MAGA advocate calls for ban on pregnant women traveling to US and ‘sterilization of all foreign visitors’ (www.independent.co.uk)
from recursivepickle@piefed.social to world@lemmy.world on 01 Jul 14:03
https://piefed.social/c/world/p/2179363/maga-advocate-calls-for-ban-on-pregnant-women-traveling-to-us-and-sterilization-of-all

Totally normal to suggest a ban on pregnant foreigners, the forced sterilization of all foreign visitors prior to entry, and the dissolution of the United States, when the supreme court doesn’t rule in in your favor.

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CADmonkey@lemmy.world on 01 Jul 14:38 next collapse

Yes! The only reason these freakshows ever get heard is because of reporters giving them a platform.

Sadly, that is what the media owners want.

Blibly@lemmy.world on 01 Jul 14:46 next collapse

Agreed 100%. Constantly feeding the trolls is why they run everything now. They feed on attention and must be starved.

Gullible@sh.itjust.works on 01 Jul 14:57 collapse

Slight correction. They’re not not feeding trolls, they’re platforming extremists to shift the Overton window further right. Most news media in the US is right leaning now.

CompactFlax@discuss.tchncs.de on 01 Jul 14:59 next collapse

The media needs to call out the crazy people. Everyone has a platform online, which means that crazy people feel validated. Just because someone has a hundred thousand followers doesn’t make them an authority, and the media needs to be critical in what they promote

But emotional responses make clicks. Angry and scared emotional responses make more clicks. And clicks are the only thing that matters to these people.

Themosthighstrange@lemmy.world on 01 Jul 15:02 next collapse

I wish we see more from the other side like NY Times posts a story like some socialists call for the guillotine to return

deranger@sh.itjust.works on 01 Jul 15:06 next collapse

I’ve been saying this for a while, but it’s still relevant. You need to view US politics under the lens of professional wrestling.

Of course they print this, and of course you’re going to hate it. That’s the entire point. These absurd people saying hateful things are the heels, you’re supposed to hate them. It also makes you like the faces even though they’re lackluster. Posting articles like these online in some sense of (lazy) advocacy or “staying informed” simply reinforces the worldview they’re pushing. It’s all propaganda.

Asafum@lemmy.world on 01 Jul 15:11 collapse

It’s all propaganda.

It’s why even though I do hate and blame the greedy narcissistic assholes that run the government, the ones I hate THE MOST are the propagandists.

Without pieces of shit like Sean Hannity and to a slightly lesser extent every other corporate media outlet the greedy narcissistic assholes wouldn’t be able to thrive in the way that they do and we might actually be able to live in the same “reality” as the rest of the population instead of being fed different versions of reality to fight over.

I’d love to see the propagandists put in front of a firing squad. Air that shit for ratings, corporate fucks.

jordanlund@lemmy.world on 01 Jul 16:05 collapse

Ableist slurs are not allowed:

specialolympics.org/…/why-the-r-word-is-the-r-slu…

athatet@lemmy.zip on 01 Jul 16:19 collapse

Hell yeah.

Hello_there@fedia.io on 01 Jul 14:59 next collapse

It is time for us to shift the Overton window back with opposite and equally absurd proposals.

We need to open foreign maternity centers so that we can grow the number of US citizens.

reluctant_squidd@lemmy.ca on 01 Jul 15:08 next collapse

I know people might have over used the Mandalorian mantra for this kind of thing, but I think it fits here, so:

This is the way.

Flax_vert@feddit.uk on 01 Jul 15:10 next collapse

Anyone born on the soil of a US consulate, lel

newthrowaway20@lemmy.world on 01 Jul 15:16 next collapse

This just gives them more reason to push further right.

BassTurd@lemmy.world on 01 Jul 15:54 next collapse

They’re doing that anyway. To fight the Overton window, you have to go extreme. It doesn’t make sense, but Newton’s laws of motion apply here. An object opinion in motion will stay in motion unless acted upon by an equal and opposite force opinion.

Lasherz12@lemmy.world on 01 Jul 16:08 collapse
renzhexiangjiao@piefed.blahaj.zone on 01 Jul 16:24 next collapse

opposite and equally absurd proposals

like respect for human dignity?

Hello_there@fedia.io on 01 Jul 16:32 collapse

No. Like over respect for human dignity. Like, human dignity is king and nothing can infringe on it.

whotookkarl@lemmy.dbzer0.com on 01 Jul 17:30 collapse

Become the demagogue they keep spreading FUD over, a gay trans atheist communist socialist Napoleon roaming the countryside corrupting the youths and organizing workers to defenestrate the masters

cheers_queers@lemmy.zip on 01 Jul 15:09 next collapse

this is what happens when people in power feed into the delsusions of the dangerously mentally ill.

otacon239@lemmy.world on 01 Jul 15:44 next collapse

The Venn Diagram is one circle inside the other.

Catoblepas@lemmy.blahaj.zone on 01 Jul 15:49 collapse

I don’t think it’s a great idea to equate racism and nationalism with mental illness, considering it’s clearly not disabling in any way and sort of dodges accountability for those perpetrating it.

Flax_vert@feddit.uk on 01 Jul 15:09 next collapse

So, you need to be sterilisied to go on a holiday to New York? What about business trips? Wouldn’t that completely kill any form of international trade? Unless that’s the point.

Meanwhile China is allowing Europeans to visit visa-free without any hassle…

Duamerthrax@lemmy.world on 01 Jul 16:09 next collapse

How Israeli of him.

Lemmyoutofhere@lemmy.ca on 01 Jul 16:10 next collapse

Why would anybody visit that shithole?

blattrules@lemmy.world on 01 Jul 16:30 collapse

Free sterilization

Dryad@lemmy.world on 01 Jul 16:23 next collapse

What absolute monsters.

BlindPenguin@lemmy.world on 01 Jul 16:24 next collapse

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clifmo@programming.dev on 01 Jul 16:29 next collapse

Yea yea, insane sterilization comment. But y’all he wants to literally break up the United States.

  1. Dissolution of the Union

Over the 14th amendment. You know, the one we passed as a direct outcome of a failed Civil War insurrection.

cloudless@kbin.earth on 01 Jul 17:10 next collapse

I guess that’s the next natural step on their path to the outright fascism.

jtrek@startrek.website on 01 Jul 17:25 next collapse

I don’t think we should let this guy just walk around. He’s clearly a danger to himself and others.

whotookkarl@lemmy.dbzer0.com on 01 Jul 17:27 collapse

Right up there with fox fascists considering gassing vs bombing US cities