actually you know what, if you can afford not to, please don't. we really don't need any more podcasts.
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A maga version would be nice.
No sex with magas!
On the contrary, during World War II, French prostitutes would purposely spread venereal disease to nazis. They would also get nazis hooked on heroin.
Unfortunately, MAGAs tend to already have both those issues.
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it's a shame Matt Taibbi sold out after modeling for this
Why would you marry someone that votes to make you a second class citizen?
Why would someone vote for themselves to be a second class citizen?
I dunno.
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I think Trump is pissed about Taylor Swift, because all his young, Rogan listening, meathead voters are probably being pressured by their Swifty girlfriends into ditching Trump.
unfortunately most of them don't have girlfriends. some of them never did. the party is relying on incels and divorced dads.
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One could hope
…while you can.
Already illegal in Missouri for pregnant women to divorce their spouse
Not really, but it's more about child custody and child support if already married.
https://www.factcheck.org/2024/03/posts-distort-missouri-divorce-law-regarding-pregnancy/
Nowhere in Missouri law does it say pregnant women are barred from getting divorced.
But a judge handling a case where one party is pregnant may wait to finalize that divorce until the baby is born, which, experts told us, is done in order to consolidate custody and child-support agreements with other end-of-marriage arrangements.
This can happen in other states, too.
Still dangerous because the husband is empowered to make medical decisions in certain cases
Holy shit. That's some dystopian nightmare
Actually? That's so disgusting
Hm I wonder what the divorce rate is like when broken down along political views
There's statistics about voting rates amongst single, married and divorced women in the USA. Married women are the most conservative mostly due to age skew) followed by the other two. I can't remember if single or divorced leans more liberal but there's a big gap
I don't know what conclusion that would give. That they jump into marriage faster? That they're willing to leave a bad situation?
I don't think low divorce rates necessarily correlates to happier people.
Depends on whether the study is from places likely to be subject to bias like the “conservative” group institute for family values that claims county level polling shows more democrats get divorced (despite conceding the accuracy of state level polling?), or more normal groups that have shown for a decade plus now that red states have higher divorce rates. Top five are:
- Nevada
- Oklahoma
- Wyoming
- Alabama
- Arkansas
Not just a concept
Why marry a turd in the first place? 🤷
Because not everyone makes their political alignment their entire personality.
I've dated conservative women a few times, they definitely said things like "I don't let that come into my relationships" and that never ended up being the fact. And goddamn it they all were REALLY into D/s dynamics. Albeit that's a quality I typically find in a partner, but tbh they kinda excelled at playing the role phew.
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I personality know two very liberal women who married right wing nutjobs, the first one married a full MAGA, proud boys type militia and election denier guy who she thought she could change him (she couldn't).
The other one thought that political differences didn't matter in a romantic relationship (it did).
Both ended up in divorce.
Any of those topics that people who care more about society being polite than just tell you to avoid are ones that should be not just discussed but agreed on before making a relationship legally binding. Religion, money, politics. They are each too serious for "agree to disagree" to last long.
she thought she could change him
Has this ever worked?! Like a single time in the history of our species?
Edit: I asked the High Council for Female Affairs (my girlfriend) about the why and her answer is - summarized: At the beginning of a relationship you see things you like and things you don’t like. Some try to quell the bad things and enhance the good things. The emotionally immature ones believe in “a perfect relationship” and actively try to form their partners instead of looking for someone who has less of those bad qualities. They tend to fail spectacularly.
My stepmom lived in one of the most liberal towns in Massachusetts, running a Montessori program before she and my Fox News watching dad got married. (We never actually talked about politics because they “had an agreement,” but I have to assume she was very liberal- probably not very left though)
She started voting republican after a few years :(
I tend to believe people don't really change but they do tend to show their true colors eventually. However, some of us are not a great judge of character.
Life is also complicated and messy.
I tend to believe people don’t really change but they do tend to show their true colors eventually.
A drunk action is a sober thought.
Some of my best friends acted liberal until they hit 30 and suddenly they were Uber conservative. I'm less concerned with if they were really liberal before and more concerned with what they're okay with now. No longer friends with any of them because these are basic morality concerns
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I disagree. Some people do change. Learn new things, car accidents change your life, cancer changes your life, new job, ...
The only thing constant is change.
Can confirm. I was a hard right conservative during Obama.
Life happens and now I'm an anti-capitalist pro-union progressive.
Congratulations on your positive change :)
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Alternatively, both Republican, and she changed for the better for herself.
Things happen. Stuff. Reasons.
People also change, and someone may over the long haul become something you didn't really expect out of them.
This was my dad. He was always right leaning but then Trump came along and he went die hard political full on Trumpet.
He's one of the smartest people I know and watching him get more involved and more and more angry was terrifying.
Anyone who knows friends or family that fell down the magat hole understand this
This.There exists a pipeline from somewhere on the left to the alt right. It is dangerous to think otherwise.