I think that it will not be waged between North and South for state rights, but rather between Republicans and Democrats for human rights. It will happen before our 250th anniversary in 2026.

  • Why do you want the government to dictate your thoughts and actions so much?

    I want the government to protect me from the dumb fucks that actually do want the government to dictate how I should live my life. It’s the pieces of human garbage that want to tell men they can’t marry another man, that tell women they don’t have autonomy over their own body, that want to stop the teaching of the theory of evolution and include prayer in school, that want to dictate others’ lives.

    Those calling for more rights aren’t asking for the government to dictate anyone’s lives. They’re literally doing the opposite of that.

    • Foresight@lemmy.ml
      link
      fedilink
      English
      arrow-up
      0
      arrow-down
      3
      ·
      1 year ago

      Enforcing policy is dictating lives though, how about just use a different name for marriage and do a different ritual? Unless that’s only if you actually only care for inheritance laws.

      • 🇰 🌀 🇱 🇦 🇳 🇦 🇰 ℹ️@yiffit.net
        link
        fedilink
        English
        arrow-up
        2
        ·
        edit-2
        1 year ago

        It’s not an infringement of your rights to stop you from beating/killing people you don’t like. It’s not an infringement of your rights to allow others to do things you don’t want to do yourself. Nobody owns the “ritual” of marriage, and it’s not an infringement of anyone’s rights for another belief system of any kind (theist or not) to duplicate it.

        • Foresight@lemmy.ml
          link
          fedilink
          English
          arrow-up
          0
          arrow-down
          3
          ·
          1 year ago

          How about people just treat each better than forcing it on people by the state.

          • InverseParallax@lemmy.world
            link
            fedilink
            English
            arrow-up
            2
            ·
            1 year ago

            We tried that, several times, each time the south did something stupid like dredd Scott or Jim crow or the kkk.

            The only way to stop them from trying to keep brown people as pets was to send soldiers, they don’t understand any other language.

          • iByteABit@kbin.social
            link
            fedilink
            arrow-up
            2
            ·
            1 year ago

            They don’t though, otherwise there would be no need for a justice system altogether. There are “people” out there that have wet dreams of lgbt people being incriminated and women having less rights than men, the rest of society should be protected from them instead of putting them in government positions.

              • Kata1yst@kbin.social
                link
                fedilink
                arrow-up
                2
                ·
                1 year ago

                So much for a rational discussion. Great showing for yourself and others with similar beliefs.

                • Foresight@lemmy.ml
                  link
                  fedilink
                  arrow-up
                  1
                  arrow-down
                  2
                  ·
                  1 year ago

                  Well growing up a lot of issues where largely solved and nowadays people are bored and result to going on twitter complaining about a brand image looking for and nitpicking problems were there is none.

              • iByteABit@kbin.social
                link
                fedilink
                arrow-up
                1
                ·
                1 year ago

                That’s some exceptional mental gymnastics right there, keep thinking like that and you’ll go far

            • Foresight@lemmy.ml
              link
              fedilink
              English
              arrow-up
              1
              arrow-down
              3
              ·
              1 year ago

              No it’s not but you should be genuinely good and not down the barrel of a gun with coercion or threats.

              • I_Has_A_Hat@lemmy.ml
                link
                fedilink
                English
                arrow-up
                0
                ·
                1 year ago

                I’m going to guess you’re Christian. I’m also going to guess you don’t see one bit of irony with your statement.

                • Foresight@lemmy.ml
                  link
                  fedilink
                  arrow-up
                  2
                  arrow-down
                  1
                  ·
                  1 year ago

                  No I’m an atheist, if you need religion or a belief system to be a good person then you must be a terrible person.