“$9.00 an hour is good enough for me. It ought to be good enough for them.” --Guy in denial about the fact that he is grossly underpaid
“Trump will fix this!” No, no he won’t.
Same as people who got married and miserable always asking you when you’re going to get married.
Imho marriage is two things:
- a formal way for society to acknowledge a relationship.
- any symbolic that the married people and their close ones put in it.
I agree that marriage has some inherent flaws being based on the bourgeois concept of the nuclear family.
I would be elated to have a similar recognition for non monogamous and/or aromantic relationships. alas one can only dream :c
There also are some laws that cover de facto relationships but they’re still very lackluster and still based on the nuclear family.
I used to be very against marriage but I’ve seen some great ones recently that were just that: awesome celebrations of important relationships.
Marriage is incredibly flawed. I would still like to think that it’s redeemable.
I don’t think you understood what I’m saying. My gripe/problem/feud/issue is about people who are miserable in their marriage but they will always be there to sell their shitty marriage like it’s a golden ticket out of anything and everything If you follow their shitty steps.
If you have a happy marriage (not you personally) I salute you and your partner and I have nothing to say.
I’m mature enough to know that anything and everything that involves 2 people in any amount of time would have some difficulties.
But that doesn’t change the fact that people whom are trying to sell you on marriage 99% of the time are the ones that have shitty marriages.
I think you’ve understood marriage correctly, that’s basically how I think of it. It would make sense to be praised for staying in a relationship for years without having legal strings discouraging you from leaving it. Yet no one ever does that. If anyone says anything to you about being in that situation it is indeed “so when are you getting married” like what you’re doing is wrong or not enough.
My daddy worked to death in a coal mine.
You’ve got to remember that these are just simple farmers.
These are people of the land. The common clay of the new West.You know
And they’re going to call me a liberal which is offensive.
You have made me empathise with them.
It’s fine to empathize I think. I understand their point. I also pity them for being so misled and diluted.
This is mostly my job. I don’t do field work nearly as much anymore but for the most part you just need to have confidence and/or not bullshit the good ol’ boys.
Like some of the reddest parts of the country have some of the most stringent water rules and regulations. For good reason: their regulators can’t fuck around and so they don’t.
