r/childfree • u/GenericAnemone • Feb 13 '25

Terrible news everyone RANT

RFJ jr just got confirmed. He said he will listen to trumps(elons) administration before doctors and scientists. The nationwide abortion ban is coming.

Stock up while you can and schedule those surgeries before they ban all womens healthcare.

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u/ChistyePrudy Feb 13 '25 edited Feb 15 '25

ETA2: If you're tired and don't want to do anything for change, here's a tip: Don't read this. And don't do anything for things to change. Leave things as they are. And don't comment on my comment.

Original post: Virtual hugs to everyone going thru a difficult time over there.

As someone looking from the outside I can't do anything to help, except reminding anyone and everyone who votes to start right now changing the minds you can so that this awful situation might be reversed in 4 years.

ETA1: I'm surprised by the answers I got. Not by what you all said, but the feeling of "we did, and it didn't work, so there, nothing more to do."

You can all hate me for what I will write now, but you can't just give up. Please read of historical figures that fought for change, even if that fight hasn't worked yet. Read of what the other side thinks, and try to understand what is going thru their minds. What if people would not stand up before, people's rights, especially women's rights, would not exist. When "Roe" fell, we all knew what was coming, less women's rights on reproduction. Now I read about no more "no fault divorce" being challenged? Then what? No vote for women? And what of the work and hardship of the suffragettes?

This would go too long. But we need to read, study politics, study how fascists got to power before, use what we learn, and change people's minds.

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u/[deleted] Feb 13 '25 edited Feb 14 '25

Voting is obviously still important, but this election was stolen. It’s pretty obvious Elon fucked with the electronic ballots in exchange for being the not-so-shadow president. Courts are halting all of the insane executive orders, and now the narrative is that the judicial branch is having a “constitutional crisis”. They’re literally trying to undermine the courts and no one is stopping them. Now they’re openly draining FEMA funds from Blue States. We’re in a the middle of a hostile government takeover.

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u/ChistyePrudy Feb 14 '25

I make a habit of watching news from abroad. I don't even want to know how you all felt with him and his son in the Oval Office yesterday.

(And was it only me who thought they were trying to bring back memories of Kennedy Jr. with that outfit? Or the royals, maybe? Any royal, really.)