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[–] officermike@lemmy.world 173 points 2 weeks ago (21 children)

Good thing we only mutilate boys' genitals.

[–] Fokeu@lemmy.zip 111 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago) (2 children)

It's still shocking to me how most Americans consider genital mutilation a normal thing. My European mind can't comprehend.

[–] taiyang@lemmy.world 34 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago) (6 children)

If it shocks you farther, it's just a little check box when you have a baby boy. Just a little bit of the paperwork before discharge. You don't even have to be there, and it's "free". Very strange, all things considered.

[–] explodicle@sh.itjust.works 8 points 2 weeks ago

I watched my little boy like a hawk so they wouldn't "accidentally" whisk him away and mutilate him.

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[–] wonderingwanderer@sopuli.xyz 5 points 2 weeks ago

My mutilated american dick thanks you for your concern 😔

[–] GalacticGrapefruit@lemmy.world 14 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

Thank you for mentioning this. I don't even have that set of equipment, and it boggles my mind that this is normal and acceptable to anyone. Even using religion as a reason just seems ridiculous. Why the hell would you ever cause that much physical pain to a child for a cosmetic procedure?

"Oh, they're transing the kids!" Fucker, you asked your doctor to cut off part of your son's junk before he even developed the capacity to lift his own head. Shut the fuck up.

[–] JennyLaFae@lemmy.blahaj.zone 6 points 2 weeks ago

Haha, oh honey circumcision may be the most common genital mutilation procedure, but wait til you learn how those transphobic motherfuckers write exceptions for coercive intersex surgeries into their anti trans laws.

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[–] T00l_shed@lemmy.world 51 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

Fundies are salivating to do the same thing

[–] jumperalex@lemmy.world 34 points 2 weeks ago

Seriously I was waiting for the punch line at the bottom, "... Just like Christian Nationalists"

[–] Agent641@lemmy.world 37 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

"No girl genital mutilation"

None for boys either, right?

Right?!

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[–] Sanctus@anarchist.nexus 34 points 2 weeks ago

This just sounds like Texas on a regular day minus the dog thing.

[–] Bombastic@sopuli.xyz 29 points 2 weeks ago (4 children)

Do Americans actually get text messages like those? I thought it was a joke

[–] Jakeroxs@sh.itjust.works 22 points 2 weeks ago

The dem ones are at least somewhat sane

[–] UnderpantsWeevil@lemmy.world 8 points 2 weeks ago

YMMV. But if you volunteer regularly for campaigns, your number/address inevitably ends up on someone's suckers list. And then election season means getting your phone blown up by these as the voting deadline closes in.

[–] Witchfire@lemmy.world 7 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago) (1 children)

Yes

We also get them as postcards

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[–] BillyClark@piefed.social 28 points 2 weeks ago (2 children)

"NO religious freedom," so let's ban that religion? Every religion believes theirs is correct.

"Women brutalized" "Slavery allowed" "Child marriage & rape" These things are already illegal from our other laws.

"Girl genital mutilation" I think this one is already illegal, as well.

"No pet dogs allowed" First of all, wut? But second of all, I'd love to see some Texas politician try to pass a law that outlawed pet dogs. They'd probably get shot to death by the other politicians before they left the chamber.

"BAN SHARIA NOW!" BAN MARTIANS NOW! BAN FISH RIDING BICYCLES NOW! BAN ADULTS FROM SEEING WHY KIDS LOVE CINNAMON TOAST CRUNCH NOW! BAN LICKING UNTIL YOU GET TO THE TOOTSIE ROLL CENTER OF A TOOTSIE POP NOW!

BAN POLITICIANS WHO WASTE OUR TIME WITH MEANINGLESS LAWS AND CULTURE WARS NOW!

[–] tomiant@piefed.social 6 points 2 weeks ago

Every religion believes theirs is correct.

From a purely argumentative standpoint, that doesn't mean that one of them isn't. Again, strictly from a rhetorical point of view.

These things are already illegal from our other laws

From a rhetorical point of view, strictly, one could say, if one were to defend the statement, which I'm not, but one could, hypothetically say that any religion actively espousing those things is worthy of condemnation regardless of our laws.

“Girl genital mutilation”

Same goes for this. Hypothetically.

“No pet dogs allowed”

Yeah I don't know either. Even hypothetically.

BAN MARTIANS NOW!

No notes.

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[–] robocall@lemmy.world 24 points 2 weeks ago

Christian nationalism

  • No religious freedom
  • Women brutalized
  • Slavery allowed
  • Child rape and marriage
  • Dogs are not guaranteed good treatment

MAGA Christian nationalism is a death cult.

[–] RattlerSix@lemmy.world 22 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

Good thing they don't read the Bible, because other than the pet dog thing, it's a tie

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[–] Furbag@lemmy.world 19 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago) (1 children)

What's the point in creating a law that bans Sharia Law when the people who would allegedly institute mandatory observation of Sharia Law would just vote to repeal it and then institute it anyway?

Oh, right, Republicans are fucking idiots and this is scaremongering to drive them to the polls.

