…while you can.
191Already illegal in Missouri for pregnant women to divorce their spouse
65Actually? That's so disgusting
45Not 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.
25Holy shit. That's some dystopian nightmare
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Why would you marry someone that votes to make you a second class citizen?
78Why would someone vote for themselves to be a second class citizen?
I dunno.
27I always wondered that and I finally met not one, but TWO people who fit this criteria.
The first person was married with kids, and she's afraid to leave because she doesn't know if she's the primary breadwinner, and to divorce would mean she would struggle taking care of two kids by herself. The husband isn't abusive (her comments), but he seems to want her to be a tradwife while also wanting her to work.
The second person shared that she married her high school sweetheart. But she was already questioning things when he spouted Joe Rogan/Jordan Peterson BS, and would flip out at work on male coworkers and put words in our mouths. After a report, I learned about her marriage issues and providing support for the past few months. But all the workplace can do is give her some therapy sessions and hopes she gets the fuck out of her predicament.
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Why marry a turd in the first place? 🤷
56I 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.
34Alternatively, both Republican, and she changed for the better for herself.
37I 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.
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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.
33she 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.
27Any 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.
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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.
10The basis of right wing thought is hierarchies.
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Because not everyone makes their political alignment their entire personality.
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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.
45unfortunately most of them don't have girlfriends. some of them never did. the party is relying on incels and divorced dads.
32One could hope
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Hm I wonder what the divorce rate is like when broken down along political views
41Depends 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
24I 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.
21There'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
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Not just a concept
27What a great time to be on the market 😄
19Fucking right?!
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A maga version would be nice.
No sex with magas!
19On 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.
18All we can do now is accuse them of sleeping with each other’s partners. Let them shoot each other
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it's a shame Matt Taibbi sold out after modeling for this
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"WHILE YOU STILL CAN!"
18Sorry, I can’t relate to this kink. Not shaming, exactly, but I find divorce lawyers more attractive than this.
e: oh shit, I misread this because of the funky font. Carry on, I approve.
15People change. The old stereotype is that people tend to be very liberal in high school and college but become very conservative with a mortgage and a couple of kids. I don’t know how often that actually plays out but it makes sense.
When you don’t have anything it’s easy to demand a lot of things from the government. When you have money you want to do everything you can to hold onto it and that means not paying taxes. It flips around again when people are super rich though: then they don’t mind paying taxes (because their effective tax rate is very low). It’s the middle class who get screwed the most.
11My dad, after a discussion in my young adult years turned political: "if you're not a liberal when you're young, you don't have a heart. If you're not conservative when you're an adult, you don't have a brain."
Well, dad, I have made it to adulthood with brilliant children and great relationships with them to boot. I'm still a screaming liberal and you're still a racist that is gargling the balls of a wannabe dictator.
45Brains = pull up the ladder like we did, kids! What do you mean you don't have a ladder to pull up?
6That same quote is in a lagwagon song. I think it's a sound byte from the movie Jacob's Ladder, because there's a few others on that album from that movie but I might be wrong.
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Have a mortgage and a kid, more left now than I ever was in my past. While recognizing that not everyone wants those things, my living standard really should be the baseline and I don't mind paying taxes to make it easier for others to achieve it. It does piss me off that most of my taxes go to a military I don't approve of though.
18I’m in Canada so I have the opposite reaction re: the military. Our military is a joke and if the US ever walked away from NATO we would be totally screwed.
Our government has been run by the Liberals since 2015. All they’ve done is destroyed the jobs market and put housing out of reach for ordinary people. Not a fan!
I think if you want to be a socialist you need to acknowledge that sometimes the government will be grossly incompetent and/or corrupt. Frankly, this experience is what has pulled me to the right. I simply don’t have trust in unaccountable institutions anymore.
Having said that, I think most of the damage to our society has been done by incompetent municipal governments which aren’t part of our party system anyway. They’ve squandered billions of dollars, been grifted by scam artist developers, and destroyed our communities with idiotic urban planning ideas that make livable neighbourhoods illegal.
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As someone middle class I’d really like a functioning government more than the amount I’m taxed.
Also republicans don’t lower my taxes, they raise them and decrease funding for the poor then go on a rant about divorce needing to be banned
13I dunno, I'm the opposite, though without the kids I grew up in Christian cult hell but broke free as a teenager. Now at 45, looking back, the older I've grown the more socialist I've become.
5You can’t pull up the ladder until after you get to the top.
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Makes me think of this https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5FVsCWKgKEY
4Really more of a concept.
1actually you know what, if you can afford not to, please don't. we really don't need any more podcasts.
-6speak for yourself, i find amateur podcasts about real life to be very interesting
2i was joking about the right wing divorced dad poscasts
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