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And that of course is why when Roe v. Wade was finally defeated(? not sure what the best word for that situation would be), all of the states immediately held referenda to let the voters decide, instead of mostly falling back on 100+ year old laws to make abortion illegal again.
This isn't even weird, this is just a straight-up asshole.
On the one hand, I want to believe Scott Adams succumbed to some diagnosable degenerative mental illness or something. I used to enjoy Dilbert comics/media. (Anybody remember the animated series?)
On the other hand, even reading old Dilbert, a bit of me is always like "ok, yeah, in retrospect there's a disturbing undercurrent of xenophobic right-wing BS going on here". Maybe he was always like this at least to some degree before the Qanon brainworm devoured what was left of his connection to reality.
Scott Adams has been screwy from the start. I fully recommend the Behind the Bastards podcast episodes about him for anyone who hasn't heard about him.
What an absurd word soup of mental gymnastics. I genuinely think he might have have dementia.
Scott Adams is RIGHT! This is EXACTLY why Republicans NEVER SAID they would ban Abortion Nationwide and why EVERY STATE with Abortion on the Ballot is NOT SUING IN COURT to get it Removed from the Ballot! Because State's Rights!
Scott, your logic is thwarted by the fact that efforts by states citizens working to get abortion rights put to a vote as ballot initiatives are being blocked by every measure possible by the GOP. Ohio is a perfect example:
...so you're wrong, Scott. The GOP just plays dirty tricks at every level ignoring the will of the people, even its own voters on this issue.
The rules for getting a ballot initiative in Indiana make it basically impossible for it to even come up as a referendum here. And the gerrymander legislature made it clear how they felt when they made it illegal.
So the Supreme Court took a decision that women already had the freedom to make at a national level, and removed that freedom, leaving it up to a hodge-podge of different states to decide as chaotically as possible, some with an extremely hostile interpretation that criminalizes even going out of state for an abortion. And many people need to expend a shit-ton of effort just to reclaim a freedom they had already enjoyed for decades, but somehow that was a gift to women?
Scott Adams is as dumb as management.
This "everyone wanted it to be up to the states" argument is exhausting. We don't have laws to restrict knee surgery, why do we need to restrict reproductive healthcare?
Sounds a lot like "It was always her choice. If she didn't want to get raped, she shouldn't have dressed that way."
Absolutely sickening.