LostWanderer,

I’m at a loss for words. How did this man not get shouted down for saying that out loud and in public?! Those are the thoughts of a predator, which is a position of power.

IWantToFuckSpez,

When they screamed about the degeneration of Western society it wasn’t a warning it was an announcement. Everything is just projection with these evil cunts

carl_dungeon,

Have you seen the GOP before?

LostWanderer,

I’m deeply familiar with them it’s never been in their nature to say the quiet part out loud in front of everyone! Rather it’s projecting their desires on others to vilify them, hopefully their looser tongues sink their ship. 🤢

barsquid,

Repubs love voting for rapists and pedophiles.

disguy_ovahea,

He’s representing his constituency.

TheJims,

They’re degenerates.

LostWanderer,

Always have been, however without facing real consequences they’ve grown way too bold!

maynarkh,

In the name of honest, good degenerates, I protest these ghouls being lumped in with us. It’s perfectly sane to want to have sexual relations with eg. military aircraft, and it is much more natural and socially beneficial than what these despicables imply.

the_post_of_tom_joad,

Agreed. I can only get off to pics of dragons fucking cars and i want to be able to hold my head high again

Feathercrown,

I despise the image you just made me remember

SuckMyWang,

If god didn’t want me to have sex with a C130 he should have made it so damn sexy

HappycamperNZ,

AC-130 is into some nastier shit

rtxn,

When you hear that clunk of the 135mm being loaded from the direction of your ass

leftzero,

Fucking weirdos. SR 71’s where it’s at.

homesweethomeMrL,

Werd

Mirshe,

Reconnaissance aircraft? C’mon man, get your head in the game. Combat aircraft are sexy. Give me a Mirage any day.

TimeSquirrel, (edited )
TimeSquirrel avatar

All those guns and missiles < fast as fuck carrying just some cameras, always watching, invisible to radar. Don't even know it's there.

TokenBoomer,
FlowVoid, (edited )

Full context:

If we continually restrict the freedom of marriage as a legitimate social option, when we do this to people who are a ripe, fertile age and may have a pregnancy and a baby involved, are we not, in fact, making abortion a much more desirable alternative

I think this can be interpreted as “young people will inevitably get pregnant”, not “young people should get pregnant”.

Still wrongheaded and cringeworthy, but maybe not as monstrous as it initially looked.

FuglyDuck,
@FuglyDuck@lemmy.world avatar

No. That’s even worse.

They’re arguing that children should get married to provide for kids.

Reality: the only people that can afford to support not one but two children…. Are creepy old men.

The argument is that because kids might get preggo, they should be allowed to marry them and make them preggo

That’s fucked up.

FlowVoid,

I’m not sure he cares if anyone provides for them. Like many in the GOP, he seems to only care about preventing abortions without any thought to what happens next.

FuglyDuck,
@FuglyDuck@lemmy.world avatar

He doesn’t.

But he’s not just about preventing abortions.

They’re pedos.

billiam0202,

If we continually restrict the freedom of marriage as a legitimate social option, when we do this to people who are a ripe, fertile age and may have a pregnancy and a baby involved, are we not, in fact, making abortion a much more desirable alternative

Read as:

If we ban child marriage, then desperate single mothers will want to have abortions instead of getting married like God intended.

Dude’s literally complaining that children getting abortions is easier than getting children married. No, that sounds exactly as ghoulish and monstrous as it appeared.

FlowVoid,

It originally appeared far worse to me, like the ravings of a pedophile.

Seleni,

As it should, given that I have never heard ‘ripe’ used by anyone but pedos.

paysrenttobirds,

Yeah but he skipped adoption and the idea that parents can continue to support their daughter even if she’s not a virgin. Teens getting married because one of them got pregnant is not the first thing I want people to think of. A teen marrying her statutory rapist should be even farther down the list.

LostWanderer,

In my mind there is no generous interpretation of his words as there is a paragraph which makes his statement worse in my opinion.

In a state where 18 is not old enough to drink, Edwards believes girls at 16 are old enough to get married.

