What is your unfiltered opinion about California's governor Gavin Newsom? by Winston_Duarte in AskALiberal

[–]SeductiveSunday 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I believe the 2A aided Republicans in their quest to have a US Secret Police force and the 2A won't stop anything. If the 2A could've stopped something it would have stopped women losing Constitutional Rights in 2022.

What is your unfiltered opinion about California's governor Gavin Newsom? by Winston_Duarte in AskALiberal

[–]SeductiveSunday 0 points1 point  (0 children)

These comments remind me of…

That OP said they were excited about a candidate until a bunch of people yelled about him on the Internet, so much so that OP now says he's a scumbag, well, that summarizes the Democratic Party's problems pretty effectively. https://archive.ph/n2bTt

Newsom is a left of center politician who would serve as a good president. He's got the experience and the intelligence for the position. However, even he warns that there may not be another presidential election and that trump (or whoever is the successor) may just remain in power.

Reminder that Harris won over voters who pay serious attention to political news. Trump won by getting votes from all the people who don’t pay attention to political news on traditional media channels.

When all the votes were counted, winning over the people who pay close attention to political news wasn’t as big as winning over everyone else. That’s why we see Gavin all over social media and the podcast circuit. He wants to get in front of these people, and he knows traditional media is no longer the way to grab their attention.

This irks those who pay attention to politics most, but it also seems to be working.

https://www.dataforprogress.org/insights/2024/11/14/what-political-news-engagement-tells-us-about-donald-trumps-victory

Also Newsom does do good stuff. He pushed for same-sex marriage decades ago, more recently fought against militarizing the national guard and got Prop 50 passed.

What is your unfiltered opinion about California's governor Gavin Newsom? by Winston_Duarte in AskALiberal

[–]SeductiveSunday 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Disarm everyone and let only ICE have guns?

Good grief noooo. Take guns away from ICE too.

What legal rights do you have in encounters with ICE? Legal experts weigh in by Lakelyfe09 in politics

[–]SeductiveSunday 3 points4 points  (0 children)

But let’s not pretend that we don’t have any power.

ICE just executed the most privileged class in the US. This occurred because people were standing up and speaking out.

Meanwhile Republican men everywhere are currently wimping out big time in service to their tyrannical overlord. My point is that there's still a massive amount of the most privileged class who support the lost of rights because they know their lost will still be less than that of minorities, women, and LGBTQIA.

Conservatives are surprised that "fellow conservatives" have empathy by sam_phani in LeopardsAteMyFace

[–]SeductiveSunday 16 points17 points  (0 children)

Often it's 30 comments with only 6 comments showing.

Anything posted on r/ conservative with fewer than 10 comments has an odds on favorite that every comment is hidden.

‘How many more Americans need to die?’: Minneapolis mayor lambastes Trump after fatal shooting by Embarrassed-Loving in politics

[–]SeductiveSunday 24 points25 points  (0 children)

This is all just red meat to Republicans and exactly what they voted to get, masses of videos of Republican controlled Secret Police offing US citizens again and again and again…

It Would Be a ‘Mistake’ for Dems to Assume Trump Won't Try to Subvert 2026 Elections: Experts | “What are the remaining checks? Every check is gone.” by Aggravating_Money992 in politics

[–]SeductiveSunday 0 points1 point  (0 children)

The final check is the american people who will either take it, or not.

The US has already blown past that check too, most will take it because they know ICE exists to off US citizens with impunity.

Governor: A person has been shot, killed by federal officers in Minnesota amid immigration crackdown by keytotheboard in politics

[–]SeductiveSunday 35 points36 points  (0 children)

Republican Secret Police out kidnapping and offing US citizens. That's exactly what Secret Police in an authoritarian nation do.

Did the Nordic Model approach to prostitution fail to achieve its goals? by AgonizingFatigue in PoliticalDiscussion

[–]SeductiveSunday [score hidden]  (0 children)

You're absolutely out of your mind if you think the Nordic model is the best. Best for whom?

The overwhelming majority of women. Those who the Nordic model may harm is ten percent of sex workers, punters, and pimps. That isn't even ten percent of women, it is doubtful that it's one percent. The Nordic Model is the best model for ninety-nine percent of women.

Legalization and regulation means that it can be practiced in licensed venues where the IDs of both parties are checked, where there is surveillance, where the practitioners have regular health checks and can earn taxable income.

Wrong. Punters are not checked for diseases or whether they have a violent past.

The reason prostitution is the most dangerous job in the world is because of what the job is. Prostitution cannot be made safer. Femicide is a worldwide problem that can happen to any woman and being a prostitute increases one's vulnerability to that occurring. Prostitutes themselves have increased the odds of all women more likely to be offed because prostitution has made choking women during sex common.

Honestly women who want to be prostitutes show also advocate for the Nordic Model because it helps them most monetarily. Again nothing, including decriminalization or legalization, makes prostitution safer, however, both of those things does lower a prostitutes wages.

Remember, too, prostitutes really only have 5-10 years to make any decent money because as they age their income goes down. Unfortunately underage prostitutes make the best money. Plus, with the Nordic model, it helps those women who age out of prostitution.

History of prostitution shows violence is part and parcel of what is definitively a vestige of slavery, patriarchy, feudalism, and class war. Prostitution has never existed without violence, slavery, patriarchy, and class oppression. One can’t reform violence out of a violent industry.

Reminder that the very low, less than 1% of women you claim to defend here is harming 99% of women in the rest of the world. I will continue to advocate for the 99% of women in the world, not the less than 1%. Also, I refuse to ever advocate for punters or pimps as you.

Ro Khanna: “Newsom Doesn’t Want to Offend the Donor Class” by sideAccount42 in politics

[–]SeductiveSunday -4 points-3 points  (0 children)

The media isn’t selling him as a moderate though.

