“No girl genital mutilation”
None for boys either, right?
Right?!
Texas Republican Primary having a normal one
Submitted 17 hours ago by UnderpantsWeevil@lemmy.world to aboringdystopia@lemmy.world
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Agent641@lemmy.world 7 hours ago
RattlerSix@lemmy.world 7 hours ago
Good thing they don’t read the Bible, because other than the pet dog thing, it’s a tie
SalmiakDragon@feddit.nu 2 hours ago
Never seen an em-dash placed within a hyphenated word before (“death—cult”)
Bombastic@sopuli.xyz 14 hours ago
Do Americans actually get text messages like those? I thought it was a joke
Jakeroxs@sh.itjust.works 13 hours ago
UnderpantsWeevil@lemmy.world 14 hours ago
YMMV. But if you volunteer regularly for campaigns, your number/address inevitably ends up on someone’s suckers list. And then election season means getting your phone blown up by these as the voting deadline closes in.
Witchfire@lemmy.world 14 hours ago
Yes
tomiant@piefed.social 14 hours ago
Where’s the reset button? Do I have to stick a needle in Florida or something?
AceFuzzLord@lemmy.zip 12 hours ago
I have personally never gotten any voting text messages, but I’ve received a few voting emails recently from the scum in my neck of the woods. I personally find it sad and pathetic, but then again, I’m not the type who is easily swayed by an email or text.
unmagical@lemmy.ml 16 hours ago
- Texas keeps trying to force Christianity into public schools
- Texas has a bounty system for women who lose a child in childbirth
- Texas continues to use the 13th loophole to compel labor without pay for prisoners
- In Texas, emancipated minors and teens with parental permission can be married over the age of 16
- Texas actually bans FGM, but they do allow male genital mutilation
- Texas police do also shoot dogs.
ShaggySnacks@lemmy.myserv.one 11 hours ago
Some real big projection going on.
T00l_shed@lemmy.world 17 hours ago
Fundies are salivating to do the same thing
jumperalex@lemmy.world 17 hours ago
Seriously I was waiting for the punch line at the bottom, “… Just like Christian Nationalists”
phoenixz@lemmy.ca 8 hours ago
Look at these scary sounding words!
Vote for me!
On a side note: let’s ban ALL religions, the world will thank you the world population will, well, the first generation will curse us, while every next generation will thank is for not being beholden anymore to badly written stonage fairytales
Furbag@lemmy.world 12 hours ago
What’s the point in creating a law that bans Sharia Law when the people who would allegedly institute mandatory observation of Shario Law would just vote to repeal it and then institute it anyway?
Oh, right, Republicans are fucking idiots and this is scaremongering to drive them to the polls.
UnderpantsWeevil@lemmy.world 12 hours ago
A lot of this is a tacit attempt to control Muslim municipal populations be restricting how they govern themselves locally.
So you can step in at the state (maybe federal, if Chip Roy gets his way) level and announce this mayor or judge or city council is illegitimate because the leadership isn’t Christian.
TacoSocks@infosec.pub 5 hours ago
Why would they choose Texas for their EPIC city? Is north of Dallas just an area with an existing Muslim population or financially smart area?
Sanctus@anarchist.nexus 17 hours ago
This just sounds like Texas on a regular day minus the dog thing.
Jax@sh.itjust.works 9 hours ago
Weren’t there files released that pointed to Melania actually being underage when she started her relationship with Trump?
Sorry, sorry, it was referred to as the ‘Lolita Express’. Fuck I hate these people.
BillyClark@piefed.social 16 hours ago
“NO religious freedom,” so let’s ban that religion? Every religion believes theirs is correct.
“Women brutalized” “Slavery allowed” “Child marriage & rape” These things are already illegal from our other laws.
“Girl genital mutilation” I think this one is already illegal, as well.
“No pet dogs allowed” First of all, wut? But second of all, I’d love to see some Texas politician try to pass a law that outlawed pet dogs. They’d probably get shot to death by the other politicians before they left the chamber.
