• NapoleonBlownApart [he/him]
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    4 months ago

    Everything from the top down in this country is built around people with kids. The entire social safety net, 90% of public spaces etc....

    The childless are always an afterthought.

    • HarryLime [any]
      hexagon
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      4 months ago

      She's married and she has stepkids. Vance is basically saying that stepmothers aren't real mothers, which will not go over well at all.

        • emizeko [they/them]
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          4 months ago

          Stuck In The Dryer PAC is one of the most powerful lobbies in Washington

        • HamManBad [he/him]
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          4 months ago

          Even a surprising percentage of the conservative women I've met are step moms. Second wives awkwardly defending their husband's ill gotten gains hold up half the MAGA sky

        • Pentacat [he/him]
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          4 months ago

          Vance’s porn searches are all on the dark web, not pornhub like mainstream conservatives.

      • NapoleonBlownApart [he/him]
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        4 months ago

        Oh, that's way more shitty than I thought. I was at work when I made that comment.

        A majority of millennials probably have a step parent. If anything mattered, his comment would be a devastating blow to his popularity

    • Collatz_problem [comrade/them]
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      4 months ago

      I don't think so. Suburbs are very child-unfriendly, for example, and this, I think, is one of the most important factors for the rise of socially maladjusted people. The capitalist economy is also much harder for people with children.

      • NapoleonBlownApart [he/him]
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        4 months ago

        That's probably true these days. I grew up in a neighborhood, and it was just like the boomers say. Playing until the street lights came on, all the kids were close enough to my age... We played street hockey and skateboarded. Lots of neighborhood wide games of hide and seek. The neighbors mostly knew each other

        Our lives were a little less atomized back then, and the economy wasn't completely soul crushing.

      • Iwishiwasntthisway
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        4 months ago

        Inner ring or pre 1990s suburbs are pretty child friendly. I see kids about 8+ going to the park or 711 or whatever. The problem is you're not going to get a 3500 sq ft house on half an acre of unused land in these places and that's what people wanted up until fairly recently.