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IPG, Publicis and WPP, three of largest advertising firms in the US, informed their staffers that their healthcare benefits will include travel funding for employees located in states seeking to block abortion access.
WPP CEO Mark Read memo to employees:
“Many of you have spoken to me and your agency leadership teams following changes in the laws governing reproductive healthcare in the U.S. at the state level, and the leak of the Supreme Court’s draft majority opinion on Roe v. Wade,” the memo said. “We don’t know the full details or impact of these potential changes in reproductive rights yet, but we do know we want our people to have the same health coverage regardless of where they live.”
Getting really awkward.
Last edited by Rasulis; 2022-05-10 at 11:06 PM.
Also, "late-term abortion" (which is not a medical term) is any abortion past 21 weeks...and these account for about 1% of all abortions. The reasons for these kinds of abortions are usually medical (for either the mother or the fetus). More often than not these were pregnancies the mother had intended to carry to term...but because of previously unknown factors, were bascially forced into an "elective" abortion.
Isms bore me. I think they are only brought by people who seek to marginalize the potential of each ism to provide something meaningful. Name it, Capitalism, Socialism, even Communism-- all contain something of merit towards structuring a society. The biggest flaw in human history has been the need to take the worst of a system along with the best. It doesn't have to be all of one and none of another.
https://www.npr.org/2021/12/25/10680...on-women-freed
FYI this is basically the future conservatives appear to want in their states: Jailing women for upwards of a decade or more for having medical emergencies that resulted in miscarriages.
I guess they're worried that marijuana may be decriminalized and they really need to keep the private prisons full.
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Somehow I think the 20 year olds (who aren't the only people protesting, btw) that are motivated enough to protest are also voting. But thanks for your nontribution I guess.
Isms bore me. I think they are only brought by people who seek to marginalize the potential of each ism to provide something meaningful. Name it, Capitalism, Socialism, even Communism-- all contain something of merit towards structuring a society. The biggest flaw in human history has been the need to take the worst of a system along with the best. It doesn't have to be all of one and none of another.
20-year-olds have, at most, been able to vote in one single election cycle. They aren't the problem.
Plus, the reason that younger generations are consistently less likely to vote has nothing to do with laziness, and everything to do with the fact that they're far more likely to be working shitty-ass jobs where they can't take the time off both because they can't afford the lost hours nor is their boss willing to let them.
Also; that's a false dilemma. I'd venture that those protesting are actually significantly more likely to vote than those who aren't.
Isms bore me. I think they are only brought by people who seek to marginalize the potential of each ism to provide something meaningful. Name it, Capitalism, Socialism, even Communism-- all contain something of merit towards structuring a society. The biggest flaw in human history has been the need to take the worst of a system along with the best. It doesn't have to be all of one and none of another.
Extending early and vote by mail periods and making election day a national holiday, while also accepting things like student IDs etc would really really help with those 20 year olds voting.
Because unlike the average 60 year old or unemployed welfare queen republican voter in all those rural shithole states, 20 year olds have shit to do.
So above you say you voted for Biden because he was the less bad choice of the two? How is that not voting against Trump? You can honestly say you never posted on this board to vote against Trump before any nomination was picked?
And you think Biden creating a disinformation board is good for the country. Chaired by a person who has spread misinformation. That the secretary of DHS did not have any say in choosing and had no idea about her past even though the board is under his department. You think an arbitrary fact checking organization run by the government is good for the country? Do you think it's okay for Biden to create a censor board run by someone who has repeated disinformation?
It's like the people posting seem to think democrats are any different then republicans when it comes to putting out disinformation. Just look at this forum. You say you didn't believe links I posted until I linked 6 in a separate post, and even then you were dismissive because it went against your talking points. That's the level of the people on this board, confronted with overwhelming facts, you choose to still not accept them.
I know you don't get this. But there's legitimately not a single thing the democrats could have run (as someone or something the could have won the primaries) that was in any way, any metric, any measure, somehow worse than Trump.
He's an idiot fascist. The only reason why we didn't end up with a fascist dictatorship and death camps was because he was an idiot, too incompetent to do a coup. It wasn't a lack of trying, it was a lack competence.
Also, there's no equivalency of any sort between the GOP and Dems when it comes to truthfulness. Democrats sometimes lie. A lot. They don't really lie per say, they just usually lie by omission. Republicans always lie, no exception. And it's not just that they lie, it's also that the intent behind lies is always malicious.
Your party is the one that trying to legalize or keep legal child marriages, while calling people groomers for saying that a teenager should know how to put on a condom. Democrats want that teenagers when inevitably will have sex with other teenagers they should do it safely and fully aware of they are doing. Republicans want to fuck children. See the difference? No?
But here's the thing. I know, you know all this. It's just you want to live in idiot fascist state, you want to fuck children and then force them to have children of their own. You hate minorities and you will happily live in any dystopian hellhole as long as you get to make the minorities suffer more, because you are malicious.
This is why Republicans don't have a political platform. There isn't an articulated economic policy, no healthcare plan, no infrastructure plan, nothing. All you have is two dumb slogans, an imaginary wall, cages for children and a million ideas on how to make life miserable for every minority and woman in existence. That's it.
You say that jokingly, but that was one of my first serious thoughts about this. The prison system is probably the second most profitable industry in the US after healthcare. The loss of the "war on drugs" would be catastrophic to their throughput of "clients". If they can replace that by going after poor (and more likely ethnic) people for anything related to sexual health, the Republicans probably think that's a no-brainer.
It's disgusting to see. Unless this backsliding is reversed very quickly, the US is going to be living in the 1800s pretty soon.
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