5313

Yes, that’s a great example. It makes me want to scream!

5314

I remember overhearing a conversation in college between two friends, both from wealthy families, about a third friend: a scholarship kid like me who was one of the kindest people I knew, did volunteer work, helped out whoever he could. The conversation went something like “It seems like he just wants to go to college so that he can get a job where he can earn enough to pay off the debts he took on to go to college.” “Yeah, that seems like such a waste. College is about more than that.” I remember this very clearly as the moment I realized that there’s a club I am not part of and never will be. Money anxiety was just totally not something they ever had or could understand. We were scrambling like mad, working nights and holidays, to afford books and supplement tuition every semester. They were skiing.

5315

Yeah

It is great that you were able to accomplish a degree without the financial support some of the privileged kids get.

I can’t claim that I didn’t have wonderful support from my family, help with books, food money etc. 2 working parent household with college degrees, very stable upper middle class. No skiing vacations or trips to mexico for spring break. I worked all 4 years at least 20 hours a week at the college IT dept. I couldn’t imagine the difficulty of having to work more than that and do a full course-load.

I wish more people would understand their privilege, I think it would help a lot with the empathy problem the current GOP has.

5316

Pro-life. Heh.

5317

Perhaps they are deliberately being ironic.

5318

There’s already a heartbeat bill, no exceptions allowed, so unless this is bad reporting and it’s the same piece of legislation, I’d say the ultra conservatives in the state assembly thought the heartbeat bill too lenient. And by lenient I mean doesn’t pander hard enough to the Christian Right.

5319

Kasich vetoed the last bill that did this, and he will likely veto this one too.

No idea what the new governor will do though

5320

Given he sponsored the last one I doubt he will be vetoing it.

Spoiler, he is insane.

5321

DeWine is a bag of dicks. Seems like he’s been in Ohio politics since I was a kid.

Edit: basically, he has.

5322

Someone’s gunning to get the first test case in front of Kavanaugh ASAP.

Nothing on the docket for the Supreme Court regarding abortion that I can see for the Oct-Feb sessions.

5323

The Republicans have a supermajority in both chambers and can override the veto anyway. Thanks, gerrymandering!

5324

Yeah now Kansas has finally had enough, it looks like Ohio has decided they want some of that “please destroy our economy and take away our rights” action that Republicans specialize in. Good luck Ohio. Its gonna be a long road back to sanity.

5325

Small hope that if this does pass, the major sports leagues will come out against it, take their ball and go home. In the next 4 years Cleveland is going to host the MLB All-Star Game (2019), NFL Draft (finalist and frontrunner for 2020), and NBA All-Star Game (2022).

Of course, since the events will most benefit Cleveland I can see the response being “cost the state hundreds of millions to own the libs”. I’m also not sure that this is seen as the same level of issue as North Carolina’s law was, unfortunately.

5326

That’s honestly pretty remarkable for a state that voted what… 47% for Democrats? It’s a gross perversion of our democratic system.

5327

Here’s what the new Republican party does to dissenters.

5328

Of course, Georgia almost immediately backed down, Delta being their largest employer and all.

5329

Right you are. The Governor suspended the tax, which slipped by me. Anyone wonder if the Republican-controlled legislature will send a new bill reinstating the tax to the new governor in 2019?

5330

We’re going to need an Ohio caliphate thread.

5331

I live there, and I was going to suggest this myself. Ohio went overwhelmingly GOP this election (excepting Sherrod Brown and a handful of others), and our state legislature is now wholly controlled by the GOP. Up until now, John Kasich has been somewhat of a balance against the kind of political fuckery the GOP has been up to in places like North Carolina and Georgia, but come January 2019, Mike DeWine will start rubberstamping the absolute worst bullshit imaginable as the GOP attempts to cement a stronghold here for the 2020 Presidential election.

Ohio is already pretty ridiculously gerrymandered. On the bright side, we at least had decent voter ID laws, with no picture ID required, just proof of address, but I am 100% sure DeWine and the state GOP will kill that to further suppress the minority vote. I also fully expect a large slate of religious conservative bills to pass through the state legislature, including this ridiculous revision of the heartbeat bill which is just a blatant attempt to get an abortion argument back in front of the SCOTUS now that the GOP controls it. I’m also 100% certain that the state legislature will “fight back” against any company, organization or politician who opposes their nonsense, throwing Ohio’s decade of resurgent economic gains out the window in the process.

If 2020 doesn’t change anything here, I may be looking to leave the state shortly thereafter.

5332

Looks like it’s already beginning: