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And conservative communities have little difficulty producing positive role models for boys. Which seems like an obvious drawback- leftist communities need to astroturf someone into a role that is already filled elsewhere.
Asked with genuine and humble curiosity, what are some positive conservative role models for boys?
Mr. Rogers? Although I guess he was progressive back then.
Unironically, Mike Pence.
The "I can't be trusted alone in a room with a woman that isn't my wife" mike pence?
During an interview in 2002, Pence told a reporter that he would not have dinner alone with a woman other than his wife.
The "I want to force people to have funerals for their miscarriages" mike pence?
The "retarded children should be forced to full term" mike pence?
In March 2016, as Indiana governor, Pence signed into law H.B. 1337, a bill that both banned certain abortion procedures and placed new restrictions on abortion providers. The bill banned abortion if the reason for the procedure given by the woman was the fetus' race or gender or a fetal abnormality. In addition, the bill required that all fetal remains from abortions or miscarriages at any stage of pregnancy be buried or cremated, which according to the Guttmacher Institute was not required in any other state.[155][156][157] The law was described as "exceptional for its breadth"; if implemented, it would have made Indiana "the first state to have a blanket ban on abortions based solely on race, sex or suspected disabilities, including evidence of Down syndrome".[156]
"Coal is the future" mike pence?
Pence has been an outspoken supporter of the coal industry, declaring in his 2015 State of the State address that "Indiana is a pro-coal state," expressing support for an "all-of-the-above energy strategy", and stating: "we must continue to oppose the overreaching schemes of the EPA until we bring their war on coal to an end.
He is your hero?!
Updated with the appropriate context.
He seems like a good role model to me. An honest person. A good family man.
Actions matter than words.
Even if we do care only about words, no one's words can survive a motivated effort to strawman their belief system as you have done for Pence.
That isn't a straw man. Those are stated beliefs/actions on his part. It is all on his wikipedia page even.
The dude probably wouldn't even be able to articulate his views in a satisfying way. I'm sure you could beat him in a debate.
Show me the part of his wiki page that says he can't be trusted with a woman?
I don't even care about pence but this is just a ridiculous strawman.
This is a commonly known fact, it has come up in national news cycles multiple times. You don't know about this?
You can just google it but here.
https://www.google.com/search?q=mike+pence+alone+with+women
https://youtube.com/watch?v=jLVRtGUvbBY
Assume that people here are already familiar with Google, the 'Pence Rule', and have big bugbears about dishonest/malicious framings that double up as popular political sloganeering. If you've been here for a bit, this should require no imagination on your end. Then reconsider if this is the particular card you want to pull.
Next you'll tell us that Ron DeSantis made it literally illegal to say 'gay' on school premises! And we will be bowled over by a link drop, surely.
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