• @CaptainSpaceman
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    304 months ago

    Nice to do something that helps the child for once instead of just the fetus

  • @[email protected]
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    174 months ago

    Now do free pregnancy care and baby food and then work your way up to child labor laws and free lunches then maybe do free college when you are not sure what to do next.

    • @SupraMario
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      94 months ago

      Tn allows for free college already. It’s an associates degree but it’s free if you’re a resident.

      • flicker
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        84 months ago

        I’m fixing to use this program to go to college in the fall. Pretty psyched.

          • flicker
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            84 months ago

            Well since I’m going from professional caregiver into a medical degree, my bedside manner will continue to involve my folksy southern style of speech.

            So I’m fixin to go to school. Means “going to.”

  • SolidGrue
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    134 months ago

    Sounds on-brand to me. it not like you’d expect them to double down on sex education or provide contraceptives.

    They’re telling you where their priorities are. Now Go Forth and Multiply.

    • @friend_of_satan
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      344 months ago

      It’s really off brand for a red state though. Usually they tell post-birth humans to fuck off.

      • SolidGrue
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        134 months ago

        Its an election year

    • @[email protected]
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      44 months ago

      Fuck, only now I realized that this is the replacement theory.

      They always confess during accusations, and it never clicked until now.

      This is what they were talking about, no mistake.

      Fuck.

    • @HeyThisIsntTheYMCA
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      34 months ago

      I know some of the folk who run TennCare. You aren’t wrong.

    • @[email protected]
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      04 months ago

      The cynicism here is hilarious. This is literal good news but no, it’s actually just further proof how shitty the republicans are.

      • @frunch
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        44 months ago

        They are responsible for so many shitty laws and actions that when they do something objectively good, there’s no escaping the feeling that there’s some ulterior motives ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

    • SeaJ
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      44 months ago

      It only becomes dirty socialism after the diapers are used.

      • @RagingRobot
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        24 months ago

        Yeah from their perspective their kids are shitting on socialism lol

  • @Invertedouroboros
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    114 months ago

    I was nearly born in Tennessee and my parents have some fucking horror stories from when they lived there. I’m shocked that out of all the states to start doing this it’s fucking Tennessee.

    • @jeffwOPM
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      34 months ago

      Sadly, this is only for children, not seniors

  • @[email protected]
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    -384 months ago

    Why not just have the state raise our kids for us and do away with parental responsibility all together!

    • @jeffwOPM
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      294 months ago

      TIL not having money makes you a shit parent! What a great take!

      • @[email protected]
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        -214 months ago

        Maybe people would have more money if the government wasn’t taking it all away and giving it away to corporations.

        • @jeffwOPM
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          144 months ago

          Most poor people pay effectively 0 income tax. The tax deals are for the rich

    • ChihuahuaOfDoom
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      174 months ago

      If the state wants to force people to have kids, they have a responsibility to those kids.