It depends how close Texas actually is to tipping and if there’s a good candidate to replace him (last I checked no one had actually filed against him)— to wit, if Akin made his statement in Missouri today he’d have gotten elected with ease— fuck the frontrunner for the Republican Senate nomination in Missouri (and…

At this point...yeah— but just like multiple other necessary things (see: Federal ant-Gerrymandering/Electoral Reform and DC Statehood) it’s a non-starter barring the filibuster being broken.

Beyond Senators (and the actual assholes passing this shit-- can’t let them off the hook just to hit our ostensible allies) bein…

Fuck....this is ultimately on those who couldn’t even give enough of a shit and/or were so complacent that they viewed mentioning SCOTUS/Roe as blackmail who didn’t vote/went third party in 2014 and 2016 Federal elections— hold the Senate in 2014 and the Court is 5-4 anti w/ Roberts as a swing more concerned with…

Remember when Jezebel et al was all apathetic about the 2016 election....yeah— the seeds of this shit were sown in 2014 and 2016 which fucked the Courts for a generation. But hey “it’s blackmail to say voting Green/not Voting means I don’t give a shit about Roe; it’ll never get overturned anyway”.

Eh....technically, Abortion is legal under Federal law but regulatable under state laws so long as they don’t impose an undue burden— which has been a shifting target from Roe to Casey to Whole Women, etc

So....how do we get K-Pop stans to bombard the tiplines?

Every article that mentions self-managed abortion as a “safe, effective, option” should note that this is only the case up to a certain point- 10 weeks; and that in the rare event of complications it’s going to be more dangerous in areas where it’s banned and/or highly regulated because people are less likely to seek…

You mean the guy who cosplays like he was going to be Navy SEAL despite being rejected from the Academy and not enlisting....that guy?

Love the flak vest and backup weapon while hunting with a partner-- totally necessary in North Carolina bro

This. Not saying it didn’t happen— hell, almost all the doc and books on the Fall of Theranos made it clear that was a weird relationship (though the media investigations made it seem mutually toxic) but.....he came in mid-scam it’s seems like a huge stretch to try to dump it all on him.

So....not to excuse 20 years of war and occupation but....without the American interference (which again based on the woman in question being on an evacuation flight appears to be something she at least was supportive of) how would the lives of Afghan women have been better?

Not saying you’re wrong but there’s a pretty distinct difference in scale....in which Afghanistan is a textbook example- if one side enables women to choose to be educated outside of the home and the other guns down schoolbuses of adolescents for learning to read there seems to be a pretty clear hierarchy of evil 

Um.....not saying “political lesbian” was super accepted in the US during the time period she’s referring to but.......that same sub-groups acceptance in say Afghanistan.....(which she’s somehow blaming on neocolonialism????)

Yeah if only neocolonialists hadn’t given women crazy ideas about “being able to learn to read” or “leaving the house without a male relative” then they wouldn’t be being hunted now.

Not to excuse KSA whose citizens definitely had culpability in 9/11 but the government of Afghanistan was actually utilizing Al Queda as an auxiliary military arm— they were actual allies in an official capacity in a way that never happened with the Saudis.

You mean the government which was installed following an invasion by Soviet Imperialists? 

True.  I mean if you’re going to look at an upside it did (as part of the greater nation-building effort) let a generation of Afghan women (at those in more urban regions) learn to read, walk outside the home, etc

The ISI might want to file trademark infringements given how many people keep saying it was the US

I mean....for the Taliban it was an understandably big part of the picture-- ignoring it is like looking at 80s South Africa and going “why do we have to keep focusing on apartheid instead of how awesome Sun City is?” 

By this “culturally insentive” bullshit pro-Taliban logic your trying to sell why should we criticize say....evangelical opinions on gay rights....aren’t we being culturally insensitive to their earnest beliefs? Or does it stop at the border? Should say- the treatment of indigenous children in Canadian boarding…

There’s no doubt it was a convenient argument that added fuel to the fire (though said fuel was unneeded to sell the invasion of Afghanistan, which unlike Iraq, had clear casus belli and near unanimous international support)-- the “look at how things are at home, clearly gunning down women for learning to read isn’t…