All I have to offer, aside from a “good article,” is an additional:

It does. Though it makes absolute and perfect sense (to me) as gun control.

I totally agree that it does somewhat reinforce the false parallel, but here’s the way that I see it: they’re not going to stop just because we play nice. Every time we try to avoid giving them any ammo, they find away to twist it anyway. Why bother trying to play nice? This way it puts the hypocrisy on fairly obvious…

And I totally agree that it all makes 1,000% more sense in terms of gun control than the no-sense it makes in terms of a woman’s agency over her body and life. And yet just seeing “abortion” and “gun” together seems to reify the false parallel the right makes over and over, again.

I see your point and agree that perspective could be introduced. But I think the greater issue is she’s saying that the decision to buy something that exists solely to end lives (real, human, walking-around-people lives) should be treated with as much if not more seriousness than exerting choice over your own body.

I look at it more like “look at all the shit you have to go through to NOT kill a human person and here is how easy it is to obtain something that allows you to kill a human person”.

Hopefully someone will point out that these laws against abortion get passed under the guise that they don’t create an undue burden to exercising a Constitutional right.

Yeah, I prefer the Satanic Temple’s tactic of circumventing all of the wait periods and useless ultrasound nonsense, etc, by saying that it all violates their religious rights. Because it reinforces the idea that women have a right to bodily autonomy that shouldn’t be based on anyone else’s religious beliefs, but on…

I look at it more as “See, this is what should actually have a waiting period” rather than drawing a direct parallel. Because a lot of the restrictions on abortions would actually be totally reasonable and helpful when applied to gun purchasing.

I get what she is doing (and the paragraphs are spot-on), and yet I feel ambivalent since it reinforces the false parallel of choice being akin to taking a life. Am I the only one? Am I being too picky? It is extremely clever, I know.

An edit is warranted: looking over Johnson’s stats for this year, he’s actually been surprisingly consistent. I suppose I was giving more attention to his failures this season because his failures have been given so much attention. I still think the Chase format, while certainly not without its flaws, is an effective…

Keselowski was constantly switching which lane to race in based on what Johnson was doing. Being the experienced champion he is, Johnson would then switch his lane, too. THAT is what you are supposed to do. Not punt your opponent.

Kind of looked to me like he was doing just that, and Johnson showed Logano how it is supposed to be done!

This Buich clan

What hubris. This Buich clan should have guessed that opening a restaurant in Terri’s city would cause some push-back. Dumbasses. I hope both locations fold.

JESUS, that’s terrifying.

Barber: What kind of look are you going for, bud?