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when you're above the law & your pockets are lined by lobbyists from private prisons and insurance companies (lemmy.world)
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for screen reader users... Calvin "change my mind" meme; top text "Texas & Arizona pass laws prioritizing dead cells over fully alive mothers, Oklahoma outlaws HPV which 90% of people will contract"; bottom text "GOP = Gaslighting Ourselves for Profit. Change my mind"

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[-] audiomodder@lemmy.blahaj.zone 44 points 7 months ago

I thought this meant HPV vaccinations so I googled it. Nope. They said up said it’s illegal to “be recklessly responsible for” the spread of HPV. Like WTAF?!

[-] solarbabies@lemmy.world 31 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago)

keep in mind there is no such thing as an HPV test for AMABs (it doesn't exist), so how do they expect to enforce it for anyone but women/AFABs? hard to deny that they are being targeted here

[-] some_guy@lemmy.sdf.org 12 points 7 months ago

Just like the laws banning the establishment of Shari Law, the GOP votes on meaningless shit as a hat tip to their brainless supporters.

[-] solarbabies@lemmy.world 14 points 7 months ago

and what's the legal definition of "recklessly" in this context? who knows, leave it up to corrupt judges to decide...

[-] Catoblepas@lemmy.blahaj.zone 30 points 7 months ago

It means being a slut. They can’t actually outlaw being a slut, so they outlaw something that applies to virtually everyone having sex and then selectively apply the law.

[-] henfredemars@infosec.pub 6 points 7 months ago

🛎️🛎️ there it is! That’s the plan exactly. Equate the law with one’s arbitrary whims.

[-] Cornelius_Wangenheim@lemmy.world 9 points 7 months ago

So Oklahoma is going to prosecute people who have plantar warts and use public showers?

[-] Maeve@kbin.social 2 points 7 months ago

Yeah, "recklessly spreading." A bunch of y'allqueda are about to be dragnetted. Maybe we'll hear of some working girl to fine charges against a politician patron?

[-] Darkassassin07@lemmy.ca 16 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago)

... How does one 'outlaw' a virus?

[-] solarbabies@lemmy.world 18 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago)

they ~~outlawed~~ are trying & succeeding to make illegal (already passed the state legislature) the "intentional or reckless" spread of the virus without defining what "reckless" means

[-] SpaceNoodle@lemmy.world 23 points 7 months ago

But spreading COVID is fine.

[-] Darkassassin07@lemmy.ca 2 points 7 months ago

I'm sure that will go just swell....

/s

[-] Clent@lemmy.world 10 points 7 months ago

You've been GOP'd (Gaslit Over Preventable Diseases)

[-] solarbabies@lemmy.world 3 points 7 months ago

lmao

[-] Drinvictus@discuss.tchncs.de 4 points 7 months ago

[-] Maggoty@lemmy.world 4 points 7 months ago

For the record the Arizona Republicans had their ultra conservative supreme court revive a law from 1864 specifically because they could not get a new one past the Democratic Governor. Now the state AG has made it clear they will not enforce the law and there's a referendum on the November ballot that's highly likely to enshrine abortion rights in the state constitution.

this post was submitted on 12 Apr 2024
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