In other words, “I was indifferent-to-enthusiastic about hurting other people and families until it affected me personally”

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      I don’t want to tell adults how to live their lives but adding immigration/citizenship to this dynamic certainly makes it seem more gross.

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        Who cares?

        Surely once someone is 40 they can choose to do whatever the fuck they want provided it’s not harming anyone.

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          Mail order brides are often abused in a myriad of ways, I don’t wish to describe, both before and after they get to their destination.

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            That’s certainly true, but my point is that the risks are dramatically diminished when the younger spouse is over 40.

            There’s every likelihood that being referred to, and categorised as, a “mail order bride” is more harmful to her prospects than her relationship is.

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    So, he owns a thousand billboards. And he had learned how evil republicans are. Maybe he could put those billboards to good use and inform the population about the drawbacks of voting for GOP?

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      Oh, but that would mean he would have no paying customers, and that will affect the bottom line!

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    “Go after the criminals. We’re all for that. But leave the mom and pops and the kids alone. Man, he’s destroying families,” Gannon added.

    The true threat came from the childless.

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      You joke but that’s a conservative dog whistle for leftists and childless women who they absolutely do believe are evil

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        Eh. Childless white women are evil feminist Jezebels. But if you’re a minority woman with children, they are anchor babies and you’re a welfare mom.

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    He clearly has not accepted that in-group/out-group dynamics always leave potential for you to become part of the out-group, or to have only assumed you’d be in the in-group in the first place. Just thinks Trump messed up by taking HIS partner instead of someone else’s.

    “go after criminals” he continues to say, failing to realize that especially in the most heavily incarcerated country on the planet, criminals are actually also laregly moms and pops and kids with families that are torn apart by agents of state violence over incredibly minor or intentionally targeting laws.

    My experience with so many people is that even when solidly proven to have held a belief they no longer find suits them, they do not look for a systematic fault in their mental processing models or a larger misunderstanding in their base assumptions of reality to find how it was they were led into false belief. They simply assume it was either a fluke, or that reality does indeed conform to their ideas and just made a mistake this time.

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      She’s 45, not a child. That doesn’t make him a pervert.

      I’m not saying it’s the “standard”, but far from “perverted”

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      He’s a pervert for wanting to be with an attractive 45 year old woman? Shit, I guess I’m a pervert.

      What is the line where he goes from pervert to normal person? He’s fully abiding by the “Half Plus 7” rule.

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        Didn’t you hear? The age of consent has been raised to 52.

        If you’re attracted to a woman in her forties, believe it or not, nonce.

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    Should force that guy say “We’re destroying families.” Make him take responsibility. And if he wants to switch sides because this helped him develop humanity, then fine. Otherwise, burn in your hell and die enjoy what you voted for, fascist pig.

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      Make him take responsibility. And if he wants to switch sides because this helped him develop humanity t+1:33 John Cannon: “They are not going after the hard guys”