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Yup. Create and maintain more generational economic insecurity. That's ALL their policies are about. Including the ones that kill people. Because when people die it's not over for the families they leave behind.

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Foster kids provide free labor; e.g., when in foster care, one Saturday dear foster mom lent me to a childless couple to clean their windows in exchange for a PBJ sandwich and a ride back in a TR-4. The final straw was when the parish priest unexpectedly came to foster home whilst I was in my undies scraping dripped ceiling paint off the tile floor with a double edged razor blade.

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Somehow, I doubt that all these adoptions will be sight unseen with no concern for existing health issues. 400k in foster care with over a quarter of them unable to ever be returned to their families, and it wasn't so long ago that Republicans were concerned that Putin was cutting off the supply of healthy white babies.

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IK,R? ;>)

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so, the proper thing to do would be to advertise and sell your baby for medical bills, housing, food and 50K. A smart person would profit from the experience. Stop giving the kids away for free. then and only then will republicans respect you and help.

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When Liz Cheney quoted Mark Meadows' book that TFG said walking to the Capitol was just metaphorical, I LOL'd. Can you imagine TFG using "metaphorical" correctly?

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Ever see the thing they strap you down on for the ol' LI? It's a fucking cross. He'd be right at home.

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The difference between professionals and amateurs. It's always in the attention to detail.

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You can't imagine how horrified I was when, a few years back, the morning shock jocks on the radio station I grew up with during my high school and college days, one of the first prog rock stations in the country, made national news by making jokes and basically agreeing with a guy who called in looking for someone to fuck his adult daughter in the hope of turning her straight.

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I bet they still make you peel your own grapes.

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Well that's just horrifying and revolting and pathetic all at once.

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So life begins at conception and that means women's bodies must be policed to ensure that the fertilized egg implants. When it doesn't women will be villified for it and prosecutions will ensue. Welcome to the Catholic Caliphate.

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That's awful. That should never have happened to you.

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John Waters said he woke up every day and thanked God he was raised Catholic, because he knew, no matter what, sex would always be dirty.

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I never had children, and not just because I was a real-life Cassandra, but because I knew I didn't have enough money to raise a kid, especially one who would no doubt be smart and gifted. That's not the main reason I didn't breed. I joined ZPG (now called Population Connection) on the first Earth Day, the year I turned 16. Today I'm enjoying my 68th birthday, eating delicious vegan food I made myself, in the fifth floor walk-up I rent in a building that went up in 1899 as temporary housing for garment workers. No one ever imagined back then that any of these buildings would be occupied a century and a quarter later, yet here I am, the senior citizen granddaughter of a tailor.

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