@mewmew The Republican party is milquetoast as fuck in most regards, except for some holdover religous issues that no one actually cares about anymore. @terryenglish @a7
@shampoobottle @mewmew @terryenglish@blob.cat @a7 Not even a lot of those lol
Ain't no Republicans talking about gay marriage nowadays
@realcaseyrollins @shampoobottle @mewmew @terryenglish there is the abortion issue, but while im extremely far left and could be described a socialist i dont like abortion so i agree with them there.
@a7 I'm a horseshoe so I think we should have mandatory abortions for low income minorities. @mewmew @terryenglish @realcaseyrollins
@shampoobottle @mewmew @terryenglish @realcaseyrollins this is why i dont like abortion - it basically is this with how they educate it and shame poor people for having children and existing.
@a7 @mewmew @terryenglish@blob.cat @shampoobottle It's called eugenics.
@realcaseyrollins @mewmew @terryenglish @shampoobottle “why are you only building abortion clinics in majority colored neighborhoods” - sshhhhh shhhh small one it is just womens rights its not eugenics and slow genocide !
@a7 @mewmew @terryenglish@blob.cat @shampoobottle It's not just black people btw
@realcaseyrollins @a7 @mewmew @terryenglish @shampoobottle
The assertion that there must be a racial component here because black people get more abortions is rather fallacious, and the question about why more of them are built near poor communities is answered by the premise of the first question (i.e. they're matching supply with demand)
1) The raw stat doesn't account for socio-economic differences. Poor people get more abortions because part of the motivation for an abortion is not being able to afford the kid. More black people are poor, so you would expect to see higher numbers in that population.
2) It's an elective procedure, not something forced on them by the state. Someone choosing to have an abortion is very different than someone being sterilized against their will, and in fact isn't being sterilized at all.
@dave @realcaseyrollins @mewmew @terryenglish @shampoobottle yes the rich keep lining their pockets and tell the poor who they want working in their factory stores their lives arent valuable enough to have offspring.
@a7 @mewmew @terryenglish @realcaseyrollins @shampoobottle Hey, you know how you could stick it to those evil factory owners and reduce abortions at the same time? Support a living minimum wage, or UBI, or something to help lift people out of poverty so they don't feel as pressured to abort the kid.
@dave @mewmew @terryenglish @realcaseyrollins @shampoobottle i support those things. I am far left anarcho syndicalist in basically all my beliefs. I am against the death penalty, for public housing, for public child care, against private property.
@a7 @mewmew @terryenglish@blob.cat @dave @shampoobottle The trouble with a UBI is that it will destroy the economy; a whole lot of lower and middle class people won't work if they're getting paid to not work.
@mewmew @terryenglish @realcaseyrollins @dave @shampoobottle @a7 Wouldn’t this incentivize people to do things that aren’t economical (I.e. work a job that has no economic future instead of learning skills in a less fun environment?) additionally it would create this new layer of government where companies all pay minimum wage and they all lobby to keep the minimum low while rising the UBI
You're confusing UBI with current welfare systems which do have these problems. Under UBI there's no financial reason to not work, as it always benefits you.
@mewmew @terryenglish@blob.cat @haxonek @dave @shampoobottle @a7 Not working has benefits too; you get paid.
If you can cut it with $1,000/mo, there's literally no reason not to.
@mewmew @terryenglish @realcaseyrollins @dave @shampoobottle @a7 You can actually live a pretty nice life on 1k a month, in cheap cities/rural parts you can pay mortgage payments of 5-600 a month, have a cheap car, and live basically your whole life on 1k a month. And if you can do that why would you ever work? (I’m saying this because I would never get a real job, I would pursue far-fetched dreams and startups my whole life if I otherwise got 1k a month)
@mewmew @terryenglish@blob.cat @haxonek @dave @shampoobottle @a7 You might be underestimating it. A whole lotta people hate their jobs tho...you don't think they'd bail if the UBI would bail them out?
