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[–]Finnegan7921 23 insightful - 5 fun23 insightful - 4 fun24 insightful - 5 fun -  (5 children)

b/c Orange Man bad, anyone who voted for Orange Man bad, anything Orange Man advocated bad, and finally, Orange Man bad. 4 years of that is why. Anything non woke is treated as if you threw on a uniform with a red armband and saluted the swastika.

[–]BEB[S] 15 insightful - 1 fun15 insightful - 0 fun16 insightful - 1 fun -  (4 children)

I know and it's frustrating (and I fucking loathed Trump).

But each of us who does know what's going on need to also try to effect change - call five politicians today, talk to five friends, today, tell them to talk to five friends today.

Show them pictures - sports pictures of TiMs against girls work really well on Americans.

But we have to DO SOMETHING. In a few days, the US House will pass a bill that will undo the work of women far braver than us and plunge women's lives into fear and darkness.

WE HAVE TO FIGHT.

[–]Finnegan7921 15 insightful - 1 fun15 insightful - 0 fun16 insightful - 1 fun -  (3 children)

It may die in the Senate if they don't eliminate the filibuster. If it gets thru, 2022 is going to see some serious culture war shit in election season. This is an issue that could see the voters who actually won the election for Biden, i.e., suburban whites who left Trump, swing right back b/c their main reason for voting blue was that they didn't like Trump. Bills like this are why we need to stop 1000 page legislation. It is like the 2000 dollar checks. The shit they were putting into the funding bill was crazy. 10 million for gender studies in Pakistan ?! Really ?! 700 million for Sudan, all sorts of other stuff totally unrelated to covid.

[–]BEB[S] 11 insightful - 1 fun11 insightful - 0 fun12 insightful - 1 fun -  (2 children)

I hope the Equality Act dies in the Senate. Obviously.

Democrats will definitely see some serious drop-off if they pass the Equality Act, among Independent women voters especially, because by the 2022 elections more Americans will know what's in it.

But that's where we come in - we have to let Americans know what's in the Equality Act now. We have to head this bill off in the Senate and not count on the filibuster.

I don't know how to get across to my fellow American women how serious of a threat the Equality Act is - overnight, our lives will change horribly. We will lose our safety, our privacy, our dignity, our sports, our rights.

We have to make people aware, and we have to flood Congress with calls. The House vote is NEXT WEEK!

[–]our_team_is_winning 3 insightful - 1 fun3 insightful - 0 fun4 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

Media is totally ignoring this. They want to sneak things through. We need to sneak through TERM LIMITS, retroactive.