• Justice@lemmygrad.ml
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    I kinda hate that Walz and then the entire DNC started calling these weirdos weird openly because now I feel like some soyfacing redditor every time I see pretty much anything they’re doing. What other word is there besides weird and synonyms for it for this behavior though. I know the old trope “republicans hate science” but holy shitting Jesus man.

    I remember as a kid/teen the “debate” (there was no debate, it was some Nazi fuckle sticks on “one side” and people who aren’t fuckles on the other) over using stem cells from fetuses. Like people were openly discussing if we should be able to do science and purely ethical science too. Not experimenting on living people or their corpses. Not “forcing abortions” or whatever insanity right wingers have been saying for 50 years just to harvest the cells. When I really consider what was being “discussed” when I was teen, it makes me even more pissed off that people think I and anyone else that age were supposed to grow up and just accept this dogshit.

    Welcome back to 2004: Should we nuke Iraq Iran now or later? Isn’t ejaculation murder? Menstruation is also murder. Why are we all murdering these beautiful potential children and why aren’t we nuking Iraq Iran?! Please, God, can we just fucking nuke something already?! Bolton intensifies

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      George Bush had an entire-ass primetime address to the nation all about stem cells. It was his last big speech before Sept. 11.

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        Damn, if only I could go back to Sept 11 and do one of those “God is punishing America for going against his will! He loves stem cells!”

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          After posting this, I reread my comment and had to appreciate my own self for not saying I’d go back to Sept 11 to prevent the hijackings and attacks… just to condemn America and say “see? Deserved it.”

          Self congratulations.

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          History ended but then people just felt they had to continue doing medical research and it started right up again, smh

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      I think one of the first times being a leftie resonated with me instead of being an anti-war lib was seeing people get cyber bullied for being racist. They weren’t talking down to them and they weren’t offended. They wanted pictures of their hog. They were a little freak who needed to shut the fuck up.

      If that’s co-opted by the DNC I’ll be sad in the sentimental sense. Our adaptation when they invariably fuck it up and lean too hard on the pageantry will be exciting.

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      I remember as a kid/teen the “debate” (there was no debate, it was some Nazi fuckle sticks on “one side” and people who aren’t fuckles on the other) over using stem cells from fetuses. Like people were openly discussing if we should be able to do science and purely ethical science too. Not experimenting on living people or their corpses. Not “forcing abortions” or whatever insanity right wingers have been saying for 50 years just to harvest the cells. When I really consider what was being “discussed” when I was teen, it makes me even more pissed off that people think I and anyone else that age were supposed to grow up and just accept this dogshit.

      Now, the primary MAGA financer is a literal vampire billionaire that’s made one of his blood boys the VP candidate. I know fascists aren’t known for ideological consistency.

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      What other word is there besides weird

      I believe you’ve hit on how Democrats stumbled upon an effective dig