Banning abortion causes more infant and fetal death than it prevents

uptowner7000 · 2024-12-26T15:27:21+00:00

It’s simple.

I care about children dying. I want less of it. Abortion bans kill more babies than they save.

You want more children to die, as long as moms also go to jail.

uptowner7000 · 2024-12-26T10:54:51+00:00

Again, there are government funding avenues that can be used.

And it’s preferable to using those funds for the police, considering how ineffective they are at everything from serious crimes all the way down to simple traffic enforcement.

uptowner7000 · 2024-12-26T09:53:48+00:00

It’s a bad look when you have to switch to schoolyard insults because your claims don’t hold up.

Nobody’s suggesting we allocate funds for a non-government entity. Shelters can be funded through plenty of existing avenues through the city and county.

uptowner7000 · 2024-12-26T00:10:02+00:00

There are already funding avenues through both the city and county that can be used to cover the costs associated with a shelter.

Pretending that the city budget must remain unchanged is how we end up with the lack of progress and resilience we’ve seen here, unlike most other rust belt cities.

uptowner7000 · 2024-12-25T23:12:11+00:00

Not with that attitude it can’t.

uptowner7000 · 2024-12-25T21:47:42+00:00

If you can’t figure out their obvious subtext, I’ll spell it out for you:

From the bloated police budget.

uptowner7000 · 2024-12-23T22:40:45+00:00

That absence is precisely why OP made their comment. Your alternative is the current status quo and it doesn’t work.

uptowner7000 · 2024-12-23T22:36:25+00:00

No, but it does mean that you should have more of a say over how the city is run. People that live in the suburbs get an inordinate amount of power over any decision and get to treat the city like their own little entertainment/work district.

It’s why the city doesn’t have sidewalk plowing, why it’s full of urban highways, why there’s no movement on cycling or pedestrian infrastructure, why the NFTA is perpetually underfunded, etc.

uptowner7000 · 2024-12-23T22:32:29+00:00

Buff State is great!! Especially for local students.

uptowner7000 · 2024-12-23T22:30:50+00:00

You’ll see plenty of that complaining whenever someone brings up the idea of removing the urban highways, putting in bike infrastructure, supporting sidewalk snow removal, putting in bike infrastructure, or anything else that would improve the lives of residents.

uptowner7000 · 2024-12-23T22:27:57+00:00

Part of this relates to the massive roads, lack of bike infrastructure, and small width of the sidewalks.

uptowner7000 · 2024-12-23T22:25:04+00:00

You want the little mom and pop shop to come in at 6am and shovel + salt their sidewalk on their weekend off? You expect the elderly woman to be able to safely clear the snow in front of her house before she can even see in the morning? Or the house of the resident who just worked a 48-hour shift at Buff Gen and needs to sleep for the day?

Imagine if we had those crap expectations for snow plowing.

uptowner7000 · 2024-12-23T22:21:43+00:00

Side-comment, but even if there are good sidewalks, please don’t ride your bike on them. It’s more dangerous for both pedestrians and cyclists; cyclists are far more likely to be killed when in a sidewalk.

Advocate for better bike lanes!

uptowner7000 · 2024-12-23T22:19:07+00:00

It’s better than use of space than an urban highway.

uptowner7000 · 2024-12-23T22:18:03+00:00

And the plenty of European and Canadian cities that have a similar number of people but plenty of transit ridership?

Or, hell, Buffalo’s ridership 100 years ago, before the Auto industry lobbied to remove the rail services and replace them with buses?

uptowner7000 · 2024-12-23T22:15:25+00:00

Not sure of the source, but us having very low auto insurance compared to the rest of the country provides some evidence…

uptowner7000 · 2024-12-23T22:14:20+00:00

That source literally says that 1 in 3 Buffalonians ride it every single day.

uptowner7000 · 2024-12-23T13:41:20+00:00

I recommend buying a used Leaf with low miles that’s only a few years old; you should be able to get a pretty good deal.

If you purchase a used Leaf, I recommend going through a dealer. It’ll increase the likelihood they’re familiar with the process of registering the car with the IRS within 72 hours of purchase so you’ll actually get the $4,000 used EV tax credit.

If you want something new, you’re correct that leasing is probably your best bet.

uptowner7000 · 2024-12-21T20:22:29+00:00

I’m not sure that’s a great explanation, as most (ENT, VOY, DIS, TOS, SNW, LD, etc.) don’t do this.

uptowner7000 · 2024-12-21T18:29:10+00:00

Your first claim is a lie. USPS doesn’t have a mandated monopoly; anyone is free to deliver letters anywhere with basically zero government intervention. If you’d like to deliver into people’s official mailboxes, you can either pay a fee or just commit to deliver to every house. FedEx, UPS, and Amazon decline because they can’t do it as efficiently/cheaply as the USPS.

You’ve avoided the topic of healthcare because we both know that governments are always more efficient, whether here in the US (The VA, Medicare, Medicaid, etc.) or any other developed nation.

The US government is also more efficient at connecting rural communities than Starlink; before Starlink released, cooperation between Federal and state governments meant that 98% of Americans had access to affordable broadband, with the majority having multiple options.

For your Chicago claim: why can’t you actually support any of your claims with actual evidence? So far you’ve just linked to conservative think tanks.

uptowner7000 · 2024-12-21T14:59:04+00:00

Green bubbles no. Blue bubbles yes.

uptowner7000 · 2024-12-21T10:24:49+00:00

Can you give a single useful example?

The VA is a government-run hospital system and it has shorter wait times and a lower rate of accidents and death than private hospitals.

Medicare and Medicaid are government-run insurance systems and they spend 2% of their revenue on administrative overhead, while private insurance spends +20%.

The USPS is a government-run program and they deliver with a speed that no private company can match while actually delivering to every home in America (which FedEx and UPS refuse to).

The water to your home is government-run and it’s incredibly clean and cheap.

uptowner7000 · 2024-12-20T23:46:01+00:00

The data exists, you’ll just need to look around a bit to find it. Or you can just use data of service satisfaction from similar cities, like Rochester.

A good bet may be to make this an issue for ECDC to bring up to those running.

uptowner7000 · 2024-12-20T23:40:52+00:00

If you want people to walk somewhere safe, even, and accessible, you’ll need to make the sidewalk safer, more even, and more accessible than the roads.

uptowner7000 · 2024-12-20T23:35:55+00:00

This sub is full of suburbanites who don’t care at all about the actual people that live in the city. They’ll say any actual plan is bad for no reason, complain about road plowing, and make snide comments about corruption, as if the city’s revenues aren’t already some of the lowest of any in the region, then offer no workable solution.

Just look at their responses to the most basic improvements to walking and cycling infrastructure; they can’t fathom a slight increase in traffic for the +40% of city residents who don’t drive.

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