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[–] 122 points 1 year ago (9 children)

support policies that promote childbearing.

...like making abortion legal in all 50 states again? Like comprehensive sex education in schools? Like treating women as people and not property?

The most effective way for the Southern Baptists to promote childbearing would be for them to stay the fuck out of politics!

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  • [–] 70 points 1 year ago

    Abortion policies are a DIRECT REASON why I haven't had any more children. If I can't have guaranteed access to necessary, life-saving medical treatment (e.g. emergency abortions) then I won't put my wife's life at risk for one more child.

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  • [–] 27 points 1 year ago (1 child)

    Note them prioritizing childbearing and not childrearing. Though they also aren't prioritizing childbearing regardless of what they say.

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  • [–] 5 points 1 year ago

    Note them prioritizing childbearing and not childrearing.

    A lot of these conservative groups have their heads fully packed with eugenics and social darwinian philosophy. The goal is to just keep popping kids out and come-what-may. Eventually, a large enough population will produce some ubermensch. And then you breed the ubermench to get your prodigies and your messiahs.

    It's Genetics meets Calvinism. If you succeed, its because you've got the Purest Blood. If you fail, it is because you have trash DNA and should be cleansed to make way for the superior people who will follow.

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  • [–] 20 points 1 year ago (1 child)

    Part of conservatism is the idea that "the more complex a solution is, the wronger it is."

    Another part is "We should be able to control women's use of their hoo-hoos for pleasure by restricting them to being baby chambers."

    Here we have a venn diagram where the circles are the same.

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  • [–] 13 points 1 year ago (2 children)

    I was kinda annoyed at the article for not giving any details on the kinds of policies they wanted there, even something as simple as better tax credits for having kids would go a long way towards making children affordable. And yet I am sure that's not what these people are advocating for.

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  • [–] 71 points 1 year ago* (1 child)

    "We are miserable and we want you to be too !"

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    [–] 142 points 1 year ago (5 children)

    I've never know a happy Southern Baptist. I'm not interested in being as miserable as them.

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  • [–] 21 points 1 year ago (2 children)

    Do you know the best way to keep a Southern Baptist from drinking all of your beer on your fishing trip? Invite a second Southern Baptist.

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    [+] 51 points 1 year ago (6 children)
  • [–] 20 points 1 year ago (4 children)

    I'm getting a hysterectomy next month and I'm pumped. Having a uterus is the fucking worst.

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  • [–] 18 points 1 year ago (3 children)

    My wife would agree. She has.... so many womanly issues, but can't find anyone to yank the damn thing out.

    She wants no children.

    I, her husband, had a vasectomy before we ever met.

    We have no use for the damn thing and it just causes so many problems.

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  • [–] 6 points 1 year ago*

    If you are in Pa or willing to drive there, DM me. I can send you the info of my doctor. She's really open minded and is one of the few in the state that will sterilize women (taking out the fallopian tubes) just because they want it.

    I have recurring endometriosis and we've just decided that a total hysterectomy to handle the issue for good is the best next step.

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  • [–] 6 points 1 year ago (1 child)

    Along with the other commenter, if you're near southern Illinois, I can point you towards the doctor my wife used.

    Also here's this: https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1Djia_WkrVO3S4jKn6odNwQk7pOcpcL4x00FMNekrb7Q/edit?usp=sharing

    It's a list of doctors openly willing to do tubals. They might also do hysterectomies.

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  • [–] 6 points 1 year ago

    My doctor is on that list! I don't wanna openly say who she is because I don't wanna completely doxx myself, but I can reply to any DMs with her name if anyone wants a Pa recommendation. She's great. First gynecologist that hasn't tried to pressure me into wanting kids.

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  • [–] 50 points 1 year ago (2 children)

    So if they want to use their influence for political ends, why are they tax exempt?

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  • [–] 47 points 1 year ago (7 children)

    "Willful childlessness?" Is that like the opposite of incel? Volcel?

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  • [–] 33 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (4 children)

    Lol, you don't have to be celibate to be willfully childless. I have plenty of friends that got the snip/knot before having a kid because they don't want one. And they are some of the sluttiest motherfuckers I know (and they'd take that as the compliment it was).

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  • [–] 8 points 1 year ago (2 children)

    The snip was the best money I ever spent. I wear condoms because I don't want a disease, but one thing I ain't worried about is getting someone pregnant.

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  • [–] 38 points 1 year ago (2 children)

    Can these fucking Christian extremists stop ruining everyone else's lives

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    [–] 35 points 1 year ago (3 children)

    I'm so tired of religious extremists trying to force their shitty Puritanical views on the whole world.

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  • [–] 35 points 1 year ago* (7 children)

    Willful childlessness is such a hilarious concept. I'm rollin' around here.

    What are they gonna do? Check if you're having unprotected sex sufficiently? Check how many miscarriages you've had? HAHAHAHAh. Fuckin' donkeys.

    edit: Small gubment.

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  • [–] 21 points 1 year ago (3 children)

    Ban birth control in your area.

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  • [–] 8 points 1 year ago

    Story time - When I was a kid you had to get condoms through a family planning clinic or by crossing a border and many chose the latter. It was gone by the time I became old enough for it to be an issue for me.

