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Bernardo de La Paz
(48,786 posts)Chainfire
(17,305 posts)PatrickforB
(14,516 posts)But life is real hard, you know - hard to keep your nostrils above water, find meaning in much of anything, and the realization that we ALREADY live in a dystopian capitalist reality that is based on wage slavery, debt slavery, and subjugation of anyone who is not an oligarch.
Given that, how can we be surprised birth rates among white middle-class households are going down. If I had it to do over again, I might not be so eager to have children, and we only had two - to replace ourselves. My daughter has two, my middle stepdaughter has one, and my son and oldest stepdaughter don't have any. So of four kids, we have three grandkids.
That's about par for the course, because until we get a Congress that will create legislation around stuff that will actually materially benefit us, and make life a bit less hard, no one I know is jumping up and down to have a big family.
I mean, I know that would be convenient for these Republican idiots, but there it is. The society sucks, the economy sucks, capitalism sucks and our lives lack so much meaning we have to engage in various forms of escapism, and we have all kinds of mental illnesses. I think anxiety and depression, for instance, are both correlated very closely to our profits over people system here in America.
Why have big families? Why even have kids? Might be a moot point too, if we go extinct from human-caused climate cataclysms.
Bernardo de La Paz
(48,786 posts)... the Bannonesque coin they buy single-issue voters with so they can rake in untaxed profits.
Farmer-Rick
(10,072 posts)Are seeing declines in birthrates. Global capitalism is a very destructive force. Funny how China claims suddenly that capitalism is being used as a weapon. But it has always been used as a weapon against the middle class and poor.
There is very little economic opportunity in the US for the middle class and poor. If you are born into poverty the vast majority of people will remain poor. And the middle class has vastly shrunk and keeps getting smaller.
So, yeah, why bring a child into this stagnant and decaying
economy? The same thing would have happened in late stage feudalism if women could have controlled the number of children they had.
So, to give our failing economic system the sheen of health, they have to force women to have unwanted babies. It provides a starving population to draw cheap labor and troops from and it makes it look like a functional economy.
I wonder what the European world would have looked like if women could have controlled their reproductive systems in late stage feudalism?
Auggie
(31,060 posts)Go for it.
KS Toronado
(16,904 posts)Meanwhile the Bible they cling to has 5 verses stating life begins with the first breath.
That's when a fetus gets a soul.
Permanut
(5,436 posts)who bragged about her work as a Republican House member to get government off your back.
This was at a campaign rally in August 2018 in Kingsport, Tennessee for her Senate race. You know, the one where she praised TFG. Sounds like some flip-flopping going on here.
As reported by the New York Times.
Thomas Hurt
(13,903 posts)for sins. God means for you to starve or have a baby or an STD and since God seems to be letting this slide....well the christofascists just have to substitute their will for God's.
Farmer-Rick
(10,072 posts)Where unwanted infants were thrown on the trash heap or drowned in the river.
That's what Jesus saw all around him. That and slavery. And he never said word one about either social horrors.
And if it was good enough for Jesus, it's good enough for you ...even if you think Jesus is a myth.
CaptainTruth
(6,546 posts)If they can make abortion & even the use of contraceptives felonies, felons can't vote.
intheflow
(28,406 posts)they all have the money and means to get abortions in other countries if they need them. Wrong women = poor women.
MLAA
(17,163 posts)niyad
(112,432 posts)would be going after all forms of birth control, sex education, and anything else that would give women control over their own lives. This includes repealing the 19th Amendment, credit laws, etc. "The Handmaid's Tale" is only the starter kit.
a hypocrite just like the majority of republicans. I dont believe for one minute she has never used birth control.
Hekate
(90,189 posts)Why the hell are these women not at home pumping out babies every year? Whats wrong with them and their menfolk that they arent practicing what theyre preaching? Whats with this fancy-schmancy public career thing for Amy Coney Barrett and Marsha Blackburn?
I hate them. The hypocrisy and the sheer unmitigated cruelty.
niyad
(112,432 posts)around the country telling women that it was their god-ordained duty to stay home and take care of their children. I asked her who was looking after hers. She got very defensive.
Wild blueberry
(6,541 posts)Brava!
niyad
(112,432 posts)forcing women into combat, I asked her why, if it was so awful for our daughters to go to war, it was so wonderful for our sons. Pro-war hawk that she was, she changed the subject.
Hekate
(90,189 posts)
have to suffer and remain poor forever by having kid after kid they cant afford to feed and educate.
The humorous 1921 song Aint We Got Fun has the line The rich get richer and the poor get children.
https://sheetmusicsinger.com/greatestsongs/aint-we-got-fun/
That lines not funny, though, if you think about it too much. Margaret Sangers autobiography mentions Sadie, a woman (possibly composite) she cared for as a visiting nurse, who begged her for a way to keep from having more babies she and her husband couldnt afford. The doctor wont tell me, but he knows. Rich people know some secret. But at that time Sanger herself did not know.
