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[–] [email protected] 155 points 6 months ago (6 children)

I’m at a loss for words. How did this man not get shouted down for saying that out loud and in public?! Those are the thoughts of a predator, which is a position of power.

[–] [email protected] 94 points 6 months ago (2 children)
[–] [email protected] 71 points 6 months ago (2 children)

In the name of honest, good degenerates, I protest these ghouls being lumped in with us. It's perfectly sane to want to have sexual relations with eg. military aircraft, and it is much more natural and socially beneficial than what these despicables imply.

[–] [email protected] 41 points 6 months ago (2 children)

If god didn’t want me to have sex with a C130 he should have made it so damn sexy

[–] [email protected] 28 points 6 months ago (2 children)

Fucking weirdos. SR 71's where it's at.

[–] [email protected] 16 points 6 months ago (2 children)

Reconnaissance aircraft? C'mon man, get your head in the game. Combat aircraft are sexy. Give me a Mirage any day.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago)

More than meets the eye

[–] [email protected] 3 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago)

All those guns and missiles < fast as fuck carrying just some cameras, always watching, invisible to radar. Don't even know it's there.

[–] [email protected] 12 points 6 months ago (1 children)

AC-130 is into some nastier shit

[–] [email protected] 11 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago)

When you hear that clunk of the 135mm being loaded from the direction of your ass

[–] [email protected] 15 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago) (1 children)

Agreed. I can only get off to pics of dragons fucking cars and i want to be able to hold my head high again

[–] [email protected] 4 points 6 months ago

I despise the image you just made me remember

[–] [email protected] 8 points 6 months ago

Always have been, however without facing real consequences they’ve grown way too bold!

[–] [email protected] 38 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago)

When they screamed about the degeneration of Western society it wasn’t a warning it was an announcement. Everything is just projection with these evil cunts

[–] [email protected] 13 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago) (4 children)

Full context:

If we continually restrict the freedom of marriage as a legitimate social option, when we do this to people who are a ripe, fertile age and may have a pregnancy and a baby involved, are we not, in fact, making abortion a much more desirable alternative

I think this can be interpreted as "young people will inevitably get pregnant", not "young people should get pregnant".

Still wrongheaded and cringeworthy, but maybe not as monstrous as it initially looked.

[–] [email protected] 44 points 6 months ago (1 children)

No. That’s even worse.

They’re arguing that children should get married to provide for kids.

Reality: the only people that can afford to support not one but two children…. Are creepy old men.

The argument is that because kids might get preggo, they should be allowed to marry them and make them preggo

That’s fucked up.

[–] [email protected] 17 points 6 months ago (1 children)

I'm not sure he cares if anyone provides for them. Like many in the GOP, he seems to only care about preventing abortions without any thought to what happens next.

[–] [email protected] 15 points 6 months ago

He doesn’t.

But he’s not just about preventing abortions.

They’re pedos.

[–] [email protected] 31 points 6 months ago (1 children)

If we continually restrict the freedom of marriage as a legitimate social option, when we do this to people who are a ripe, fertile age and may have a pregnancy and a baby involved, are we not, in fact, making abortion a much more desirable alternative

Read as:

If we ban child marriage, then desperate single mothers will want to have abortions instead of getting married like God intended.

Dude's literally complaining that children getting abortions is easier than getting children married. No, that sounds exactly as ghoulish and monstrous as it appeared.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 6 months ago (1 children)

It originally appeared far worse to me, like the ravings of a pedophile.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 6 months ago

As it should, given that I have never heard ‘ripe’ used by anyone but pedos.

[–] [email protected] 11 points 6 months ago

In my mind there is no generous interpretation of his words as there is a paragraph which makes his statement worse in my opinion.

In a state where 18 is not old enough to drink, Edwards believes girls at 16 are old enough to get married.

He wants marriage to 16 year olds to be legal; I don’t believe this is a good thing, especially if he also then argued for parental consent for marriages to adult men. It’s a huge red flag to me, personally.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 6 months ago

Yeah but he skipped adoption and the idea that parents can continue to support their daughter even if she's not a virgin. Teens getting married because one of them got pregnant is not the first thing I want people to think of. A teen marrying her statutory rapist should be even farther down the list.

[–] [email protected] 12 points 6 months ago

Repubs love voting for rapists and pedophiles.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 6 months ago (1 children)

Have you seen the GOP before?

[–] [email protected] 7 points 6 months ago

I’m deeply familiar with them it’s never been in their nature to say the quiet part out loud in front of everyone! Rather it’s projecting their desires on others to vilify them, hopefully their looser tongues sink their ship. 🤢

[–] [email protected] 9 points 6 months ago

He’s representing his constituency.