r/Millennials • u/GoldenSunFl0wer Millennial(1990) • Sep 11 '26

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u/PortraitofMmeX Sep 11 '26

Didn't they just sentence a mother to 7 months in prison because she let her 5 year old walk unsupervised in their gated community alone, in the vicinity of a pond?

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u/wizzywurtzy Sep 11 '26

Mom lets her kid walk alone… gets 7 months in prison. That’ll teach them to not leave their kids while… in prison away from her kids. Fucking Christ.

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u/pseudonym7083 Millennial Sep 11 '26

Truly stunning logic, isn't it?

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u/RoundApprehensive186 Sep 12 '26

lol like suspending a kid from school because they skipped school.

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u/upagainstthesun Sep 12 '26

Mine had Saturday school for some infractions and that was the worst.

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u/Snakend Sep 12 '26

Everything now is in school detention.

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u/Lystian Sep 11 '26

Children only matter when they are a fetus.

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u/letsgooncemore Sep 12 '26

A fetus is easy to advocate for. It has no voice of it's own to push back against it's oppressor or state it's needs to it's advocate. A child might have an opinion and that's not what the people focused on protecting fetuses are here for.

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u/Additional_Name_706 Sep 12 '26

I do not like the comment I'm about to make...

The case we're referring to happened in Virginia, solid blue area, with very pro-choice laws.

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u/Unlikely_Editor_520 Sep 12 '26

I'm from Va and that blew my mind. I thought for sure she wouldn't get convicted.
Meanwhile, in Switzerland it's expected and encouraged for kids to walk to school unattended starting around age 4

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u/On_my_last_spoon Sep 13 '26

That seems young

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u/Lystian Sep 12 '26

I was aiming at the national level. We refuse to do many things for kids, but by god will people flip out over abortion.

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u/Umutuku Sep 12 '26

If abortions hurt more women then they helped they'd be mandatory.

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u/Snakend Sep 12 '26

Abortions hurt women. They just convince themselves that the fetus is not their kid so they don't have to do deal with the cognitive dissonance.

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u/cozygamerwitch Sep 12 '26

I'm pretty sure child birth hurts more than an abortion

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u/Snakend Sep 12 '26 edited Sep 12 '26

Unmedicated, sure. With the epidural...nope. Abortion hurts more. My wife had 3 miscarriages, 3 births all C setions. She said the D&Cs were the worst thing in the world.

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u/fireblubird Sep 12 '26

Technically, until a certain trimester, the fetus isn't a living being. 

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u/Snakend Sep 12 '26

Those are the political meaning. If you don't get that abortion, that fetus will be a human being. You are taking action that stops your body from producing a child.

I don't feel that as a man I can tell a woman to get an abortion or not. IT is their body, they can do as they wish.

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u/Additional_Name_706 Sep 12 '26

I know what you were trying to do. I'm expressing my disgust for your political tactics

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u/Lystian Sep 12 '26

Eh, Im not saying thats my view, but the nations. Thats clearly sarcasm.

And that's just how our country sadly is. If it wasnt children wouldn't go hungry and without basic needs when society can meet those needs. Waiting children to be taken care of isn't political, it is a basic requirement of how society should function. Hell even animals can do that.

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u/Additional_Name_706 Sep 12 '26

I'm probably pretty much your ally politically. We likely agree far more than not. I agree with your sentiments. I disagree with your tactics. As someone who wants these political ideas to win, I urge you to stop hamfisting them in, especially when the plain facts can be so easily used against you.

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u/ihadagoodone Sep 12 '26

except, the sentiment isn't the same across the nation.

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u/SLeonaTA Sep 12 '26

Hi, from Maryland, you do realize not every area in a blue state is blue? Like I live in So Cal now, and it’s red as hell in the area I live.

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u/Additional_Name_706 Sep 12 '26

Absolutely. If you want to dig in, this particular incident happened in Williamsburg, which is in James City County, which is one of the deepest blue counties in a solidly blue state.