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[-] PhlubbaDubba@lemm.ee 48 points 10 months ago

To them Family Values is just an innuendo for literal patriarchy. I'm not exaggerating, I mean literal "Rule by the Father."

The Republican paradise is an oligarchy of household heads who each reign sovereign in their own homes.

The son is the father's to mold, the wife is the father's to pleasure himself with, and the daughter is the father's to marry off to the boy of some good respectable family, if not to just marry off to one of his own business partners or acquaintances.

When Republicans freak out about the erosion of family values, they're freaking out over the increasing ability of people to strike out and live sustainably outside of this regimented model of society.

Queer people don't let themselves be married by arrangement of their parents, prosecuting child rapists fully doesn't let men horse trade their daughters, women having their own independent hobbies and interests don't depend on their husband for everything in their lives, welfare for single mothers doesn't allow men to hold a standard of living hostage for women to remain in abusive homes, No Fault divorce doesn't allow men to keep women legally trapped in a marriage they want out of, the right of women to vote means that a significant chunk of the government will always at least be at risk of further pushing against the household head interests, Sex work allows women to turn the very objectification under which they are normally oppressed into a means by which they can provide themselves a standard of living which competes with, if not surpasses, what a household head man can hold over her head to keep her in line.

[-] edgemaster72@lemmy.world 10 points 10 months ago

But for good measure let's also make sure it's damn near impossible for a family to get by on just the income of the "head of household".

[-] MisterD@lemmy.ca 37 points 10 months ago

He hurts the people we hate!

Um..(turns head to ask another MAGA member) who do we hate now?

I dunno

Quick, let's watch the hate box and find out.

[-] lobut@lemmy.ca 14 points 10 months ago

Children, women ... poor people ....

[-] shasta@lemm.ee 11 points 10 months ago

Also men who won't suck his dick, and gay people. Somehow both of those...

[-] RegalPotoo@lemmy.world 5 points 10 months ago

"I never thought the leopards would eat my face" says local supporter of the Leopards Eating People's Faces Party

[-] OpenStars@startrek.website 21 points 10 months ago

Boomers' "Do as I SAY, not do as I DO" energy.

[-] Nastybutler@lemmy.world 19 points 10 months ago

But Hunter got his dad to do favors for Ukrainians, probably. Maybe. Okay, not really. But he's bad! He's done way more bad stuff than Orange Julius Caesar. We just don't know about all of it yet. That's why we have to open an investigation into him!

[-] OpenStars@startrek.website 5 points 10 months ago

B/c you are only innocent until after being proven guilty... and are republican.

[-] Compactor9679@lemm.ee -3 points 10 months ago

Like Trump? Lol

[-] deezbutts@lemm.ee 14 points 10 months ago

For convenience sake can someone please cite the court decisions

[-] tacosanonymous@lemm.ee 8 points 10 months ago

But they don’t believe any of that.

this post was submitted on 13 Jan 2024
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