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    Let’s be honest here… they don’t have a problem with no fault divorce in principal… they have a problem with women being able to file for divorce on their own.

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    If you force the peasants to stayed paired off and breed, especially in desperate, abusive conditions, they will produce the best kind of exploitation livestock for our glorious capitalist owners: the desperate kind that tolerates any abuse.

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        We have all just accepted the term “Human Resources” as something that I guess we aren’t going to revolt against

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          Honestly, prices go up any higher and its revolt and lose my house or dont revolt and lose my house.

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        Actually, slaves. We are held back by those in power, ignored, taught to hate those different than ourselves, paid just enough to survive and abused. We know this and we’re too scared to do anything about it because any fight we give needs us all, or we risk those in power taking away those few things or placing us in prison.

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    My ex-wife and I filed the requisite paperwork and a month or so later met downtown at the courthouse to finalize our petition for a no-fault divorce. We had filled out some of the paperwork incorrectly, scooted over to the law library around the corner and returned less than an hour later to wrap things up, paying a fee so incidental I couldn’t be bothered to remember the amount.

    No-fault is a near necessity for folks that want to take the high road out of a shitty situation. Going on to think of the massive cost savings, we’re left not only with religion to blame for the curtailing of our rights under law, but also perhaps the legal profession that spawned many of these legislators. Fuck them all.

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      They don’t give a crap about religion. That’s always been just something to motivate gullible idiots. Look at the stupidest and cringiest billionaire constantly whining about racial superiority and needing to breed people etc. they want you to work and they want 60% of whatever you create or labor for and they want you to have children that you pay for college for. They want you to rent your own slave quarters in buildings that they own. When I read history and compare it to ourselves, I can’t help but think we’re livestock that has been trained to be docile. At any other point in history, somebody would have murdered the worst offenders gleefully. They either managed to program us well or convince us to never do anything because we’re so comfortable at the cost of destroying the environment.

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        Panem et circenses, baby!

        As long as people are kept fed and entertained, they will tolerate a lot of bullshit.

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        When I read history and compare it to ourselves, I can’t help but think we’re livestock that has been trained to be docile. At any other point in history, somebody would have murdered the worst offenders gleefully.

        People in other points in history spent generation after generation living under much worse conditions without murdering their oppressors. Don’t romanticize the past.

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        somebody would have murdered the worst offenders gleefully

        We have food, so much food that the majority of people are obese. We have entertainment, cheap. Bread and circuses like never before.

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          Own a musket for home defense, since that’s what the founding fathers intended. Four ruffians break into my house. “What the devil?” As I grab my powdered wig and Kentucky rifle. Blow a golf ball sized hole through the first man, he’s dead on the spot. Draw my pistol on the second man, miss him entirely because it’s smoothbore and nails the neighbors dog. I have to resort to the cannon mounted at the top of the stairs loaded with grape shot, “Tally ho lads” the grape shot shreds two men in the blast, the sound and extra shrapnel set off car alarms. Fix bayonet and charge the last terrified rapscallion. He Bleeds out waiting on the police to arrive since triangular bayonet wounds are impossible to stitch up. Just as the founding fathers intended.

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      Yes, but if the married couple across the street are getting tax and other advantages simply for being married that you and your unmarried partner are not getting, then that is an injustice. Either no one should get such advantages or any pair of people regardless of gender or race should be able to get them. Either get rid of state marriage or let anyone get married.

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      There are a shit ton of laws built around the idea of marriage. Your spouse has rights to make medical decisions, inhabit and inherit property, share custody of children and property, sign certain documents, and stuff you probably never think about. Marriage equality is not an exercise in vanity, it really makes a difference when the government recognizes your special relationship and commitment. It also makes divorce so important, because the ability to sever that relationship is the only way to untangle all of those rights and responsibilities to each other.

      It would be better to have a different concept of contractual family, one that permits for more granularity and possibilities. But that ain’t what we got. Requiring demonstrations of fault to grant a divorce is just another way for shitty people to abuse other people. Prior to no-fault divorce, it wasn’t uncommon for judges to say things like “that’s not really spousal abuse” or “that’s not really rape” and then deny the divorce.

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      Don’t worry, they’ll reduce women back to property, so being unmarried, unowned property will be VERY dangerous for the property.

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    Of course they are. They hate it when their wives realize they married a total piece of shit and ditch them.

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    If they succeed with this, it will still fail.

    Fewer people will get married. Domestic violence will rise. “Till death do you part” gets a much more malicious meaning.

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      If domestic violence rises, how is still “failing”? It’s the kind of success those fuckers want.

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        They don’t give a s*** about promoting domestic violence. What they want to do is create a situation where people are cowed and do nothing but labor and produce the future labor like we’ve done to women for most of history. Whether the women get beat or not doesn’t mean anything to them as long as the outcome is the same.

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        But it will not be the kind of violence they want tho a lot more of broken glass in the husband meal than man beating their wife

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    I for one hope this simply leads to the end of marriage. That whole concept is built rather one sided. Time for relationship contracts… renewable, but always finite. With separation details worked out in advance. Let’s get religion out of it entirely.

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      Some Republicans have said that they want to make it illegal to cohabitate without being married.

      These shit birds are not going to rest until women have no autonomy.

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      Why does it need to be a formal contract? People can engage in relationships without the law being involved. I tend to think we should disentangle marriage and law, have some paperwork one can fill out for the legal affairs like hospital visitation and such that can be changed without the same degree of court proceeding, and have the religious or cultural ritual as just a ritual people can but are not obligated to hold if they feel like with no legal meaning to it.

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        Well it doesn’t have to be a formal contract… but I was thinking there would be like a website with a selection you could pick from, print out, sign and done. And the main reason was to make getting out of a bad relationship clear easy, and most likely no courts involved since everything was already spelled out. Open sourced contracts would in theory be well vetted to be fair.

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    The GOP is the party of increased infant mortality and high rates of spousal abuse, homicide, and suicide.

    At least they are ideological consistent.

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    Hey republiQan women - a new vista! A new opportunity to damage the quality of life for all your countrywomen - for the forseeable future - possibly permanently! Just vote like you always do! (Ha ha! I know we don’t have to tell you that. You’re very reliable!)

    Oh! uhhh . . mmmigrant caravan! Umm . . . don’t say gay! . . . uhh . . and so on. You know the words.

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    Ah Republicans when faced with the fact that they’re shitty husbands and get divorced at higher rates than in the past, instead of looking inwards and trying to figure out why less people want to fuck and stay married to their shitty views, simply want to outlaw women and men to extricate themselves out of their shitty conservative marriage and force them to remain unhappy.

    Spot on Republican family values.