Think of the children

Submitted ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩ by ⁨Ekybio@lemmy.world⁩ to ⁨conservative@lemmy.world⁩

https://slate.com/news-and-politics/2023/09/human-rights-watch-usa-child-abuse-labor-report.html

NSFW for: Potentially challanging your narrative and worldview.

I recently found this article summarising important findings.

Breaking out of ones own bubble is important. And I would like you to remember this the next time you are at a ballot.

If you really think of the children, vote according to reality.

And if you FEEL personally attacked by this article and bash me in the comments, whataboutism away from the subject or bothsides-ing the issue; Thanks for making my point for me and seek help.

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random65837@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago
Most cherry picked biased garbage Ive ever seen. Wonder if any other things could be twisted further out of context from real life.

And if you FEEL personally attacked by this article

Words in print can’t “personally attack” people LOL! Unless you’re a bubblewrapped snowflake actively looking to be offended by anything and everything.

Sticks and stones people…

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- Ekybio@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago
  Thanks for making my point and getting “personally attacked” (triggered) by words.
  
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  - irmoz@reddthat.com ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago
    It’s so fucking predictanle. Neither of these critical comments even mention anything said in the article. Likely because they aren’t able to refute it.
    
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- Sniper@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago
  You seem… offended by this article
  
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- irmoz@reddthat.com ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago
  How’s it cherry picked? Where’s the greater context that makes these facts more reasonable?
  
  How’s it biased? What is the true story, and how does the article twist it?
  
  Also, the last half of your comment is just unhinged rambling about bubbkewrapped snowflakes, when everyone knows the real safe space is among conservatives, with fingers in your ears singing “LALALALA”.
  
  There’s no need to tell this person not everytjing is offensive. They are not the one being offended. And telling you not to be offended doesn’t mean they themselves are easily offended. That’s an absurd reach. What it means is they have experience bringing truth to conservatives, and know what to expect.
  
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- asteriskeverything@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago
  You just made my night!!! I am absolutely drunk on the irony.
  
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Dissasterix@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

Government allows questionable laws to exist on the books Government spends money in misguided places More government will make it better.

There’s a Thomas Sowell book called ‘Conflict of Visions,’ its pretty neat. Ultimately he breaks Left/Right into two philosophies: The Anointed believe everything can be solved with infinte money, and the Blighted believe that some problems are inherintly hard and cannot be solved without an impossible level of force. Basically P vs NP but with people.

I dont think giving more money to the government will save the world. Tax revenue is up, government spending is up-- but the problems persist… Then consider that an endless national debt may destroy the economic enviroment of today’s children as they grow up. I dont know about you but this ‘9% transitory inflationy’ has cut my buying power nearly in half!

The only answer provided ever is give the government more money/power. Its pretty silly. No thanks. They’ll just use to pedal soft-power to sketchy Eastern blok nations again, lol. Uncongressional wars for two decades. Create a spying apparatus that makes Stalin blush… Its a joke.

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- irmoz@reddthat.com ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago
  Are you joking? Did you even read the article?
  
  It talks about child marriage, child labour and forced birth. None of these problems in particular require money, just laws to be passed.
  
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  - Dissasterix@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago
    No, ‘Think of the children’ is a meme :p
    
    Laws are written by government lawyers. Laws are revoked and rescinded by government workers. These laws still exist. Unpopular laws still exist… In many States a law can be petitioned into existence-- to get broken and watered down in beaureocratic double-speak. Worse, laws dont just go away, they’re written over. Wherein §512.765 still reffrences the ‘removed’ §218.231(A)(2) verbiage. Its a clusterfuck.
    
    Do you really think more taxes/government will end the ageless problem of shit parenting and poor parents?
    
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Md1501@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago
While I disagree with some if the points in the article, the conclusion that is reached in the article is valid. I am not saying that conservatives want it this way, but most conservatives seem to be so hyper focused in certain areas that other areas slip through the cracks ( except for school lunches, a lot of conservatives hate providing “free” school lunches to students who need them)

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Dkarma@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago
Conservatives don’t care about kids.
The proof is in the pudding:

Children in the US can be legally married in 41 states, physically punished by school administrators in 47 states, sentenced to life without parole in 22 states, and work in hazardous agriculture conditions in all 50 states.” Over and over again, the worst states for children are clustered around the “pro-life” Bible Belt, and the map of the states that are the worst for children looks a lot like a map of red-state America

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