Rich people know some secret. And that was over a century ago.
The utter hypocrisy and cruelty.
niyad
(112,432 posts)Efilroft Sul
(3,573 posts)If she replies, "That's none of your business!", the response should be, "Exactly. Now stay out of everybody else's intimate relations."
Johonny
(20,681 posts)Traildogbob
(8,571 posts)To do is hammer all the GQP objectives and actions by them day and night. Getting the message out should be easier than shouting one time at The Burning Man Festival, Free weed and Mushrooms by the porta Johns. They tee up a soft ball pitch everyday. Rick Scott and Cawthorn PRINT their list of demands, easily read, end social security, Medicare, Medicade, encourage seniors to Work at fast food, eliminate voting in democracy, outlaw abortion and birth control, demand 13 year old carry daddys child, or a rapists entire family Sue the victim if she aborted, kill a woman with a tubal pregnancy, open carry in middle school, no rules or laws for wealthy, go to rallies and kill people with illegal gun out of state, give permission to drive cars into protesters, burn all books but the Buy Bull, eliminate al LGBQ and POC as animals, and I could go on. If these idiotic ideals do not give Dems a grand slam platform to sweep every seat anywhere, this is one serious shit hole country. Wake The Fuck Up. The young people too busy to vote this out of our country, you deserve the Russian, Saudi life you style get. Those Burkas in Florida, Texas, Georgia, Bama heat not very comfy. My days are sprinting to a sunset. Not gonna affect me for long. Im tired of begging for you younguns to get the fuck WOKE. Enjoy your all
White pro sports teams and no TV except Fox 24/7. You will need to subscription to National Geographic for your porn.
Liberal Hollywood, start shooting footage NOW. Get the message out.
LetMyPeopleVote
(143,999 posts)FakeNoose
(32,341 posts)Dukkha
(7,341 posts)doesn't mean other women don't deserve the right to birth control.
Rabrrrrrr
(58,347 posts)next up - legalizing rape. Or, more likely, not legalizing it per se; they'll just say that there is no such thing as rape.
niyad
(112,432 posts)GB_RN
(2,267 posts)Has some people with seriously FUBAR ideologies.
Deb
(3,742 posts)She always gets up on the wrong side
Scalded Nun
(1,231 posts)Maine Abu El Banat
(3,479 posts)I thought THEY were the freedom party.
Love4u
(10 posts)I guess not.
bucolic_frolic
(42,663 posts)We don't run fierce enough. We have to be un-nice on occasion.
SheltieLover
(57,073 posts)lonely bird
(1,642 posts)Right below was a thread about prayers for the GOAT Clarence Thomas. Republicans are psychotic.
Now I remember why I dont go on Twitter.
calimary
(80,693 posts)Woke up. Checked DU to read in as usual, and who do I see? A blight-to-my-field-of-vision-on-two-legs - named Marsha Blackburn.
Botany
(70,291 posts)Women* should be allowed for have sex for fun just because it is their right. Blackburn wants
to take that away from the women in TN.
* girls
IronLionZion
(45,256 posts)keep it simple
YoshidaYui
(41,759 posts)RandiFan1290
(6,206 posts)instead of just whining about tweets from Rep. Ocasio-Cortez
Racygrandma
(109 posts)and they do not believe me. They just get this blank look on their face.
Uncle Joe
(58,111 posts)Thanks for the thread EarlG.
Aussie105
(5,211 posts)But a supposed first world country having politicians agonizing over basic human rights like this?
Does not compute! Wrong country, wrong century.
Marthe48
(16,691 posts)to get right in their business? Till death part them?
So sick of these lowlife criminal thugs trying to impose their sick, twisted nightmares on everyone else.
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turbinetree
(24,632 posts)and then move on to the next subject to find out how many Russians obligato's are funding her fascist loving bid to in office,,,,using Ukraine blood money.......
pansypoo53219
(20,906 posts)cstanleytech
(26,080 posts)qualifications which she has in spades but its because she is a black female and that scares the shit out of them.
After all if qualifications actually mattered then Barrett should never have gotten their support as she had been on the bench for 2 years or so unlike Jackson.
That proves that the only real qualification for Republicans is that the candidate has to be a Republican and preferably a white one.
Dr. T
(93 posts)incredibly sexist, I'd say that if Rupuglicans ban contraceptives, Marsha Blackburn's face will be illegal. My apologies to those who are offended by these words ... except Marsha.
GB_RN
(2,267 posts)To be this stupid. And Blackburn (along with Bang Bang Barbie, Marjorie Traitor Greene, Louie Gohmert, Cow Chip Roy, etc) definitely makes the case for requiring an IQ test with a minimum score to run for/hold federal office.