“I’m gonna mess with Texas” haha
Whats so confusing is how conservatives can say “don’t tread on me” then vote to ban abortion
or “join or die” then say ‘violence is never the answer’If there isn’t at least some non-zero amount of tin-snips and turpentine, then the protest is a parade.
Coincidentally, Lowes is having a black friday on tin snips: https://www.lowes.com/pl/hand-tools/cutting-crimping-tools/tin-snips/on-sale/4294857583-2
Turpentine I can understand having for various reasons (lighting shit on fire, removing paint/ink/pepperspray), but what is the need for tin snips? cutting the zip-tie handcuffs used by riot police?
I think they’re for performing the vasectomies as alluded to in the second panel. I assumed the turps is for make-shift antiseptic.
OP just made it sound like they are needed for any type of protest or demonstration, so I assumed they had use beyond just reproductive rights marches. Plus, turpentine can be used as an antiseptic, but there are lots of less conspicuous antiseptics available.
I like your answer, too, though.
Know how many times you’ll find yourself out and about and suddenly needing to perform an emergency, involuntary vasectomy and then discover you left your tin snips and turpentine at home?
Only once. You only make that mistake once. Keep it in your daily carry.
Let’s say Jewelry making… I feel like that’s plausible?
I should buy some jewelry making paraphernalia … for reasons.
Yeah, I would think bolt cutters would be more useful.
Nah but rubber bands are effective
We did to cattle growing up.
Their nuts just fall off.
Yeah, meanwhile I’ve used bolt cutters more than most people (anarchism got me doing bicycle repair and salvaging which involves them front time to time), and they work by leveraging the stiffness. They aren’t actually sharp, they’re just dull scissors with a fuck ton of leverage
Yeah, the harder the steel the better bolt cutters work.
They suck with a real mild steel.
sheep, too.
The sheep fall off the cattle?
their balls fall off. the rubber bands. on sheep.
harder to carry and conceal, though.
But they do make a good melee weapon in a pinch
I wouldn’t mind some tin snips and turpentine
I don’t get it. This guy was shooting doctors? Why? Is there a second page to the comic?
I believe they’re referencing Dr. George Tiller.
What about the turpentine reference?
I don’t get it either. isn’t turpentine just a paint thinner, sometimes used in mixes to make varnishes or clean furniture? smells awful.
I think it’s because turpentine is associated with DIY abortion and maybe slavery. Men “fixing” women and the women having to “unfix” themselves. Using different solutions to induce abortion.
The tin snips and vasectomies is a decent clue.
Isn’t it also highly flammable? My first thought with the comic was it would be used for arson.
The Devils Panties tends to use that character to depict an amalgamation of Gamergate, Rapist Brock Allen Turner, Kyle Rittenhouse, and every online debatebro combined, and so the other characters are written to react to him in such a way.
Tin snips?
Yeah, metal shears with a nice long handle to make cutting through hardened objects more easily.
And wouldn’t you know it but turpentine is an antiseptic and pain reliever…
Can we talk about how the amount of anti abortion women and anti abortion men is about equal?
Sure, that doesn’t seem to be true?
Gallup found the following:
- Pro-life: Men 49%, Women 33%
- Pro-choice: Men 45%, Women 63%
Women are also more in favour of less restrictions on abortion (e.g. from X weeks) than men.
See https://news.gallup.com/poll/245618/abortion-trends-gender.aspx
NM men are shit.
To those down voting me. Why don’t you give me how we are not the lesser gender.
Check the skin tone and age cohort. You’re going to find some large discrepancies. Also skews heavily by education, as women early in their collegiate or professional careers tend to be significantly more sensitive about the prospect of getting pregnant than peers in low-paying jobs with little upward mobility.
There’s definitely a profile of a pro-abortion and anti-abortion voter.
Why does she want to go and litter in Texas?
Who’s “you” here?
If she thinks that guy is a terrorist she should report it to the police.
Hi police I’d like to report the police
This will surely change people’s minds!
Too late for that.
It’s time to encourage effective defense.
Funny how quickly peoples’ minds change when there’s the credible threat of reprisal.
If that were the goal, then this would be stupid. Clearly, it isn’t.
Why is America so fucked up on both sides?
A man is being a bit sarcastic and the angry feminist protester is threatening to mutilate his genitals?
No wonder Trump and Abbott won.
Yeah, it’s not cool to threaten someone’s genitals and remove their agency in what happens to them. Congratulations, you are currently standing on The Point.
Random dude being sarcastic isn’t doing that. Focus the anger on the actual problems.
Random dude is being sarcastic unprompted about someone fighting for a personal freedom. He is an asshole and an immediate problem.
If you think it’s just one man being a little sarcastic then you need to open your eyes to the stripping of bodily autonomy going on all over the place.
cant you read the content?
If this person got educated in Texas, very possibly they cannot.
Hmm yeah it’s almost like we shouldn’t tell a person what to be doing with their body…. Wooosh
That isn’t a man, it’s a conservative. Less than a bug.
And clearly a boomer, if they remember the Summer of Love.
facts.
