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  • Ohio has Issue 1 regarding gerrymandering…

    …which the Ohio Supreme Court already told them to unfuck and the GOP was like, “nah, fam”…

    …and which LaRose obfuscated (just like he did with the abortion amendment) via confusing language and outright lies (under the guide of free speech, apparently) to trick people into voting No

    So, a No vote keeps the same crap we have now where a majority of the state has no voice. A Yes vote gives everyone a more equal say



  • My sister in law is a Republican, but doesn’t like Trump, but also buys in to a lot of what he says (her entire personality is “pro-life”)

    Yesterday, she’s talking to my wife, who is one of those people that keeps her conversations on speaker when she’s in the house:

    SIL: did you guys ever vote early

    W: yep, last several elections

    SIL: I think I’m going to test them and vote on my mail-in, early, and in person on Tuesday

    Me: you will go to jail for that…

    They just gobble up whatever they hear in their echo chamber. Nevermind all the Republicans who have gone to jail for voter fraud

    Also SIL: well the people who died two years ago that vote won’t go to jail

    W: yes but the people that voted in their place did…

    I’m just so exhausted trying to understand remotely where they come from








  • Yes. Gravy Team 6 has spent generations fighting an asymmetrical war against Russia then the US and I’m sure they train every day at Taliban compounds or are remnants of the Republican Guard

    Be real: they sit in their garage drinking shitty beer and jerking off their unsatisfying-to-anyone cocks to guns, trucks, and Trump

    I mean, they did a great job Jan 6, when Babbitt did not comply, of fighting back and showing big ol tyrannical gov! /s

    Jk, they ran like little girls as soon as the reality set in

    Lemme see any of these fucks hump full battle rattle 15 miles before we talk about them staging an insurgent war against the US

    Christ, I bet all but a handful can’t do a single pull-up

    Yes, there are people in that culture that are capable of small-arms engagement, using fire and maneuver to close with engage and destroy the enemy, but the VAST majority of them are fatbody chodes who fantasize about living in right-wing Divergence or some other young adult fantasy novel series


  • Bruh the shit going on in Ohio this election cycle where LaRose has reworded (see also the abortion amendment where his “summary” was longer than the actual text of the amendment) the ballot to obfuscate the actual intent of Issue 1 to make people vote No which helps consolidate the Republicans grip

    It’s ridiculous. My wife is relatively intelligent and she doesn’t understand the wording on the ballot and I explained to her that despite the reading, a No vote will continue the status quo. Like I’m a free speech kind of guy but just put the damn text on the damn ballot like don’t bullshit us Frankie!

    Fuckin schmucks




  • The current GOP is still entrenched in their Southern Strategy. To quote Lee Atwater:

    Y’all don’t quote me on this. You start out in 1954 by saying, “removed, removed, removed.” By 1968 you can’t say “removed”—that hurts you. Backfires. So you say stuff like forced busing, states’ rights and all that stuff. You’re getting so abstract now [that] you’re talking about cutting taxes, and all these things you’re talking about are totally economic things and a byproduct of them is [that] blacks get hurt worse than whites. And subconsciously maybe that is part of it. I’m not saying that. But I’m saying that if it is getting that abstract, and that coded, that we are doing away with the racial problem one way or the other. You follow me—because obviously sitting around saying, “We want to cut this,” is much more abstract than even the busing thing, and a hell of a lot more abstract than “removed, removed.”

    This plus fundamentalist Christianity is the basis of the modern GOP playbook, only now it’s Latinos that are the target, at least moreso than blacks

    Sure we can’t distill it down to just racism since the GOP has become so entrenched with the religious right, so let’s just call it Christofascist Racism, but let’s not ignore 60 years of Republican racism and bullshit

    Edit: Lemmy blocks the n-word even when it’s a direct quote, but Atwater was using that derogatory term for blacks in the above quote



  • Because arbitrary lines in a desert ought not invalidate peoples freedom?

    Because there is no valid metric other than skin color to initially round all these people up and put them in camps where we can concentrate on if they are actually supposed to be here or not?

    Because some of those people put in camps where we can concentrate on whether they are supposed to be here or not will be American citizens deprived of their rights based on their skin color?

    Because trains will run 24-7 for 5+ years to deport 15+ million people?

    Because a subset of the population is convinced central America = Mexico and we can just dump them in Mexico?

    Because just that transportation alone will cost over half our GDP even before we get in to detention and feeding, investigation and appeals processes?

    Because if we don’t do the above then we are denying people the right of due process, and what does that say about us as a society?

    Because most people are here illegally because of expired visas, so they can just reapply anyway?

    Because in 2022 undocumented immigrants paid 96.7 billion dollars in taxes, and the right wants to just do away with that and God forbid someone making millions has to pay a little extra?

    Because it’s a buzz word used by the right so people can be openly racist when there is zero plan in place because then they lose their wedge issue?

    Because this zero-plan maneuver will decimate our economy, just so a certain subset of the population can feel that their skin color wins because Jesus said so or something?




  • stoned_ape@lemmy.worldtoScience Memes@mander.xyzMy Kidney
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    3 months ago

    I have gotten kidney stones frequently since 2006

    Cut out tea, nuts, potatoes, chocolate, whole grains, carrots, spinach, and everything else. Keep my sodium around 1500mg/day

    I still form them prolifically

    I had a 2cm stone back in March that they tried blasting and ended up getting chunks of the stone stuck between the stent and the wall of my ureter. After keeping the stent in for 3 months my urologist gave up and another one picked me up. When he went in to laser the stones, he had to laser chunks that had adhered to the stent before he could get it out

    They shockwaved my other side last month and got the newer stent out and had my follow up today and there’s two more little ones on the left side already forming up

    Next step is an endocrinologist

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