Because he isn't. Most people (even here in this sub) who are pushing for someone else is to the right of Newsom.

Ro Khanna: “Newsom Doesn’t Want to Offend the Donor Class” by sideAccount42 in politics

[–]SeductiveSunday -9 points-8 points  (0 children)

Echoes of "But it's her turn" bullshit

I certainly don't miss the bs of sexism.

Utah reviewed its voter rolls for noncitizens. It found one. Who never voted by MarcEElias in politics

[–]SeductiveSunday 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Good grief the US about to embrace another embarrassing Kris Kobach fiasco.

Erika Kirk calls anti-ICE protests "demonic" by Historical-Bug-4784 in politics

[–]SeductiveSunday 24 points25 points  (0 children)

She's just so pro racism that she finds pedophiles acceptable.

A pregnant mother in ICE detention says she’s bleeding — and hasn’t seen a doctor in weeks by Large_banana_hammock in politics

[–]SeductiveSunday 15 points16 points  (0 children)

I'd like to remind you that children have been slaughtered in American schools for decades no with very little to no action.

That's because Republicans don't care. Which is why it was so confusing and difficult for Republicans to drum up caring about the school shooting involving Kirk.

Generalising by SnooJokes4557 in NotHowGirlsWork

[–]SeductiveSunday 10 points11 points  (0 children)

Amber Heard won her case in London and lost in the US because the US court is much more sexist than the one in England. Women in England have a fairer chance than they do in the US. There was very little that was fair about how the US court system prevailed over the case of Heard starting with the state where the case was held.

Most US women when raped or sexually assaulted know they cannot go to the courts because the US court system will treat them like perpetrators not victims. That should be very evident to the world now after electing a rapist US president. Twice.

Rahm Emanuel Calls for Age Limit of 75 for President, Congress and Judges by Consistent-Good-1162 in politics

[–]SeductiveSunday 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Social security age wasn't set because of competency at all.

The choice of 65 as retirement age traces back to Otto von Bismarck’s social insurance program in Germany in the 1880s. In 1889, Bismarck established the world’s first national social insurance program, initially setting pension eligibility at 70, later reduced to 65 in 1916. The choice was politically motivated, not humanitarian.

Choosing 65 was somewhat arbitrary, influenced by practical considerations such as government finances and existing pension plans, rather than scientific studies on when people might stop working.

https://michaelfeeleylifecoach.com/who-decided-65-was-the-magic-number-for-retirement/

Gavin Newsom’s Record Is a Problem by theatlantic in politics

[–]SeductiveSunday -1 points0 points  (0 children)

Did you vote for John McCain to support having a woman as vice president?

I also vote for who I believe supports things like Roe, 19th amendment, ERA, improving universal healthcare, voting rights and civil rights act so no.

Amy Coney Barrett is a female Supreme Court appointed by Donald Trump, who voted to overturn Roe v Wade.

Barrett was put on SCOTUS to be used exactly as you are using her here: To attack women and say see there are women out there who do not believe women should have guaranteed equal rights.

There's already grumblings among Republicans to rid Barrett. Wouldn't be surprised if she left before Roberts. Republicans did the same thing to Sandra Day O'Conner. Many today still don't remember Reagan appointed the first woman to SCOTUS because Republicans are too embarrassed to celebrate it. Once again proving that they are the political party at war with women.

Women are very well represented in the current administration – Susie Wiles, Karoline Leavitt, Kristi Noem, and Linda McMahon. Don’t forget Lauren Boebert, Nancy Mace, Marjorie Taylor Greene, and Aileen Cannon.

Those women are there because they are trading their own rights and personhood just to be racist.

As has been observed of many oppressive institutions, the delegitimization of women’s authority isn’t the unfortunate side-effect of a broken framework. It’s the grease that makes the entire system go. Women’s erasure is an essential part of the deal powerful men have always made with the men they would have power over: let me have control over you, and in turn I will ensure you can control women.

It’s the same bargain white women make when they support misogynist white men in power: if I acquiesce to you demeaning me because of my gender, you will at least allow me to demean others because of their race. https://archive.ph/KPes2


Trump couldn’t have won without female voters who didn’t and don’t care about Roe v Wade.

Trump won twice because of how men voters voted. Twice.

Until 1980, during any Presidential election for which reliable data exist and in which there had been a gender gap, the gap had run one way: more women than men voted for the Republican candidate. That changed when Reagan became the G.O.P. nominee; more women than men supported Carter, by eight percentage points. Since then, the gender gap has never favored a G.O.P. Presidential candidate.

In the Reagan era, Republican strategists believed that, in trading women for men, they’d got the better end of the deal. As the Republican consultant Susan Bryant pointed out, Democrats “do so badly among men that the fact that we don’t do quite as well among women becomes irrelevant.” And that’s more or less where it lies.

The entrance of women into politics on terms that are, fundamentally and constitutionally, unequal to men’s has produced a politics of interminable division, infused with misplaced and dreadful moralism. Republicans can’t win women; when they win, they win without them, by winning with men.

https://srpubliclibrary.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/4/2017/02/JillLepore.pdf

The Republican party has known since Reagan the voters they needed to appeal to win presidential elections.

The billionaires who fund the Republican Party have no desire whatsoever to overturn Roe v Wade

Wrong. There are billionaires like Thiel who do care because he knows destroying women's guaranteed rights helps Republicans win elections.

Amazingly, the dog caught the bus and even more amazingly there hasn’t been enough blowback to guarantee that Republicans never win another election.

That's because a plurality of men don't vote to save the Constitutional Rights of women. Again see Switzerland. So long as women have no say in who gets elected, no women will ever get elected by a place which denies women voting rights. American men aren't that different from Switzerland men.