- Nextdoor: Ted Budd defeats Beasley, has yet to deny if he will use his position to give another $10,000,000 government handout to himself
- Someone posted a comment which was reported and deleted: «The life of one precious baby saved from abortion (murder) is worth 10 times that.» I had to snark:
- Someone (they can out themselves if they want to) said, in a now-deleted comment: "The life of one precious baby saved from abortion (murder) is worth 10 times that."
- So, saving the life of a baby is worth (10 x $10m =) $100 million dollars ($100,000,000), according to that comment.
- What happens to that sentiment after the baby is born, and conservatists don't want children to have affordable lunches, affordable medical care, affordable education, or guaranteed income so they can survive?
- Also, where are the funds for prenatal care, to ensure that the baby is born healthy and that the fetus develops properly and *survives* to be born in the first place? Why can't some portion of that $100 million be spent on that, rather than on preventing a mother from choosing not to host a fetus and give birth to it?
- DO THE MATH: If you live to age 100 (most people don't), $100,000,000 is literally 1 million dollars for every year of your life.
- (...or $2700+ PER DAY. I feed a family of 4 on less than that PER MONTH. That includes, by the way, keeping them alive. Can I have my $100m now?)
- Why are you willing to pay that to force its mother to give birth, but not to spend even much much smaller amounts to keep it alive after that?
- (Nitpick / admin note: also, "murder" is illegal killing -- and it's only illegal if a law says so. That's what we're debating here: whether it should be illegal. THE MAJORITY DISAGREE. Calling it murder is nothing but rhetoric -- hateful, divisive, and not said in good faith -- and that is why that comment was reported and presumably why it was deleted.)
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- 2022-11-09 Making Polluters Pay: Estimates for corporate climate debt and reparations
- h/t «This paper argues that fossil fuel corporations in the global north have a distinct responsibility for creating and accelerating climate chaos, and as such should make reparations to affected communities. One key element in any such reparative process would be to tax corporations significantly more, and to use at least some of the funds to provide increased financial transfers to the global south.»
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