These Republicans are literally evil and it baffles me and fills me with despair that people just don’t see it. They want to fuck and marry children, and send them to work in the mines, on school nights. They dismantle environmental protections and human rights with glee. They want to privatise everything and make everyone beholden to billionaires that make more in an hour than others will in a lifetime. They force brain dead mothers to incubate babies and healthy mothers to incubate brain dead babies.
They are undeniably evil fucking scum. But they’ve got everyone convinced that the drag queen reading children’s books in a public library is the thing destroying society. And to me, the worst part of all is that none of these things are a secret. They don’t campaign for child marriage in secret, they don’t force women to go through absolute horror behind closed doors. This is all openly done and known. So what does that say about the many many people that act like they’re their saviours?
This is why I cannot re-watch childhood cartoons of mine. The villains there are ironically less evil than these people and people don’t support them in universe…
Wait, who is actively campaigning for child marriage? I mean, “child marriage” is already legal in a bunch of states (as in a large majority of them) so long as you understand we’re generally talking about 16 or 17 year olds marrying with consent of their parents, a court or both (depending on the state). The term tends to evoke imagery of kids much younger than that, which is why I’m clarifying. Why would they need to campaign for something that’s already legal in most of the country?
It does seem weird to blame Republicans for this one though, since the states with the broadest child marriage laws have been solidly blue states (Massachusetts eliminated under-18 marriage entirely in 2022, but prior to that had no hard minimum age of marriage with parental and judicial consent, and California still to date has no hard minimum marriage age but requires judicial consent for under-18s). I don’t think anyone is going to claim that California is a state controlled by Republicans.
It’s not like for example fucking animals where it’s only legal in one state, and that one state is a red state. Specifically: Fucking animals isn’t illegal in WV because WV repealed their “crimes against nature”-style law in 1976 for LGBT related reasons (and it wasn’t really enforced much anyways, 4 prosecutions in 46 years on the books, 3 of those overturned on appeal), and WV has just never passed a replacement ban on fucking animals. It typically gets proposed in the legislature every year, and typically never goes any farther than being proposed because the legislature usually has more important things to do than pass an embarrassing bill to legislate against a vanishingly small number of perverts who on the whole aren’t really hurting anyone (and if they were could be prosecuted under regular animal abuse laws).
These Republicans are literally evil and it baffles me and fills me with despair that people just don’t see it. They want to fuck and marry children, and send them to work in the mines, on school nights. They dismantle environmental protections and human rights with glee. They want to privatise everything and make everyone beholden to billionaires that make more in an hour than others will in a lifetime. They force brain dead mothers to incubate babies and healthy mothers to incubate brain dead babies.
They are undeniably evil fucking scum. But they’ve got everyone convinced that the drag queen reading children’s books in a public library is the thing destroying society. And to me, the worst part of all is that none of these things are a secret. They don’t campaign for child marriage in secret, they don’t force women to go through absolute horror behind closed doors. This is all openly done and known. So what does that say about the many many people that act like they’re their saviours?
This is why I cannot re-watch childhood cartoons of mine. The villains there are ironically less evil than these people and people don’t support them in universe…
Wait, who is actively campaigning for child marriage? I mean, “child marriage” is already legal in a bunch of states (as in a large majority of them) so long as you understand we’re generally talking about 16 or 17 year olds marrying with consent of their parents, a court or both (depending on the state). The term tends to evoke imagery of kids much younger than that, which is why I’m clarifying. Why would they need to campaign for something that’s already legal in most of the country?
It does seem weird to blame Republicans for this one though, since the states with the broadest child marriage laws have been solidly blue states (Massachusetts eliminated under-18 marriage entirely in 2022, but prior to that had no hard minimum age of marriage with parental and judicial consent, and California still to date has no hard minimum marriage age but requires judicial consent for under-18s). I don’t think anyone is going to claim that California is a state controlled by Republicans.
It’s not like for example fucking animals where it’s only legal in one state, and that one state is a red state. Specifically: Fucking animals isn’t illegal in WV because WV repealed their “crimes against nature”-style law in 1976 for LGBT related reasons (and it wasn’t really enforced much anyways, 4 prosecutions in 46 years on the books, 3 of those overturned on appeal), and WV has just never passed a replacement ban on fucking animals. It typically gets proposed in the legislature every year, and typically never goes any farther than being proposed because the legislature usually has more important things to do than pass an embarrassing bill to legislate against a vanishingly small number of perverts who on the whole aren’t really hurting anyone (and if they were could be prosecuted under regular animal abuse laws).