r/facepalm Aug 27 '24

🇲​🇮​🇸​🇨​ Welp

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u/AValentineSolutions Aug 27 '24

Romania found out about this under Ceausescu. Outlaw abortion, you get a glut of unwanted children who are abandoned and then become wards of the state. That led to some of the most disgusting child trafficking ever seen. We don't learn from history in America.

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u/anonmymouse Aug 27 '24

We barely know history in America...

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u/BobBeats Aug 27 '24

History that is whitewashed to make it sound like those awful times of children being maimed in factories were desirable outcomes.

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u/VibraniumRhino Aug 27 '24

It’s more that a lot of them just make up whatever sounds the best and run with it lol.

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u/anonmymouse Aug 27 '24

As long as we look like the heroes of the story of course...

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u/effurshadowban Aug 27 '24

Actually, we despise history in America. The amount of times I've heard people ask why history is taught in schools is disgusting.

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u/mitkase Aug 27 '24

Well, Prager U. Already teaches perfectly cromulent history - we don’t need blue-haired anti-American “progressives” (but we mean communists) teaching our kids that the country has done anything bad ever! Stop making us try to feel bad or responsible! /ffs

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u/FranzLudwig3700 Aug 28 '24

Actually, we despise history in America. 

That's because it's in the interest of our power base to have us repeat it. Cuts down on the unpredictability. Good for investment.

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u/Mediocre_Fig69 Aug 27 '24

Depends if you went to school in a red or blue state

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u/MelancholyArtichoke Aug 28 '24

What are you talking about? We know history in America.

Famous explorer and all around nice, reliable and responsible guy Christopher Columbus sailed here and had thanksgiving with the native Americans, who were all so thankful for the free blankets and jobs that they willingly gave away all the land to us so we could settle our Christian nation, free from kings and Brits.

Yadda yadda, we had a small tussle with a few of our southern neighbors, kicked the world's ass in two back to back wars, conquered the moon, then introduced the world to real money and trading which never existed before the dollar.

And that's why we're the greatest country in the world!

(this is all sarcasm for those who haven't picked up on it yet)

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u/AgentDoggett Aug 27 '24

Thank you! I’m old enough to remember this. Horrifying.

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u/KintsugiKen Aug 28 '24

We don't need to learn from Romanian history, we just need to look at our own history before Roe V Wade, where unwanted babies were commonly killed in secret and had their bodies dropped into rivers or outhouses or buried anonymously or incinerated, and women with unwanted pregnancies would more often have complications from "back alley" abortions that rendered them infertile, scarred, or even killed them.

Banning abortion only ends up killing babies and mothers and the unwanted babies that survive usually become criminals because they grow up without support or guidance in a country with no social safety nets to help them.

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u/Take-to-the-highways Aug 28 '24

Maybe Im a conspiracy theorist or something but I feel like thats their goal. There's no way in hell repubs are dumb enough to not know that this is the result, but it's a double win. They get more kids in foster care receiving subpar education (Republicans love uneducated people, Trump said it himself) who turn into adults completely unprepared for life. Poor people with no way of having learned financial literacy stuck in dead end blue collar jobs with no confidence or aspirations of achieving more, taking out predatory loans, convinced that the root of their issues are gay and brown people not the government setting them up for failure.

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u/browning099 Aug 27 '24

It also heavily impacts the crime rate

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u/NexLuz Nov 05 '24

500,000 children missing annually in America, slavery is still alive in pretty much everywhere

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u/sp3kter Aug 27 '24

You say that like it isnt the point

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u/kuschelig69 Aug 28 '24

History says sometimes the babies can be successful

Romulus and Remus were abandoned to die, and a wolf nursed them, and Romulus funded the Roman Empire

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u/Drivin-N-Vibin Aug 28 '24

Or. Dont have unprotected sex if you know what one of the risks are

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u/eddie_the_zombie Aug 28 '24

That sounds like exactly what an aspiring child trafficker would say.

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u/Seversevens Aug 28 '24

yeah and in the case of rape women's bodies have a way of shutting that down right? mm hmm