• BigMacHole@lemm.ee
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    2 months ago

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

    -Republicans. All of them!

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    2 months ago

    Imagine this guy marrying your daughter child 🤢

    More importantly, is this some sort of ploy to get the angry young men vote?

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      2 months ago

      My sis is 2 decades younger than me. She now the age our mom gave birth me to me. The idea of teen pregnancy kind of make me want to cry to think about it. Just so sad.

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    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.

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        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.

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      2 months ago

      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.

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        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.

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          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.

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        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.

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    And that’s just ONE official that is saying that aloud for the press to hear. Imagine how many of his colleagues, just as sick and twisted as him, are of the same opinion and just not saying anything.

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        Any conservative board or sub, will immediately be overtaken by fascist snowflakes. I mean who the hell would want to freely mod a conservative sub in their free time? The job description alone requires someone deeply disturbed

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    I think the GOP intentionally spews some ridiculous shit like this every so often to make their regular shit look less crazy.

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      Yep, to move the Overton Window to the right. The left should do this as well. If a group of real leftist put out a political platform it would make Biden look like a Republican.

      • Completly ban lobbying
      • Free healthcare for all
      • Free college for all
      • Housing guarantee - homelessness not acceptable
      • Billionaires fortunes taken and redistributed
      • Ban fossil fuel subsidies
      • Military exit from all countries except as part of multi-lateral peace keeping forces

      Stuff like that

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          Billionaires fortunes taken and redistributed

          That’s the only extreme one to me. Higher taxes on billionaires is a reasonable take. Government forcibly seizing private property is not.

          Honorable mention:

          Military exit from all countries except as part of multi-lateral peace keeping forces

          This would be extreme except it’s not even possible, other countries are not interested in paying for their own defense.