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[–] [email protected] 116 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (2 children)

Oh yeah? Well he can go fuck himself. It's none of his business what married couples decide. Fuck him and his fascist religion. Edit: spelling

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[–] [email protected] 102 points 1 year ago (5 children)

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.

[–] [email protected] 71 points 1 year ago (1 children)

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.

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[–] [email protected] 20 points 1 year ago (1 children)

...or hoping that backing/marrying a powerful man will mean the leopards won't eat YOUR face.

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[–] [email protected] 15 points 1 year ago (2 children)

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.

[–] [email protected] 37 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (3 children)

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.

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[–] [email protected] 92 points 1 year ago (5 children)

He doesn't like divorce because he doesn't want to be single. His wife didn't even show up to his event.

[–] [email protected] 31 points 1 year ago

Someone actually married this guy?

[–] [email protected] 24 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Wait for real? His wife wasn't there?

[–] [email protected] 18 points 1 year ago (1 children)

It was 14 hours between his nomination and the speech. According to NPR , she couldn't get a flight. Dude is still an assclown.

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[–] [email protected] 53 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

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).

[–] [email protected] 43 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I didn't like divorce either until I understood why my parents got one.

[–] [email protected] 35 points 1 year ago

Yeah I didn't get it when I was a kid, but turns out my mom was a fucking lunatic so 👍

[–] [email protected] 36 points 1 year ago (10 children)

Einstein was wrong. Time travel has to be possible. I came here expecting ppl to pile onto the guy. Instead, I get debates about divorce like it was 1855!

You Americans are a wild bunch, I tell ya.

And to the people about to comment that I should not inject myself into debates into U.S. politics as foreigner: I'll stop that the moment this community gets renamed to USpolitics.

[–] [email protected] 43 points 1 year ago (1 children)

'Murican here. Given that our politics are absolutely fucked, I'd say keep the constructive foreign insight coming.

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[–] [email protected] 25 points 1 year ago (3 children)

I only see one guy against divorce and they're heavily down voted.

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[–] [email protected] 36 points 1 year ago (2 children)

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!

[–] [email protected] 16 points 1 year ago

And guess when he started ranting about it?

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[–] [email protected] 34 points 1 year ago (1 children)

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.

  1. 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.
  2. 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.
  3. 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.

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[–] [email protected] 26 points 1 year ago (2 children)

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?

[–] [email protected] 24 points 1 year ago

I think you just defined conservatism.

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[–] [email protected] 24 points 1 year ago (2 children)

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.

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[–] [email protected] 19 points 1 year ago

The most powerful man in the House doesn't like ~~divorce~~ women

[–] Vaginal_blood_fart 19 points 1 year ago (3 children)

America is fascinating. Just a giant church of hypocrisy with a tonne of guns

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[–] [email protected] 18 points 1 year ago

Yeah he’s a giant piece of shit. He better hope he doesn’t end up on https://gayhomophobe.com after getting caught with a rent boy. The louder someone hates and complains, the more they have to hide.

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