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[–] N0body@lemmy.dbzer0.com 95 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) (4 children)

If she wants to brainwash and destroy the mind of children, she should have some of her own and leave ours the hell alone,” he said

These quotes aren’t random gaffes. Vance has some bizarre, Puritanical views on women. Barefoot and pregnant kinds of views.

Trump is a clown in decline with no future. Vance is the would-be leader of the Gilead envisioned in Project 2025. Under his eye.

[–] queermunist@lemmy.ml 22 points 2 months ago

It's a fetish. No one can convince me otherwise.

[–] Drusas@fedia.io 18 points 2 months ago

And he's the one insisting on not leaving the rest of us the hell alone. Projection, as usual.

[–] prole@lemmy.blahaj.zone 11 points 2 months ago

It's also more projection. They are so focused on indoctrinating children that they believe Democrats must be doing it as well. Everyone must be doing it.

[–] psivchaz@reddthat.com 6 points 2 months ago

Please don't say Trump is in decline. Plenty of people thought Trump had no chance of winning in 2016. He is a serious threat and should be treated like one until at least 10 years after his death.

[–] littlecolt@lemm.ee 57 points 2 months ago

This guy is way too interested in other people's reproduction. It's fucking weird.

[–] ShittyBeatlesFCPres@lemmy.world 45 points 2 months ago (2 children)

Like two or three generations ago, they fired female teachers who had kids. Also, he’s Catholic. I know he’s an adult convert and so mega weird — adult converts are usually just attracted to the hierarchy and lore instead of the charity and service parts — but he should at least know about nuns teaching school.

[–] ShittyBeatlesFCPres@lemmy.world 61 points 2 months ago (1 children)
[–] GBU_28@lemm.ee 17 points 2 months ago

Thanks, this will be fuckin up some extended family chats this weekend

[–] Drusas@fedia.io 7 points 2 months ago

My experience is that adult converts to Catholicism mostly do so because you can't be married in a Catholic church if you're not Catholic and their spouse is Catholic. Which is to say, it's disingenuous.

[–] slickgoat@lemmy.world 43 points 2 months ago (1 children)

This guy is way too interested in other people's children.

[–] Drusas@fedia.io 32 points 2 months ago (2 children)

This guy is way too convinced that women are nothing but uteri and vaginas.

[–] moshankey@lemmy.world 15 points 2 months ago

The idea is simply that the female of the species should be considered a brood mare and nothing more. More meat for the grinder. Do these people not have wives, daughters, mothers, to give them some feedback about what they’re doing wrong? I know, brainwashed. But still.

[–] dunidane@lemmy.sdf.org 5 points 2 months ago

He might not even know those are different body parts. He'd probably be scared of the word vulva.

[–] simplejack@lemmy.world 38 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Maybe JD should try having kids on a teacher’s salary.

[–] moshankey@lemmy.world 4 points 2 months ago

Preach On! Please.

[–] pyre@lemmy.world 29 points 2 months ago

Vance when talking about other people's genitals: filling podcasts and tv interviews

Vance when talking about anything else: "how long have you been working here? ok, good."

[–] Ghostalmedia@lemmy.world 22 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) (1 children)

He’s also a venture capital tech bro who has no clue how difficult it is to raise children in a teacher’s salary. Useless marketing interns in his industry make more money than teachers.

Many teachers don’t have kids because they simply can’t afford it.

[–] TankovayaDiviziya@lemmy.world 5 points 2 months ago

Not to mention teaching is a thankless job.

[–] blarth@thelemmy.club 18 points 2 months ago (1 children)

What is the deal with this guy and breeding?

[–] captainlezbian@lemmy.world 7 points 2 months ago (1 children)

It’s the only reason he has sex with human women and so he’s really focused on it

[–] Cethin@lemmy.zip 15 points 2 months ago (2 children)

To be specific, he's admitted he was "tricked" into thinking he was gay in the past. It's pretty clear he's actually gay, but he has a breeding fetish.

