• Bob Robertson IX
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    569 hours ago

    Sen. Blackmon is a Democrat and is pro-choice. This is a bill to highlight the absurdity of restrictive bills being introduced nationwide against women. It is meant to be provocative and is meant to be ridiculed.

    Blackmon aims to highlight the double standards in such laws by focusing on men’s roles in reproduction, using satire to provoke discussion on the issue.

    https://www.latintimes.com/mississippi-lawmaker-introduces-contraception-begins-erection-act-outlaw-ejaculation-without-573188

    • @LordCrom
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      53 hours ago

      I bet he got at least 5 evangelicals to offer to co sponsor the bill.

  • @IzzyScissor
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    127 hours ago

    This section shall not apply to the discharge of genetic material: Donated or sold to a facility for the purpose of future procedures to fertilize an embryo

    Brb, starting an IVF facility. It might not work, and we might only accept donations, but we SWEAR we’re trying to fertilize embryos. Eventually. Someday in the future.

  • @[email protected]
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    5510 hours ago

    As written by Sen. Bradford Blackmon, the bill would make it “unlawful for a person to discharge genetic material without the intent to fertilize an embryo.”

    Biology really isn’t my thing, but I think this might make it illegal for a woman to have her period?

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      4110 hours ago

      DNA is genetic material. If all cells have DNA in their nucleus, then any bodily function is now illegal unless you also get someone pregnant.

      But also if they don’t define what embryo, maybe we can all just carry around a can of caviar for safety?

    • Maeve
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      1710 hours ago

      Makes it illegal to shed skin cells, blow your nose, spit out phlegm, use the bathroom.

    • @Lasherz12
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      69 hours ago

      Biology is even less of the GOPs thing, you’re definitely fully qualified to have this discussion with them.

      • @PM_Your_Nudes_Please
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        The bill was introduced by a pro-choice democrat.

        Poe’s Law is in full effect in this comments section; So many people have missed the fact that the bill is hyperbolic on purpose. It’s meant to be sarcastic to poke fun at pro-life republicans, not actually something that has any chance of passing.

        The fact that you believed it was real means it was successful in shining a light on pro-lifers’ craziness.

  • @alleycat
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    4410 hours ago

    In a statement to WLBT News, Blackmon wrote, “All across the country, especially here in Mississippi, the vast majority of bills relating to contraception and/or abortion focus on the woman’s role when men are fifty percent of the equation.

    This bill highlights that fact and brings the man’s role into the conversation. People can get up in arms and call it absurd but I can’t say that bothers me.”

    So it’s just legislative trolling? Then again, Trump has declared every American a women, so this bill is no longer needed. ; )

  • @workerONE
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    119 hours ago

    The doctors look down at my boner and ask what I’m going to name it. “Hank or Clarissa” I say.

  • @over_clox
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    1710 hours ago

    Excuse the splooge out of me, WTF?

    • @jordanlundOPM
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      2610 hours ago

      "As written by Sen. Bradford Blackmon, the bill would make it “unlawful for a person to discharge genetic material without the intent to fertilize an embryo.”

      There are also fines involved, the third strike resulting in the loss of $10,000 from the perpetrator."

      Not sure how you “fertilize an embryo”, if it’s an embryo, it’s BEEN fertilized for a while now…

      • @UnderpantsWeevil
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        Sen. Bradford Blackmon, a Democrat in a heavily gerrymandered seat he inherited from his mother, wrote this as a joke.

        It wouldn’t be proper troll legislation if it didn’t have a few head-scratchers like this.

        • @[email protected]
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          1310 hours ago

          Shed hair? Go to jail. Have dandruff? Straight to jail. Cut yourself and bleed? Believe it or not, jail.

        • @inb4_FoundTheVegan
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          1310 hours ago

          You mean the ritualistic killing of a child every month by women who aren’t following gods plan of constant pregnancy starting at puberty?!?!

        • @[email protected]
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          59 hours ago

          “The US government has received a record $69 trillion in tax income via new fines. In other news every male in America was found to be $420,000,000 in debt.”

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      149 hours ago

      “All across the country, especially here in Mississippi, the vast majority of bills relating to contraception and/or abortion focus on the woman’s role when men are fifty percent of the equation. This bill highlights that fact and brings the man’s role into the conversation.

      It’s a stunt. And it highlights how misogynistic the Republican bills are.
      The Senator is a Democrat.

      • qprimed
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        yup, context is important here. dude is legit trolling for the beat best reasons.

        edit: had to keep that ironically perfect typo in there.

    • @over_clox
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      810 hours ago

      What’s the difference between a clown and a politican? Clowns have to go to college.

  • @Nightwingdragon
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    49 hours ago

    To me, this just comes off as someone trying to make a political statement regarding contraception and just falling flat.

  • @smokin_shinobi
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    I hope everybody starts mailing their wadded up tissues to this guys house.

    • qprimed
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      159 hours ago

      In a statement to WLBT News, Blackmon wrote, “All across the country, especially here in Mississippi, the vast majority of bills relating to contraception and/or abortion focus on the woman’s role when men are fifty percent of the equation."

      appears to be legislative shitposting. he’s being ironic to highlight conservative brain damage, so kudos to him.

      • @PM_Your_Nudes_Please
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        And the fact that so many people believed it to be real is what really highlights the extent of pro-life craziness. Poe’s Law is in full effect in this thread, with so many people mistaking the bill as genuine.