Seriously?
Are you seriously comparing low income housing to white trash bigots?
No, we aren’t doing whataboutism here — nor are we entertaining your reductive reasoning. They simply described that, as a child, they were aware something was deeply wrong. Clearly many people here empathize with that. Not sure why that’s a complicated topic for you, it’s almost like they struck a nerve.
So they struck a nerve.
I don’t know if you’ve ever been around white trash conservatives but yes — if you have any kind of decency you will be appalled at how they live their lives. This isn’t a statement made by a sad person, this is just a fact.
Yes, it is. If he hadn’t already established a pattern of behavior beforehand then maybe you could just see this as boys being boys.
However with the established pattern? There’s simply no way to paint this as anything other than him doing what he’s done since being appointed: fuck around on the taxpayers dime.
You.
I like you. Keep doing you.
Edit: you got the tag ‘Genuine Red-Blooded American’
This is good, and I’m glad he’s being charged. I hope Norway continues this trend.
That being said, I feel like there’s something odd about being proud of charging a rapist (granted, he is a rapist in power so him being charged is a very good thing) when there are people like the former prime minister who probably raped kids (he’s under investigation, time can only tell what will happen there).
Idk, it seems like a hollow victory — my sense of justice is telling me that so so much more needs to be done, and it needs to be done yesterday.
You think any of these 1000 pedos are Prince Andrew?
No. No they aren’t.
Both things can be true: Kamala would have been a bad president, she would have been better than Trump.
China numba one
I feel like pandering leads to more hopelessness when nothing meaningful ever changes — but that’s just me. Not to say that this is pandering, but it will be functionally if nothing comes of it.
Explain the transphobia to me, in detail.
I think it’s easy to associate adhering to values with being unkind (those values could easily exhibit kindness, depending on what they are).
I just don’t believe you’re unkind. If you were, your values wouldn’t tell you that we should shut down power to a neighborhood for a cat. You would just think something like ‘glad that’s not my problem’ and move on. I don’t think that people who are unkind are bothered by things like this, because again ‘not my problem’. You have made it your problem by caring, and are thus precluded from being unkind (in my opinion).
It is easy to choose not to care about anything, it is very hard to care about everything. I myself am dealing with having learned to turn my heart off to certain things. Things that would just be too overwhelming to carry.
A friend of mine died recently and it was incredibly shocking. He was much younger than me, I guess he was driving too fast on his bike. One of my first thoughts was that I could have been kinder to him. Maybe if I’d reached out more, stayed more consistent in his life, maybe he would have stayed more tempered.
We can’t know what will happen to us nor the people around us. We can only dictate our words and actions. I, however, am much less kind than you — I hope that those who can’t be bothered to exhibit the slightest bit of empathy are cursed to suffer in the ways they’ve been overtly willing to ignore. I hope they experience what it is to decay and have the world fade around them.
It would be poetic. Aneurotypicality is not an excuse for callousness.
If that’s you trying to be nice you need to get some therapy. Great job proving you aren’t a child, by the way — with the ‘I’m rubber you’re glue’ argument. Very intelligent, your points are very valid. I’d give you a gold star but I’m fresh out, darn.
It is a sentiment that treats potential loss of life like rounding errors instead of tragedies (big and small).
Tolkien’s words live in my brain
If more of us valued food and cheer and song above hoarded gold, it would be a merrier world.
So you genuinely don’t understand, ok got it.
pointing out the obvious
By pointing to a set of pages that elaborate on what you mean?
No, let’s examine what you did instead:
you demean me by suggesting I’m simply brainwashed because I disagree with you, further by suggesting I’m uneducated.
you backpedal like a child into ‘IDGAF’, seriously I had flashbacks to high school debates.
you reiterate that you think I’m somehow brainwashed by the CIA into thinking communism is bad (which isn’t even remotely what I said)
you more or less call me a fascist
I was wrong to communicate with you at all, you are an idiot child.
Right.
While I’m doing that, how about you look up burden of proof buddy?
You’ll figure it out. Actually, on second thought, you likely should have already known about this. Which does beg the question ‘Why are you acting like you don’t?’ .
No you’re just trying to suggest that a test can’t be pushed up because you hate cats.
Unless you genuinely just do not understand what they mean, which is likely.
The answer is that the average conservative really is that fucking stupid.
They don’t think, they follow party lines. Thinking takes away from drinking, and it’s easier to just stumble down whatever path their overlords dictate.