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[–] PrincessLeiasCat@sh.itjust.works 106 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) (3 children)

Childfree cat lady here.

I want paid parental leave, universal healthcare, including reproductive healthcare, and food for kids at public schools. I also want at a minimum of 4 years of university to be free should they so choose it.

I know this makes me a monster, but I stand firm in believing we should take care of others. Do your worst, couch fucker.

[–] frickineh@lemmy.world 26 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Disgusting. You should be ashamed of yourself. Wanting to feed the children without even making sure you get a solid day's work in the mines out of them first?! Teaching them to read wastes valuable time that they could be laboring, and it might give them ideas like, "wait I'm 8, maybe I shouldn't work 14 hours a day."

[–] Pips@lemmy.sdf.org 4 points 2 months ago

Seriously, not even taking into consideration what the children yearn for.

[–] shalafi@lemmy.world 10 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

The conservative mind can't believe you. Nothing happens unless it affects them personally. Hey, to some degree we're all guilty of thinking in this manner.

Our personal experiences shape our worldview. Can't get away from that. But damn does this man have a take he's pushing on all of us.

[–] Tolookah@discuss.tchncs.de 7 points 2 months ago

Child full? Dog Dad here, we're pretty much nemeses, and I completely agree on all those things. Sometimes you need a monster to get things moving.

[–] chemical_cutthroat@lemmy.world 69 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Listen, JD. I'm the childless left because I don't want kids. It's not some biological issue, it's a choice (that I understand I am lucky to have.) So, no, I'm not trying to brainwash the kids. I'm trying to ignore them as best I can. I don't like kids. They are snotty, and dirty, and foul, and dumb. I don't want to spend any more time with them than I have to, and that means I'm not brainwashing them. I don't have the time for that kind of shit. I'm still working on polluting all of the waterways to turn the frogs gay. Don't you have a chaise to grope?

[–] AlexWIWA@lemmy.ml 19 points 2 months ago (2 children)

I'm the other end. I want kids, but people like him have made the world so shitty that it feels immoral for me to have one.

[–] barsquid@lemmy.world 9 points 2 months ago

Me too. How could I create a little human when all the monied geriatrics are obstructing any attempt to maintain a livable planet?

[–] zarkanian@sh.itjust.works 2 points 2 months ago (1 children)
[–] EmpathicVagrant@lemmy.world 3 points 2 months ago

There’s a wealth gate on that, isn’t it like $25,000 just to apply?

[–] DogPeePoo@lemm.ee 52 points 2 months ago (1 children)

JD Vance seriously needs a psychiatrist; yesterday.

[–] thefartographer@lemm.ee 23 points 2 months ago (3 children)

And a well-placed dick punch

[–] darkdemize@sh.itjust.works 7 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) (1 children)

You have to have a dick to get punched in it.

[–] Birch@sh.itjust.works 12 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)
[–] smeenz@lemmy.nz 3 points 2 months ago

But not from a couch

[–] Drusas@fedia.io 1 points 2 months ago

That seems a little too tame. Seems more like he needs the testes removed.

[–] newthrowaway20@lemmy.world 36 points 2 months ago (2 children)

What's this guy's obsession with other people's kids or lack thereof?

It's fuckin weird.

[–] skulblaka@sh.itjust.works 6 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

Republicans have proven overwhelmingly clearly and often that they want to fuck your kids. Statistically speaking, if you get elected to Republican leadership there's about a good 50% chance that you're a diddler.

Dems have a couple also but their statistics hover around 3%, at least for confirmed cases that I know about. On the other hand nearly every other Republican that's ever been elected has shown up with their cock out.

[–] DancingBear@midwest.social 5 points 2 months ago (2 children)

They don’t fuck enough couches

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

I think it's fine if JD Vance wants to fuck couches. I just don't think Ikea should be a brothel.

[–] StupidBrotherInLaw@lemmy.world 2 points 2 months ago

He's probably like most closeted, self-hating fascist gits: since they don't have kids, he assumes it's because they're also and only fucking couches. He hates himself for being a closeted couch fucker, so he projects that hate onto them.

[–] luciferofastora@lemmy.zip 35 points 2 months ago

From someone growing up religious:

FUCK
YOU

(Directed at Vance, not OP)

[–] idiomaddict@lemmy.world 28 points 2 months ago (1 children)

You know what the easiest way to brainwash children is?

Raising them.

[–] smeenz@lemmy.nz 16 points 2 months ago

..and send them to church

[–] frezik@midwest.social 19 points 2 months ago

My wife and I do not have kids, do not want kids, and have taken steps to ensure we don't. Some of our reasons can be traced back to people like JD Vance being in positions of power.

[–] smeenz@lemmy.nz 19 points 2 months ago

Why is this couch fucker so obsessed with other people's children?

[–] JovialMicrobial@lemm.ee 15 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) (1 children)

Why does he hate liberal childless people so much? Is it because there's less victims around for his pedophile pals to get their hands on?

Or maybe it's because not enough babies are being trafficked through "crisis pregnancy centers" into Christian only adoption agencies?

Whatever he's doing, it's making him look worse than just being a silly a couch fucker.

What a pathetic human being.

[–] rayyy@lemmy.world 2 points 2 months ago

What a weird, pathetic human being - FTFY.

[–] YeetPics@mander.xyz 9 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Always vague platitudes with these dipshits.

[–] some_guy@lemmy.sdf.org 8 points 2 months ago

Ah, shit. He caught me. I've been over here brainwashing your children, telling them that healthcare is good, everyone should have a home, and all other sorts of evil Leftist propaganda. If only he hadn't found out. Now, I'm caught. How will I pervert the minds of children now that JD has figured out my scheme?

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

Everything they say is projection. This is the party that created the alt right pipeline

[–] Infynis@midwest.social 5 points 2 months ago

I would be more surprised if he hadn't said this

[–] Hadriscus@lemm.ee 5 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Brainwashing minds? it's either brainwashing or washing minds, you can't brainwash minds unless... minds have brains?

[–] JeeBaiChow@lemmy.world 6 points 2 months ago

If you have a worm, it's possible to have a mind within your brain.

[–] JeeBaiChow@lemmy.world 2 points 2 months ago

It's so weird. Like trump literally chose him because he's actually dumber than his boss.