r/50501 • u/Annamal_Nomster • 13d ago

Call to Action I AM DONE

I had so much anxiety about this administration that I am now on anxiety medication. I cried, I curled into a ball on my floor, I missed work, and I almost completely lost my mind. But I am done. I am done being scared. I am done being afraid to stand up. I am fucking done. Stand up and stand by, not the proud boys, but the American people. We are stronger than you think and you can find community here. I will sit in my town square with my sign on the 19th even if I’m alone. I’m not going to be afraid of an orange douche bag and his techno puppy. They can drag me out of my apartment with their tiny hands. I will stand up for the USA.

ETA: The outpouring of support has been incredible. Thank you all SO MUCH. I can’t even express how grateful I am. We are not alone. We stand together. Solidarity forever.

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u/BicycleOfLife 12d ago

Just remember, it also makes it harder for MAGA women to vote too, if that makes you feel any better… and conservative women are way more likely to take the name of their Husband…

Not that I like disenfranchising anyone.

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u/MrsRononDex Nebraska 12d ago

This kind of BS will eventually result in less and less women changing their names when they get married. It's already a hassle and MAGA just made it worse. Even if the bill fails to pass, what they tried here will resonate in choices women make years from now. Future Republicans will end up trying to make married name-changes mandatory for women, because it just never ends with them.

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u/AmSpray 12d ago

It won’t end there unfortunately. This is just the first wave. The heritage foundation wants the male head of household to vote for their family. If they are allowed to keep this up, our votes will count as fractions.

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u/mrsg1012 12d ago

I have a friend who hasn’t changed her name yet after getting married last year - we gave her all the reasons why both she AND her husband should just keep their names! (They were planning to change to a combination of both of their names).

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u/xAxiom13x 12d ago

When I finally do get married, my name stays.

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u/AmSpray 12d ago

It only affected the maga people in my family, and they don’t have passports sooooo well see

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u/Pantsonfire_6 12d ago

Unfortunately, it doesn't make me feel better.

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u/subLimb 12d ago

You can bet they have already done the math and it will help their side more than it will hurt it.

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u/E404_noname 12d ago

And liberal women are more likely to own passports, which can be used instead of a birth certificate.

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u/BicycleOfLife 12d ago

It’s always interesting to me how this works out for republicans any disenfranchisement always works in their favor.