comment: >
  
  Republics = Taliban
context: They're obsessed with sex.
  It's all they talk about.
  The only reason I even know drag queen story times exist is because of republicans. >
  
  Keep in mind it's only republicans actually connecting drag queen story times to sex.
  It's like when people dress up as Raggedy Ann/Andy or watch Ms. Doubtfire. It's a fun costume that entertains kids. Adult shows are their own separate thing. >
  
  Yeah. They make it about sex, because they're insecure deviants. >
  
  If m&m’s aren’t safe, nothing is >
  
  Teletubbies, M&Ms, Seuss, whatever.  Fake outrage to chum the waters.
  The people doing this are professional propaganda experts plying their grift. >
  
  Or are they just opening the door to “conservative values children’s books?
  *if you use this idea I want dat $$$ >
  
  /$ is the best you get on reddit. >
  
  Take away abortion. Take away sex education. Try to take away contraception. 
  Lots of teen pregnancies incoming. >
  
  Just look up teen pregnancy rates by states. You’ll be shocked at the pattern…. >
  
  For those wondering Link to CDC
  Pretty much what I expected, with the exception of Texas which I thought would be higher. >
  
  It has a more urbanized population than most of the other Southern States, which helps it to have better demographic numbers. >
  
  Makes you wonder why they (we) still can't have a Dem governor. >
  
  -Copious amounts of voter suppression
  -Perhaps the most apathetic Dem-leaning voting base of any state
  -Texas is absolutely massive.  So yes, you have plenty of large cities/urban centers, but you also have so many swaths of absolute shithole wasteland where everyone votes Republican and those areas add up quick. >
  
  55% of REGISTERED voters in Texas didn't bother to vote last time. Not people who couldn't get registered (due to apathy or difficulty) but people who were registered, but couldn't be bothered to vote.
  At some point it stops being "blame the victims" and starts being "blame the enablers." >
  
  Man, they closed something like 20 polling places for 500,000 voters. GTFO here with the insanity of victim blaming 500,000 people who have one day to wait in line at one polling place that was overloaded with 20,000 voters before. >
  
  No sex education, no abortion, no condoms, no contraception, only abstinence.  No wonder the highest teen pregnancy rates are in the most conservative areas of the country. >
  
  But somehow “it’s democrats who support big government overreach into private citizens’ lives.” >
  
  Keep in mind that sex education is one of the most effective ways to fight child sexual abuse because it teaches children what behaviors are abusive and that it is OK and proper to report it so you don't have to keep enduring it. >
  
  Yeah too much education and there won’t be anyone left for Matt to traffic! >
  
  They are trying to increase the supply of domestic infants. >
  
  How else are they going to keep doing blood rituals to keep themselves in power? (Jk, maybe?) >
  
  The projection is just too much. Time after time it seems like every single accusation is a confession, so when they say democrats eat babies it really makes me wonder... >
  
  Oh no, the andrenochrome or whatever is definitely already proven projection, when youve got sitcom characters doing it (Gavin Belson
  ), the cat is out of the bag. 
  So how much worse does it get than THAT? >
  
  I'm really hoping for cool footage of dudes in robes with a summoning circle personally. >
  
  Republicans are very openly terrified that there aren’t enough white teenagers getting pregnant. This isn’t just their repression around sex, but a much bigger plot to force young women into motherhood. >
  
  What will the Republicans do if all those young white girls do get pregnant but the daddies ain’t white? I bet they didn’t think about that. 
  The law of unintended consequences will hasten their demise. >
  
  Whatever it is, fuck em. Non-whites are just as Americans as the whites. Always have been. Don't let the extremists define America. The extremists are the opposite of what America is. >
  
  I could argue more so.  Much of the US used to be Mexico. >
  
  Spain had first dibs to a lot of it. >
  
  Take “sex” out of the headline and it’s more accurate. >
  
  If you have kids - you need to give them the real talk about sex from an early age. 
  The Republicans are taking all safety nets away while banning basic life saving medical treatments. 
  Roe isn’t coming back anytime soon. The only reason many women aren’t dying yet is because of Biden’s executive order that states the doctor must save the women if something horrible happens. 
  My friend’s daughter had her first period at age 6. 
  The kids need to know about sex and sexual abuse as soon as possible. They must know how to defend themselves. They also must know that you’re there to talk to if they need help. 
  The little girls are in serious danger because of these new laws. 
  The boys are in danger, too. But not nearly as much as the girls. 
  If you’re an adult woman in a red state - do not get pregnant. We don’t know when the fetal personhood law will happen. It’s looking like it will happen sooner than later. They will want to make an example of someone - don’t be that person. 
  It’s just not worth it to have a baby now.
  Desantis is going for a full 6 week abortion ban without exception for rape or incest. Educate you’re girls - and protect yourself. >
  
  It's funny you say this. I have noticed a lot more people are getting sterilised now, and have more than a few times seen posts from women deciding to not have any(more) children because of how hostile things are becoming. They're not sure if the healthcare will be there should something go wrong. The GOP are heading towards a repeat of 1980s Romania, which did not go well and ended up with the head honcho being executed as a result of his extreme policies. >
  
  They'll be coming after sterilization soon. We have already a lot of doctors who won't sterilize women of child-bearing age (even with serious problems with their reproductive organs) because their hypothetical future husband/boyfriend might want a child. >
  
  I can imagine them comparing it to eugenics and white erasure despite the fact that it's by choice. >
  
  Oh, they will. >
  
  They have to mischaracterize the issue because the reality is too reasonable to get mad about. >
  
  Is there anything republicans aren’t scared of? >
  
  Apparently getting lied to, ripped off, and scammed by con men is just a normal and accepted part of life for them. >
  
  Not con men they agree with anyway... >
  
  And then the Republicans will start raging about the moral decay among teens because they are having more children.  And whining about the cost of supporting teen mothers on welfare >
  
  I'm waiting for them to start crying about being handed the bill for the women permanently disabled by being denied a D & C for septic pregnancies or being forced carry high risk pregnancies when the mother has serious health issues, babies born with severe disabilities, and the surrendered at birth babies. >
  
  Yet another case of:
  If there is an obvious right and wrong answer to an issue, Republicans unilaterally take the wrong answer every time. 
  There is even data to back up the proposition that the best abortion prevention is contraception and sex education. If they really wanted to stop abortions (they don't), this is the opposite of how to accomplish that. >
  
  They actually believe they can convert an entire nation into abstinent Christians. You cannot physically stop an entire nation from having sexual relations. Disarming them from making informed choices and staying safe is abusive. >
  
  Haven’t they already been at war with sex ed since the 80s? >
  
  It’s because they don’t want their children victims to be educated enough to be able to identify a pregnancy early enough for abortion to do something about it. >
  
  Liberals do not want to prevent their teens from getting pregnant, rather they want to make it safe and fun to begin with. Later they want to have choice to terminate it >
  
  Liberals do largely want to prevent their teens from getting pregnant, as opposed to encouraging them to get pregnant solely to abort it later. Teen pregnancy is not a good thing. >
  
  The best way to prevent abortion isn't banning it, it's access to sex education and contraception.
  Why are Republicans against these things? Are they stupid enough to shoot themselves in the foot on the issue they say they care about the most? Or are they lying when they say they care?
  Are abortion bans about saving lives? Or are they really just punishing women for having sex? >
  
  They don't care about abortion or babies, that's why.  Their ultimate goal is for women to be forced back into the home as stay-at-home housewives.
  They would rather a baby grow up in an orphanage or even die than to be raised by a loving gay couple. >
  
  No sex education means more pregnant teens and even preteens. Fucking pedophiles piece of shit republicans >
  
  Sex Ed also teaches people about consent. They really want the Anglo Saxon version of Afghanistan. They want it to be rape city for a woman if she walks outside without a relative and they want everybody to get pregnant or get somebody pregnant by 16, like in villages in war torn countries experiencing famine. I have to say as a population of people we really are bizarre, anti-intellectual, and over all weak. >
  
  Rush Limbaugh gave one of the most unintentionally accurate statements about how Republicans view consent:
  
  “If there is consent on both or all three or all four, however many are involved in the sex act, it’s perfectly fine, whatever it is. But if the left ever senses and smells that there’s no consent in part of the equation then here come the rape police. But consent is the magic key to the left.” >
  
  So, eliminate the most effective way to prevent accidental pregnancy and STDs? >
  
  And child abuse, yeah. >
  
  GOP cognitive dissonance at work.  They want to eliminate abortion but don't want to teach people ways to avoid getting pregnant.
  Edited to correct spelling of the word dissonance. >
  
  I think you mean dissonance... and the point is definitely to have more women stuck being full-time mothers so they don't do things like be financially independent or complete college education.  
  They want people who fuck to be forced to have kids because they think that's a just consequence for fucking and are in denial that their own abstinence-trained kids do it just as much. >
  
