The Right Wing's Idea of "Freedom"

[paft]

From Statepress:Arizona House Bill 2625, authored by Majority Whip Debbie Lesko, R-Glendale, would permit employers to ask their employees for proof of medical prescription if they seek contraceptives for non-reproductive purposes, such as hormone control or acne treatment

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[paft]

bdj: it's not going to go anywhere.

Why not?

[paft]

bdj: There's no significant push or desire for this sort of legislation, and the only reason it's receiving any attention at all is because it's feeding the media-driven narrative in play currently.

You've not noticed a concerted attack from the Republicans on birth control, in particular oral contraceptives?

[dwer]

he thinks that panel with all the men was about religious freedom.

[dwer]

in that blessedly singular BDJ way.

[fizzyland]

Reality and a significant segment of the voting public differ, but tilt away.

[underlankers]

If reality means a world where anarchism, fascism, Communism, and liberalism are all the same thing, where Bush's Administration never went to war with Iraq over WMDs, where totalitarian mass-murdering dictatorships and liberal democracies are moral equals, and where the Confederacy had nothing to do with slavery while the North allowing the South to butcher entire poor black towns was going to lead to freedom before the 40th Millennium, then yes, reality does agree with you.

[underlankers]

The one on Colin Powell:

http://talk-politics.livejournal.com/950003.html?thread=73692147#t73692147

The one on fascism, communism, and anarchism all being the same thing:

http://talk-politics.livejournal.com/1061509.html?thread=84849541#t84849541

But I'm sure this was someone using your account both these times and not you, as you seem to have a Goldfish issue.

[underlankers]

As I said, I've no interest in debating someone too cowardly to stand up by his own posts. You know damned well what I said and what you said, but you don't have the capability to be honest enough to stand by your own words, or for that matter in all the time I've seen you "debate" anything approximating intellectual depth or honesty in the first place. I said that I did not want to get into this, and now this ends this rendition of funhouse logic. Sorry, I'm not going to play again the game of "But it's right here" "No it's not" "shows post" "talks about something completely different" "shows post again" rinse wash repeat.

[underlankers]

No, this is you being the pretentious coward who doesn't have the spine to admit what you said. This is the exact thread where you made the "FDR is Stalin" claim”. To refresh your memory and see what lies come out about these posts, this is you and me, me in bold, you in italics.

I'm saying that Left wing politics as defined economically do not and never have existed in the United States.

FDR would like a word.

You mean the son of a patrician family who did everything he did to save capitalism and stave off Commie or Fascie revolution?

I mean the guy who's ideas were so far left that even Mussolini is said to have noted: “You want to know what fascism is like? It is like your New Deal!”

Erm....I don't know what timeline you're posting that from, but fascism rose from the Freikorps, not the KPD, and spent much of its time destroying Communists and conservatives with a merry abandon. It's outside the Left-Right dichotomy altogether, which is not surprising, as Left-Right dates to the late 18th Century.

Sigh. That doesn't