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Material-Committee40 t1_is1rcb2 wrote
Scotland is not a real country
AlexRenquist t1_is1x3ku wrote
“It is easier to do a 40 Days for Life in China and work with the Chinese government than it is the Government of Scotland"
Go there then, you mad fuck. Scotland doesnae have time for your pish. Cannae imagine China wants you either, though.
Fake_William_Shatner t1_is1y6dx wrote
Those of us who believe women should control their own bodies just don't have the most colorful characters.
You can tell they've got ALL the sanity on their side of the discussion, right?
/s
EdgeOfWetness t1_is1yoh1 wrote
It's none of his fucking business what she thinks. She doesn't represent him, both regionally or in any meaningful way
BaconIsAVeg2 t1_is1yq5r wrote
If humans were a bunch of antelope on the plains, these are the ones slowing down the herd you would let the lions eat.
But no, apparently every human is special and we protect these idiots, letting them fester in our midst like cancer.
DamnBunny t1_is2294r wrote
O uO Helmet Laws, Seatbelt Laws, Warning: Harmful if swallowed, CAUTION WET FLOOR, BIOHAZARD MATERIAL, KEEP OUT. too many things protect stupid.
DamnBunny t1_is22i2n wrote
And I thought I repulse people with that kind of statement. Wow. Would you also like to sponsor CLONE HITLER Fundmepage? If you act now, you can get 10% off your gas bill :3
walkerintheworld t1_is24ekb wrote
I don't think you can take the moral high grounds while endorsing eugenics.
SelectiveSanity t1_is24iby wrote
I mean he is an outspoken conservative. If he attacks the LGBTQ community it pretty much confirms it.
monkeyhind t1_is24zx6 wrote
"Shawn Carney, the CEO of the 40 Days for Life campaign – which coordinates 40-day, non-stop prayer vigils outside abortion facilities across the globe – ... "
Where's a good lightning storm when you need it?
rimjobnemesis t1_is25io7 wrote
America only sends their best. /s
BaconIsAVeg2 t1_is25pvs wrote
Tell that to the millions of lives that have been harmed by right wing religious nutcases.
RSwordsman t1_is26m6n wrote
Or just someone to say "Hey if you're praying and nothing bad happened to abortion facilities, either you're not praying well enough or God has made his ruling."
RRC_driver t1_is26ohd wrote
Freedom of speech. Seems to think that the US Constitution applies to everywhere in the world.
RRC_driver t1_is26wrw wrote
China, famous for its strict one-child policy, is now pro--life?
CoolmanWilkins t1_is26y2o wrote
Ah yes the Chinese government that has carried out forcible abortions in the past. The government definitely respects "life" over there.
Funny thing is, the American version of "freedom" he is talking about does translate well in some ways to the Chinese government. It is why Chinese prison administrators come to the US to learn from the likes Sheriff Joe Arpaio. This dark side of "freedom" to ignore people's right to be protected for who they are has always been here in America.
AnAquaticOwl t1_is28muv wrote
While it's definitely a non sequitur, I think their point is that Scotland isn't a country as per the UN. It's a part of the United Kingdom.
Girugamesshu t1_is2duks wrote
To some extent unironically yes, ironically.
(It's not like they've actually gone anti-abortion, but they did realize that the policy was too successful and that their society, like ours, is basically based on a generational pyramid scheme, and have been trying to encourage there being a few more children these days.)
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RSwordsman t1_is2hccv wrote
It would be ridiculous to suggest that any amount of people praying will take the wind out of Putin's sails faster, but one thing's for sure, I wouldn't want to be him already.
Doodle_Brush t1_is2i1rv wrote
The UK is a "Country" made up of four seperate countries.
Sincerely, A Scotsman.
AnAquaticOwl t1_is2iqpe wrote
Tell it to the UN 🤷
soldforaspaceship t1_is2jt9q wrote
China no longer has a one child policy. It's now two (or three in some cases). They are starting to look at abortion rights too now that they need more children. Worrying for the women there as abortion has always been very available and sex Ed isn't comprehensive.
Schneetmacher t1_is2kezy wrote
I think OP meant r/religiousfruitcake, which is a bit of a different animal. But you could be right.
danimal6000 t1_is2mxii wrote
Braveheart is on Hbo right now. Probably just watched it.
brendonmilligan t1_is2nsl3 wrote
No. It’s a country made up of four separate “countries”.
Sincerely a Briton.
A country isn’t a country if it’s government isn’t sovereign. The Scottish government and others are not sovereign as the U.K. government is above them hence why the U.K. is a country and Scotland, England, wales and Northern Ireland arent.
Fr33_Lax t1_is2pmw6 wrote
Worse, they would walk up to the lions and ask if they could hang out.
