Scrolling through the all feed and saw this post and genuinely cannot tell of this is satire or not.
this post was submitted on 26 Mar 2026
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Was hoping to lightheartedly explain the "they want to abolish the nuclear family" thing, but don't think you're my audience and the other guy made it weird. Got a different question than "uh wut" or should we just move on?
My other question would be breaking your comment into clauses and asking you what you are talking about because it was unreadable to me.
Can you start with what you meant by “corpos atomizing us across the board?”
Big companies want people isolated and dependent on their services, rather than meeting each others needs directly. I do a lot of engine repair stuff, and in that context fuel is "atomized" into a fine mist that's less stable and more reactive than when it's in a cohesive puddle or droplet. If three generations share a kitchen, a population needs 1/3 the appliances it would if every 18 year old moved out and bought their own. In the course of maximizing profits the system isolates and divides us and is naturally opposed to core support systems like the "nuclear family". It's pretty silly to instead ascribe that opposition to the other side of a manufactured culture war that supposedly just hates your way of life
Okay I think I gotcha now. Honestly I thought you were trying to draw a literal analogy between nuclear/nucleus and atoms and I could not figure out what the message was.
Now I know you meant that commercial interests prefer separating and isolating people into as many individual households as possible to maximize consumption by making sharing and resource pooling impossible. Corpos atomizing us across the board.
Who is the “red team?”
The US two party system is often colloquially referred to as red vs blue. I'm sure you've seen coverage about "red states" or "blue cities" during election cycles. That was referencing the same reactionary impetus you refer to elsewhere in this thread to "defend the family" against a perceived other rather than the predatory corporations actually working to dissolve it. There's definitely some confusing cultural baggage around the term as each side has respectively glorified/demonized it, I do not blame you in the slightest for having to ask and doubt you'll get two identical responses
Thank you. I thought it might have somehow meant “leftists” or “communists.” “Red state” snaps right into place for me in a way “red team” did not.
So you’re saying that American conservatives have a longtime conspiracy theory about the family being under attack by gays whispering to Satan in a weed haze (this part I do understand).
But what’s actually going on is “corpos atomizing us.”
Are you saying that the corpo atomization is something that “red team” fears or is against?
I would think that the “nuclear family” is the conservative ideal and the corporate consumption powers that be are aligned with them because more, smaller families drive more of that individual consumption you mentioned.
So I was a little confused how “nuclear family” as a conservative conspiracy theory fits with corpo atomization in your view exactly.