More Blind Lunacy.

This place has got some serious right wing nut job vibes.

They had this policy in Franco-era Spain. Families got to vote, with the right being exercised by the head of the family.

Oh they think they're being so very clever not saying specifically that they want to repeal women's right to vote.

This reads more like satire, but I don't know the author.

It reads like satire, but there is a real faction that are trying to repeal the 19th amendment.

Being in the platform it’s not.

It’s a shame this cesspool is the only place to get tech industry tea.

Right??? Single men was totally the reason the 19th was passed to begin with.

Won't someone think of the poor, single men who can't vote for their whole family?! /s

I'd be happy working with my wife on votes, but only if it comes with the severe consequence of removing corporate money (votes) from elections too.

Oh. My. God.

The corporations knew this was coming! That’s why they always say “we’re a family”!

We shouldn't even pretend to be ok with this.

wonder how the Venn diagram looks with incels

It's definitely satire. Wanting to take away single men's right to vote and ending with Trump's sign off are obvious giveaways.

How fascist do motherfuckers have to get before you stop going 'I bet they're joking?'

Why not expand it? I mean single families can't really see the big picture and might want some arbitrarily different things. It should be an entire community gets one vote so things average out. We'll work together for a collective good that benefits all.

Wait....

But keep it for single women? Aren't they both their own families if they head the household alone?

You're missing what the 19th amendment fundamentally is:

The Nineteenth Amendment (Amendment XIX) to the United States Constitution prohibits the United States and its states from denying the right to vote to citizens of the United States on the basis of sex, in effect recognizing the right of women to vote. The amendment was the culmination of a decades-long movement for women's suffrage in the United States, at both the state and national levels, and was part of the worldwide movement towards women's suffrage and part of the wider women's rights movement.

They’re so desperate about the midterms lol. Ever consider NOT being racist, bigoted, hateful, fascist pieces of mule dung?

LinkedIn should be destroyed for the blight that it is on working people, but strawmanning the obvious, self-conflicting satire is not the move

It's a circle.

Is it a strawman when this is being treated as a legitimate position these days?

just all good reminders of something more important than your vote:

the constitution is not permanent or immutable and there exist people and groups who know this and want to change things. in bad ways.

the constitution does not “give” rights, it only takes them, and rights themselves are something that exist outside of all power structures.

hit the gym.

the nazis are.

That is effectively how the Senate works.

Is supposed to work*

I’m sorry, what is this supposed to be?

Quick Edit: Oh it’s blind! I pity anyone who feels the need to look at Blind. I read it as a descriptor, “blind lunacy”

What is “White House & Policy,” why does it say “slync[dot]io” under it?

A shocking number of people seem to think this is from a White House account, but there’s no real source.

What is “this place”?

No taxation without representation is the claimed founding issue of the USA, so logically that means they want families to have the vote and pay the taxes. Singles can't vote, but also don't need to pay.

I'm not sure a lot of people would choose the vote in that choice.

Doesn't it make sense to have voters that are invested in the long term future?

And singles are covered by their parent family.

"Taking away single men's right to vote" is not treated as a legitimate position by anyone

Taking away women’s right to vote is.

I have no interest in a conversation with you Velma, I've told you that explicitly. I guess no doesn't mean no to you.

"Singles are covered by their parent family"

The fuck they are! How deep in the dumpster did you have to dive to find THAT hot take?

Are the billionaires of the world without children? No? Do they still try to destroy the world for personal gain?

Look me in the eye and try telling me that parents by design have an interest in a long term future. Because I'm not seeing that when I look at the people getting elected.

Apparently being all of that gets you elected

Oh absolutely, but I haven't seen people sincerely saying the way to remedy it is by removing single men's suffrage. The vibe I got was that this was using the real opinions and arguments of the people who oppose women's suffrage then humorously turning it on its head by arguing against men's suffrage, which is an equally reasonable (completely unreasonable to be exact) remedy to the arguments as what those people will claim.