[–] blarth@thelemmy.club 7 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Yeah I gotta say, as a straight person, there was never a time I thought I was gay. If this dude thought he was gay as a teen, well, maybe it’s ok to finally come out.

[–] DragonTypeWyvern@midwest.social 2 points 2 months ago

Have you guys considered that maybe he plays both sides?

[–] captainlezbian@lemmy.world 4 points 2 months ago (1 children)

I stand by that he’s bisectional. He’s attracted to human men and couch women.

But for real, yeah, obsession with breeding is a common thing for conservative gay people in denial. Now one thing I’ll say to his credit is those people are rarely in mixed race marriages, so good on him for not being as racist as I’d expect of someone like him. The bar really is in hell.

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[–] some_guy@lemmy.sdf.org 17 points 2 months ago (2 children)

It's cool how my love and support for education doesn't count because I don't have children.

[–] dunidane@lemmy.sdf.org 7 points 2 months ago

I think the guy can only really plan for the future by seeing his children only as extensions of himself. Someone without children can't do that mental gymnastics so why should they care?

[–] fluxion@lemmy.world 3 points 2 months ago

Ugha bugha....how brain know school need if you no have kid?

[–] barsquid@lemmy.world 16 points 2 months ago (1 children)

I don't want personhood and citizenship to be conditional upon having a child.

[–] HawlSera@lemm.ee 3 points 2 months ago

"Service guarantees citizenship."

[–] HawlSera@lemm.ee 12 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Vance walks the fine line between weird and creepy. But it's not the "Autistic kid who gets mistaken for quiet kid" creepy that I and others like me have.

It's "If I don't sniff your feet the world is coming to an end." Creepy

[–] TokenBoomer@lemmy.world 1 points 2 months ago (1 children)
[–] HawlSera@lemm.ee 1 points 2 months ago (1 children)
[–] TokenBoomer@lemmy.world 4 points 2 months ago (1 children)

“Every Breath You Take “ song is about stalking.

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[–] EleventhHour@lemmy.world 10 points 2 months ago

What a turd

[–] chronicledmonocle@lemmy.world 9 points 2 months ago (1 children)

People who are this weirdly repressed and creepy about sex and reproduction almost always have something very dark in their past and/or present. I will not be surprised if we find out he has coerced teenage boys and/or girls into sex or something just as fucked up.

[–] return2ozma@lemmy.world 4 points 2 months ago

I mean, watch your couch around him.

[–] DogPeePoo@lemm.ee 7 points 2 months ago

<Ann Coulter crab walks 🦀away stage right>

At least it was just a bashing and he didn’t resort to slamming in this resurfaced video.

He deserves to have his marriage implode, and to be hated by his children.

[–] TheEighthDoctor@lemmy.world 6 points 2 months ago (2 children)

I'm a childless right winger what now? His brain would probably explode.

[–] prole@lemmy.blahaj.zone 8 points 2 months ago (3 children)

Why on earth would anyone choose to describe themselves as a "right winger" (unless you play hockey)?

Are you insanely wealthy? Or do you just hate other people and like pulling the ladder up behind you?

[–] todd_bonzalez@lemm.ee 2 points 2 months ago

It's always hate.

Sort of like how atheists only disbelieve in one more God than a Christian, anti-Trump right-wingers only hate one more person than a Trump supporter.

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[–] todd_bonzalez@lemm.ee 1 points 2 months ago

I think the part where you're a fascist (defacto assumption by anyone self-identifying as a "right winger" in 2024) would make him accept you as an ally, even if you are childless, just as this little admission prevents me from ever accepting you as an ally, even if you are anti-Trump.

[–] 800XL@lemmy.world 5 points 2 months ago

Vance's mom was so overbearing as a kid and throughout his life he has been subservient to women. He married a woman like his mom and he hates women. All the times he's willingly been emasculated by women at his request has finally come to light and now he wants revenge against mommy and he's spiraled out of control.

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