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  • In Missouri opponents to Amendment 3 (which would add abortion rights to the constitution) are plastering billboards with bald faced lies like:

    • It will prevent you from suing any doctors for malpractice
    • It will give gender reassignment surgery to minors
    • It will let children get said surgery without parental consent
    • It will require tax payer funded gender reassignment surgery
    • It will require tax payer funded abortions
    • It will allow abortions for any reason up until the minute of birth (heavily implying it may go after birth)

    None of those are in the actual amendment. None. Even the late term abortion shit is only carved out for life of the mother in the amendment.


  • You’ll hear responses like general strikes or large scale protests. I’m cynical, but I have a hard time believing anything can be done aside from voting and hoping it works.

    The US is too spread out, patches of humanity too separated to make a general strike work. (what are people in rural Montana going to think when their one grocery store clerk doesn’t show up for work?)

    Almost half of Americans actually want a coup so that the “right” people will be punished in a righteous fury - they don’t give a shit about reality or democracy (or even the hope of democracy).

    I’m so fed up and broken down by it all.