Singles are covered by their parent family

Explain how that works. Are you saying that I, a single adult in my 30s who has not lived with my family for over a decade nor seen them in years should not be allowed to vote and should be covered by my parent's vote? If not, when does that stop? When you get your first job? Lots of working adults live with their parents. First apartment? What about college kids who have an apartment? Do you lose your right to vote independently if you have to move home to care for your aging parents? Or do you just never get a chance to vote until you get married. But then what happens if you get divorced? Does the now single man (assuming a heterosexual relationship because in a world where voting rights are removed they aren't letting two men or two women get married) retain the right to vote, or does he lose it until he gets married again? What if he moves home with Mom and Dad?

This is just fucking stupid and it's only a way to keep women from voting and force people to get married and pop out new wage slaves and to only allow the vote to people most likely to fit certain demographics. Pass this and next thing we'll go back to only families who own their home can vote and then it'll be only church going home owning families.

And no fault divorce, don't forget that one, they want to re-enslave women.

It might be. It’s certainly in tune with maga.

This post trying to shift the language. Words matter.

Women’s liberation is exactly what it says. We were legally tied to men, dependent due to legal issues, up until the 1970s. Due to only 50 years of liberation in which we had to fight against significant societal inertia for while, well, a subset of males are still flailing after that shift, not knowing what to do or how to identify themselves after losing their life crutch shaped like a human being, specifically, a woman. Fueled by the prior generation, their dads, grandpas, and uncles, saying: women weren't like this back in my day. An honest statement, because we weren’t financially liberated from men and that creates a certain level of dependence that, by necessity, changes behavior.

Anyway. Using the word “family” while avoiding the use of the word “woman” is an attempt to erase women from the thought process regarding the 19th amendment.

There will never not be a subset of men who feel entitled to us, our lives, our bodies, our output of work.

I dated a guy (oh so briefly, never moved beyond the interviewing stage) who said on the 2nd? date he did not want a woman who used her energy on other people at work, specifically the human professions like teaching, psychology, or healthcare, because he felt that energy only belongs at home, with the family. I guess he was starting to relax enough to talk about how he really felt. Called Poe “nazifem” music over that meal as well. That whole meal wasn’t a Hello but a Goodbye. A final one.

Note how bereft of Medicare and social security this plan would have to be.

Yes it’s a about erasing women from the thought process regarding the 19th amendment.

Human rights are indelible. They exist as something you really are entitled to by virtue of the fact that you exist as a human being.

That said, legal rights which is what we discuss here, have only ONLY ever happened after a fight. No shit. All of them only come to us after a fight. Look up the history of the 19th. It almost didn’t happen. It wasn’t easy. It wasn’t a forgone conclusion. You need to realize that, internalize that, to fully understand what we are talking about here. None of this is something that cannot be legally ripped from us.

Wow, that didn’t take long to find an ally. This is why we’ve only ever had 50 years of women’s liberation.

Did you not notice it ends in "taking away single men's right to vote"?

It might be public policy I can get behind, but it's a shitpost.

This post is about taking away men's right to vote - how is that desperate for the incel vote in the midterms?

A. I am triggered by any talk that brushes up against rolling back any piece of women’s liberation.

B. I’m just off a long work stretch of 12s and engaged in not moving from where I woke while viewing crap on my phone right now.

C. This is the Internet.

Take away the chads' right to vote.

Do you know what the 19th amendment is?

Fully agree. It’s terrifying to see our rights slowly eroding before our very eyes, rights that our mothers and grandmothers fought for not long ago. We can’t be complacent.

That’s how they’re being cheeky about it, but make no mistake. Women’s right to vote is absolutely under attack.

Single men can’t vote? Thats all this is about? Fine. Single ladies can still vote but not single men.

What, that’s not what you meant? Because that’s what you said.

I dated a guy (oh so briefly, never moved beyond the interviewing stage) who said on the 2nd? date

The second date? How many interviews do you typically do?

Multiple, depending. Most ended as 1 date wonders, because of dumb shit like this being uttered on the first interview. Granted, I’ve been out of dating for over 20 years.