  This is why I started teaching my kids age appropriate sex ed from age 5. I also taught them about consent and didn’t force them to interact with anyone they didn’t want to (no, they didn’t have to give Grandma a hug if they didn’t feel like it). They are now young adults and still come to me with questions if needed. None of them are or have been sexually active yet - none of them have even been on a date - but, when that happens, they’re  ready.
  Denying science doesn’t accomplish anything and neither does abstinence based sex ed. I find it ironic that the states that deny science and teach abstinence based sex ed have the highest teen pregnancy rates. Make it make sense! They insist their way works but the research doesn’t back them up and yet, they continue to preach it does. Forget science for a moment - can’t they SEE all the teens with babies wandering around!
  So, they’ll take away our right to abortion and then take away everything that helps stop the need for it like comprehensive sex ed and easy access to birth control. Just more proof it’s not about BaBIeS it’s about control. >
  
  What's even more ridiculous is that even if you are abstinent until marriage, that doesn't magically mean you don't need to know about reproductive health topics. I know so many people who got abysmal sex education and they know next to nothing about even basic things like what normal menstrual cycles should be like. >
  
  So … they want to make people less educated leading to an increase in teen pregnancy and spread of STDs, resulting in a further impoverished general population that’s in worse health. Oh, and the vast majority can’t afford to raise a family or get healthcare.
  Got it. 
  🖕GOP >
  
  Republicans declare war on ~~sex~~ education.
  Fixed the headline. >
  
  
  Republicans declare war on America
  
  That’s what I’d write. >
  
  Newy Gingrich's "Contract On America" has been in play for decades. >
  
  Remember that it included mandatory term limits, until the Republicans took control of the House.  Then these same Republicans who ran on term limits demurred, citing the value of seniority in committee assignments. >
  
  Damn, they remove abortion, want to get rid of birth control and now sex Ed. Let's just keep all the woman pregnant. Just keep the poor poor >
  
  And then they'll have a much larger homeless problem they can rant about and call for more police crackdowns on them. The police won't have the money to jail repeat offenders and will start buying bus tickets for them. >
  
  So, eliminate the most effective way to prevent accidental pregnancy and STDs? >
  
  Christian Fascism
  It’s weird right?  Most republicans don’t seem Christian at all.  
  Too bad all this culture wars idiocy is just a smoke screen that our corporate-bought representatives and senators use to distract us from the theft of money from the poor and middle class. >
  
  They want more poor and less educated people in their states who will work for a dime in the factory. >
  
  (theyve been at war with it for the past 20 or 30 years) >
  
  Because they mostly pay for sex and just lay there and hope the stock doesn’t arrive >
  
  Gotta try to find a way to replenish the GOP voter base after most of the COVID deaths were their uneducated supporters. >
  
  Way back I was an exchange student in the US (and) A.
  One thing that blew my mind then was anti sex ed + anti abortion as a coherent "thought".
  Condoms + teens = less need for abortions, I thought back then. >
  
  Essential to grooming potential victims is to identify who has the necessary combination of ignorance, innocence, and gullibility.
  Republicans are turning into the party of predators and con artists, and they want to ensure a steady supply of their most precious resource - their victims. >
  
  Occam's razor for you guys: Why would any group willing to victimize significant demographics to fight child sex abuse and "infanticide" also oppose all the proven effective ways that actually reduce both? >
  
  I'm sure they can point to all the data that supports this approach's efficacy. >
  
  They're not interested in efficacy.
  They're terrified declining birth rates are thinning the work force, and the only other alternative to keep the work force filled with worker drones is immigration. And we all know how they feel about that.
  Cutting education to keep the worker drones dumb and indentured creates a whole generation of wage slaves. >
  
  I don't think it's even that. It's they were taught these policies appeal to Republican voters and win them elections. And it did in the past. And because it worked in the past, they're going to keep working the same strategy  until the backlash gets too intense, then they'll back off temporarily. As they have before. 
  They now have a GOP made more than partially up of true believers who were raised on the rhetoric and they will stick by the rhetoric to the end. Then they'll reject the outcome, because they are sure they are right and know what's best for everyone. >
  
  That's one way to ensure a supply of poor, cheap labor. >
  
  It might appear at first glance to be about sex education. But their goal is actually to teardown an open society. To ban books  an eliminate open conversations.