• Jo Miran
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    1331 year ago

    …maybe leave these places if they can.

    These laws are targeted towards poor women who can’t fight back. This one is making the news because she’s suing. I guarantee that if an attorney hasn’t taken up the fight, you’d never hear about it.

    • @persolb@lemmy.ml
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      301 year ago

      This seems like a good place for a charity… although the cost isn’t just a bus ticket but also probably temporary housing/income as well.

      Shit. I just realized I’m suggesting a refugee agency for US states.

    • SirStumps
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      171 year ago

      I completely agree with your statement. The issue with OPs statement is that it’s ideal for those with means but unrealistic for those without.

      • In some ways the opposite. When I left my shit tier flyover village I had nothing. Nothing was connecting me back home and there was no backup plan. It would be a lot more difficult for me to move now given all the roots I have put down.

        What we think we control ends up controlling us. That mortgage that was supposed to make us free of landlords, that house we can’t sell, that car that we struggle to find parking for, that career we worked so hard on building. I am not advocating giving anything up I am pointing out you have absolute freedom when you have nothing to lose and can’t stay where you are.

    • @Crow@lemmy.world
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      41 year ago

      If you are poor, wouldn’t it make more sense to be poor somewhere else? Starting over when you never had much would be my top priority rather than stay in these places.