• Velma@lemmy.today
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    But Maria said the government’s efforts to pull Russia out of its demographic rut were “pathetic”.

    “Tightening the screws, making safe abortions inaccessible, brainwashing people, bragging about supposedly huge benefit payments, sending them to a psychologist. It’s cruel and completely ineffective,” she said.

    “Everyone understands what women really want: social guarantees, an adequate income, the ability to afford housing, and, most importantly, tranquility and security,” she said.

    The US is on this exact same path. Horrifying.

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            many of the folks who have advocated dissolving the post cold war NATO long before Donald Trump or the Ukraine invasion are anti-imperialist they’re not tankies or pro-russia

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        It’s part of the reason they trained Republicans to be pro life. It’s not even a religious thing if they’d actually read the Bible.

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          “Pro life” is misleading. They aren’t. It also implies that the other side is “anti life”, which also isn’t true.

          A better term is

          Anti choice