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Oh, are the /r/Conservative mods here too?

The tired, old trope of "Every accusation is a confession" tends to be true with conservatives.

It’s grounded in disgust over violations of what they perceive to be natural. They see a 16 year old girl having a husband to be natural, they see a 16 year old AFAB boy as being a violation of the natural order. And since they see queerness as a sexual perversion and marriage as the sacred outlet of sexuality they see queer people as pushing sex on teenagers when they’re just encouraging them to settle down and have a family

"Biden has said worse"

"They didn't mean it like that"

"Your source is corrupt"

"They are lying about their age because they are immigrants"

Repeat. Repeat. Repeat.

The more you get angry, the more they can play victim.

Because the GOP have taken Mitch McConnell's mantra of "if the Democrats are for it, we must speak out against it, no matter what" to ridiculous extremes.

I would make a hyperbolic example about the GOP arguing in favor of murdering puppies and kittens if the Democrats wanted to save them, but they've already argued in favor of forcing 10 year old rape victims to give birth, telling those children they should be happy for the "blessing" they received, murdered schoolchildren being nothing more than the price we pay for a 'free society', and guns being necessary and more important than the safety of our children because they need to shoot prairie dogs. I don't think any hyperbole is necessary.

But this is how we get here. When the default is to be against literally anything the Democrats support, and the answer to the "what if...." questions that follow are to either double down on the extremism and/or just say "ban that too!", this is the only logical outcome.

It's a brain malfunction where cognitive dissonance apparently feels good.

"We need child marriage because it's the only solution to child rape!"

These people aren't even pretending anymore.

Me, who was adopted as a child: "Oh they forgot about adoption again. I'm shocked."

That’s not even a conspiracy theory; It’s literally why reps like MTG, Boeburt, and Ted Cruz exist. Their entire goal is to drag the Overton window farther to the right. They’re in safe seats where they don’t need to worry about reelection. So they’re able to spew batshit crazy far-right propaganda, and it makes the republicans in threatened seats look less crazy. Because if you’re in a threatened seat, you need to appear moderate to catch the swing votes. It allows those threatened republicans to continue to quietly vote along party lines without looking like a hardline republican.

Yep, to move the Overton Window to the right. The left should do this as well. If a group of real leftist put out a political platform it would make Biden look like a Republican.

• Completly ban lobbying
• Free healthcare for all
• Free college for all
• Housing guarantee - homelessness not acceptable
• Billionaires fortunes taken and redistributed
• Ban fossil fuel subsidies
• Military exit from all countries except as part of multi-lateral peace keeping forces

Stuff like that

"Remember, its not pedophilia if it makes me come" - Republicans.

Whoa whoa whoa...he didn't say ripe, fertile and likely to survive child birth... this is pretty consistent with thier priorities.

Yup. Whenever someone tries to justify underage marriage with “most fertile period” or “it’s always been the norm”, you know they’re a pedo. Teenage pregnancies are risky because the pelvis hasn’t fully developed, and the girl is more likely to suffer severe depression as well. Most fertile age is more like 19-32 not 12-18. Also, I live in the UK and marriage records kept by the church from the 1400s show the vast majority of girls married for the first time in their early twenties, not teen years :)

I’m voting as hard as I can, but they’re making it as difficult as possible and even some of our leaders advocate for ignoring the votes.

The issue attracting republican women, it's controlled republican girls. By marrying their female children at a young age, they've reduced their ability to escape the indoctrination cycle.

That and they want to be able rape post prepubescent children legally when their men hit midlife crisis age.

Something tells me the phrase A.R.A.B. isn't going to catch on