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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 was just thinking it would be fun to mod a conservative sub but take a conservative instead of a regressive viewpoint. Like: “people who do crimes should be held accountable regardless of their cult size,” “investing in infrastructure or climate mitigation is huge ROI so we should do a lot of both,” “we need regulations to manifest the invisible hand so the market can price things efficiently.”

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    It’s worth the remembering that these are the “LGBT = groomers” people. However, I posit that this horrid statement belies the truth, which is that they’re not trying to protect children, at least not individual children from specific ills. The anti-queer vitriol is, and has always been, grounded in eugenics. this is also why conservatives’ eyes glaze over whenever the topic of queer youth suicide rates in restrictive states is broached. Taken with the ever-present conservative fixation on ‘ripe’ and ‘fertile’ underage girls, alongside the Great Replacement conspiracy that has become central to their rhetoric, I feel justified in saying OH MY GOD THIS IS FASCISM WHAT THE ACTUAL FUCK HOW IS THIS ALLOWED TO CONTINUE.

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      It’s grounded in disgust over violations of what they perceive to be natural. They see a 16 year old girl having a husband to be natural, they see a 16 year old AFAB boy as being a violation of the natural order. And since they see queerness as a sexual perversion and marriage as the sacred outlet of sexuality they see queer people as pushing sex on teenagers when they’re just encouraging them to settle down and have a family

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      “Biden has said worse”

      “They didn’t mean it like that”

      “Your source is corrupt”

      “They are lying about their age because they are immigrants”

      Repeat. Repeat. Repeat.

      The more you get angry, the more they can play victim.

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      There is a defense for these laws! Which makes it doubly fucked up that I’ve never once heard a Republican utter it.

      (Among other issues, marriage wipes out many legal complications of inheritance.)

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      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.

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    Let’s set aside morality, because that’s also wrong. It’s factually incorrect. You want someone to die in childbirth? Knock them up at 16. Early 20s are the actual reproductive prime.

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      Yup. Whenever someone tries to justify underage marriage with “most fertile period” or “it’s always been the norm”, you know they’re a pedo. Teenage pregnancies are risky because the pelvis hasn’t fully developed, and the girl is more likely to suffer severe depression as well. Most fertile age is more like 19-32 not 12-18. Also, I live in the UK and marriage records kept by the church from the 1400s show the vast majority of girls married for the first time in their early twenties, not teen years :)

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        Yeah I looked up my family on the Mormon genealogy site and was surprised how many of the women married around 28-30 years old. Certainly not as teens and I really was surprised. Like, I as a modern woman had kids younger than a good chunk of my ancestresses.

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        Truth. Marriages at a super young age were not normal outside of nobility doing it for political alliance reasons and even then the general advice were not to try for a pregnancy because your risks of killing a young spouse were astronomically high. However the concept was popularized by fiction that basically wanted to trade on the idea of a gritty nasty medieval age where the darkness of the human soul cam be laid bare and how mankind has evolved into a kinder more civilized place… basically the same thematic itch as Warhammer grimdark logic.

        In regards to the whole “darkness of the human soul” thing it really doesn’t stack. People just want to believe their personal id (as in the Freudian concept, not “identity” ) is more universal than it is.

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    Ew. Ew, ew, ew. Gross in ways I didn’t think an elected official could get away with in public.

    Someone needs to do a wellness check on his kids, if he has any. Again… Ew.

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      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.

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      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.

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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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    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.

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

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      The issue attracting republican women, it’s controlled republican girls. By marrying their female children at a young age, they’ve reduced their ability to escape the indoctrination cycle.

      That and they want to be able rape post prepubescent children legally when their men hit midlife crisis age.

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    GOP is always projecting on other groups. People have to stop showing them any form of respect and treat them like lowlifes they are.