Replies – Page 310 – Amanda Unvarnished

· 22 Av 5782 (Friday 19 August 2022) · 1 minute to read

Let's say, someone identified as you 🧵💕

They come to your house, convince all your friends to be cool with it, pretending to have your medical conditions, etc, all while doing things you would never do and saying that's just what being you means to them -
— Cynthia Breheny (@PTElephant) August 18, 2022

OK, except trans people aren’t impersonating individuals, and they’re not encouraging their friends to impersonate individuals, and that trans-fueled crime wave you guys promised hasn’t materialized, and accusing an entire population of criminality while making exceptions for "the good ones" is just plain gross, but do go on about how you’re so unfairly maligned.

Amanda CAARSON

· 15 Av 5782 (Friday 12 August 2022) · 1 minute to read

Because stop being ableist, that's why. But seriously if you find a logical answer... https://t.co/0Kbt1w4sZW
— James H (@quanin) August 12, 2022

Long reply, hosting on my site. Click through for the rest.

Speaking of ableism, a number of the people responding with "You can’t make me!" responses are also the same people who object to pronouns in bios and generally get bent out of shape when words are misused/change meanings only to then insist that their objections are about misuse or overuse of words and not bigotry. That’s fine if it’s truly the reason for your objection, there are people who object on purely linguistic/grammatical grounds. But it’s impossible to take that insistence seriously when there’s a glaring exception to all that being made in real time when it comes to braille.

Amanda CAARSON

· 19 Tammuz 5782 (Monday 18 July 2022) · 1 minute to read

Ankle monitors raise risks for U.S. abortion-seekers by Thomson Reuters Foundation (news.trust.org)

Women wearing court-ordered electronic tags, like migrants and those awaiting trial, will struggle to avoid abortion surveillance

Republicans aren’t going to give a damn about any of this until it’s their privacy on the line at which point they’ll scream about their right to privacy. And I will remind as many of them as possible that they built this, they’ve thrown two decades of data privacy advocacy and policy into chaos, and I’m fine with their having to reap the benefits of the consequences they set into motion.

Amanda CAARSON

· 17 Tammuz 5782 (Saturday 16 July 2022) · 1 minute to read

Only 10% of girls under 11 even get their period. Only 52 girls under the age of 14 got abortions in Ohio last year--and 10 is a long way from 14.
— Megan McArdle (@asymmetricinfo) July 16, 2022

You seem to have missed the part where the acceptable number of raped ten-year-old girls being compelled by the state to carry a pregnancy to term and then give birth is a hard fucking zero and the acceptable number of *anyone* who has been raped being compelled by the state to carry a pregnancy to term and then give birth is also a hard fucking zero and also the part about how the acceptable number of *anyone* being compelled by the state to carry a pregnancy to term and then give birth is a hard fucking zero.

Amanda CAARSON

· 27 Sivan 5782 (Sunday 26 June 2022) · 1 minute to read

The new right is pro-life and pro-family.

We support ending abortion but also child tax credits, paid family leave, free pre-natal care, and centering our economy around raising a family.
— Greg Price (@greg_price11) June 24, 2022

Bullshit. You guys have spent the last several decades crying "socialism"! whenever anything you’re claiming to support gets proposed. Don’t try to change the conversation now. You broke it, you keep both pieces, and you absolutely own every single unintended consequence, including any deaths, any and all suffering, and any and all hardship. You fucking caused this don’t get squeemish now because you’re realizing that things are going to get bad. You fucking built this.

Amanda CAARSON

· 26 Sivan 5782 (Saturday 25 June 2022) · 1 minute to read

From @brad_polumbo:

“We can and should have a robust debate over abortion rights. But let’s do it without needlessly scaring people that other core rights are under attack when they simply are not.”https://t.co/sWL6PzQBpQ
— Log Cabin Republicans (@LogCabinGOP) June 25, 2022

I’d really like to take your word on this, but the fact is we have been repeatedly assured by people like you that stuff like the overturning of Roe wouldn’t happen, and every single time we turn around it does. See: anti-CRT efforts turning into all-out bans, just-asking-questions efforts regarding trans issues quickly turning into all out anti-LGBT campaigns, and of course, Roe itself. And honestly, I’m sick and damn tired of people like you pissing on my leg and telling me it’s raining.

Amanda CAARSON

· 25 Sivan 5782 (Friday 24 June 2022) · 1 minute to read

Rubio: The reason they are having a left-wing meltdown, two reasons why. The first is as long as they had roe V. Wade they didn't have to worry about having that debate pic.twitter.com/eBf5pSsrud
— Acyn (@Acyn) June 25, 2022

Actually my dude it’s because we’re furious that people like you are shoving your religion down our throats and we’re also furious that people like you have created a situation where the state can force women to give birth. I’d tell you to go live in an actual theocracy, but the only ones on the planet I’m aware of operate under a legal system that permits abortion.

Amanda CAARSON

· 23 Sivan 5782 (Wednesday 22 June 2022) · 1 minute to read

Fair warning to followers for the day, apparently I've decided on "if y'all motherfuckers are going to tell me my Judaism is insufficiently frum to be protected by the first amendment you'd best say it to my face".

So there'll be quite a bit of that. https://t.co/TOcT3FyAm1
— Actually malicious, no actual malice (@apark2453) June 22, 2022

See this whole thing is interesting to me because I distinctly remember being reminded by numerous Jews during the Trump administration that we were not to question Ivanka’s status as a Jew simply because she was spotted publicly doing non-observant things.

And honestly, I don’t see much of a difference between questioning someone’s actual status as a Jew because non-observance, and questioning a sizeable group of Jews’ right of free exercise of religion because they’re not observant of even a whole lot of things.