• Ibaudia@lemmy.world
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    I don’t understand how you can say “you have to have a kid even if you can’t support it” when it comes to abortion and then say “I don’t want my taxes to help pay for your kid’s food” when it comes to food assistance. The consequence is obviously going to be food insecurity for kids, why would you not want your tax money to help fix that? 8.4% of US kids are food insecure.

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      Evergreen George Carlin quote: “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.”

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      Well, it makes perfect sense when you realize these people view kids as nothing more than instruments of economic growth - forcing parents to work in conditions they don’t want to, to make ends meet. And nowadays, even lowering working age and working conditions for the kids themselves to force them to work as well. They are purely pro-capitalism and they want the kids to be forced to be born so there will be a steady supply of meat for the grinder. It’s that simple.

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        Maybe that’s what corpos want, but I think the average american Republican is just so braindead hyper-individualistic that they don’t quite grasp the consequences of their own philosophy. Seems like it’s just “take care of yourself, I don’t want to have to hear about you”, full stop with 0 consideration for what that actually means.

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          You give them far too little credit. Most of these people are not stupid, just often massively confused about what they can allow themselves to say out loud in public without hurting their (re)election chances. They know full well what they are doing, and for whom.

          They are fucking evil misantropic fascist shitbags.

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          I suppose I could have clarified by differentiating between “Republican leaders” and “Republican followers” - the latter group being largely irrelevant to discussion because they’ll believe and regurgitate whatever the first group tells them to. So by “they” in this case, I mean billionaires, politicians, and “influencers” of those philosophies

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      The issue is that you’re looking at it from a common sense view. They don’t share it. They just decided this is what they believe in, and will oppose anything else. It doesn’t have to make sense for them.

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        Yeah the reactionaries are definitely a big component of the problem here. Opposing progress in all its forms even if it’s oxymorinic to do so.