https://nitter.snopyta.org/CBSNews/status/1366966438406328323?s=19

  • worker_democracy [they/them]
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    4 years ago

    "To solve the absolutely plummeting birth rate, Democrats proposed a bill that would launch a committee to investigate the possibility of using tax credits to incentivize large corporations into designating at least one walk-in closet a 'maternity room'. The bill was struck down in committee. This is NPR."

    Yeah no nothing's turning this shit around, because no matter how worried the ruling class is about birth rates, they're way more worried about giving workers a single fucking concession. I can't even envision a full fash America managing to pull off a Handmaid's Tale type system, because even THAT would somehow be construed as a too much of a handout.

    "Wait wait wait, the broodmare's wouldn't be paying for the kids they're forced to have?"

    "Well they wouldn't be paid a wage. They're slaves."

    "Well who's paying for the kids then? Shut it down."

    • MarxistHedonism [she/her]
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      4 years ago

      That’s the reason I’m not having kids, because I need a maternity room.

      Also wait do they expect me to bring a baby to the office every day or do they just mean a room for pumping?