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Gotta pump up that 75% child poverty rate somehow (hexbear.net)

submitted 5 months ago by Posadas@hexbear.net to c/chapotraphouse@hexbear.net

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[-] SorosFootSoldier@hexbear.net 51 points 5 months ago

“Boy, these conservatives are really something, aren't they? They're all in favor of the unborn. They will do anything for the unborn. But once you're born, you're on your own. Pro-life conservatives are obsessed with the fetus from conception to nine months. After that, they don't want to know about you. They don't want to hear from you. No nothing. No neonatal care, no day care, no head start, no school lunch, no food stamps, no welfare, no nothing. If you're preborn, you're fine; if you're preschool, you're fucked.”

carlin-pog

[-] 7bicycles@hexbear.net 31 points 5 months ago

I mean occasionally the masks does not only slips but hilariously flys off and it gets pretty clear the whole thing is born from an understanding of "Human Resources"

[-] Pandantic@midwest.social 15 points 5 months ago

That was exactly my thought. No more than working livestock.

[-] EstraDoll@hexbear.net 41 points 5 months ago

do republicans ever ask why solid red states like Louisiana rank so highly in things like child poverty or are they such hardened ideologues that they're just going to do what clearly isn't working? or do they think that keeping minimum wage to $2/hour is somehow going to help people?

[-] BeamBrain@hexbear.net 52 points 5 months ago

The ones in charge: know that poor children are more likely to accept work out of desperation and have never met a way to exploit the proletariat they didn't like

The everyday voters: just hate children

[-] FlakesBongler@hexbear.net 45 points 5 months ago

Also, poor kids are more willing to join the military because they sell it as a way to escape the drudgery

[-] Pandantic@midwest.social 20 points 5 months ago

And guess what else those states have? Poor education systems, which make for more low-income workers. And also health care! Once you’re at retirement, you’re no good to the system - in fact, you’re a drain!

[-] FlakesBongler@hexbear.net 12 points 5 months ago

Funerals are cheaper than Healthcare porky-happy

[-] Mokey@hexbear.net 14 points 5 months ago

The thing is that if you fuck the kids over too much, theyre too stupid and unhealthy to join. Its just another idiotic american capitalist contradiction

[-] FlakesBongler@hexbear.net 9 points 5 months ago

Yep, but after a certain point, they just want bodies

Once had a recruiter literally tell me that they basically just want people who can hold a rifle and not shoot the other troops

[-] Mokey@hexbear.net 4 points 5 months ago

Military recruiters are fucking idiots and honestly not the arbiter of who get in or not, all they do is try to get people interested and to processing to see if they can actually join or not

[-] MarxIsTheOnlyGodIWorship@hexbear.net 1 points 5 months ago

Salespeople. Always the dumbest people on earth. They just literally read from a memorized script and smile a lot

[-] programmer_belch@lemmy.dbzer0.com 8 points 5 months ago

A grenade a day keeps the recruiter away

[-] FlakesBongler@hexbear.net 8 points 5 months ago

Wait until they're on the can

I haven't met the man who can outrun a grenade with their pants around their ankles

[-] ashinadash@hexbear.net 7 points 5 months ago

And they might do crimes, handy for the prison system!

[-] MarxIsTheOnlyGodIWorship@hexbear.net 2 points 5 months ago

To me, the core difference between rethugs and dems has always ultimately been a palpable of hatred of children (I.e a hatred of themselves ie their inner child ie “weakness”) I wish I was kidding. It’s why they call us “snowflakes”, they hate innocence. Just hate it

[-] 7bicycles@hexbear.net 36 points 5 months ago

do republicans ever ask why solid red states like Louisiana rank so highly in things like child poverty

yeah because the blue haired woke gay commiefornians keep stealing all of our hard earned money or any variation of those. That's not even specific to US Louisana republicans

[-] ClimateChangeAnxiety@hexbear.net 24 points 5 months ago

They do believe that which is crazy because California contributes more than it gets back, very much unlike Louisiana

[-] ashinadash@hexbear.net 8 points 5 months ago

yeah because the blue haired woke gay commiefornians keep stealing all of our hard earned money

sicko-wistful

[-] Rom@hexbear.net 25 points 5 months ago

They know, they just don't care about poor people.

[-] Posadas@hexbear.net 12 points 5 months ago

Take a look at the demographics.

You might start to see the answer.

[-] MarxIsTheOnlyGodIWorship@hexbear.net 2 points 5 months ago

But doesn’t this make more babies though? More of that demographic, yet another bizarre contradiction of fascism

[-] SkingradGuard@hexbear.net 34 points 5 months ago

I wonder if they'll ban contraceptives next, their media has been whining about sexual freedom a lot in the last 10 years.

[-] Des@hexbear.net 31 points 5 months ago

yeah there's a huge astroturfed ramp up trying to convince women they are "doing unnatural things to you" and other woo. basically taking the usual right-wing new age tack (anti-vaxx, etc) as well as legitimate big pharma fears.

like most propaganda efforts these days it's extremely ham fisted and obvious so we'll see what happens^___^