• Ð Greıt Þu̇mpkin@lemm.ee
    502·
    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.worldEnglish
      10·
      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·
    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.

  • Nastybutler@lemmy.world
    201·
    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!

    • admiralteal@kbin.social
      8·
      10 months ago

      It’s way more accurate than “republican” given that they give zero shits about preserving the republic.

      • neoman4426@kbin.social
        6·
        10 months ago

        Fact that US Republicans are mostly straight up monarchists in all but name, wanting the rapist fuckweasel to have the title of President but role of king is certainly something.

        • Ð Greıt Þu̇mpkin@lemm.ee
          3·
          10 months ago

          Nah, they’re oligarchists, Trump is just so popular because he’s a totem of validation for them wanting to get to say the N-Word and not be looked down on for it.

          If the Republicans had their way the US would strip back all the voting rights amendments and reduce it back to the Household vote, and leave the Household to the absolute sovereignty of the Household head.