“leave it at protests” as if they aren’t already mass murdering children
Unsure is /s, but doesn’t seem like it.
Reproductive health advocates are not mass murdering children. You’re thinking of guns, drugs, and cars if you are in the USA, cancer and other genetic defects if in the UK.
All of those things are mass murdering children
We get it, you don’t have any scientific knowledge and only go by what religion “says”
The Bible is pro abortion anyway so they have nothing
Exactly. That’s what makes their attempts to argue so ridiculous.
Scientific knowledge shows that a foetus is a life
Scientific knowledge shows that a fetus is a lump of cells with no more consciousness than an amoeba that can’t exist without the host which makes it closer to a parasite. That’s not a baby or a person. You need to actually be able to understand more than a one sentence statement to grasp the vast majority of scientific knowledge.
That isn’t relevant, though.
The word you are looking for is ‘fetuses’.
K. I’m going to get back to work for my company that is mass murdering children by lowering employee reproductive health. (/s)
Your taxes may also go towards murdering kids, whether it be state funded abortions or bombing Gaza
Those two examples are wildly different from eachother. One is a medical procedure involving theoretical children, and the other has real kids getting injured and killed.
Edit: wanted to add that the medical procedure is always to prevent a major health issue when being funded by state taxes.
Whenever the israelis bomb the buildings, they don’t know for certain there are kids in there. They are just theoretical kids in the moment to them.
Got it I’ll just stop paying my taxes that’ll fix everything
More like, Schrodinger’s kids. I genuinely hope you find peace and learn to not let being pro-birth justify letting others suffer and/or die. Red tape and bans kill when it comes to healthcare, without solving anything.
I prefer to go by what the Bible says. Which is that abortion is just fine and God even performs them!
Source?
But if you have gone astray while married to your husband and you have made yourself impure by having sexual relations with a man other than your husband”— 21 here the priest is to put the woman under this curse—“may the Lord cause you to become a curse[b] among your people when he makes your womb miscarry and your abdomen swell. 22 May this water that brings a curse enter your body so that your abdomen swells or your womb miscarries.”
“‘Then the woman is to say, “Amen. So be it.”
23 “‘The priest is to write these curses on a scroll and then wash them off into the bitter water. 24 He shall make the woman drink the bitter water that brings a curse, and this water that brings a curse and causes bitter suffering will enter her. 25 The priest is to take from her hands the grain offering for jealousy, wave it before the Lord and bring it to the altar. 26 The priest is then to take a handful of the grain offering as a memorial[c] offering and burn it on the altar; after that, he is to have the woman drink the water. 27 If she has made herself impure and been unfaithful to her husband, this will be the result: When she is made to drink the water that brings a curse and causes bitter suffering, it will enter her, her abdomen will swell and her womb will miscarry, and she will become a curse. 28 If, however, the woman has not made herself impure, but is clean, she will be cleared of guilt and will be able to have children.
That’s about infertility. The NIV isn’t a very good translation and focuses less on what the text actually says and easy readability. A more accurate translation is the NRSV (although the ESV or even the KJV doesn’t make this mistake- although it depends on whether you want to translate “thigh” as “womb” or literally render it, as thigh is a euphemism. However, the word “miscarry” in the sense that we understand it is not there)
[27] When he has made her drink the water, then, if she has defiled herself and has been unfaithful to her husband, the water that brings the curse shall enter into her and cause bitter pain, and her womb shall discharge, her uterus drop, and the woman shall become an execration among her people. [28] But if the woman has not defiled herself and is clean, then she shall be immune and be able to conceive children.
Verse 28 says “be able to conceive children”. It’s quite clear that she wasn’t already pregnant at this point.
Dude what, no, it’s saying hey if you’re not preggers you can still make a baby. If you’ve “defiled [your]self” then you’re gonna have an abortion when you drink that water. Very explicitly that’s what is being communicated through the text.
Dancing around translations is just some hand waving bullshit, also maybe we should consider the text isn’t some infallible word of God when you’re saying a different translation changes the meaning of passages. Just as an aside.
I just picked the first translation the Google search gave. Feel free to read your same thing phrased some other way in another translation.
Besides that is the only thing the Bible actually says about abortion. The anti abortion stuff is a very modern thing.
That’s not up to you. All scripture is God breathed. Are you saying that God would allow his one and only true word to be mistranslated so poorly? Shame on you.
It is obviously both. A woman could be pregnant or not and the same thing would happen either forcing a miscarriage (aka an abortion) or become infertile. There is no where that indicates the woman’s current state of pregnancy or lack thereof so it must be both.
Drama queen
it takes balls to post stuff like that on Lemmy, and I commend you for it. also, I agree with you. so there’s that.
We get it. You like balls
Gargle gargle nothing gargle wrong with that
in a world where most people don’t have them, yes. yes I do.
Having such a vulnerable weak point be both easily accessible and unprotected is a design flaw.
It takes 0 balls to post a criticized opinion on an anonymous forum
But yeah no go off on praising your poor little persecuted ally, they’re such a martyr
you just proved why it takes balls.
