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Gus di Zirega opines that he thinks the South seceding would be just ducky. Bonus points: He tries to make it sound like it's because he's CONCERNED for the women being affected by laws that criminalize miscarriage...instead of what he's actually doing, which is rationalizing leaving them to their fates.
He's an idiot, and an over-privileged asshat, and I can't muster up the energy to explain why. Because all this just makes me tired. It's one thing when the Fundamentalist Republican types basically say that I'm worthless and don't matter... I expect it of them. But this is like someone claiming to be an ally while stabbing you in the back.
EDIT: There is also the fact that the last time this secession business came up, it cost approximately 700,000 lives (including civilians) *during* the war, with widespread starvation afterward. It's not an experiment to be repeated or proposed. It's rather like Germany going "oh hey, why don't we try that fascism thing again and see how it goes? What could go wrong?" It's not fucking funny.
He's an idiot, and an over-privileged asshat, and I can't muster up the energy to explain why. Because all this just makes me tired. It's one thing when the Fundamentalist Republican types basically say that I'm worthless and don't matter... I expect it of them. But this is like someone claiming to be an ally while stabbing you in the back.
EDIT: There is also the fact that the last time this secession business came up, it cost approximately 700,000 lives (including civilians) *during* the war, with widespread starvation afterward. It's not an experiment to be repeated or proposed. It's rather like Germany going "oh hey, why don't we try that fascism thing again and see how it goes? What could go wrong?" It's not fucking funny.