[–] UnderpantsWeevil@lemmy.world 16 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago) (3 children)

A lot of this is a tacit attempt to control Muslim municipal populations be restricting how they govern themselves locally.

So you can step in at the state (maybe federal, if Chip Roy gets his way) level and announce this mayor or judge or city council is illegitimate because the leadership isn't Christian.

Very specifically, this is in response to EPIC City, a master-planned community north of Dallas that's being bankrolled by a group of Muslim real estate developers. But you can see it echoing the disgust conservatives have for Minneapolis and Dearborn, Michigan, with their own large Muslim populations.

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[–] panda_abyss@lemmy.ca 19 points 2 weeks ago

Isn’t all of this what republicans want, just swap fake Christianity in for the only religion, and allow pet dogs (but also the state can kill them randomly with no consequences)?

[–] wonderingwanderer@sopuli.xyz 18 points 2 weeks ago (4 children)

Sharia is already prohibited... by the same first amendment which republicans ignore when they advocate for a theocracy...

Basically all of those bullet points listed are things republican "christians" do. They only have a problem with it when it's brown people doing it.

Lest you think I'm advocating for sharia law, I'm not. I'm simply pointing out that "christian law" would be effectively the same thing, and they're both equally prohibited by the constitution.

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[–] NoForwadSlashS@piefed.social 15 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

If you just change "GIRL genital mutilation" to "BOY genital mutilation", that list is all things America is famous for.

[–] GalacticSushi@lemmy.blahaj.zone 8 points 2 weeks ago

We're allowed to own dogs. Until a cop comes within shooting distance, at least.

[–] roguetrick@lemmy.world 13 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

Yo is there any way to weaponize this into banning all binding arbitration because that would be based.

[–] UnderpantsWeevil@lemmy.world 5 points 2 weeks ago (2 children)

Obviously no. Prior efforts at invoking this kind of legislation in Oklahoma failed and the federal court struck it down fairly quickly.

Texas actually already has House Bill 4211, the "Sharia Compound Ban", which states

The purchase agreement and any other agreement or rules governing the residential arrangement or the ownership interest in the entity may not require that a dispute concerning the arrangement or interest be brought before a tribunal other than a court established under the laws of this state or the United States.

This was intended to prevent the completion of EPIC City, a master-planned Islamic community-centered residential development project just north of Dallas. Although this mostly seems to be focused on investment and ownership stake in residential and commercial properties by a large pool of wealthy Muslim investors.

If there's any effort to invoke this law at a functional level, it will likely be targeted at the minority Muslim Texas residents, with the intent of depriving them of their property and possessions.

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[–] Jax@sh.itjust.works 11 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago)

Weren't there files released that pointed to Melania actually being underage when she started her relationship with Trump?

Sorry, sorry, it was referred to as him riding the 'Lolita Express'. Fuck I hate these people.

[–] phoenixz@lemmy.ca 11 points 2 weeks ago

Look at these scary sounding words!

Vote for me!

On a side note: let's ban ALL religions, the world will thank you the world population will, well, the first generation will curse us, while every next generation will thank is for not being beholden anymore to badly written stonage fairytales

[–] Yliaster@lemmy.world 11 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

Are we forgetting we have a literal pedophile as the president?

How about we get that out?

You know what else is a death cult that brutalizes everyone? ICE.

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[–] SalmiakDragon@feddit.nu 9 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

Never seen an em-dash placed within a hyphenated word before ("death—cult")

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[–] Eh_I@lemmy.world 9 points 2 weeks ago

The Epstein party continues to be concerned about women and children.

[–] not_that_guy05@lemmy.world 8 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago) (1 children)

Excuse me but Republicans have been in control of Texas for like 30 years straight. So does that mean that they the Republicans are trying to install Sharia law in order to prevent it?

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[–] IndustryStandard@lemmy.world 8 points 2 weeks ago

Sounds like a lot of Epstein projection

[–] irelephant@lemmy.dbzer0.com 7 points 2 weeks ago

Why is this screenshot cropped, rotated and tinted?

[–] Etterra@discuss.online 6 points 2 weeks ago

Show up to a rally with a Bible and start reciting verses - the kind they get pissed off about when you bring them up. Like the women brutalizing, child murder, no religious freedom, and slavery. Don't forget the ones against mixed fabrics, tattoos, and shellfish!

[–] Treczoks@lemmy.world 6 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

Who but the Republicans in charge would be the ones who could put the Sharia in Texas law?

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[–] BillyClark@piefed.social 5 points 2 weeks ago

I live in Texas and so I occasionally see ads from our current Senator John Cornyn saying that the reason we need to vote for him is that he'll save us from sharia law. So he thinks this complete non-issue is so important that it needs to be central to his campaign. For my money, that alone should disqualify him from being Senator.

If he's going to waste money during his campaign on a non-issue, there's no way that he can be trusted to sign laws as a Senator.

[–] roofuskit@lemmy.world 5 points 2 weeks ago

And yet the GOP is trying to implement sharia law every day.

[–] tomiant@piefed.social 5 points 2 weeks ago

Filthy heathens! OUR faith allows pet dogs!

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