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Hyperbolic indignation is just one step below revenge fantasies on the unhealthy obsession scale. I'm all for creative and abusive venting, but don't try to mingle it into a serious discussion.
Yeah. Hyperbole was one of the reasons we hated Chagen so much.
*reads through what just happened*
As a mod, I say a month long is good enough, then we let him back under strict supervision and let me know he's on very thin ice. If he still acts up, then he's gone for good.
They don't. They rarely if ever get their deposit back which requires 5% of total votes
Hate speech laws can be very easy to abuse if the spearation of the government and the judicial system is less than optimal. Here in the Balkans, since the entire region is an ethnic melting pot and everyone hates each other, hate speech laws in most countries are very strict so we don't appear bad in the eyes of the West. However, in practice, individuals close to the government in question are untouchable, while the opposition can be prosecuted for the most inane shit.
A really terrifying example of this was in Montenegro, where the government had anounced its plans to flood a canyon holding a UNESCO-protected 12th century monastery. In response, a bishop publicly anathemized the government and said that everybody involved in the project will burn in hell for the sin of greed. It warranted minimal media attention, but he was still jailed for FOUR MONTHS for "hate speech". And quite recently, there was a failed terrorist attack during the celebration of the 20th anniversary of Republika Srpska (a Serbian autonomous entity in Bosnia), attended by the Serbian political and cultural elite, including the presidents of Serbia and Republika Srpska and the Patriarch of the Serbian Orthodox Church. A high-ranking Montenegrin official wrote an article saying that the attack should have succeeded and that Republika Srpska, a "genocidal creation", should be burned to ashes. Even though it caused a shitstorm across the whole region, nothing happened to the guy - everyone was harping about his right to free speech. Damned hypocrisy.
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I'm not sure how this ever became about "the government paying for birth control". It's not. It's forcing health insurance to cover birth control. The government itself isn't spending a cent on it.
"I'm not sure how this ever became about "the government paying for birth control". It's not. It's forcing health insurance to cover birth control. The government itself isn't spending a cent on it."
Remind me why conservatives are so eager to dismantle universal health care again.
Because their ideology says it's a bad idea.
Well a load of good neoliberalism has done for the rest of us.
Honestly UHC is a blessing, you can get loads of forms of contraceptives for free.
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@Glenn: No, it's really because private medical companies stand to lose profits if medicine was socialized, thus they lobby to conservative politicians (and liberals too, let's be honest), and they package it with anti-communist rhetoric and send it to everyone else.