Since we're living our own version of the 1850s, an apt comparison. Complete with conservatives who blather about states rights but destroy them when convenient - just like 1850s southerners who passed a federal Fugitive Slave Act to force unwilling northern states to repatriate escaped slaves
Exactement!
When i read about the bounty bill to allow private actors to pursue anyone who helped facilitate an abortion for Texans, even out of state, I called it the “Fugitive Uterus Act”. Same dynamic, same reasons. The most restrictive state gets to define policy for all.
What if #BlueStates had a bounty on the bounty bill allowing private assholes to pursue anyone who is pursuing someone in their state based on a TX law that state does not recognize?
Yes, and women in the south need an Underground Railroad.
We shouldn’t need mutual aid networks to get women to places in the United States where they are full citizens, but here we are.
It is a bridge built in the context of battle, and outlines a philosophy that we should be undertaking even in peacetime.
I.e. that the society as a whole should be mutual aid minded, whether through philanthropy or through government mediated benefits programs.
But aid doesn't entail egging on stinkers.
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Does make me wonder how many people are trying for 'the clarity and focus of fascism but without the racism'. Authoritarians gonna authoritarian, no matter the label.
They've been awfully quiet lately...
A decade ago, when on social media I broached the subject of the absolute debacle that would result from a Trump election because of Democrats refusing to support Hillary, I was told "you're harshing my mellow". Seriously.
Me too. I'd warn folk back in the day when the danger was that Trump would get to appoint ONE judge on SCOTUS. By "punishing" the Dems they handed the power over to totalitarian fascists. They certainly won't see the damage remedied during their lifetimes.