It all makes a lot of sense when you realize that the pilgrim fathers didn’t travel to America to be free from persecution, but mostly to be free to persecute.
The latest episode of the Know Your Enemy podcast had some interesting words about why the republican party can’t govern or correct itself in the final ~10 minutes of the episode. I didn’t get to finish because of life stuff, so I rewound to re-listen later today (awake with insomnia rn, not ready to digest).
Sorry for this empty post where I didn’t convey their ideas. It was something about campaign finance and how McCain / Feingold created a channel for the worst (like Gaetz) to act like shitheads.
I still run into men all the time that lament no fault divorce as being one of the worst things that ever happened in this country (along with Roe and women being able to have their own bank account/credit line, of course).
Please refer them to this comment next time you run into them:
Y’all are some punk ass bitches. Grow up and stop being a weak-kneed, cowardly, controlling asshole. If you want someone to love you, then be worthy of their love.
They don’t want to br worthy of love, they just want someone they can fuck and control that’s it. If it was about wanting love they’d change their mindset for the better.
They don’t want to br worthy of love, they just want someone they can fuck and control that’s it. If it was about wanting love they’d change their mindset for the better.
They just want someone that takes care of them unconditionally. Just like their mum probably used to do. Some men are so fucking clueless when it comes to the basics of housekeeping. I’m glad my father set the correct example for me, as I now try to do for my kid.
When a woman has had it with the big baby and goes her own way, the adult toddler is left to his own devices and blames all his shortcomings on the ex-wife and the invention of divorce. (Or probably abortion because they know having kids is another way to anchor the wife to them.)
I get your point, but let’s not imply that it’s only women’s job to vote Republicans out. Policies detrimental to women diminish and damage the whole country and that’s everyone’s responsibility.
I don’t think anyone was saying all the responsibility belongs to women. I think they were saying that women, among other targeted groups, should have extra motivation to vote these people out.
I did choose the word ‘imply’ instead of ‘say’ for a reason. And yes, implication is subjective so my comment was just my opinion. In any case, I would like to see men and all people experience that urgency and motivation just as strongly.
Ok, going back to (direct quote) misterundercoat’s statement that I was originally replying to above,
If you’re a woman and vote to put any Republican in power in this country, no matter how small or local, you must be insane.
You’re right. They neither said or implied that anyone else who voted Republican is any less insane or any less to blame.
I think I just get frustrated when people want to only go as far as labeling a voting behavior or a moral stance as insane, stupid, deluded, evil or just plain dumb… and not dig into the whole system of shit that led to the person or group behaving that way. But there’s plenty of room for both of those angles in this lovely fediverse and I shouldn’t feel any need to police such things.
From the conservative women I know, it’s because they don’t think these Draconian laws will ever apply to them…which is just characteristic of them.
They don’t think abortion should be legal because they can control their own sexual activities. If women (i.e. slutty liberals) want to have sex then they should be punished blessed with a child.
Women conservatives are just conservatives. They don’t think the law will apply to them.
And Johnson isn’t alone in his ire. Lately there’s been a push by conservatives to end no-fault divorce—in podcast studios and in the halls of government. Right-wing activist and influencer Steven Crowder, Daily Wire and PragerU host Michael Knowles, and conservative podcaster Tim Pool, among others, have all decried the nationwide standard as being too lax, granting women divorces on a whim.
Crowder, the abusive dickbag whose wife divorced him because of said abuse thinks women shouldn’t be able to opt out of shitty marriages? How surprising!
Old cranky cons have been bitching about this for nearly as long as I can remember. Hell, the Birchers probably claimed it was a Communist plot, just like every other social change for the better.
I think more prominent wingnuts are now saying the misogynist stuff out loud, and with a platform - and not getting shut down/filtered by others now, is all. They don’t have to meet in small groups IRL or stand on the corner handing out pamphlets any more.
Why is it anytime one of these republicans opens their mouth I know they’re going to say something infuriatingly regressive, backwards, and going to try to fuck someone over with their view?
This is very on brand for republicans. It is part of the overall plan to create Gilead (that SHOULD be an exaggeration but… if anything it is an understatement). The idea being that women are property.
Abortion is evil. Because if a guy knocks up a woman? Assuming he doesn’t “deny deny deny” and his lawyer can’t get him out of it, he is looking at a ridiculously small tax that he pays for a few months and then ignores for the rest of his life. A woman loses months (if not years) of her life to recovery and childcare and loses earning potential for her entire life. Which… makes her more beholden to her spouse.
Affirmative action is racist/sexit/whatever. Because, same as above, it makes it easier for Manly Men to refuse to promote or hire women to keep them barefoot and pregnant because they can’t get a job.
Divorce is wrong: So even if your property gets uppety and thinks she can find a way to survive without you? Sorry, not legal, go cook dinner and then I’ll put another baby in you.
And plenty of others. The goal is to make women property that can’t escape or ever say no.
And the idea of a man wanting to leave a woman? Just kill the bitch and get a new wife. Or fuck your daughter.
The great thing about democracy is that you can have a personal opinion about a particular issue, and still defend the rights of people to act in opposition to your opinion, because those actions do not infringe on the rights of anyone else.
Unfortunately (yes, I am about to say it again), the House is controlled by the American Fascist Party.
Yeah he’s a giant piece of shit. He better hope he doesn’t end up on gayhomophobe.com after getting caught with a rent boy. The louder someone hates and complains, the more they have to hide.
Just fucking end marriage. It’s fucking archaic. When two people become partners they enter a business partnership . That’s it. It should be treated as such.
A wedding and a relationship doesn’t require endorsement by the government. Go have a ceremony, grow old together, but you don’t need your local county clerk having a say in it.
Love and romance has little to do with the privileges granted by the state. Or do you think people should not be allowed to marry if they are not in love?
Sure, that’s fine too, but the vast majority of marriages now are based on love. Business arrangements are fine too, they just aren’t what people usually get married for.
We should end the legal institution of marriage. It literally only provides two benefits: you can pool income for tax purposes, and you can share health insurance. Both of those items could easily be addressed without marriage, especially if we had universal healthcare or if you could add a partner to your health insurance like you can with car insurance.
Meanwhile, marriage in it’s current form means that the state decides how much of your retirement savings you get to keep when your partner decides to leave you or you decide to leave your partner. It’s the worst financial decision that it is possible to make to ever marry someone outside of your class because of that risk, and that risk sucks the joy and romance out of the whole thing.
If you want to have a fairy tale wedding or an important religious ceremony, go for it, but there is zero reason to get the government involved at all anymore.
I happen to agree, me and my wife lived together for years before getting paperwork done. Just finally had to do it, it is just too much work otherwise. From insurance, to property, to inheritance, to medical decisions. A justice of a peace simple thing.
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