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If you're not signed up as a foster/adoptive parent, now is a good time if you want to have an impact. There are going to be a lot of kids flooding into the system from families that felt emboldened to become domestic terrorists by the President and those he surrounds himself with.

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I can't think of a more effective way to spark a civil war than threatening to take people's children from them.

I can: Actually doing it, and selling them. Claiming they are not human, they deserve it, they are property, they are unequal, they are unworthy of compassion, then outlawing people's liberty to prevent it. And do it based on skin pigment.

I'm not sure why this comment is relevant. No one in the US (or the West more generally) is doing that or planning on doing it.

I though that's what folks on Parlor were doing but I couldn't download the app to see for myself ;-). My comment was an atttempt to highlight to the huge gap between threatening rhetoric and moral atrocities in sparking natonwide infighting.

I thought the implication was that they'd be dead or in prison.

Probably a bigger effect is all the people who lost their jobs to covid. Domestic abuse always follows a large spike in unemployment

Unfortunately there was also a massive dip in reports because of schools not being in session.

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