“Half-governer” sounds like a character race in some fantasy politics tabletop role playing game.

Worse, they think of women as possessing no greater desire than to be those biological vending machines. Any women who wants anything else more than she wants that must be “confused,” or “going through a phase.” Basically they think she has had feminists put ideas in her head that will only make her unhappy. Hell, you…

I think that they assume any woman who gets an abortion must have been hypnotized, tricked, or forced into it. I see this kind of thread run through a lot of their rhetoric, where they seem incapable of considering that someone might have a different set of postulates than them from which they make their decisions.…

As Dan Olson said in his Folding Ideas video about the Reactionary “Actually It’s About Ethics in Games Journalism” Movement That Shall Not Be Named, even for those individuals who are part of the movement but not actively trying to escalate a climate of fear among their opposition, they still benefit from those who do…

What bothers me about that notion is that it completely discounts the reproductive agency of fertile black women themselves. It implies that abortion is something forced upon them, instead of something any individual black woman might or might not choose to do.

For a lot of them, it comes from a sense of demographic panic. They are worried about people with skin color different from them are out-breeding their race. They want to intimidate and disadvantage others while forcing young women with the skin color they like to have babies when they otherwise would not to try and…

The way Fred Clark described the “spiritual warfare” types is that they are essentially playing a LARP in which everyone else is an NPC, but they lack the practiced imagination to draw a line between the enjoyable fantasy they are indulging in and the reality they live in.

Well, part of the reason the judge escalated directly to jail time instead of fines is that it was precisely because of those supporters willing to back her financially that he felt simple monetary impacts would be effective as a method of punishment. She could effectively just buy off anything he leveraged against…

I think that is a bit short-sighted. Sure, twisting the feat-screws further locks down people who were inclined to vote their fears already, but it also alienates the (often younger and getting bigger every year demographically) voting group who has seen enough of their bullshite to be turned off to it.

Ah, the classic “just asking questions,” rhetorical trick.

Are guys like him ever going to hit “peak hyperbole”? Like, they say such exaggerated things that they lose all rhetorical effectiveness through overuse?

Hell, I would rather every human gets a birth control implant to eliminate unwanted pregnancy and have uteran replicators as a gestation option. Everyone wins!

Sorry, that was intended as more snark than serious. But you also got the point I was making. While yes, it can be detected early, certainty is likely to come later in the gestation process, possibly past the threshold of time at which the state can take a legal interest in legislating abortion restrictions.

And what do you want to bet that Down Syndrome does not become apparent until later in fetal development?

We are trying, really we are. The people calling for crap like this are a fraction of the population, and not representative of the American zeitgeist. What we are seeing is a classic social “extinction burst” scenario. They realize that their ranks are shrinking, that they no longer have the unquestioned power over…

That would technically be internment in concentration camps.

Tear gas would be more appropriate. Especially if we have tarps underfoot to collect all the extruded saline.

The funny thing is that the people who assert that gender roles need to be strictly policed are also the ones who will assert that gender roles are the result of natural biological determinism.

So you are comparing women to children?