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MAGA Rep. Slammed After Tearfully Blaming Democrats For Having Trouble Accessing Abortion She Helped Ban In Florida (www.comicsands.com)
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Florida Republican Representative Kat Cammack was widely criticized after opening up to reporter Tara Palmeri about having trouble accessing abortion for an ectopic pregnancy in Florida after she helped pass a six-week abortion ban in the state.

Cammack told the Wall Street Journal that she faced delays in receiving treatment for a life-threatening ectopic pregnancy shortly after Florida's six-week abortion ban took effect in May 2025.

Cammack blamed those delays not on the law itself but on what she described as misleading messaging from abortion-rights advocates that had made healthcare workers fearful of legal repercussions, telling the Journal:

“It was absolute fearmongering at its worst. There will be some comments like, 'Well, thank God we have abortion services,' even though what I went through wasn't an abortion.'"

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[–] 11 points 4 months ago (7 children)

My only caution is to not always assume idiocy. You may underestimate evil.

Example: I consider myself a reasonably smart guy. I got the smart guy job and the smart guy degree. I also consider donald trump to be an incurious and generally incompetent moron.

But despite my smart guy credentials, and donald's obvious moronism...he convinced a third of the country to vote for him. That is a skill that I do not possess. That is a skill that very few possess.

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  • [–] 9 points 4 months ago* (1 child)

    The Basic Laws of Human Stupidity

    #1: Always and inevitably everyone underestimates the number of stupid individuals in circulation.

    #2 - The probability that a certain person be stupid is independent of any other characteristic of that person.

    #3: A stupid person is a person who causes losses to another person or to a group of persons while himself deriving no gain and even possibly incurring losses.

    #4: Non-stupid people always underestimate the damaging power of stupid individuals. In particular non-stupid people constantly forget that at all times and places and under any circumstances to deal and/or associate with stupid people infallibly turns out to be a costly mistake

    Law #5: A stupid person is the most dangerous type of person. A stupid person is more dangerous than a bandit.

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  • [–] 4 points 4 months ago (2 children)

    According to Bonhoeffer, stupidity is a moral failing, not an intellectual one.

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  • [–] 5 points 4 months ago (1 child)

    https://www.fisheaters.com/srpdf/Dietrich_Bonhoeffer-On_Stupidity.pdf

    Interesting, I hadn't read that before. I do believe it is a moral failing too. Stupidity is cowardice. You pick one lane, one side, and then stick with it and stick your fingers in your ears to any contradictory evidence. Some people do this quite young and never change, and some people astoundingly start to do it in their 50s. That sort of mental rigidity makes no sense to me. We need to give these people a massive dose of shrooms and see if we can shake things up.

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  • [–] 3 points 4 months ago* (1 child)

    He did not accomplish that by himself. The entire Republican party is responsible for that. The megadonors, the evangelicals, Fox News, the NRA, Facebook and Cambridge Analytica, internet trolls, manosphere podcasters, all the way down to the lifelong down-ballot voters.

    The Donald Trump that Trump voters see is not the same one you and I see, because theirs is nearly entirely fabricated from lies and omissions. They see fake successes and don't see real failures. Trump's benefactors, not Trump, constructed this alternate reality. And those voters have been living in this constructed reality for over a decade now, conditioned to protect it against all outside forces.

    You're right, it's not just the idiocy of the country that put him there, but the evil of the conservative machine.

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