Scientists already know that abortion restrictions and bans increase the number of dead women, but a new study on Texas shows that it also increases the number of dead babies. So that's very cool, very pro-life https://skepchick.org/2024/07/texass-abortion-ban-is-killing-babies/
@Npars01 ... and just wait for contraceptives to be banned as well, in a logical progression. But only for women, of course. The fact that oral contraceptives are the "day-after pill" (and can be used as such) means they're already on the agenda, whether publicly or not.
That was outlined in part with the Hobby Lobby case. The ruling may not have made oral contraceptives illegal, but it made contraceptives equal to abortion.
@Npars01@rebeccawatson
... which is a consequence of Americas choice of permanently disenfranchising people convicted of a range of crimes.
No other nation does that, TTBOMK, and many allow people in jail to vote. Some even allow people charged and detained, but not yet convicted to vote - which is 1/37th as incredible as US gun laws.
That so evil. In Australia, you get the vote back three years before leaving prison. On the principle, that you'll be free during part of the term of the government being elected.
One of the most reliable voting blocs for Republicans is the Karen Cohort.
Women who believe they are self-appointed arbiters of social norms. Control freaks. Conformists who like imposing their religious zealotry on others. Often poorly educated & lacking in self-awareness.
They're very status conscious & waste inordinate amount of their lives maintaining a false public persona. To look richer than they are. To look more influential than they are...
They're socialized to be afraid of everything. PoC. Immigrants. Science. Literacy. Ideas. The future. Progress. Change. Independence. Agency. Autonomy. Hag-ridden by nebulous anxieties
@Npars01@i_give_u_worms
Karen is average in every way. Her father never went to college, as most people didn't back then, but his cousin brought him into the union, and that was their ticket to the middle class. Karen's aunt got her a job in the steno pool. Jobs anyone could do, but they had the connections, and that made them special.
If anyone could get a job in the steno pool, what would become of Karen?
If the husband could get a steady job, families used to be able to afford a house on the husband's income in the suburbs, that would have been the standard expectation, the average. Also, what is a steno pool?
Families with one income can't buy a house when the market is all two income families, the houses are all way overpriced where I am, but it's also a place where jobs haven't vanished like a tide that went out.
As for "Where the jobs went" there are a lot of janitorial and trade jobs in this area where wages are artificially low because the county has villainized people coming into the country and not employers who specifically hire them. The lack of respect for the people in those jobs just compounds the unrealistically low wages in those jobs that used to be something people could work full time at and have something to live on.
@CassandraVert@Npars01
Tack on the incentive of businesses to stratify full.time to top shelf because full time has to bear entire burden of exorbitant health insurance and whatever I thought the job market is, is a big sugar cube that is getting pissed on.
They have been conditioned from birth that power-adjacency is their role. They thrive under the “protection” of the patriarchal hegemony and operate from a perspective of fear, lack, and judgement. Weaned on the milk of scarcity and “if others succeed, I’m at risk,” these women actively work to close doors of oppty to others. They also truly believe that their skin color makes them superior to others.