We had a middle ground: people who wanted abortions could get them, and those that didn't want abortions didn't have them. Any retreat from that position is not a 'middle ground'.
I presume there's a name for this common dishonest tactic of starting from a reasonable position, making an entirely unreasonable demand, then calling for "compromise."
That's a term that might broadly apply to an awful lot of what's going on in the US, but I'm talking about a very specific tactic.
A very simple and exaggerated-for-effect non-political example:
An acquaintance comes to you and demands $100. You refuse and make it clear you intend to give them nothing. They then pull a gun on you and repeat their demand for $100. You steel your resolve and continue to refuse. It goes back and forth like that for a while, but you won't budge, so finally they say, "Okay then - how about if we compromise and you give me $50 instead."
That's effectively what Tuberville, through Sinema, is attempting. And it's a somewhat common political tactic - enough so that I suspect it has a name.
Just because JK is a piece of shit doesn’t mean someone can’t enjoy HP. Further, it definitely doesn’t mean that comparing Sinema to Umbridge isn’t a great comparison.
Referencing a character in a wildly popular, successful, and entertaining young adult book series doesn’t mean someone hasn’t moved on. I haven’t read any of the books since the last one came out and have read many other books that imo are far better. It’s still a great reference.
If you don’t like it, don’t read it. No need to be a gatekeeping twat about out it though. Just keep scroll and ‘move on’.
Craziest part: I got a strike for using gendered language even though Dolores Umbridge is a proper name, and as far as I know both the fictional character, the actual person, and Krysten Sinema all identify as female.
I wouldn’t have believed there were actually Krysten Sinema stans in the world if I hadn’t experienced their wrath first hand. Of all the raucous shit I said on Reddit over the years, that was apparently the thing that was over the line 🙃
/r/Politics mods were getting pretty heavy handed near the end there. I think it was because of the constant whining from conservatives about their bullshit being called out and downvoted whenever they posted it there.
I caught a 1 week ban for something so minor I had to do a bunch of mental gymnastics to even figure out what they thought was objectionable about it. (And I can't remember what it was now.)
And I can understand why when you abuse the word "literally" like that. What you mean is that she's figuratively Dolores Umbridge from Harry Potter. /s
How about… No? How about we don’t negotiate with terrorists? How about Tubby goes and fucks himself?
Any Republican party that could have been compromised with is dead, and its corpse is the breeding grounds for a new party of parasitic maggots. You don’t “compromise” with that.
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