    Thankfully I live in the same country where there would immediately be government ending riots if there was any attempt to ban any form of birth control. Hell, the cops wouldn't even stop the riots, they'd probably join in.

    I hadn't considered that though in fairness. It's just such a crazy notion.

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  • [–] 5 points 1 year ago (1 child)

    You mean, pay for my therapy, fix my broken personality, and force me to touch grass?

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  • [–] 2 points 1 year ago

    I mean....If you either need or should have it then..... ¯\_(ツ)_/¯....sure? (genuinely hope you're OK though. If not and you need to talk then hit me up.)

    The touching grass part is up to you though. It's just outside.

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  • [–] 26 points 1 year ago (5 children)

    All people have to do is stop donating money to religions and the religions lose their "power".

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  • [–] 11 points 1 year ago (2 children)

    Look at captain obvious over here!

    I'm kidding you a bit, but seriously, you're just restating the problem.

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  • [–] 43 points 1 year ago (1 child)

    That stance against sports betting annoys me so much, because that means I can't just look at everything they stand for and say I want the opposite.

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  • [–] 18 points 1 year ago (6 children)

    Southern Baptists? I think you left out all their other usual targets: Catholics, spicy food, jazz, orgasms for fun, bright colors not associated with flags or maybe a football team, female orgasms, singing, alcohol, drag shows, salads with less than 51% mayonnaise content, men using umbrellas, single mothers, showing people kissing on TV or movies, Jews, Muslims, really any brown person, wasabi, mangoes, and aged cheese.

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  • [–] 7 points 1 year ago* (3 children)

    Since you brought up salad, any lettuce other than iceberg, lest we forget arugala-gate

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  • [–] 14 points 1 year ago

    Baptist like to pick people who drank, did drugs and slept around to teach sunday school. This is no joke. They get some 'reformed' asshole with questionable decision making skills to instruct children and warn them of the dangers of having a good time.

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  • [–] 13 points 1 year ago

    Oh, cool! As a willfully childless person (even though I live with my partner and we have the necessary bits to try for children), I finally get to be one of the cool groups being ostracized by these stupid religious nuts. Hey Queer people! We get to hang out! Let's party!

    (I've been watching porn the whole time. Just let me have my moment feeling special.)

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  • [–] 12 points 1 year ago (4 children)

    Southern Baptists are one step better than Al Queda in my mind. They should be outlawed as an extremist group.

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  • [–] 10 points 1 year ago

    As someone who left the Southern Baptist cult as soon as my brain developed, this is nothing new.

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  • [–] 10 points 1 year ago (1 child)

    Southern Baptists must have the highest rate of homosexuality in the world. It's all they talk about. They throw it in with absolutely everything. "Do you guys want to order a pizza and end homosexuality?" "What movie did you want to watch while we think about homosexuality?" "We're going to Aruba this summer and we're going to think about homosexuality"

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  • [+] 23 points 1 year ago* (7 children)
  • [–] 4 points 1 year ago*

    Welcome to lemmy. It’s a collection of federated communities. This community is hosted on lemmy.world, which employs similarly heavy-handed moderation tactics to Reddit.

    However, like all lemmy instances the moderators are rather short-staffed so you’ll probably be fine unless someone goes out of their way to report your comment.

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  • [–] 4 points 1 year ago (3 children)

    I came here after being permabanned from Reddit, but I still get posts removed. I recently looked at my Mod Logs for the first time, and was surprised at how many removals I had, some for really stupid stuff that would have gone through at Reddit.

    Overall, though, Lemmy is a lot more permissive, especially compared to the new, post- HitlerPig Reddit.

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  • [–] 4 points 1 year ago (2 children)

    Federated stuff like lemmy really ends to with a much wider range of mods / admins. There's still a lot variation between mod teams on reddit too, but there's a lot more similarities there between the biggest subreddits (especially because of "power mods", and more overlap in userbase & culture).

    Tldr expect weirder removal reasons here. And check where stuff is hosted when posting.

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    [–] 8 points 1 year ago (1 child)

    Can't wait until they all burn in hell.

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  • [–] 8 points 1 year ago

    hey, I target porn too! Lots and lots of porn!

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  • [–] 5 points 1 year ago

    Sorry chuds that's not going to cure your incel problem. You can't suddenly make people produce future generations by banning what you don't like.

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  • [–] 5 points 1 year ago

    As a trans man, I would be happy to have a child. My uterus still works, as much as I would suffer going off of testosterone enough to carry, it is something I have always wanted.

    Unfortunately, these people have made it legal for me to be fired for being trans. They have voted for politicians that have done nothing to address the catastrophic state of medical care which renders it prohibitively expensive to realistically ever be able to care for a child.

    I believe that children deserve stable living conditions and a future, which does not seem to be something that they are concerned with at all.

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  • [–] 4 points 1 year ago

    They go against porn but not raw dogging to hash out clones for the glory of the empire. Wonderful.

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  • [–] 9 points 1 year ago (2 children)

    The Southern Baptist Church is a Satanic cult. If your religion leads you to hate, you are not worshiping God, you're worshiping the Devil. They're devil worshipers, the whole lot of them.

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  • [–] 4 points 1 year ago

    Please spend all your time on sports betting. Let Them Fight. Let those two rapacious vile Industries go after each other.

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  • [–] 0 points 1 year ago (3 children)

    Broken clock, yadda yadda...

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