can’t believe the plot of leverage is literally ‘man gets hired to be a project manager for Crime and then is forcefully adopted by the employees he doesn’t want’
im going crazy you have GOT to decouple romance/amatonormativity and marriage in your mind. you have GOT to understand that marriage is a legal document that protects you from exploitation especially if you are a woman or a stay-at-home anything. it is not some evil unique to heterosexual people. it is a legal document that says ‘this is who i want in my hospital room when i die, this is who i want to have my stuff when i die, THIS PERSON OWES ME RECOMPENSE IF THEY KICK ME OUT OF THE HOUSE I LIVE IN"
You are not immune to being taken advantage of by your partner if you are queer. do not wind up homeless because your garbage live-ins name is on the lease and they decided to drop you like hot coals.
You know what’s worse than divorce? Having to divide property and custody without rules and a ref. And that’s in addition to OPs point about things being treated as shared property or children only belonging to one person on paper.
Marriage?
That thing I can’t have because the US government will cut my disability benefits so severely I won’t be able to stay housed?
That basic legal protection disabled people are barred from freely accessing?
There is a reason it is a right people try to prevent others from accessing. It’s incredibly important.
Just read this and softly whispered βwhat the fuck?β
Richard Spencer? Richard Spencer the Nazi dude?
Hey so this is not what you think it is. You will see other nazis and far right figures say more things like this and you will have the urge to believe that they Have Seen The Truth but that’s not what this is. The part of the far right that people like Spencer and Fuentes dwell in require the Republican party and government officials to not be, in a word, embarrassing. They use politicians as cover for their nazi agenda. What Musk and Trump are doing now gives no shade for white supremacy to hide behind, and they are dismantling the federal government and the standing of America on the international stage purely for their own economic interest. Spencer can’t do what he wants to do if America is not a geopolitical force. He’s not mad that the country is being broken up and sold for parts, he’s mad that the way it’s happening does not meet his own personal brand of fascism
Celebrate that they’re fracturing, though.
The enemy of your enemy isnt always your friend but the enemy of your enemy is another enemy for your enemy π