortion has two victims: obviously, the unborn child, and the other victim is the woman who’s the birth mother, who probably got talked into abortion by a boyfriend, a friend, a mother, a grandmother, maybe a father,” Huckabee said.
This betrays a staggering misunderstanding of the issue…
If I may present another hypothesis: this isn’t a misunderstanding. It’s a deliberate lie, a misrepresentation of the real issue to try to hide the fact that they know how sadistic their demands are and they’re not willing to be honest about it.
Wow they think individuals can’t think and decide for themselves based on their own life conditions? Says the party of individual responsibility. No, not like that.
Wow they think
individualswomen can’t think and decide for themselves based on their own life conditions?FTFY
No they definitely think students can’t think, so they want to change the voting age. Should we cover minorities?
I notice this is common theme in discussions. Right wing pundits often say something like “this guy said this, and all the leftists have believed that every since”. As if we can’t think about it independently. In every area: evolution, science, politics, policy, etc.
It’s projection. They swallow most of what their thought leaders say, so of course everyone else must too!
Women and transgenders. Anyone doing anything they don’t like, essentially.
And Blacks, Hispanics, Asians, and… uhm let’s just say everyone besides white old weathy men.
It’s also straight up misogyny, implying that women can’t think for ourselves or make our own decisions
According to my family, I’ve been brainwashed by “the mainstream media”. When I asked what that even means, they listed all these conservative news outlets that I don’t follow AT ALL. All I could do was laugh. “Where did you hear this?” I asked. You can guess at the answer. You’ll probably get it on your first try.
The GOP should consider
Nope, you lost me right there. That’s never going to happen.
It fits into their worldview that anyone who is left leaning is somehow not a “real” American and that they alone are the rightful stewards of the nation.
This is the best summary I could come up with:
There had been six previous statewide initiatives centered on that question since the U.S. Supreme Court overturned Roe v. Wade, and each of the six had been successful, including in states redder than Ohio.
As the third Republican primary debate was underway Wednesday night, Fox News’s Sean Hannity interviewed former Arkansas governor Mike Huckabee about the party’s underperformance on Tuesday.
The video-sharing application, based in China, has become a boogeyman of the right (in particular, though not exclusively), including earning an extended conversation during Wednesday’s Republican primary debate.
This was in response to a question centered on the idea that TikTok is amplifying anti-Israel propaganda, a claim made both by congressional Republicans and, according to a CNN report, by the Biden administration.
As journalist Ryan Broderick noted, this misunderstands the scale and fragmentation of TikTok, a platform that isn’t “based [on] mass appeal snowballing into global virality, but about identifying niches.”
That there were immediate responses on college campuses in the wake of Hamas’s attack in Israel would suggest there were existing belief systems about the region before this alleged TikTok nefariousness came into play.
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These think pieces should consider whether or not they are teaching the enemy how to win
I think talking about it and rightfully criticizing the right outweighs the potential danger of hypothetically handing them a playbook. They’ve shown time and time again that they won’t listen to criticism, and they’ve got such an echo chamber that doubling down on this behavior is likely worth more political capital anyway. So what’s left after that is a piece that draws attention to this manipulative behavior, and adds to the body of evidence that these people do not have your best interests in mind and never will. If that convinces even a small number of fence-sitters to vote smarter, then it’s worth it.
I read an article that said that when you tell people that their opinion is wrong and explain to them how they are wrong they will tend to double down in their wrongness rather than change their opinions.
However, as little as I think of the average Republican, I believe that there could be outliers who are capable of rational thought and opinion change and I would prefer not to give those exceptional Republicans the opportunity to help revise playbooks that could lead to the further destruction of Western democracy.
You can’t change a conservatives mind. You can only try to shame or humiliate them enough with their own positions to keep them from actually voting.
Most conservatives and Republicans would rather not vote than switch parties.
The “brainwashed” thought is a problem for many, mostly at the fringes of a given subject. They believe something so strongly that it seems like it is self evident fact, so how come 51%+ of the country either disagrees or doesn’t care? And social media bubbles, news media political differentiation, and the rural/urban divide make it worse because everyone they know, agrees with them too.
So everyone else couldn’t possibly be looking at the same objective facts and disagreeing in good faith…they must be…brainwashed?
Not sure why you got downvoted. It’s a good point
LOL you just owned yourself
Both sides should avoid this trap. Lazy and stupid and makes for bad faith debates absent of substance. There are plenty of people on both the left and the right who don’t think for themselves. but whether a person regurgitates a talking point, or comes up with an original idea, has no bearing on the merit of that talking point or idea.
Both sides have valid issues in complaints. Both sides have crappy issues and complaints. Neither side is perfect. Both sides need to realize that they themselves are not perfect.
I will not yield an inch further away from safe, accessible, affordable, legal abortions for all women for any reason at any time. We have no common ground to argue.
Nor should you. I hope people aren’t interpreting my comment as suggesting anything other than this. I was not talking about any issue at all, I was simply talking about logical fallacies both sides get into when arguing their respective positions.
BoTh SiDeS aRe ThE sAmE!!!
Like nearly every single “both sides” argument in all of online history, this one fulfills one of these two roles:
- Detract from something good about Democrats
- Deflect from something shitty about Republicans
You’ll nearly never see a “both sides” argument in the wild that does one of these things:
- Detract from something good about Republicans
- Deflect from something shitty about Democrats
You may draw your own conclusions from that, gentle reader.
Edit: Removed the hyperbole.
Pardon me, but I’m going to steal this from you wholesale. This is too good to not re-use.
I’m flattered, thanks!
The only thing worse than a right winger is those who minimize the damage wrought by right wingers.