“BAN SHARIA NOW!” BAN MARTIANS NOW! BAN FISH RIDING BICYCLES NOW! BAN ADULTS FROM SEEING WHY KIDS LOVE CINNAMON TOAST CRUNCH NOW! BAN LICKING UNTIL YOU GET TO THE TOOTSIE ROLL CENTER OF A TOOTSIE POP NOW!
BAN POLITICIANS WHO WASTE OUR TIME WITH MEANINGLESS LAWS AND CULTURE WARS NOW!
tomiant@piefed.social 13 hours ago
Every religion believes theirs is correct.
From a purely argumentative standpoint, that doesn’t mean that one of them isn’t. Again, strictly from a rhetorical point of view.
These things are already illegal from our other laws
From a rhetorical point of view, strictly, one could say, if one were to defend the statement, which I’m not*, but one *could*, *hypothetically say that any religion actively espousing those things is worthy of condemnation regardless of our laws.
“Girl genital mutilation”
Same goes for this. Hypothetically.
“No pet dogs allowed”
Yeah I don’t know either. Even hypothetically.
BAN MARTIANS NOW!
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unmagical@lemmy.ml 15 hours ago
Child marriage and rape (within marriage) are legal in far too many US States.
Slavery is allowed in far too many US States.
Brutalizing women (if you consider things like revocation of bodily autonomy or incarceration for miscarriages) is legal in far too many US States. If you consider unpunished crimes against women, though illegal, it is far too common in many US States.
Many landlords forbid having pets and there’s little to no recourse for pets killed by the state.
captainlezbian@lemmy.world 15 hours ago
Also these are laws that Christians insisted were fundamental for their religion in our country’s past. Hell, some still say that.
IndustryStandard@lemmy.world 5 hours ago
Sounds like a lot of Epstein projection
NoForwadSlashS@piefed.social 16 hours ago
If you just change “GIRL genital mutilation” to “BOY genital mutilation”, that list is all things America is famous for.
GalacticSushi@lemmy.blahaj.zone 15 hours ago
We’re allowed to own dogs. Until a cop comes within shooting distance, at least.
panda_abyss@lemmy.ca 17 hours ago
Isn’t all of this what republicans want, just swap fake Christianity in for the only religion, and allow pet dogs (but also the state can kill them randomly with no consequences)?
Lemminary@lemmy.world 9 hours ago
Is the Sharia Law in the state with you right now?
not_that_guy05@lemmy.world 12 hours ago
Excuse me but Republicans have been in control of Texas for like 30 years straight. So does that mean that they the Republicans are trying to install Shia law in order to prevent it?
UnderpantsWeevil@lemmy.world 12 hours ago
Very specifically, this is in response to EPIC City, a master-planned community north of Dallas that’s being bankrolled by a group of Muslim real estate developers. But you can see it echoing the disgust conservatives have for Minneapolis and Dearborn, Michigan, with their own large Muslim populations.
roguetrick@lemmy.world 17 hours ago
Yo is there any way to weaponize this into banning all binding arbitration because that would be based.
UnderpantsWeevil@lemmy.world 17 hours ago
Obviously no. Prior efforts at invoking this kind of legislation in Oklahoma failed and the federal court struck it down fairly quickly.
Texas actually already has House Bill 4211, the “Sharia Compound Ban”, which states
The purchase agreement and any other agreement or rules governing the residential arrangement or the ownership interest in the entity may not require that a dispute concerning the arrangement or interest be brought before a tribunal other than a court established under the laws of this state or the United States.
This was intended to prevent the completion of EPIC City, a master-planned Islamic community-centered residential development project just north of Dallas. Although this mostly seems to be focused on investment and ownership stake in residential and commercial properties by a large pool of wealthy Muslim investors.
