Women's March Megathead

[Gass3268]

Estimates that there are twice as many people here in DC today than there was yesterday.

Crowd at a Metro Station




Crowd growing at the event



There are also protests across the country and the world.

[Gass3268]

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[Beet]

Where's the Men's march? This is sexist!

[Chunk Yogurt for President!]

"My body, not yours"

Chill out, Trump is on your side when it comes to abortion.

[heatcharger]

Chill out, Trump is on your side when it comes to abortion.

Lol, no he's not. Are you forgetting the fact that he'll pick some pro-life ideologue for the Supreme Court?

Anyways, good stuff. Hopefully everyone stays safe.

[Chunk Yogurt for President!]

Chill out, Trump is on your side when it comes to abortion.

Lol, no he's not. Are you forgetting the fact that he'll pick some pro-life ideologue for the Supreme Court?

Democrats have been saying that since at least the 90s.  But somehow, the abortion industry always emerges unscathed.

[dead0man]

and they all starved because nobody brought any sandwiches

[pbrower2a]

Chill out, Trump is on your side when it comes to abortion.

Lol, no he's not. Are you forgetting the fact that he'll pick some pro-life ideologue for the Supreme Court?

Democrats have been saying that since at least the 90s.  But somehow, the abortion industry always emerges unscathed.

Abortion is down -- way down. Maybe it is because fewer women are getting raped. Maybe it is because people got more optimistic while Obama was President.

Abortion is a desperate choice. It involves either a desperate medical situation or extreme economic distress. Nobody has an abortion for the fun of it. Even those who have an abortion for the reason of life or health of the mother can feel some combination of guilt and grief.

Outlawing abortion in America implies that American females will go elsewhere -- across the borders -- to get abortions. But in any event, stare decisis prevails.   

[KingSweden]

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Good on them for including him, that's seriously pretty cool

Though it sounds like Jim Nantz did an okay job yesterday

[Lincoln Republican]

Shrieking, shrill feminists fear mongering.

Do they really think that mean mouthing the President of the United States is going to further their agenda?

[pbrower2a]

Shrieking, shrill feminists fear mongering.

Do they really think that mean mouthing the President of the United States is going to further their agenda?

Agreed...a rapist and sexual abuser like Trump will not listen to them

It's to ensure that Donald Trump cannot be effective in ramming a on-to-the-Twenties agenda (making the 2020s look much like the 1920s, a slum of a decade). It is to start the political organization that can take him down in 2020.

There will be other interest groups -- ethnic minorities seeing themselves squeezed, environmentalists, advocates for high-quality education, and industrial workers who don't want poverty -- who will resist a bossy, insensitive, extremist President. Maybe peace activists should there be a looming threat of a War for Profits... like taking over Venezuela to divvy up the state-owned oil company?

Donald Trump offers much to fear and loathe. The concept that we must all defer to the harshest demands of a plutocratic elite just to survive has been tried -- and found wanting.

[Suburbia]

Women can march all they want. Free speech.

It's their bodies, not ours. We men should say the same as well. When we eat football food and chips, don't snatch the bag from us. Our bodies, our food too.

But what the heck, who cares anyway. Enjoy the march. Women outnumber men anyway. They control how men eat in the first place.

[Xing]

Looks like our side won the PV again.

I've said it before and I'll say it again: If opposition to Trump is ignored, mocked, and belittled, it's only going to get stronger and angrier.

[Devout Centrist]

"My body, not yours"

Chill out, Trump is on your side when it comes to abortion.

BAHAHAHAHA

He's going for a pro-life SCOTUS nominee and is going to sign the Mexico City policy. Christ.

[Cashew]

Abortion is a desperate choice. It involves either a desperate medical situation or extreme economic distress. Nobody has an abortion for the fun of it. Even those who have an abortion for the reason of life or health of the mother can feel some combination of guilt and grief.   

1. That would be a lot more believable if a quick google search did not reveal plenty of people who think of abortion as a positive good.
2. Much of your party is in denial about the psycholocial consequences of an abortion, so your lecturing the wrong crowd.

Outlawing abortion in America implies that American females will go elsewhere -- across the borders -- to get abortions. But in any event, stare decisis prevails.  

Making it less socially acceptable to get an abortion is in itself a victory.

[pbrower2a]

Abortion is a desperate choice. It involves either a desperate medical situation or extreme economic distress. Nobody has an abortion for the fun of it. Even those who have an abortion for the reason of life or health of the mother can feel some combination of guilt and grief.   

1. That would be a lot more believable if a quick google search did not reveal plenty of people who think of abortion as a positive good.
2. Much of your party is in denial about the psycholocial consequences of an abortion, so your lecturing the wrong crowd.

Outlawing abortion in America implies that American females will go elsewhere -- across the borders -- to get abortions. But in any event, stare decisis prevails.  

Making it less socially acceptable to get an abortion is in itself a victory.

I wish that Adolf Hitler, Saddam Hussein, and Charles Manson had been aborted.

[pbrower2a]

Shrieking, shrill feminists fear mongering.

Do they really think that mean mouthing the President of the United States is going to further their agenda?

The mass rallies criticizing Trump and GOP policies have started at a far earlier stage in this Presidency than the Tea Party rallies under former President Obama.

[afleitch]

Grab back, sisters, Grab back.

[Deblano]

"My body, not yours"

Chill out, Trump is on your side when it comes to abortion.

This is not the Donald Trump of 2000, this is the Donald Trump of 2017.

Yes, Trump is more moderate and pragmatic than say, Ted Cruz, but I don't understand where people get this impression that he's a super-moderate Rockefeller Republican.

[Cashew]

Abortion is a desperate choice. It involves either a desperate medical situation or extreme economic distress. Nobody has an abortion for the fun of it. Even those who have an abortion for the reason of life or health of the mother can feel some combination of guilt and grief.   

1. That would be a lot more believable if a quick google search did not reveal plenty of people who think of abortion as a positive good.
2. Much of your party is in denial about the psycholocial consequences of an abortion, so your lecturing the wrong crowd.

Outlawing abortion in America implies that American females will go elsewhere -- across the borders -- to get abortions. But in any event, stare decisis prevails.  

Making it less socially acceptable to get an abortion is in itself a victory.

I wish that Adolf Hitler, Saddam Hussein, and Charles Manson had been aborted.

I can see why someone who does not believe in free will or moral agency would say that.

Let me be clear, I undertrand the consequentialist argument, however that is setting a standard in itself of when abortion is acceptable. The pro choicer argument by its very nature is the antithesis of this.

[Ban my account ffs!]

"My body, not yours"

Chill out, Trump is on your side when it comes to abortion.

You really think that phrase is just about abortion?  Guess it betrays the simple mindedness of conservatives.

[publicunofficial]

Judging on metro ticket sales, more people showed up to the March than the Inauguration

[Suburbia]

The march seems pretty good, Madonna and Ashley Judd were feisty, but apparently conservative and centrist women weren't allowed to march.

[publicunofficial]

The march seems pretty good, Madonna and Ashley Judd were feisty, but apparently conservative and centrist women weren't allowed to march.

It's true. The Ess Jay Dubble-U's put up checkpoints at all the entrances and made every attendee take the Political Compass test. Anyone who failed was tortured on Facebook Live.

[Absentee Voting Ghost of Ruin]

Looks like our side won the PV again.

I've said it before and I'll say it again: If opposition to Trump is ignored, mocked, and belittled, it's only going to get stronger and angrier.

What was Gandi's quote again? "First they ignore you, then they laugh at you, then they fight you, then you win"?