"You will kill me."

“You will kill me.”

  • @conditional_soup@lemm.ee
    59•2 months ago

    After the initial protests, committee Chair Rep. Brett Guthrie (R-Ky.), who released the legislation on Sunday evening—Mother’s Day—threatened the protesters with arrest for disrupting the hearing, calling the outcry illegal and “a criminal offense.”

    I don’t understand Republicans, man, and to be honest, I don’t want to. I’m just straight up not gonna meet this in the middle.

    • Endymion_Mallorn
      43•2 months ago

      I’ll explain it:

      “You aren’t me. Your life doesn’t benefit me personally. Your death doesn’t hurt me personally. Therefore, die so my family can have what you had.”

        • Endymion_Mallorn
          6•2 months ago

          I don’t think I suggested that there was. The perspective I described is absolutist. Either they see you as family, or they don’t register you as human.

      • matlag
        16•2 months ago

        “I absolutely fucking refuse that any of the money I pay in taxes be used for anything but my own benefit.”

        • Endymion_Mallorn
          4•2 months ago

          And by preference they’d rather pay no taxes at all (let everyone else pay though).