If there’s any effort to invoke this law at a functional level, it will likely be targeted at the minority Muslim Texas residents, with the intent of depriving them of their property and possessions.
skisnow@lemmy.ca 5 hours ago
So basically they’re fine with a HOA making all sorts of overreaching rules about keeping dogs as long as they don’t have any basis in a brown people religion?
kryptonianCodeMonkey@lemmy.world 8 hours ago
Funny that no dogs made the list, as the anchor no less. Like that was the one that would clinch the point for MAGATS (you know, cuz they are into the child marriage and hatred of women thing themselves)
tomiant@piefed.social 14 hours ago
Filthy heathens! OUR faith allows pet dogs!
Treczoks@lemmy.world 17 hours ago
Who but the Republicans in charge would be the ones who could put the Sharia in Texas law?
tomiant@piefed.social 13 hours ago
It’s right up their alley. “Ban THEIR sharia law! Vote for OUR sharia law!”
9point6@lemmy.world 16 hours ago
Doesn’t that list just describe america?
Yes even the dog thing, plenty of people with shitty landlords
BarbecueCowboy@lemmy.dbzer0.com 14 hours ago
It’s a matter of semantics. Yeah, you could stretch it, but everyone is going to look at you weird if you try to put America in the same bucket as some of the countries that are really known for this stuff.
roofuskit@lemmy.world 16 hours ago
And yet the GOP is trying to implement sharia law every day.
Etterra@discuss.online 16 hours ago
Show up to a rally with a Bible and start reciting verses - the kind they get pissed off about when you bring them up. Like the women brutalizing, child murder, no religious freedom, and slavery. Don’t forget the ones against mixed fabrics, tattoos, and shellfish!
BillyClark@piefed.social 16 hours ago
I live in Texas and so I occasionally see ads from our current Senator John Cornyn saying that the reason we need to vote for him is that he’ll save us from sharia law. So he thinks this complete non-issue is so important that it needs to be central to his campaign. For my money, that alone should disqualify him from being Senator.
If he’s going to waste money during his campaign on a non-issue, there’s no way that he can be trusted to sign laws as a Senator.
Mwa@thelemmy.club 16 hours ago
Yeah the far-right “Christian” that are anti-semitic and Islam phobic classic
Flax_vert@feddit.uk 16 hours ago
“you had me at no pet dogs”
Kazumara@discuss.tchncs.de 14 hours ago
How does this even make sense mechanically? What would it mean when one system of law bans another system of law?
officermike@lemmy.world 17 hours ago
Good thing we only mutilate boys’ genitals.
Fokeu@lemmy.zip 17 hours ago
It’s still shocking to me how most Americans consider genital mutilation a normal thing.
taiyang@lemmy.world 16 hours ago
If it shocks you farther, it’s just a little check box when you have a baby boy. Just a little bit of the paperwork before discharge. You don’t even have to be there, and it’s free. Very strange, all things considered.
UnderpantsWeevil@lemmy.world 17 hours ago
Really can’t be overstated how different “female circumcision” is from the male version.
Like comparing ear piercings to ear cropping.
glimse@lemmy.world 16 hours ago
Saying they’re the same is bad but comparing circumcision to ear piercing is even worse. Piercings heal, that foreskin is gone forever.
Korhaka@sopuli.xyz 16 hours ago
So do you think the mild forms of FGM should be allowed because those are pretty comparable to the male one? Personally I think both should be banned.
lena@gregtech.eu 16 hours ago
They should both be banned
SwingingTheLamp@piefed.zip 16 hours ago
Please elaborate on how Type IIa (by World Health Organization standards) differs so greatly.
GalacticGrapefruit@lemmy.world 12 hours ago
Thank you for mentioning this. I don’t even have that set of equipment, and it boggles my mind that this is normal and acceptable to anyone. Even using religion as a reason just seems ridiculous. Why the hell would you ever cause that much physical pain to a child for a cosmetic procedure?
“Oh, they’re transing the kids!” Fucker, you asked your doctor to cut off part of your son’s junk before he even developed the capacity to lift his own head. Shut the fuck up.
JennyLaFae@lemmy.blahaj.zone 8 hours ago
Haha, oh honey circumcision may be the most common genital mutilation procedure, but wait til you learn how those transphobic motherfuckers write exceptions for coercive intersex surgeries into their anti trans laws.