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[–] [email protected] 173 points 1 month ago (6 children)

This is the intent of the law, not some accidental consequence.

First, make government appear non-functional.

Second, protect child rapists.

Fuck republicans, conservatives, fascists and all their ilk.

[–] [email protected] 43 points 1 month ago

Third, make more kids to rape because abortion is illegal and the great population collapse is coming!!!!!

[–] [email protected] 29 points 1 month ago

Change the Idaho state motto to "Idaho, where you can rape your kids and they can't snitch"

[–] Zink 10 points 1 month ago

You forgot third, exploit damaged children as cheap labor or soldiers when they’re old enough. (Hence them loving child labor too)

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 month ago

The purpose of a system is what it does.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 month ago

also, encourage the constituency to become R strategists.

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[–] [email protected] 71 points 1 month ago (6 children)

What is even the argument for denying a child medical care?

Yes, we all know this is insane and stupid, but for the sake of trying to understand, what is the best argument in favour of this?

[–] [email protected] 51 points 1 month ago

Children are the sole property of their parents and no gubmint is gonna tell me how to raise my kids.

[–] [email protected] 38 points 1 month ago (1 children)

If a child is trans or wants an abortion, conservatives want the parents to be able to stop that and make the child suffer

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[–] [email protected] 28 points 1 month ago (1 children)

well, you see, trans people exist, so you must always have the right to rape your children and lock them in the basement and force them into cults.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 month ago (2 children)

Always? No exceptions? Like what if you feel guilty?

[–] [email protected] 12 points 1 month ago

Like what if you feel guilty?

then you wouldnt be a republican

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

supply side jesus will sunder the weak!

do you still feel guilty now, coward?

now get back in that (child's bed)room, crusader! rape for the rape god?

[–] [email protected] 23 points 1 month ago (1 children)

"I feed and clothe and give shelter to my child. I alone get to decide what's right for them, including education and healthcare."

Thats how it usually goes. They don't treat their children like human beings with their own will, but as property. Authoritarianism begins at home.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 month ago

Ya, that unfortunately sounds like it, and they fail to take into account that if there is an emergency their child can't be treated. That's the sort of thing that happens to other people and wouldn't the Libs just love it if that happened...

[–] [email protected] 10 points 1 month ago

"How dare you go near my child's genitals. The only people who want to that are pedophiles and gynecologists, and that's bad!"

[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Cruelty and / or stupidity.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 month ago

always and.

[–] [email protected] 53 points 1 month ago

The Gross Old Pedophiles party hard at work being gross, old pedophiles. What a surprise!

[–] [email protected] 50 points 1 month ago (1 children)

I'm a Republican and even though I'm NOT Pro Rape I'm VERY PRO THIS LAW that allows Parents to RAPE their Children! It's MUCH better then Drag Queens existing!

[–] [email protected] 23 points 1 month ago

I'm Commander Shepard and Idaho is my favorite state on the citadel.

[–] [email protected] 41 points 1 month ago (4 children)

But according to their faith it’s impossible that a parent rapes their kid.

But if he did it’s probably his right or something

[–] [email protected] 38 points 1 month ago (2 children)

What about other emergencies, like a kid breaks a bone at school/etc.? Would you not be able to help the kid?

[–] [email protected] 29 points 1 month ago (2 children)

Correct. Call the parents first.

[–] [email protected] 17 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Sir your child died 4 days ago when you left on a cruise. He got a concussion but we weren't allowed to administer any support.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 month ago

literally yes. the pedo party are R strategists.

[–] [email protected] 15 points 1 month ago

Because "protect kids."

[–] [email protected] 10 points 1 month ago

kid might get trans'd if you splint their broken toe wrong.

shit, look, im already using they/them pronouns for this kid, and they're still hypothetical! protect the children!

[–] [email protected] 37 points 1 month ago

Republicans collectively breathing a sigh of relief.

[–] [email protected] 32 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

As a non American the only thing i knew about Idaho is this bit from Simpsons.

Now i know 2 things i guess.

[–] [email protected] 26 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Wow Idaho is pro cover ups for child rape? Half the country is fine with that!

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 month ago

I think they're more than fine.

[–] [email protected] 19 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Sounds like a Republican Utopia

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[–] [email protected] 15 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (6 children)

While generally the phrase "the cruelty is the point" is a great way to show how Republican ideas hurt society, I don't think it applies here. The law is meant to hurt trans people, or children who are sexually active, not kids who were raped by their parents.

[–] [email protected] 27 points 1 month ago

But it also fully follows from the conservative view of parenting - that a child is the property of their parents - that a child who is victimized by said parents should have no legal recourse.

[–] [email protected] 18 points 1 month ago

Being bared from healthcare is a god damn human rights violation in any context. If it somehow explicity prohibited specifically the things they think are wrong, sure, it's still shit, but sure. But like this, they are quite literally stating that children don't have the right for healthcare, it's a privilege the parent must grant. It's beyond fucked! The parent can legally kill their child now, as long as nobody bothers to file a proper neglect case.

Comparing republicans to nazis is an insult to nazis; they at least actually had their fucked up family values. Republicans just want everyone to suffer more than them.

[–] [email protected] 14 points 1 month ago

Cruelty is still the point. You're just saying that it's primarily targeted at trans kids.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

Def meant to put a point on … exactly how would you actually be able to tell where that line of intentionality is? and more to point, .. does it matter, really, a system is what it does and intention is irrelevant. They meant to do something

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 month ago (1 children)

This is Idaho. I bet dollars to donuts there are a bunch of LDS members that are quite happy with this situation.

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[–] [email protected] 12 points 1 month ago (2 children)

Isn't there a whole UN rights of the child thing?

[–] [email protected] 30 points 1 month ago (2 children)

The U.S.A. - as a rule - doesn't ratify anything the U.N. declares. We don't even cooperate with the ICC. Special little (fucking) snowflakes we are.

[–] [email protected] 19 points 1 month ago (1 children)

I love the "we will invade the Netherlands if any US official is tried for was crimes in The Hague" clause/rule

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[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 month ago

Geez these USA people sound exceptional. Manifesting their own, whats the word, everyone else's destiny.

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[–] [email protected] 11 points 1 month ago

Yeah something tells me that that was the point....

[–] [email protected] 11 points 1 month ago (3 children)

Even here in FL, kids over 12 have some degree of medical privacy. The county STD clinic will treat without informing parents, you cannot access health information online (which leads to a really weird few years when I can't because they are 13 but they can't, because they aren't 18).

And emergency services are different as well, there is no way a parent would be able to block a law enforcement action either.

This law is bad, any kid who can't trust their parents is harmed by it, but I don't think it would do what the meme is implying. If someone is raped, that is a criminal offense not just a health event. If medics are asking they ought not be. Criminal evidence isn't healthcare.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 month ago

Even here in FL

Goddamn, you know things are bad when kids in Florida have more rights...fuckin hell....

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[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 month ago

o say can't you see...,

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