Well, it happened again. Big business, the media, crappy American false dichotomy politics, videogaming and the pro-choice people have once again caused me a major upset. Yes the article is a year old but this is the internet and someone’s opinions remain the same until proven otherwise. Poorly designed mess though the page is the contents of the article are even worse.
“I’m currently not proud to be an American,” tweeted Jack “CouRage” Dunlop, “Women no longer have body autonomy. Children are slaughtered in schools due to outdated gun laws and lack of mental health support. Millions of Americans can’t afford basic medication and health care due to obscene costs. Disgusting.”
I find it telling that the pro-choice people often don’t even say the word abortion themselves. If abortion is so acceptable let the people who support access to it say the word. I can empathise with living in a country where the health and education systems are bad but here’s the thing; America is a federal system whereas Ireland is centralised. Here abortion is legal in every county, even Donegal which voted against it whereas in the US the states decide so my sympathy for him is limited. Also the children murdered in the American schools weren’t murdered with the state government’s money or acceptance. Children murdered in schools got names and will get funerals.
”Bungie, the developer that originated the popular Halo franchise, announced that the company had created a “travel reimbursement program” for employees needing to travel to another state to obtain access to an abortion.”
Pff, ”needing to”. If you didn’t know what slant The Washington Post had now you do know. It’s this sort of thing that annoys me about liberalism/libertarianism; ah once a supposed right is infringed then it’s a huge deal and a big company will do something but they didn’t give money towards what would prevent women from looking for abortions in the first place (socioeconomic conditions). Oh they will spend money on their own employees getting abortions so then they’ll be back to work soon but not on tackling the causes of abortions in the first place.
“This is a difficult day for our country.”
Every day is difficult for every country. If Bungie care so much about the country as a whole let them buy government bonds.
”[We] will do whatever we can to protect our people and ensure they can live happy, healthy lives.”
By funding the murder of their own children. The pro-choice people care plenty about health when it’s not the unborn baby’s health.
“We are human beings who make games,” Insomniac Games tweeted. “Reproductive freedom and bodily autonomy are human rights.
Ratchet & Clank 1-Gladiator and Into The Nexus are pretty much all the games I do like so you can imagine this upsets me. Pity they don’t respect the unborn’s right to not be murdered. Neil Druckmann donated $10,000 dollars (not the first time an Israeli settler was complicit in making things worse) while Sony themselves seemed to try to have it both ways; they weren’t commenting themselves but did donate money to pro-choice organisations (as did Microsoft, Lyft, Uber, Activision Blizzard and Ubisoft. If social conservatives thought big business was their friend the aftermath of the Dobbs decision forever proved that they aren’t.) So did Bethesda (trust them to not see a problem with something), Innersloth (abortion sus, vote it out) and so did Niantic (pity abortion never evolves into something better). The article calls it abortion care of course so apparently I stand corrected; the pro-choice people will say abortion but only if that also is part of framing.
“Markiplier” called the ruling “an erosion of women’s rights.”
Nobody has a right to- ah you get the idea by now.
The court overturning Roe v. Wade “reinforces this absurd, backwards notion that women shouldn’t be allowed to be in control of their own bodies,” he wrote on Twitter.
They can be in control of their own bodies, if doing so doesn’t mean destryoing someone else’s. Notice so far that it’s a bunch of men calling foul? On the one hand when men oppose abortion it’s ”no uterus, no opinion” but then when men are pro-choice that’s 100% OK. Evidence yet again that with the pro-choice people (and anyone else it seems) x only makes a difference as far as it suits the broad outline that is someone’s ideology. People say that x or y means they’re right but if x and y weren’t the case they’d still be convinced that they were right so x and y actually make absolutely no difference anyway.
“They don’t care about children; unborn or born. They don’t care about YOU — they just don’t,” wrote Soe Gschwind, a commentator for the Overwatch League. “This is about control & we all know it does not stop here.”
Typical pro-choice behaviour. ”Oh we’ve no actual evidence that it’s just about control and not about saving babies but it’s convenient to our views so that’s what we’ll say.” ”We all know it does not stop here” sounds like something a far-right conspiacy theorist would have said during the COVID lockdowns, or during anything really. She didn’t say here it does end so the tweet isn’t telling me much.
“Pokimane” writing: “They’re not pro-life, they’re pro-minimizing-women’s-rights. If they were pro life, we’d have better gun control, universal healthcare, better support for homeless people & those in need. Don’t be fooled by their jargon.”
sigh Here again a staple of the pro-choice behaviour; pro-life is our term but then they use it to mean whatever they want it to and there’s the old reliable of conveninetly ignoring those of us who very much DO support gun control and the others she mentioned. There it is yet again; it’s not conveninent for pro-choicers to realise that not everyone who’s pro-life is conservative so they don’t bother to realsie it or do realsie it but act as if they don’t. Time and time again they do the Sr Joan Chittester routine (and she’s an ultraliberal, DISSENTING nun I’ll remind you) but I don’t see people calling foul on them for not being pro-choice about taxes or guns. Pro-life and pro-choice are framing terms by the 2 sides to describe themselves; the OPPOSING side doesn’t get to decide what the framing term means. Also if you’re relying on Pokimane to prop up your side you’ve really gotten desparate.
“Zach “Asmongold,” a popular Twitch streamer with 3.2 million followers”
The article keeps saying how many followers these people have. Why? An attempt at argumentum ad populum?
just wrote: “If you don’t have autonomy over your own body, what real freedom can you have?”
If you don’t have freedom to even be born what freedom do you have? I can’t help but think that there’d be less ill treatment of people if we were all born because everyone recognised that we have a right to life and not because we happened to be born to pro-life mothers or at least mothers who didn’t abort. sigh I finally got to the end of possibly the worst newspaper article I’ve ever read.
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