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  • EstraDoll [she/her]
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    4 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 [he/him]
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      4 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 [they/them]
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        4 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
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          4 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!

        • Mokey [none/use name]
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          4 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 [they/them]
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            4 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 [none/use name]
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              4 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

          • FlakesBongler [they/them]
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            4 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

      • MarxIsTheOnlyGodIWorship [comrade/them]
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        3 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 [he/him]
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      4 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

    • Rom [he/him]
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      4 months ago

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