velma

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[–] velma@lemmy.blahaj.zone 32 points 3 hours ago (3 children)

A federal appeals court has restricted access to one of the most common means of abortion in the U.S. by blocking mailing of prescriptions of mifepristone.

A panel of the New Orleans-based 5th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals is requiring that the abortion pill be distributed only in person at clinics.

“Every abortion facilitated by FDA’s action cancels Louisiana’s ban on medical abortions and undermines its policy that ‘every unborn child is human being from the moment of conception and is, therefore, a legal person,’” the ruling states.

Pretty much. It's the 5th circuit being assholes again.

[–] velma@lemmy.blahaj.zone 2 points 9 hours ago (1 children)

All the more for the rest of us ;)

[–] velma@lemmy.blahaj.zone 4 points 9 hours ago

I encourage you to ask them to flesh out their arguments it is often hilarious.

It's especially funny when they try to use "the nuke" to do so

[–] velma@lemmy.blahaj.zone 11 points 10 hours ago

Reasonable people can disagree with or be put off by things Piker has said or positions he’s taken. In fact, it would be surprising if they weren’t: Piker, like Rogan, is first and foremost an entertainer whose willingness to be outrageous is a key part of his persona. There are certainly plenty of things that Piker’s said in the tens of thousands of hours of public airtime he’s logged over the past six years that I would not cosign.

But that’s plainly not the reason for this tedious uproar. We know it isn’t, because of the scores of commentators and political figures who remain in the good graces of the Democratic establishment despite saying things that are not identical to but often far, far worse than anything Piker’s said — let alone actually doing things that have caused untold death and misery to millions. We also know it isn’t because centrist Democrats who tut-tut at Piker, like Elissa Slotkin, still eagerly get in line to yuk it up with Bill Maher — who, just like Piker, once made an offensive statement about September 11 that he later apologized for (besides his virulent, open racism toward Arabs and Muslims).

No, this is about a sick political establishment that constantly bemoans political violence but is so deeply suffused with the most extreme forms of it that openly calling for and defending mass murder via the US or Israeli military doesn’t even raise an eyebrow. And it’s about the ongoing factional war within the Democratic Party, which is seeing its discredited and widely hated corporate establishment once more play the move it always goes back to when it feels its control wavering: cancel culture and language policing.

They'd much rather cry about Piker than actually look inward at why they continue to lose elections. It would be comical if it wasn't so blatant and frustrating.

[–] velma@lemmy.blahaj.zone 6 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Even if OP doesn’t know it, it’s the truth and shouldn’t have offended people for being the truth.

One should only be offended by this if one holds the belief that women are directly causing men to be lonely. And that’s an entire can of worms to open there.

[–] velma@lemmy.blahaj.zone 9 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (3 children)

The male loneliness epidemic isn’t caused by women.

That’s the point of the meme.

[–] velma@lemmy.blahaj.zone 3 points 2 days ago (2 children)

‘Dude’ works better, bro

[–] velma@lemmy.blahaj.zone 12 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago)

Men angry.

Literally as I wrote this comment, I got an angry reply from a man hahahaha

[–] velma@lemmy.blahaj.zone 2 points 2 days ago (2 children)

Doesn’t quite match up since she is the performer here as well.

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