"When Facism comes to America, it will be wrapped in a flag and carrying a cross." - Unknown
Everything's bigger in Texas, especially the bigotry, racism, and insensitivity.
In addition to what everyone else said; there was a time when the global majority were definitely pro-slavery. Or thought women weren't people.
It didn't make them right. It just meant that majority were small-minded bigots.
"Yeah, we're bigoted and unthinking, but there's more of US than YOU" is certainly . . . a take.
Well, the point is basically by these right-wingers to have enough kill themselves so the others feel unsafe to the point they don't come out. Then have them put in the military where they can die over in some corner of the world fighting that other group of people they don't like.
Well, after decades of homophobia....they figure that actually working to get the LGBTQ+ vote would be too hard...but it's really easy to appeal to the bigots.
I mean, the attack point here is that Abbot is actually a "trans-advocate" because he wasn't being enough of a bigot. And his response is to bascially say "I'll show you how big of a bigot I can be". They are literally fighting over who hates transpeople more in order to secure the Republican Primary.
And this is pretty common in Republican Primaries. They all run as far to the Right as they can to secure the primary...then they have to try and run back towards the centre a little to try and secure the General Election.
A similar thing happens in the Democratic Primaries...but they don't have to go nearly so far to the left before they turn around back towards the centre. Because, despite what Fox News might say, the Democrat Party as a whole is not "Left-wing". At best they are centrists that occasionally lean left a bit.
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Words to live by.
The fact that you believe there's a discussion to be had about removing a SUICIDE HOTLINE just because it's for a subset of people you don't like is very telling.
There is no discussion. Taking away someone's lifeline is evil. It's not bashing Texas and the GOP. The Texas GOP is evil, pure and simple. That's not up for debate.
You can debate your feelings on gender on other web sites and with other people, since it's against the rules here. But at the very least you could admit that taking away a SUICIDE HOTLINE is evil no matter who it's for.
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To play devil's advocate for a moment (and see my earlier posts if you think I'm not totally shitting on Abbott in general), there are reasons you might end such a service, legitimately. Maybe it's not being used, and you're staffing the call centers and nobody's calling. Maybe suicide rates have tanked and there's just little need. Maybe you're expanding some other system and rolling these services into the larger one. All valid options, in theory.
The problem here is that Abbot's only apparent motive was being accused of supporting "trans ideology" whateverthefuck that means (I know; it's just coded language for "trans people just want to live their lives and that's bad to us conservative bigoted fuckstains"). That is why he's an evil, sadistic, bigoted shithead. It's not just that he removed the hotline, it really is why he removed it.
Either way it is pure fucking evil to either intend to cause harm to kids because you hate them or causing kids pain in order to gain votes. This is one of those 6 of one, half a dozen of the either. No matter which way you slice it Republicans are pure fucking evil.
I know it has been said many times now, but the cruelty is the point with the GQP.
"If you are ever asking yourself 'Is Trump lying or is he stupid?', the answer is most likely C: All of the Above" - Seth Meyers
It is absurd, but hatemongers tend to make a lot of absurd things a necessity. Perhaps stop wanting people to turn nazi to counter evil leftism, and such things would be less needed. Or how did the priceless post of yours (in another thread a while back) go word for word. Got the gist of it tho.
It's almost as if different hotlines are run by different people, with different qualifications, that have access to different resources.Or just you know they can use the normal suicide hotline like everyone else.
Sure they could use the regular hotline, it's not gonna be much of a help if the person at the other end of the line doesn't really know how to actually help them with their case.
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I don't really see what the problem is. They can just use the regular suicide hotlines like everyone else.