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Cold-Dodger
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Date: May 17, 2022 07:52PM
…there was any kind of social security/welfare/labor rights/pro-union/family leave policy support from the “pro-life” community for working class families and lonely working class bachelors. But there isn’t. Not only are we losing our reproductive rights, everything is getting more expensive and we as a society are running a million miles an hour in the “people just don’t wanna work because they’re lazy, so they should be sanctioned until they’re so destitute and desperate they have to work at that fast food joint that doesn’t pay well” direction.
For example, the Great Resignation in ‘pro-life’ circles is being laid at the feet of hypothetical welfare queens who stored up a fortune from lockdown bailout funds. White American right-leaning populism is a strange thing, because they often notice real social ills but their prescriptions for how to fix them are completely self-defeating and end up making everything harder for everyone, including and especially the white working class they want to have more babies. No working person with any brains in their head thinks that right now is the perfect time to have another kid with stagflation setting in and Uncle Sam flirting with World War 3 overseas.
There were some people for whom COVID lockdown was the only pause in the rat race they ever had, and for the first time they had some money to put away and plan their great escape from that job they hated but theretofore had to do anyway. That happened, and many people who worked through the pandemic with not even hazard pay got a little salty about that.
“You’re essential,” those working people were told. “Have a meaningless few phrases of recognition, now get back to work.”
“Are we getting a raise or something?”
“No.”
Working people had various reactions to that. The white ones (not all, but most) seem to have imagined that all the freeloaders and who got to stay home were all people of color, or sissy liberal millennials, or otherwise the sorts of people these people hate and wish there less of in general (which is a thinker why they want to repeal Roe). So the obvious reaction is for the white proletariat to parrot the the gripes of the white business owners and the white Bourgeoisie who see all workers as wage slaves who exist to make the money printer go “brrr”? It seems the point is to make everyone miserable, which reminds me of a science experiment where the subjects would scuttle an opportunity to have anything just to spite the people who would have gotten more than them.
I can’t afford to have a kid. I don’t know anybody in my age range who can. Out of all my siblings, I got one who has cranked out 5 as though by proxy for the rest of us who think he’s insane. They’re in and out of living with my parents who adore their grand-babies and wonder why there aren’t more being made. They’re never going to own a home. He found out there was money in solar and jumped at the opportunity to sell green energy even after all the grieving I got from him and his that climate change was bs. He wants abortion to be overturned in its entirety, because “people need to learn responsibility,” which from him sounds like misery loves company because he was stupid enough to have 5 kids in this economy and now between making ends meet and meeting the emotional needs of his family, he’s slowly dying inside and half-imagines that things would be better if only everyone was more like him or something. Like it’s not fair that he believed in “God’s plan” but it was actually a stupid idea to gulp it down that hard.
The pro-life position that a sperm and an egg however briefly united is a full legal person has nothing to do with the sanctity of life. It has everything to do with feeling righteous and also sometimes making sure everyone is a miserable as you are. If it had anything to do with the sanctity of life, the social compact that babies are being born into wouldn’t be an absolute mess that starts charging them for services the instant they are born or otherwise abandons them to a catholic priest, a Mormon bishop, a broken foster system, or the streets. This is not a pro-life society. This is a society designed by sado-masochists who simultaneously wanted having to kids to be both financially unappetizing and unavoidable, because it “builds character” or whatever. The pro-life position is a form of general misanthropy posing as righteousness.
Or maybe it’s simpler than that. Maybe a lot of people just don’t question what they’re told ever and get angry at people who simply by existing and exercising the forbidden choice (which is a legal right for now) show them in a profoundly unnerving but completely unintentional subtextual way that “the plan” is so much boot licking and not any kind of serious ethos meant to tackle our society’s real problems. We’re starting to hear that “maybe Jesus should be the law of the lane” after decades of beating around the bush. Or maybe the pro-lifers want to get more sex than they really get, but sex = kids in their minds, so everyone should be forced to live under the pro-life conditions that he or she lives under by choice. Maybe they don’t realize it was a choice — which is the theocracy we were always talking about back in the day. It’s hard to hear that your fear of hell and God’s wrath are delusional. It makes you double down.
People should be educated and live their lives in an informed and deliberate way. This is radical to say now apparently. I’m not only a partisan hack if I say people should have access to education, healthcare, and contraceptives paid for by any means that makes sense — I’m the radical left. But look at this pathetic society and tell me we don’t need that stuff thirty years ago. You and each of you right now have the liberty, the right, to terminate an unplanned pregnancy within the scope of its “unviable” stage. You get to choose whether or not you’re ready for parenthood, despite your sexual urges. Religious have no idea how this affects women. They look at abortion gore porn and say “oh the humanity,” and then they deny the youth any access to contraception or even sex ed and send pregnant teenagers who don’t know there are options away to god knows where to hide the shame of her baby bump. The women get the short end of that stick EVERY TIME. Texas by the way is not only the most capitalist state and the most god-fearing, it’s also the highest in repeat unwanted teen pregnancies. God bless Texas with some sex ed, contraceptives, some access to abortion, and all the ruling elites’ heads on pikes — especially the Bush family.
You (I’m speaking to white people) are not being “replaced” by immigrants in an anti-white plot spanning decades. You are being outcompeted in a global job market by people willing to work for less than you and who never imagined not having kids because Catholicism is big where they come from. It’s not fair, no. It’s not even legal for you to be paid so little. You can’t compete, and having large families costs money, but white nationalism ain’t the answer, neither is Christian nationalism. You need more money and for job opportunities to be deliberately created for you. You could use an education too just so you can understand the self-evident things I’m saying. I’m on your side, even if I’m a godless commie. Latinos and other immigrants and even the minorities who have been here since 1619 are NOT your enemies! They, like you, just want a better life — and America still represents that to some people in an economic way. As bad as things are here, it’s still a hell of a lot better than where they came from. Their “shithole” countries are usually that way because of historic white fuckery and modern day American foreign policy and spooky antics and military adventurism. If you could get past their skin color, you would realize they have all the Christian social values you have and would vote with you more often if you weren’t so politically fixated with shooting your own class’s dick off to spite the new faces, which is what your anti-socialist attitudes have become. People who vote based purely on signaling that they have nothing else in common with atheists and socialists are the biggest useful idiots there ever were; and religion is truly the opiate of the masses, the sigh of the oppressed creature.
Edited 1 time(s). Last edit at 05/17/2022 08:04PM by Cold-Dodger.