• Newsteinleo@midwest.social
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    23 hours ago

    A friend of mine has three kids and works 70 hours a week. He is not able to make enough to support his family, and social services have been cut so much that his only option is to take out a personal loan, which will only make his problem worse.

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      19 hours ago

      14 hours leaves you barely 2 hours of personal time in a day. That’s barely enough to just eat and maybe relax but then if you have 3 kids even that time is gone taking care of them. How and why would anyone put themselves through this, like after the first or second kid wouldn’t your own limits become apparent

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        18 hours ago

        14 hours leaves you barely 2 hours of personal time in a day

        You’ve misspelled “commute”

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          Yeah didn’t think about that but that’s probably another 2 hours of energy spent on driving, because everything is spread out and there’s no good public transportation options outside of specific areas

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        15 hours ago

        Some people find themselves in places where they lack the choice to limit themselves to two children when an accident happens. Not everyone has the resources to travel to a place where they would be able to make a choice.

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          15 hours ago

          What, are you using the word places as a metaphor or literally, cause I’ve never heard of a location where you have to have more kids than you can afford, other than maybe villages where kids are seen as free labor

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            14 hours ago

            Currently, in the US there are States were you can get an abortion and States were you cant. So, if you have an unplanned pregnancy you are kind of fucked.

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              13 hours ago

              Oh yeah I forgot about that, that is messed up, I hope this period of madness ends soon and we can get some normalcy back

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                6 hours ago

                If they are following the usual timeline, that’s another 4 years until a world war, and then another 6 years until someone drops a bomb and ends everything.

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      16 hours ago

      In the USA? If yes, the US is a sick country in regard to income distribution, labor laws, healthcare and public services. However, if your friend voted MAGA, zero sympathy and he/she can carry on.

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        15 hours ago

        I don’t think children should suffer regardless of who their parents voted for, I find your callousness as bad as bad as those that voted for Trump.

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        16 hours ago

        However, if your friend voted MAGA, zero sympathy

        It’s so bizarre to see liberal politician after liberal politician promise economic reforms common to the rest of the industrial world, then fail to deliver over and over again.

        And then someone sees a ghoul like Hilary Clinton or Joe Biden running at the top of the ticket, or an American Psycho like Newsom or Adams or Cuomo trying to hijack any semblance of progressive politics for their own vainglory. And they say “Nope, not supporting that garbage”.

        Then everything that comes after is on their heads, somehow.

        Not on the heads of the trillionaire plutocrats setting economic policy. Or military leadership goading us into the next war. Or evangelical hucksters selling snake oil to desperate people.

        Nope. Always the fault of Joe Dirt when Obama can’t win his third term.