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[–] AllonzeeLV@lemmy.world 49 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

"You show me some lazy prick who's laying around all day watching game shows and stroking his penis and I'll show you someone who's not causing any fucking trouble"

-George Carlin

Republicans really believe shit like this and banning abortion will be successful at restoring the nuclear family... at gunpoint.

What it will really do is increase sexual assault, suicide, violence in general...

Of course that will be everyone else's fault for not submitting to their attempts at coercion correctly. Republicans insist on personal responsibility, exclusively for their many enemies and explicitly not for themselves.

The funniest bit is, they are the reason for the death of the nuclear family and the reason it won't be restored. If you give the owner class all the money out of the asses of the working citizens that would have kids, herp derp they won't have kids.

If they really wanted the "traditional American family" to come back, they need only restore tax levels to pre-reagan levels, and actually enforce them. Instead they'd rather threaten everyone for masturbating instead of making new wage slaves they can't afford to raise so Republicans can also get that dopamine hit of schadenfreude by calling them irresponsible for having kids they can't afford.

[–] sebinspace@lemmy.world 41 points 1 year ago (3 children)

You want to restore the nuclear family? Make it financially viable for us to have one.

One of the main reasons I don’t have children is because it’s too goddamn expensive.

Also I’m sterile. But there’s nothing anyone can do about that.

[–] AllonzeeLV@lemmy.world 17 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Fertility issues are also massively on the rise, probably just another side effect of all the pollution we let oligarchs inflict for private profit.

And ~~Nero~~ Bezos/Walton/Buffet/Koch/etc counted while humanity burned.

[–] Wahots@pawb.social 5 points 1 year ago

I want kids. But I need government programs like Universal Healthcare, real paternity leave rights, and maybe even extreme stuff like subsidized surrogacy to make that happen. My family in Japan has that. My SO in Canada has that. Why can't we have that here in the US?

[–] Jaysyn@kbin.social 0 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

None of my 4 kids, ages 16 - 23, want to or plan on having children.