Misleading audiences about the reality of a post-Roe America is a strategy Fox has used to promote the anti-choice movement for years

In the 18 months since the Supreme Court eliminated the nationwide right to abortion, reproductive rights’ power to boost election turnout has forced conservative media figures at Fox News and Republican politicians to reckon with voters’ outright rejection of the anti-abortion policies they have pushed for years.

Before Roe v. Wade was reversed in 2022, Fox News pundits regularly downplayed the harm that Roe’s overturning would do, while simultaneously cheering on opportunities for the landmark court decision to be relitigated under a new majority of conservative justices. Now, with the 2024 presidential election on the horizon, Fox News hosts and guests are increasingly suggesting that anti-abortion politicians should avoid specifics when referring to national abortion policies, instead suggesting messaging meant to not deter the plurality of voters who support access to reproductive health care or scare away the anti-abortion conservative base.

Abortion-protecting state ballot initiatives, pro-choice candidates, and elections that were largely seen as proxy votes on abortion have repeatedly succeeded since the June 2022 Dobbs v. Jackson Women’s Health Organization decision repealed federal abortion protections. Polling has also shown that voters overwhelmingly favor access to abortion, with public support now reaching near-record levels.

These electoral losses for the anti-abortion movement have spurred a messaging crisis among conservative leaders in both politics and media. Some are blaming Republican candidates for being too soft on abortion, as others have begun to obfuscate their support for a national ban — a policy proposal opposed by 80% of Americans, including a majority of Republicans. Meanwhile, the Democratic Party has embraced pro-choice advocacy as a cornerstone of its 2024 messaging.

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This is where submission begins...in her heart....💜

Musings and Safeties: Submission is Voluntary

And as a hypnotic subject or a general submissive, if you find yourself in a scene where the 'Dom' or 'Tist' doesn't get that, kindly have the presence of spirit to tell them to fuck off.

You always have to remember that it's YOUR surrender... YOUR submission...

Even if you are into non-con play, covert hypnosis, forced submission play or unaware brainwashing, always know that YOU are the one that needs to agree to it. Anyone that tries to convince you otherwise has no business enjoying your submission.

I say all this because someone asked me to better explain why I stated, in my previous post, that "the subject controls the hypnosis they allow the hypnotist to perform".

Broken down in simple terms, it simply means that as a subject, you should ALWAYS have the last say as to what you are made to experience. You should ALWAYS have a way to wake up or stop a scene. On the surface, you might be completely powerless under your hypnotist's dominance, but that doesn't mean that on the deeper, true level of your interaction, you aren't in control.

Or at least, if you are in a healthy scene, you should be and if you are not, that's a MAJOR red flag.

It can be a little confusing and counter intuitive, I know...

You need to think about it as if you were in a BDSM type relationship. In Dominance/submission play, the one that ultimately holds the reins is the sub. Meaning that they are the ones giving themselves to the Dom. They have all the power when it comes to limits and what they allow the Dom to do with them. They CHOOSE to partake in a power-exchange that places them beneath the other.

In that same sense, a hypnosis subject isn't a 'victim' of the trance even if some subjects love to experience covert inductions or 'forced' inductions. Just like in BDSM, the scene you are doing might appear, on the surface to be wholly non-consensual. But that's JUST the surface.

It's the fantasy you both chose to enjoy together and at the end of the day in your heart of hearts, it was still your choice to do it.

The subject ALLOWS the hypnotist to take control.

The subject ALLOWS the hypnotist to do a certain list of things to them.

In hypno-kink a safe practice to use when you begin to explore is to make sure you always have a way to stop a scene or session. Like, for example, using a safe word.

Safe words can be used by the subject to bring themselves out of trance. It doesn't matter what they are. The important thing is to spend some time with your hypnotist so they can implant that idea in your mind in a way that remains always accessible to you even if you are deeply entranced.

If your hypno-play is less intense or doesn't flirt as much with the non-consent part of the kink, then another way you can stay in control is to use setup that enables you to communicate with your hypnotist without waking up.

A typical example of this would be to use a color code: Green means all is well, yellow means to slow down or change directions and red means stop.

THAT is what I meant when I said that a subject controls the hypnosis.

If you are with a hypnotist that can't be bothered to accept this, then it is another MAJOR RED flag.

We are all here to enjoy the power play hypno-kink offers (as well as Dominance/submissive or BDSM play), but it's very important to remember that THAT power play is only possible through mutual consent.

And were there isn't consent, there is abuse and in some cases, a felony.

So again, if you find yourself experiencing your kink with someone that can't understand that the 'Dom' or 'Tist' isn't the one that is truly in control, then kindly tell them to FUCK off.

TM

The Power of Choice: Why Submission Is Not About Inferiority

Originally posted by richdifeo

Submission is a conscious, deliberate decision. A man who submits to a woman is not doing so because he’s “lesser” in any way. In fact, it takes great strength, self-awareness, and trust to voluntarily give up control. The submissive partner trusts their dominant counterpart to respect their limits, listen to their needs, and uphold boundaries.

In this dynamic, the submissive holds a significant amount of power. They control the terms of their submission, setting boundaries and communicating openly about what they’re comfortable with. A dominant without a willing submissive has no power. It is a symbiotic relationship built on trust, communication, and mutual satisfaction, where both parties are equals with different roles.

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Conservative Leader Pierre Poilievre will be facing more opponents than ever in his eighth federal campaign, thanks to dozens of protest candidates running in his riding.

Nearly 80 candidates registered to run in the Ottawa-area riding of Carleton, where Poilievre has been the MP since 2004.

Most of those candidates are linked to an electoral reform advocacy group called the Longest Ballot Committee. The group wants to put a citizens' assembly in charge of electoral reform and says political parties are too reluctant to make government more representative of the electorate.

People who don't have a multi-party, first-past-the-post parliamentary system just don't know the absolute chaos that can ensue, such as running 80 candidates in one riding.

Unfortunately, every time a party runs on election reform and then wins, they suddenly no longer want election reform, because they just won with the shitty system that voters don't like.

For those unfamiliar, first-past-the-post is a system where the person with the most votes wins, whether or not they got more than 50%... so for example, if you have a riding with 100 voters, you could get results like this:

• Candidate A - 30 votes
• Candidate B - 25 votes
• Candidate C - 20 votes
• Candidate D - 15 votes
• Candidate E - 7 votes
• Candidate F - 3 votes

So Candidate A would win, with 30% of the total votes, even though 70% of the voters didn't vote for them.

... this is especially a problem if Candidate A is the Conservative, Candidate B is the Liberal, and Candidate C is the NDP... the Liberal and NDP together would beat the Conservative, but there's no other major right-wing party to split the vote on the right. This is how the Liberals have currently jumped in the polls, while the Conservatives have remained steady, because the NDP voters are saying they will vote Liberal instead, which will result in a Liberal majority. That's how Trudeau got a landslide win in 2015... if we had something like ranked ballots, people wouldn't feel compelled to vote Liberal when they want to vote NDP, because it's the only way to stop the Conservatives from winning.

But I digress.

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