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Fabulous_Ad5052 t1_is2raft wrote
What an embarrassment. Will y’all keep him? Please?
pandybong t1_is2rz77 wrote
For all the hate Mel gets, “sugar tits” is the stuff of legends.
grammarpolice__ t1_is2vy22 wrote
The UN is fucking useless why would anyone want to talk to them
grammarpolice__ t1_is2w3r5 wrote
A country is a country if its government isn’t sovereign, next time, fact check before making your fucking stupid claims
brendonmilligan t1_is2wfwy wrote
Cool, what country has a government that isn’t sovereign?
grammarpolice__ t1_is2wplg wrote
Literally the 4 countries in the UK
brendonmilligan t1_is2x7yq wrote
Cool, except they aren’t by the very definition of country.
Is California a country? They also have a “devolved” government, including their own judicial system, this also expands to include every other US state, it also includes Germany who also have devolved governments, it also includes Italy and it includes Netherlands who like the U.K. also have “constituent countries”.
TheSchlaf t1_is2xmax wrote
Just summon William Wallace. Lightening bolts from the eyes and fireballs from the ass.
grammarpolice__ t1_is2xmqu wrote
I think you need to google the definition of country
yomamma3399 t1_is30a9l wrote
lucysalvatierra t1_is32x4c wrote
There's a goddamn subreddit for everything!
i_love_dragon_dick t1_is3300f wrote
Yeah, the policy finally caught up to them. Since parents were getting rid of their first-born girls there's a mass swath of men without partners (so that fuels a huge sex slave trade) :(
MonkeyDKev t1_is338u0 wrote
Pretty sure they’re saying their version of god isn’t listening or there’s nobody on the receiving end.
walkerintheworld t1_is33roy wrote
This Social Darwinist reasoning and dehumanizing language you're espousing has killed millions of people and hurt millions more besides. Two wrongs don't make a right. You can't claim to love individual rights/freedoms while lamenting that we can't purge undesirable people like they are a disease. I don't know what that is but it's not pro-choice.
Crankenstein_8000 t1_is35tcx wrote
Movies are real!
SitInCorner_Yo2 t1_is37axx wrote
Actually,because they fucked up their population structure so badly from one-child policy ,now they are pushing for people to have 2or 3 children,even block divorce in some of most outrageous cases,like husband literally went to kill domestic violence victims (mother and child) after judge rule they need to “calm down and think of the children “.
They don’t give a shit about life,human population are livestock to that gov.
soldforaspaceship t1_is3a2ot wrote
Yeah. I lived there for over a decade. Was interesting seeing the shift.
Material-Committee40 t1_is3bm96 wrote
Malachorn t1_is3btog wrote
I believe the poster you are responding to would in fact say thoughts and prayers are always the same amount of ineffective, whatever example you wanna run with.
BlueRajasmyk2 t1_is3ezyv wrote
I don't even understand what point you think you're making
sneakyplanner t1_is3gob5 wrote
There is no line, it's clear that a god that hates Putin and would intervene to keep him out of power doesn't exist.
Queen_Cheetah t1_is3n8zy wrote
"Aye. Your women will be forced to give birth, and they may die. A bun in the oven, unwanted... but it'll live...at least a while. And crying in their beds, many years from now, those abused and unsought children bore of your foolishness will pray for once chance- just one chance- to come back here and tell you dumb*sses that you may have given them their lives, but you'll never give them freedom... from abuse!!!"
Nivekian13 t1_is3r9wh wrote
Quoting a notoriously inaccurate historical drama.
Nivekian13 t1_is3rjc6 wrote
You folks need to be specific WHY China has a sudden Population stagnation.
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They kept the male babies. Now they'll have no women to couple with.
TheGrayBox t1_is3sa77 wrote
Wait until someone tells this guy about the one child policy.
Majestic_Electric t1_is3seb3 wrote
Would be nice if the U.S adopted what Scotland plans to do.
SitInCorner_Yo2 t1_is3sjxv wrote
They keep male baby and kill/throw away so many girls to a absurd extent that some of these baby girl who survive and got adopted by foreigner became fucking Olympic medal winner , Statistically this sounds ridiculous and insane ,but also knowing these girls will never get a chance like that in life if their family keeps them ,they probably won’t even have a basic education (family will forced daughter to get married or work early to earn money to support her brother).
If we’re going to dig deeper about all these,this will be a very depressing story and it will takes years to cover the basic,last generation only keeping boy also created a huge human trafficking problem too.
TheGrayBox t1_is3t9z3 wrote
Calm down. Scotland is a country but not a sovereign one. OP’s comment was ignorant but also not entirely off-base as a response to this guy’s rant. The UK historically has overridden abortion policy in the constituent countries despite devolution, such as in Northern Ireland. Many of his complaints apply to all of the UK, not just Scotland.
Nivekian13 t1_is3taw5 wrote
Yup, generations of women that China will never have. All those adopted to foreign countries, are citizens of those countries now, no roots to China.
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Their loss, they were warned. Decades ago when they started this.
will221996 t1_is3ucis wrote
Okay, hold up, let's stop spreading disinformation here.
>policy finally caught up to them
The generation where the gap was the largest, after the introduction of the one child policy(50ish years ago) and before massive rapid orderly urbanisation which decreased the relative economic advantage of having boys(30ish years ago), has already "passed". You do not see sex number gaps in Chinese cities anymore than you see them in western european cities. Where the gap is present is in impoverished rural areas, but even then the bulk of that has "passed"; especially in those areas, the expectation is marriage at 25ish for men, men who are now 40ish.