He wants marriage to 16 year olds to be legal; I don’t believe this is a good thing, especially if he also then argued for parental consent for marriages to adult men. It’s a huge red flag to me, personally.

BigMacHole,

TRANS PEOPLE and DRAG QUEENS are BAD for KIDS but ALSO we should be able to MARRY CHILDREN!

-Republicans. All of them!

Worx,

All school-girls are attracted to gross old men, therefore it’s consensual and perfectly ok. And even if it isn’t, they’re only kids; what do they know? They’ll learn to love their husbands in time. And if they don’t, who cares? They’re only women

Hazzia,

If you are ever in a position where you need to figure out if a man you’re talking to is a pedophile, ask them their opinion on the book Lolita

“Romantic” ❌

“Disturbing” ✔️

p5yk0t1km1r4ge,
@p5yk0t1km1r4ge@lemmy.world avatar

WHAT THE FUCK

PanArab,

For contrast the legal marriage age in Saudi Arabia is 18.

NatakuNox,
@NatakuNox@lemmy.world avatar

Dude just said the quite part out load. If the GOP gets full control over the government, legalized child marriage would be rolled out in days.

Evrala,

Child marriage is already legal in quite a few states with parental permission. And there are a lot of terrible parents.

feedum_sneedson, (edited )

In China, the phrase 豆蔻年华 refers to a girl of 13-14. Why? Because a famous poet likened the appearance of a child prostitute’s developing vagina to a cardamom flower. Apparently that was totally fine, romantic even. I feel bad for the girl.

Anyway here’s the flower:

https://lemmy.world/pictrs/image/17ecf396-e13c-4e2a-8ca3-25e599b8dec6.jpeg

AnUnusualRelic,
@AnUnusualRelic@lemmy.world avatar

So after searching a bit, “豆蔻年华” appears to translate to “cardamom years”.

In case anyone else thought that the post above wasn’t terribly clear.

Smokeless7048,

thanks, i was curious about the translation, but didnt plan to search that myself without knowing what it meant!

WhatIsThePointAnyway,

Yet somehow conservatives think they can point at liberals as the “groomers.”

Treczoks,

As always, it is all about Projection.

Veraxus,

Because whatever disgusting, vile thoughts run through their heads is what they assume others must be doing.

Some call it projection… but it’s projection because these are things they are OBSESSED with. They are so sick and lacking empathy and experience that can’t imagine that others genuinely think differently than they do. Every accusation is an admission.

Ghyste,

Pieces of shit like this aren’t worth the price of a bullet to put them out of our misery.

InternetUser2012,

They are not, but I’ll gladly buy all the bullets required to keep children safe from religious idiots and republikkklowns.

Ghyste,

Completely agree.

Rivalarrival,

The parts of the world where violent crime is lowest have the highest mean age of motherhood. Women in Australia and the UK, for example, wait until after 30 before having their first child.

The parts of the world where violent crime is the highest have the lowest mean age of motherhood.

Nobody should be encouraging pregnancy before age 30.

Senshi,

People should just stop trying to interfere with people’s private life in general. Get pregnant or don’t, how is that a concern to me?

As long as it’s two consenting adults, which should be obvious, but sadly apparently isn’t.

Rivalarrival, (edited )

Get pregnant or don’t, how is that a concern to me?

Because every society where the average person starts a family before age 22 is described as “developing” or “impoverished” and every society where the average person starts a family after the age of 28 is described as “industrialized”.

I challenge you to find an exception.

Senshi,

You are swapping correlation and causation to some degree. A country does not become industrialized by people starting to have kids at a later age. Rather, people start getting kids when their circumstances allow it: in industrialized countries, you rely less on children to provide for you when old, as there hopefully are social systems in place or you can save up on your own. Downside is, without social systems you also have to provide for yourself at old age, meaning people need to build up more savings before they feel ready for the financial burden a child is for around 20 years.

In developing countries, children often get little support above bare necessities and start contributing to the household income at a much earlier age, even before hitting their teens.

belleofthebrawl,

A country does not become industrialized by people starting to have kids at a later age.

