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dirtbag
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Jan 23, 2017 - 07:07am PT
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So f*#king what? I personally know several people who flew to Washington from California on their own dime.
Here's an alternative headline (since alternative facts are in vogue in right wing circles):
Bigoted narcissistic billionaire Donald trump has ties to two hundred thousand zombies who spent Friday morning licking his feet in D.C.
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survival
Big Wall climber
Terrapin Station
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Jan 23, 2017 - 08:02am PT
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drljefe
climber
El Presidio San Augustin del Tucson
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Jan 23, 2017 - 08:05am PT
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An Islamic liberal feminist that voted for Trump.
Ok.
Perhaps she should focus her energies inward.
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survival
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Terrapin Station
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Jan 23, 2017 - 08:07am PT
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survival
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Terrapin Station
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Jan 23, 2017 - 08:48am PT
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"snapper day, not sausage day."
Sycorax just won me over.
Edit: yury, you're confused between inauguration day protest and women's march. Different days.
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Ken M
Mountain climber
Los Angeles, Ca
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Jan 23, 2017 - 08:53am PT
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I am confused.
You are, Yury. That was from Friday, the inauguration celebration of Trump.
It was NOT the peaceful Women's March, which was the next day.
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Yury
Mountain climber
T.O.
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Jan 23, 2017 - 09:17am PT
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My greatest concern right now is that Trump may continue using Obama's "My way or highway" approach when dealing with opposition in parliament.
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NutAgain!
Trad climber
South Pasadena, CA
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Jan 23, 2017 - 09:20am PT
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I have a sincere question for pro-lifers, because I can understand the viewpoint that abortion is murder if you consider life sacrosanct at the moment of conception. The challenge for me is, why force babies into a world where their parents don't want them, and where you can't really enforce that women who don't want to be mothers will take care of their bodies and ensure reasonable health of the fetus during gestation? Are you going to create prison camps for pregnant women to make sure they don't abuse their pre-born babies? What about the psychological impact this has on them, and how that translates to the physical chemical environment for the developing baby?
I understand the desire to not throw away a sacred life, and I expect that most people who get abortions do indeed view life sacredly and they agonize over the decision. But I just don't see any morality system in which a possible future life has rights that supersede the person who must perform work to ensure that future possibility, both during pregnancy (and if they don't surrender the baby for adoption) for the next 18+ years.
The only scenario in which I can see a baby having more rights than the mother is when it is a religious decision born of a long-term numerical strategy game, to reproduce faster than competing religions to have more soldiers for world domination.
I don't have rabid feelings for pro-life people, just trying to plainly make my case from a position of logic. Think about he impact on societal health when more unwanted children are brought into this world. Children ARE sacred, and if you believe in spirits, they should have opportunity to return to a body in a world that wants them, rather than living through a hell on earth created by religious people "trying to do the right thing." To me, enabling abortion is a more compassionate choice for baby and mother.
This is all aside from the balance of power between men and women, and the inability to hold men to the same level of accountability that women will be held to.
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Wade Icey
Trad climber
www.alohashirtrescue.com
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Jan 23, 2017 - 10:07am PT
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nita
Social climber
chica de chico, I don't claim to be a daisy.
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Jan 23, 2017 - 10:19am PT
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FAKE Philo, Have the testiculos, conviction to post under your real name.
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Yury, Those first photos are NOT from the~ Woman's March on Washington.. .. ..and those above women who ran out of money are not from any U.S marches either...
ps,Anarchist were the people destroying property on >inauguration day, i hope they got arrested.. . Anarchist are despicable..
Edit:This to go along with Nutjobs words..
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Ksolem
Trad climber
Monrovia, California
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Jan 23, 2017 - 10:37am PT
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Here's a couple big womens marches to google:
Women's march Tehran
Women's march Bahgdad
Women's march Cairo
Women's march Islamabad
Women's march Istanbul
Women's march Damascus
Women's march Moscow
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limpingcrab
Trad climber
the middle of CA
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Jan 23, 2017 - 11:36am PT
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To respond to NutAgain and nita, as a pro-life person, and not speaking on behalf of anyone else.
I agree that anyone who is "pro-birth" should back that up with supporting moms and any babies put up for adoption. You're idea that if you are opposed to abortion you should invest as much or more energy into supporting those babies that were not aborted is right on.
I'm simply pro-life because I think human life is sacred and I can't come up with any logical starting point for that other than conception. I'd rather not try to get as close as possible to the edge without crossing it, so to speak.
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Happiegrrrl2
Trad climber
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Jan 23, 2017 - 11:49am PT
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Just saw that the next March will be on April 15th, as a "request" that Trump release his tax files.
So, Ricky, I don't think this "movement" has been flushed of the system.
As for "pro-life," many of the people who say "pro-life" are BRUTALLY against those who HAVE been born into unstable circumstances. It seems that one deserves the right to be born right up to the moment they emerge from the womb and then they're on their own.
Pro-Life, for the LAWMAKERS, is about keeping women in a place of servitude and vulnerability. It is about keeping men without means chained to shitty jobs to support children. Slaveholders had to house and feed their slaves, at least at SOME level. Out GOP doesn't even want to do that. And - ready for the Hitler insert? Well, of course you are. The Nazi concept was to slave the people to death. The GOP way is no different, but seems to enjoy a sadistic approach by drawing it out over generations.
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10b4me
Mountain climber
Retired
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Jan 23, 2017 - 11:51am PT
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Why is it that people who oppose abortion favor the death penalty?
Must be a conservative thing.
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hamersorethumb
Trad climber
Menlo Park, CA
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Jan 23, 2017 - 12:56pm PT
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Thank you to all those who marched and those who supported them. We fight against a very real threat of tyranny.
"These are the times that try men's souls. The summer soldier and the sunshine patriot will, in this crisis, shrink from the service of their country; but he that stands by it now, deserves the love and thanks of man and woman. Tyranny, like hell, is not easily conquered; yet we have this consolation with us, that the harder the conflict, the more glorious the triumph."
Thomas Paine
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10b4me
Mountain climber
Retired
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Jan 23, 2017 - 01:12pm PT
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Why do people that favor abortion on demand use the same arguments that Democrats used once upon a time to justify slavery?
quit trying to justify your love of slavery. if lynching were legal, you would be carrying the rope.
you are a racist, and Woody is rolling over in his grave.
Edit: thanks for your posts sycorax.
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dirtbag
climber
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Jan 23, 2017 - 01:19pm PT
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Why do people that favor abortion on demand use the same arguments that Democrats used once upon a time to justify slavery
Why did modern day republicans like you vote for a racist president whose own campaign manager created a safe space for nazis?
Why won't most African Americans touch that d#@&%ebag you voted for with a 10 foot pole, or grab his pussy, for that matter?
You voted for a bigot. That's on you now.
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EdwardT
Trad climber
Retired
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Jan 23, 2017 - 01:56pm PT
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Why is it that people who oppose abortion favor the death penalty?
Stupid question.
How many horrific crimes as an unborn baby committed, other than being conceived of course?
Right. It's about who deserves to be killed.
Unborn innocent child?
Brutal serial killer?
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