I'm curious about the number of swastikas and/or confederate flags that will be present at the Dodgers' Nazi rally Christian Night.
I think you are splitting hairs on welfare mom. He seems to be using it as shorthand for people in welfare programs.
I don't think so, for two reasons: 1 - Poor women who have kids - "welfare moms" - are a bogeyman for promiscuous women making poor choices. It goes hand in hand with poor women using abortion as birth control. It is a stereotype which continues to be perpetuated by Reps, certainly, but independents and some Dems as well. 2 - If he meant what you said, he could have said that. But if that is what he means, he can clarify.
I think it is more common for women to hold out the carrot of adoption to pay for their birthcare than it is for women to INTENTIONALLY use abortion as birth control. I have no stats on this.
I would ask why you think it's not shorthand then I saw you essay on the previous page.. I couldn't be bothered to read all of it, just the last two paragraphs. But I don't think anyone is disagreeing with your point. It is just those on the right that view the social safety net as a problem.
"These numbers include only attacks coded as terrorist, not mass shootings and the like." IOW, the actual threat is greater than this graph shows. I wonder how much impact those 130 murders have with the general public? I think there's a broad consensus on this board that right wing terrorism is a real threat to our democracy. It moves the Overton Window, and it makes otherwise fascist-curious shit like book bannings seem mainstream. For myself, I won't put bumper stickers on my car because I don't want it vandalized. But it doesn't deter me from marches and such. Many on this board write as if the public square is some kind of Mad Max deal, but obviously that's a view I disagree with. But there is an increasing sense of menace in our politics.
I again state that John Boehner, who has been rehabbed as a sane Republican threw a hissy fit when a study on right wing terrorism was released under Obama.
I agree with this that it is probably more likely, but the myth is that of abortion-as-birth-control. While that is certainly going to happen, and I do recall hearing some reporting on women who do (for specific reasons), it is also not a myth that abortion is emotionally difficult, and that it is often the option of last choice.
It was intentionally long. I half disagree. It is not that they disagree with the social safety net, it is who that safety net helps. If it was only for White people, it would be more widely accepted (not entirely, due to classism). If this was a discussion of only White people, abortion would be less controversial, the ACA ("Obamacare") would not be questioned, and they may even be okay with higher taxes. But because of the structural racism that runs through every part of our society, and those on the right, they can't see the social safety net as anything but bad.
The bolded is a main point in Heather McGhee’s book The Sum of Us. She uses the factual examples of public swimming pools. Because they are for “the public”, that includes Black Americans. So rather than share those pools, white folks instead drained the pools (and filled them in). Thus, whites would rather “do without” than share resources - especially if they have to share with people they view as undeserving.
Since the Trump 'triangulation', protecting social security is the top concern of MAGA voters. That is why Trump is attacking Ron on it. Indeed in Haley's townhall she articulated the Ryan era social security type spiel which is deeply unpopular - virtually no voters agree with it. As you guys have stated the disconnect is that the conservatives the world over created the idea of undeserving recipients, which many voters also believe.
Considering the racist origins of welfare mom (see welfare queen) the implied assumption is that dad is in jail for the worst crime anyone can commit in the US: existing while being black.
I can remember listening to that stuff on daytime political talk back radio in the early 80s when i was sick and being looked after by my nana - she listened to that crap every day Solo mums were the scourge because they were on the benefits and had too many babies. There was quite a bit of double think about the absent dads because they should be paying child support but of course often they weren't. oddly that wasn't a huge topic
Brazil's elections Court has barred Bolsonaro from running for office for eight years, citing his role fomenting the attack on Brazilian institutions. According to half of you, that ruling means Brazil is no longer a democracy. And others would argue we can't do the same here due to some imaginary lack of will. I cannot show you enough contempt in a post like this so you'll have to use your imaginations.
Didn't Italy do something like this to prevent Silvio from running again after he got convicted of some crimes?
FFS!!! This could also go in Oklahoma Thread. But seriously!?!?! WTF?!?!?! Oklahoma murder conviction reversed due to sexual relationship between judge, prosecutor
I remember someone being worried about the Biden administration openly ignoring a supreme court’s ruling: The state of Alabama is lawlessly turning an already protracted act of massive disenfranchisement of Black voters into an act of massive resistance to a Supreme Court order. This is not just an act of racial discrimination. It is a threat to the rule of law. 1/5 pic.twitter.com/xbCuV1YvC9— Janai Nelson (@JNelsonLDF) July 21, 2023
Might want to post a line or two about what Alabama is actually doing? I mean since the tweeter couldn't be bothered?