There is a theory that supports this:

A core mechanism of unified growth theory is that accelerating technological progress induces mass education and, through interaction with child quantity-quality substitution, a decline in fertility.

Declines in fertility have been observed after a country has become industrialized. Not only did fertility decline, but the children people were having were generally ‘of higher quality’.

onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.3982/QE1751

The testable predictions of the theory and its underlying mechanisms have been confirmed in empirical and quantitative research in the past decade, and have inspired intensive exploration of the impact of historical and pre-historical forces on comparative economic development and the disparity in the wealth of nations.

This comes from Wiki, and this particular statement currently has 3 citations if anyone is interested: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Unified_growth_theory

figaro,

That last take comes off as weird, ngl. Just let people do what they want.

Rivalarrival,

I think you’re reading more into my statement than what I actually said.

This thread is about a GOP official encouraging child pregnancy:

GOP official argues in favor of child marriage: Girls are ‘ripe’ and ‘fertile’

I don’t think we should just let that GOP official do what he wants.

I think your criticism is about reproductive rights: that we should leave individuals to make their own decisions. I agree.

However, when the question comes up as to the best time to start a family, there is an answer: “after 30”.

ture,

I don’t think your conclusion is correct and a correlation between the two numbers is by far not enough to assume a causality between the two of them. I would rather assume there are a lot of other factors being involved. Like e.g. the education system, especially the amount of years spent on education before starting to work, the general wealth of the society, the social securities provided the government, like e.g. health care, unemployment support etc.

Rivalarrival,

Like e.g. the education system, especially the amount of years spent on education before starting to work

Exactly. It’s kinda hard to spend years on education, years building a nest egg, when you haven’t spent all that many years alive.

The correlation is through socioeconomic conditions, correct. Older parents have worked longer, saved more, and can provide greater opportunities to their children, which in turn creates a more prosperous society that values education, social security, etc.

hperrin,

Are all conservatives disgusting, or just most?

Jeanschyso,

Probably most. You’d see 1000s of articles every day non-stop, if 20%+ of people were this disgusting.

The fact that you can still be surprised is proof that most of them aren’t this disgusting.

Riven,
@Riven@lemmy.dbzer0.com avatar

Idk man, they have to be some level of disgusting to keep voting these people in.

Veraxus,

All. But as with most things, it’s a spectrum.

AnUnusualRelic,
@AnUnusualRelic@lemmy.world avatar

Some are just a bit yucky.

Still, make sure to wash your hands.

mhague,

It’s an angler fish thing. Sometimes you see the nightmare lurking in the darkness, but usually you get the “some of the nicest people you’ll ever meet!” facade.

Fridgeratr,

I’m gonna puke

JohnScig,

I see they are using the tactics of religion - get them young.

reverendsteveii,

child rape party. party of people who want to rape children, want to ensure that child rapists do not face consequences, and want to ensure that raped children cannot escape the consequences of being raped.

acockworkorange,

“… If we continually restrict the freedom of marriage as a legitimate social option, when we do this to people who are a ripe, fertile age and may have a pregnancy and a baby involved, are we not, in fact, making abortion a much more desirable alternative, when marriage might be the right solution for some freedom-loving couples?”

It’s either abortion or marriage, it seems. No other alternative. Also, Freedom loving couples? Never knew hippies to be into traditional marriage. Someone please shut this degenerate up for good.

Glytch,

Me, who was adopted as a child: “Oh they forgot about adoption again. I’m shocked.”

blazeknave,

Same here but I NEVER think about that

Socsa,

“We need child marriage because it’s the only solution to child rape!”

These people aren’t even pretending anymore.

Bytemeister,

“Freedom of Marriage”.

So these two men who have been together for 10 years can get married?

“No, not like that…”

fukurthumz420,

Someone please shut this degenerate up for good.

let’s shut them all up for good. the world would turn on a dime within one decade.

helpmyusernamewontfi,

wtf I thought this was the onion, I had to read where this came from like three times.

wtf…

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