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100ProofTollBooth
Dumber than a man, but faster than a dog.
User ID: 2039
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Dumber than a man, but faster than a dog.
User ID: 2039
Dumber than a man, but faster than a dog.
No bio...
User ID: 2039
The big one, as I see it, is the migration of the abortion debate from "pro-choice / pro-life" to various terms like "reproductive rights", "reproductive freedom", "family planning", and, most eye-rolling of all, "right to choose."
It's a sleight of linguist hand that moves the subject of debate from the issue of terminating a pregnancy to the much more broad concept of individual liberties and choice. This is effective because, in the most whishy-washy general sense, very few people in America vote for less "choice" and / or less "freedom."
The apoplectic left doesn't actually have a very specific reason why they hate Trump. Ask them. In real life. Most will, first, engage that classic cosmopolitan liberal snide sense of humor and begin with something like "I mean, where do I even start? lolol!" Keep pushing. Get past the "literally Hitler's" and eventually you'll probably get to some version of "He's trying to take away our rights?" Which ones? Specifically And then you'll get to some real meat - maybe. The Dobbs decision will probably make an appearance. This is when you can calmly inform your counterparty that Dobbs didn't "make abortion illegal" or anything close to it.
But the vibes will remain. "He's made the country feel so much worse!" Has he? Or does this linguistic shift mean that anything short of ear-splitting affirmation of everyone's "lived truth" default to Nazi level oppression?
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