>so that fuels a huge sex slave trade
China does not have a huge sex slavery problem. According to the walk free foundation, focused on modern slavery, less than 0.1 percent of the Chinese population is enslaved. That number is comparable to or better than Eastern European EU members, who generally are the best of the middle income developing countries in most things human rights. Compared to other developing middle income countries, China is actually very good at combating modern day slavery.
What China does have is a prostitution "problem". Prostitution is illegal in China, but tolerated. That system means that sex workers don't have the legal protections they should have. That is a million miles away from the situation you suggest is present.
sp8yboy t1_is3z4gs wrote
China still forciily sterlises its population: millions of muslim women.
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ResettisReplicas t1_is43djg wrote
Anti choicer doesn’t know shit, sounds about right.
SkivvySkidmarks t1_is43zbq wrote
Friends were in Beijing just prior to the pandemic. They were surprised by the number of flyers slipped under their hotel room door for various "services".
will221996 t1_is459jt wrote
Everyone has seen those flyers. Prostitution is very prevalent, but it's not "huge sex slavery".
There are "China experts" everywhere you look. The qualification required to be one on Reddit or in a social circle is very low.
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Viper67857 t1_is46fu1 wrote
>It comes as Green MSP Gillian Mackay prepares to introduce legislation to the Scottish Parliament that would impose 150-metre safe access zones around health facilities that provide abortion or give other sexual health and care advice.
>These zones would put an end to the protests that regularly occur directly outside of healthcare facilities in Scotland, which campaigners say cause intimidation and distress to those receiving care.
I wish we had leadership like that in the US
>He went on: “They’re supposed to be doing their job and instead they’re so blinded by their bigotry they’re targeting those they don’t agree with.”
Take a look in the mirror, asshole.
DamnBunny t1_is4p3yd wrote
I ain't gonna lie, that was pretty funny that he said it to a cop. Everything after that, Not so good. Hard to forget a statement like that and causes another problem in his life.
Its sorta like the analogy or something close to it about a Troll who wanted to be human, so he stole some clothes and helped the village build their town, and when he was elected Mayor, and wanted to finally hear him speak, They found out he was a troll. Moral of the story is "keep your mouth shut and no one has to know how dumb you really sound." Sorta like Herschel Walker.
lygerzero0zero t1_is4qu1p wrote
“Their loss” meaning whose? The average people who just wanted to have a family, or the authoritarian government that forced such a ridiculous policy on them?
Wiley_Applebottom t1_is529mo wrote
I mean, not instituting reasonable population controls is going to be all of our loss.
Wiley_Applebottom t1_is52g6l wrote
Actually corruption of the natural order is the moral wrong here.
Nivekian13 t1_is5a731 wrote
The people that didn’t rise up 30 years ago and make sure their government heard them loud and clear. This is what happens when you have decades of submission to bad public policy. It literally destroys the country, and leads to things like human trafficking/ sex slavery of women from other countries to “fill the gap”
Nivekian13 t1_is5b4ax wrote
Not if it’s bad policy like with China instituted with this one child policy. We are talking decades of damage to their culture and population, because some communist party Chump decided that this would make things more efficient and give them more men for an army. It’s like they have an army with a lot of people at it, but what are they trained for? China would find out power numbers doesn’t mean squat if most of them are scared to death to fire a rifle at somebody. Russia is learning that now with their “alpha male” conscripts who drive tanks over obvious mines.
lygerzero0zero t1_is5d3aq wrote
Oh so it’s that easy then? You wanna say that about every oppressive regime in history? It’s the people’s fault, they should have just risen up?
Good luck with that line of logic.
Nivekian13 t1_is5ddco wrote
Yeah it is that easy, especially when the population dwarfs any military response they can come up with. People have said this about China for decades it’s a Sleeping Giant as long as the people do not rise against the government. The day that happens it will be fast, and the world will be knocked off its feet that China finally collected itself to expel failed leaders.
awesomesauce1030 t1_is5dkck wrote
What an insane thing to respond with. What are you even trying to say? Are you having a stroke?
lygerzero0zero t1_is5do4m wrote
So Putin is the Russian people’s fault, you’re saying. Blame the Italians for not ousting Mussolini. Okay got it.
Nivekian13 t1_is5e4xy wrote
You are almost there, keep thinking this through, eventually you will get it. Welcome to the world of Geo politics, where bad leaders can’t lead a country they cannot control.
Nivekian13 t1_is5ec13 wrote
Also you may want to read up on what happened to Mussolini, and your attempt to mock me mentioning his name. Especially given what happened to him and how he ended up dead, laying in a ditch, smelling like piss from passers by.
hitemlow t1_is5kbk1 wrote
It also isn't the title of the article.
SlicerStopSlicing t1_is5o4mh wrote
*lightning
Frogman1480 t1_is1qn2t wrote
Dude is a fruitcake