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One of the reasons Republicans promote child marriage & teen pregnancy is because it creates lifetime poverty for women. The overturn of Roe vs Wade was the natural progression on GOP public policies of female immiseration. msmagazine.com/2024/07/12/repu…
@Npars01 Not only are women kept in poverty, male incompetence gets a shiny gold star — it's easier to compete when you eliminate half the competition (more if you count people of color)
@susankayequinn @carl I look at media reports of the dupes that got conned into Jan 6 by the moneyed folks funding a fascist movement.
There were people there of all kinds, but most were white middle class men. Not starving. Not unemployed. Just needlessly frightened of the future by disinformation.
The post-WW2 era established democracy, with high taxation on the rich & a social safety net, for a reason.
Stephen Schwarzman, Diane Hendricks, Steve Wynn: About 14% of America’s billionaires donated to Donald Trump’s reelection campaign, according to an analysis of records filed with the Federal Election Commission.
@Npars01 and now with Musk's chats with Putin coming to light and his election interference/law breaking in PA right now... a friend said he's a naturalized citizen and we can revoke that for crimes, and we really really should
@Npars01 @susankayequinn @carl I kinda think we should liquidate the holdings of any white collar criminal like this when they're found to have abused the public.
Put them in a holding account and apply them as tax credits across the whole population. Give every citizen a bounty/incentive for finding the rich people cheating.
@Npars01 @susankayequinn @carl We wait for the regulators to find an interest or we as citizens force the issue.
Currently neither is happening and so the rampant wage theft and such is just left to become entrenched.
Taxation and government regulation is the civil alternative to pulling out the guillotines but it doesn't work as long as bribery is the most impactful incentive at work.
@Npars01 In my hopes, with another 4 years of Dems in the WH , especially if they took the House and Senate, we might be able to get some real labor law enforcement.
Oh wait, you mean big business is looking to preserve their theft racket?
I guess the other way to look at this, which I have no doubt, people in labor and unions understand, that unions are very much the cost of defending your own income, and it is definitely common cause for working people. And it is quite obviously worth every penny spent.
Try to leave a husband for mistreating you and/or your children back then. My mum divorced my sister's father and had to fight like a mad man to get custody for her, because no one believed, that he SAed my sister. She was also pregnant with me (from another man) and this guy would have gotten custody for me as well, even though we weren't related.
Also, rape in marriages didn't exist in Germany until 1997 🙃
Wedding rings should come with a health warning - at least for women. New research reveals that while wedlock helps men to live longer, it shortens a woman's life by more than a year.
Women used to be barred from making legal decisions by themselves. They had to have a man do it-with them-like signing a mortgage. Also, women were never believed when accusing men of raping them-especially their husband.
one of my first students had been divorced for some years and wanted to rent a house in the mid 1970s. The real estate agent required the signature of her ex-husband on her lease.
My grandparents lived on the edge of town, grandma never worked a job, didn’t drive, had very little education, wasn’t a native Anglophone, and didn’t have access to a bank account until the 80’s when grandpa had a series of strokes and heart attacks.
They didn’t get along great. Grandpa was disabled by the strokes.
She couldn’t leave if she wanted to. He passed in ‘87.
There was also no such thing as "no fault" divorce until the 1970s, which meant that a woman had to get proof of infidelity to present to the court (and proof of abuse was usually insufficient).
Love statements like that. Sorta like saying that the rates of black joblessness were better before the 20th century.
If you think about it for half a second (which is two seconds longer than the speaker did) you can figure out why that might not be a good ballpark measure of success.
When I got hired as faculty at a university in Tennessee, I got a TN driver's license in 30 minutes. A female colleague who got hired at the same time, and had just moved in-state, was told that she needed to have a male spouse or family member come to the DMV and give an OK for her to drive. This was 2014, people. 🙄
Nicole Parsons
in reply to Ricki Gray Area Witch Tarr • • •The economics of patriarchy don't get the degree of examination that it deserves.
Pink taxes. Pink collar jobs.
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Patriarchy is a system that removes options & promotes malign narratives. Society pays a very high price as a consequence.
Just like Jim Crow.
A lot of people refused to acknowledge that Jim Crow was a wage suppression scheme too.
Heather McGhee's "Sum of Us" shows how we all pay a very high price to keep racism alive.
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Nicole Parsons
in reply to Nicole Parsons • • •One of the reasons Republicans promote child marriage & teen pregnancy is because it creates lifetime poverty for women.
The overturn of Roe vs Wade was the natural progression on GOP public policies of female immiseration.
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masslive.com/politics/2024/05/…
None of the GOP's corporate donors want to give up their underpaid & unpaid female labor force.
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What really counts? How the patriarchy of economics finally tore me apart
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Susan Kaye Quinn 🌱(she/her)
in reply to Nicole Parsons • • •Not only are women kept in poverty, male incompetence gets a shiny gold star — it's easier to compete when you eliminate half the competition (more if you count people of color)
Carl
in reply to Susan Kaye Quinn 🌱(she/her) • • •Susan Kaye Quinn 🌱(she/her)
in reply to Carl • • •@carl white supremacy undergirds all of it, but there are plenty of black men, Hispanic men, men of color who are 100% here for the patriarchy
@Npars01 @RickiTarr
Nicole Parsons
in reply to Susan Kaye Quinn 🌱(she/her) • • •@susankayequinn @carl
I look at media reports of the dupes that got conned into Jan 6 by the moneyed folks funding a fascist movement.
There were people there of all kinds, but most were white middle class men. Not starving. Not unemployed. Just needlessly frightened of the future by disinformation.
