Good thing we only mutilate boys' genitals.
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It's still shocking to me how most Americans consider genital mutilation a normal thing. My European mind can't comprehend.
If it shocks you farther, it's just a little check box when you have a baby boy. Just a little bit of the paperwork before discharge. You don't even have to be there, and it's "free". Very strange, all things considered.
Free? Free?!! In a hospital, in the U S of A?!!! Ok now I'm really shocked.
It's not free. It costs hundreds of dollars. The user above may have had it covered by insurance, but that's a different thing. Entirely NOT free
Oh, phew. I was worried for a minute there.
Well, it's "free" under insurance, yes. The bigger thing is that it's covered under every insurance and I think Medicaid, the public assistance healthcare. Not that it's all that expensive when a birth is like, tens of thousands of dollars sometimes.
I've never met anyone who paid for it, though. I wouldn't be surprised if it was in law that you had to cover it (while shit like birth control is still debated).
Insurance gets charged if it is done, but a friend told me there is no actual charge to the parents. She said there was a lot of pushback about not getting it done and that was one of their "selling points" when she said she wasn't going to pay for it. Seems like fraud of some kind.
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I watched my little boy like a hawk so they wouldn't "accidentally" whisk him away and mutilate him.
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Thank you for mentioning this. I don't even have that set of equipment, and it boggles my mind that this is normal and acceptable to anyone. Even using religion as a reason just seems ridiculous. Why the hell would you ever cause that much physical pain to a child for a cosmetic procedure?
"Oh, they're transing the kids!" Fucker, you asked your doctor to cut off part of your son's junk before he even developed the capacity to lift his own head. Shut the fuck up.
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- Texas keeps trying to force Christianity into public schools
- Texas has a bounty system for women who lose a child in childbirth
- Texas continues to use the 13th loophole to compel labor without pay for prisoners
- In Texas, emancipated minors and teens with parental permission can be married over the age of 16
- Texas actually bans FGM, but they do allow male genital mutilation
- Texas police do also shoot dogs.
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Fundies are salivating to do the same thing
Seriously I was waiting for the punch line at the bottom, "... Just like Christian Nationalists"
Do Americans actually get text messages like those? I thought it was a joke
The dem ones are at least somewhat sane
YMMV. But if you volunteer regularly for campaigns, your number/address inevitably ends up on someone's suckers list. And then election season means getting your phone blown up by these as the voting deadline closes in.
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This just sounds like Texas on a regular day minus the dog thing.
"NO religious freedom," so let's ban that religion? Every religion believes theirs is correct.
"Women brutalized" "Slavery allowed" "Child marriage & rape" These things are already illegal from our other laws.
"Girl genital mutilation" I think this one is already illegal, as well.
"No pet dogs allowed" First of all, wut? But second of all, I'd love to see some Texas politician try to pass a law that outlawed pet dogs. They'd probably get shot to death by the other politicians before they left the chamber.
"BAN SHARIA NOW!" BAN MARTIANS NOW! BAN FISH RIDING BICYCLES NOW! BAN ADULTS FROM SEEING WHY KIDS LOVE CINNAMON TOAST CRUNCH NOW! BAN LICKING UNTIL YOU GET TO THE TOOTSIE ROLL CENTER OF A TOOTSIE POP NOW!
BAN POLITICIANS WHO WASTE OUR TIME WITH MEANINGLESS LAWS AND CULTURE WARS NOW!
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Good thing they don't read the Bible, because other than the pet dog thing, it's a tie
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Christian nationalism
- No religious freedom
- Women brutalized
- Slavery allowed
- Child rape and marriage
- Dogs are not guaranteed good treatment
MAGA Christian nationalism is a death cult.
Isn’t all of this what republicans want, just swap fake Christianity in for the only religion, and allow pet dogs (but also the state can kill them randomly with no consequences)?
What's the point in creating a law that bans Sharia Law when the people who would allegedly institute mandatory observation of Sharia Law would just vote to repeal it and then institute it anyway?
Oh, right, Republicans are fucking idiots and this is scaremongering to drive them to the polls.
A lot of this is a tacit attempt to control Muslim municipal populations be restricting how they govern themselves locally.
So you can step in at the state (maybe federal, if Chip Roy gets his way) level and announce this mayor or judge or city council is illegitimate because the leadership isn't Christian.
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If you just change "GIRL genital mutilation" to "BOY genital mutilation", that list is all things America is famous for.
We're allowed to own dogs. Until a cop comes within shooting distance, at least.
Look at these scary sounding words!
Vote for me!
On a side note: let's ban ALL religions, the world will thank you the world population will, well, the first generation will curse us, while every next generation will thank is for not being beholden anymore to badly written stonage fairytales
Sharia is already prohibited... by the same first amendment which republicans ignore when they advocate for a theocracy...
Basically all of those bullet points listed are things republican "christians" do. They only have a problem with it when it's brown people doing it.
Lest you think I'm advocating for sharia law, I'm not. I'm simply pointing out that "christian law" would be effectively the same thing, and they're both equally prohibited by the constitution.
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Yo is there any way to weaponize this into banning all binding arbitration because that would be based.
Obviously no. Prior efforts at invoking this kind of legislation in Oklahoma failed and the federal court struck it down fairly quickly.
Texas actually already has House Bill 4211, the "Sharia Compound Ban", which states
The purchase agreement and any other agreement or rules governing the residential arrangement or the ownership interest in the entity may not require that a dispute concerning the arrangement or interest be brought before a tribunal other than a court established under the laws of this state or the United States.
This was intended to prevent the completion of EPIC City, a master-planned Islamic community-centered residential development project just north of Dallas. Although this mostly seems to be focused on investment and ownership stake in residential and commercial properties by a large pool of wealthy Muslim investors.
If there's any effort to invoke this law at a functional level, it will likely be targeted at the minority Muslim Texas residents, with the intent of depriving them of their property and possessions.
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Weren't there files released that pointed to Melania actually being underage when she started her relationship with Trump?
Sorry, sorry, it was referred to as him riding the 'Lolita Express'. Fuck I hate these people.
Are we forgetting we have a literal pedophile as the president?
How about we get that out?
You know what else is a death cult that brutalizes everyone? ICE.
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The Epstein party continues to be concerned about women and children.
Excuse me but Republicans have been in control of Texas for like 30 years straight. So does that mean that they the Republicans are trying to install Sharia law in order to prevent it?
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Show up to a rally with a Bible and start reciting verses - the kind they get pissed off about when you bring them up. Like the women brutalizing, child murder, no religious freedom, and slavery. Don't forget the ones against mixed fabrics, tattoos, and shellfish!
Sounds like a lot of Epstein projection
Is the Sharia Law in the state with you right now?
Filthy heathens! OUR faith allows pet dogs!
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