The House GOP’s election of Rep. Mike Johnson (La.) as Speaker is likely to give an opening to social conservatives, who plan to press him on bringing anti-abortion and anti-transgender polic…

  • @Sanctus@lemmy.world
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    311 months ago

    You’re using the literal witch hunting party as the standard. I would wager they don’t represent the average scientific belief of Americans. Hence why their abortion push is so unpopular.

    • Billiam
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      011 months ago

      So what’s the standard, in your opinion, that delineates a “scientific” nation from an unscientific one? Because I would posit a country where more than 30% of its citizens don’t believe in evolution or climate change, and who regularly get to control the government, doesn’t meet that standard.

      • @Sanctus@lemmy.world
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        211 months ago

        There is no fucking standard, we’re all shitting the bed the world over. Look at the Middle East, does that look like a bastion of scientific thought? Not in the last 1,000 years? What about the British Isles? Oh? The Tories are making a cumback? Nazis? In my Germany again? Its shit all over, dude. We left the Tau long ago.