The post-WW2 era established democracy, with high taxation on the rich & a social safety net, for a reason.
To thwart the rise of another populist fascist
America forgot that lesson
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Nicole Parsons
in reply to Nicole Parsons • • •@susankayequinn @carl
The funders behind Jan 6:
forbes.com/sites/michelatinder…
Disinformation campaigns like Bannon's are funded by:
Musk
Uihlein
Fancelli
Hendricks
Koch
Dunn
Hamm
Ruffin
Adelson
Schwarzman
Griffin
These ideologues & corporations don't care if their "win" burns down American constitutional democracy, or the planet.
Or triggers a final world war.
Here Are The Billionaires Who Donated To Donald Trump’s 2020 Presidential Campaign
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Susan Kaye Quinn 🌱(she/her)
in reply to Nicole Parsons • • •@Npars01 and now with Musk's chats with Putin coming to light and his election interference/law breaking in PA right now... a friend said he's a naturalized citizen and we can revoke that for crimes, and we really really should
@carl @RickiTarr
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Nicole Parsons
in reply to Susan Kaye Quinn 🌱(she/her) • • •@susankayequinn @carl
Musk will be accorded rights like investigation, trial, and conviction, according to civil rights he wants others not to have.
His wealth is a mirage in some respects. Built on stock valuation estimates.
Those estimates can plummet catastrophically whenever it strikes Wall Street to do so.
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Urzl
in reply to Nicole Parsons • • •@Npars01 @susankayequinn @carl I kinda think we should liquidate the holdings of any white collar criminal like this when they're found to have abused the public.
Put them in a holding account and apply them as tax credits across the whole population. Give every citizen a bounty/incentive for finding the rich people cheating.
Nicole Parsons
in reply to Urzl • • •@gooba42 @susankayequinn @carl
It's an idea that's been tried.
Vigilante justice with bounties is what is hunting women in Texas who need reproductive care. Offloading justice to partisans isn't prudent.
Nationalizing SpaceX might be a possibility in a fire sale like TikTok.
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Urzl
in reply to Nicole Parsons • • •@Npars01 @susankayequinn @carl We wait for the regulators to find an interest or we as citizens force the issue.
Currently neither is happening and so the rampant wage theft and such is just left to become entrenched.
Taxation and government regulation is the civil alternative to pulling out the guillotines but it doesn't work as long as bribery is the most impactful incentive at work.
Nicole Parsons
in reply to Urzl • • •@gooba42 @susankayequinn @carl
Currently US employees have to file lawsuits if they aren't paid their wages.
Many other countries rely on Labor Boards to fight against wage theft.
The NLRB is under attack by Republican megadonors to thwart the implementation of unions and local Labor Boards with enforcement powers.
The GOP & a corrupt Supreme Court don't want workers to have federal recourse, plus lawsuits.
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in reply to Nicole Parsons • • •@Npars01 In my hopes, with another 4 years of Dems in the WH , especially if they took the House and Senate, we might be able to get some real labor law enforcement.
@gooba42 @carl @RickiTarr
GhostOnTheHalfShell
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Oh wait, you mean big business is looking to preserve their theft racket?
I guess the other way to look at this, which I have no doubt, people in labor and unions understand, that unions are very much the cost of defending your own income, and it is definitely common cause for working people. And it is quite obviously worth every penny spent.
#union #labor
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in reply to Ricki Gray Area Witch Tarr • • •Try to leave a husband for mistreating you and/or your children back then. My mum divorced my sister's father and had to fight like a mad man to get custody for her, because no one believed, that he SAed my sister. She was also pregnant with me (from another man) and this guy would have gotten custody for me as well, even though we weren't related.
Also, rape in marriages didn't exist in Germany until 1997 🙃
OttoKatz
in reply to TatiMitStift • • •Marital Rape Laws
Rebecca Pirius, Attorney · Mitchell Hamline School of Law (Criminal Defense Lawyer)Madeleine Morris
in reply to Ricki Gray Area Witch Tarr • • •Nicole Parsons
in reply to Madeleine Morris • • •@Remittancegirl
Married women die younger. Married men live longer.
independent.co.uk/life-style/h…
The stress of marriage shortens your life by a year (if you're the wife) | The Independent
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Mary Hilton
in reply to Ricki Gray Area Witch Tarr • • •They had to have a man do it-with them-like signing a mortgage.
Also, women were never believed when accusing men of raping them-especially their husband.
Mary Hilton
in reply to Ricki Gray Area Witch Tarr • • •It never ends. There IS a war on women.
ArchaeoIain
in reply to Ricki Gray Area Witch Tarr • • •Justin Derrick
in reply to Ricki Gray Area Witch Tarr • • •My grandparents lived on the edge of town, grandma never worked a job, didn’t drive, had very little education, wasn’t a native Anglophone, and didn’t have access to a bank account until the 80’s when grandpa had a series of strokes and heart attacks.
They didn’t get along great. Grandpa was disabled by the strokes.
She couldn’t leave if she wanted to. He passed in ‘87.
Rachel Rawlings
in reply to Ricki Gray Area Witch Tarr • • •Jay
in reply to Ricki Gray Area Witch Tarr • • •Love statements like that. Sorta like saying that the rates of black joblessness were better before the 20th century.
If you think about it for half a second (which is two seconds longer than the speaker did) you can figure out why that might not be a good ballpark measure of success.
OhSnap!Dragon
in reply to Ricki Gray Area Witch Tarr • • •A female colleague who got hired at the same time, and had just moved in-state, was told that she needed to have a male spouse or family member come to the DMV and give an OK for her to drive.
This was 2014, people.
🙄