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What's the Y axis for the middle graph? Also only having 3 data points in such a brief window doesn't really say much. Finally the grouping metric of "won majority of presidential elections from 2000 to 2020" isn't clear and isn't necessarily reflexive of policy. A more appropriate metric might be the party of the governor or the majority parties of their chambers.
I think the y-axis shows number of kids.
I agree with what you're saying though—3 points does not make a compelling statement. I also agree that a better metric probably exists than what was posted. I'd add on and would like to know what the error bands represent—standard error, confidence intervals, or something else?
I would have expected the reported sexual abuse cases to be lower in conservative states. You know, because victims would feel more shame and danger so fewer of them would come forward and fewer would file police reports? Is the first graph measuring estimated abuse or reported abuse?
First graph is all reported child sexual abuse cases that were substantiated. You can see the full tables in the ACF website, and in 2021 specifically there were 59,328 CSA cases in the U.S. that were substantiated.
The percentage of kids who've officially reported sexual abuse actually seems to be decreasing considering not only the decrease you see in the graph (and it decreased further in 2022 to 59,044 cases), but also because in the Youth Risk Behavior Survey the percentage of teens who said they've experienced some kind of sexual violence increased from 9.7% in 2017 to 11% in 2021, and for rape specifically it went from 7.4% to 8.5%.
Remember, Republicans say "protect", but they mean "control."
Even that's the old republicans. These perverts want to look at children's genitals. Fucking weirdos
Fascists are fucking perverts. And I don't mean that in a fun, anti-system way. I mean freakishly, evil perversion.
The 1950s ideas that sexual repression is what caused the Nazis were wrong but thet were onto something about fascism and sexual expression.
Fascists are freaks, and again I stress as a queer, non-normative sexual expressive person, not in a fun way.
Tradwife shit is literally just bondage and domination without enthusiastic consent.
Exactly
Not that I disagree with your assessment, but this is just another kind of control - it's about having power over a person's body, while denying them the agency to stop you. Sexual abuse and rape are rarely driven by lust or desire; they come from a need to dominate, to manipulate, and to express total power over someone.
And marry them.
Let's not forget legalising child labour, as well as mandating child labour.
Republicans are so despicably wretched, odiously rotten and weird.
That child on the right is just like, “Fuck you, hoe; you just stole my childhood”
The kids in that photo are not the ones that will be working in factories at 12. She's just deeply uncharismatic to the point of being inhuman and kids respond to that .
And Huckabee was, like, "off to the mines with you, filthy urchins!"
The minors yearn for the mines.
Minors be miners.
You cannot say you care at all about education and not make sure students are being fucking fed. I don't care what political dogma you subscribe to, feeding kids in school needs to be a priority period. Once that is fixed (and it should take no more than like a week to fix in my opinion), the US needs to also better regulate the quality of food provided in schools. On average it is atrocious in this country.
Imagine being told that these two groups of faces are from people all in the same picture, and what that would tell you about the relationship between the two groups.


That fuckin' Porg-lookin' cunt.

I think that's unfair. The left one is a cute, non-sentient bird and the right is a weird, non-sapient piece of shit.
Walz is kind of a chad, actually
Absolutely. Have you heard him speak!? He's intelligent, empathetic, and down-to-earth.
He's the one who started saying shit is weird. I'm all about the former Highschool coach and teacher bringing his unique approach to Republicans childish bullshit
Those poor kids with Sarah Slanders look absolutely horrified, rightly so
SHS looks like a lizard person.
She's doing that thing where the mouth smiles weirdly hard but the eyes don't smile at all.
Like a psychopath?
Ugh... I had forgotten about this banana peel. She sends shiver down my spine...
What company are the 3 kids on the left middle management for?
On the right, no?
Gd that face gets me every time.
The kids at the bottom either look terrified, miserable, or extremely arrogant and look down on anyone they perceive beneath them.ni just can't tell.
Tim looks so chuffed there. It's nice :)