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The same crowd decrying raising minimum wage as useless because it'll just increase prices now seems to be the same group believing other countries will pay the difference in tariffs.

Has Mexico paid for any wall yet?

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I have yet to understand why anyone expresses an elongated vowel in pronunciation by elongating a consonant in spelling.

Make it make sense.

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Oh yeah, sure, MSGSN commentary, that coach's challenge asserting a missed goaltender interference call was brought to us by Honda, not by the fucking coach who challenged the non-call.

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The recently achieved record for dimmest wit in the last few months is someone who, at a fast food restaurant, asked us if their child wearing socks or not in the play area was a big deal. Sounds thoughtful, eh? Like she's actually concerned with the rules of the establishment we were both patronizing.

She asked us this right over the entirety of this whole-ass Australian shepherd puppy that she brought into the restaurant.

Fuck her questions.

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Three family members of the same generation who've all expressed some frustration with modern safety rules and reminisced about the days when you didn't have to wear seat belts and could sit wherever you wanted in a car when they were kids just dropped a fucking bombshell on me. One of their cousins has "done very well for herself, all things considered" but is "intellectually not all there" after falling out of a station wagon when she was around 9 years old.

I'll not be suffering that attitude again.

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I assume any media using the phrase “the largest nuclear bomb ever exploded” (or some such) instead of referring to it by its name shares shares another assumption of mine-- that the average person can’t pronounce “tsar”.

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How many assault weapons do I have to not buy in order to stem the tide of meaningless death in this country? So far I've not purchased 100% of the world's supply, and I'm having difficulty increasing that figure.

It's almost like framing the gun problem as merely a personal liberty issue and ethically equating it with liberal social values is sneaky, sneaky bullshit.

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Christians bitch and moan about the supposed unfairness of special accommodations made for people of other religions (breaks for prayers, certain days off, etc.) as if our entire work week isn't based around their church schedule and their most sacred holy days are guaranteed off in most industries.

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The most recent example of a phenomenon I could do without and live happily ever after is a coworker of mine presuming to inform me that the desire of "our President" (spoken with sarcastic disdain) to "disarm" the American population is just like what the Nazis did in Germany. The hilarious overlap of gun advocates and Nazi sympathizers in this country aside, I've just starting enthusiastically agreeing with this claim when I encounter it since noone dumb enough to parrot this talking point is smart enough to identify the sarcasm (at least not yet in my experience). "Hell yeah; it's 100% the same thing!" "Right? It's not like these situations are different!" "Is Biden our President? I thought it was Hitler."

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[This post is rescinded due to a development in subject, context or values.]

ANT

ARC

TIH

CUH

Fuck you.

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The less you know someone with whom you're about to engage in a social or professional interaction, the more you're expected to touch one of the dirtiest parts of their body as a formality.

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I went to a doctor’s appointment and took my child with me because that was the most convenient arrangement for the family that day (a remarkable approach to parenting, apparently), and my doctor, who runs a private practice as a working, career-oriented person who is also a woman, upon noticing my child with me, asked “Oh, are you babysitting today?”

I assured her that I was, in fact, the child’s father and secretly decided to find a new doctor. That was the last straw in a string of personal differences we had with her.

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A relative of mine expressed something between dismay and frustration at my insistence that I would not allow my child to go to church, with them or otherwise. Their counter was “What if [my child] wants to learn about Christianity?”

I said that they can ask me, look it up, watch documentaries, etc if they want to learn about Christianity, but churches do not teach about Christianity. They teach Christianity-- that it’s right and to practice it. I will not put my impressionable child in a situation in which the authoritative adults have a vested interest in reigning them into a worldview that I find repugnant (something Christian parents have no qualms doing, by they way).

The choice is and will always be my child’s, but that doesn’t mean I have to give Christianity a sporting chance to infect them.

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Religious parents are minimally if at all questioned on their intention to impart their worldview onto their children. It’s just a natural assumption, and it’s broadly considered rude to question it or suggest otherwise. Nonbelieving parents, on the other hand, often by the religious community who enjoys that privilege, get questioned about raising little nonbelievers.

In my experience, it’s been couched in the rhetorically positive value of ‘letting them make up their own minds,’ something very few religious parents feel obligated to do. Ironically, they often feel no compunction in discouraging other religious parents from doing it. All I hear is, ‘Hey, you’re gonna leave the door open for us to indoctrinate your kids right under your nose, right? Riiight?’

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Taken from a Facebook group for my town.

Medical emergencies nearby the landing site of a Life Flight helicopter is the only reason a Life Flight helicopter lands anywhere, and it wouldn’t land at all if everyone involved were OK. This confounding of participation with contribution is an embarrassing plead for attention and only serves to make finding an actual answer to the question take longer. It’s rude to be this clueless.

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Full disclosure, I sincerely view raising children in the Abrahamic faiths as child abuse, but I think we should all be deeply uncomfortable with any child singing “The B-I-B-L-E, yes, that’s the book for me.” There are many reasons, but I think the most absolutely unassailable one is Ezekiel, chapter 23.

No child of mine may crack that filthy book open until at least high school and then only under supervision. 

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Talking to a new acquaintance, I was rehashing my perennial complaint about people who insist I must be taller than 6′2″ because they know someone shorter than I am who says they’re 6′2″. After the usual laments about people’s incredulity regarding my own height and the insecurity of the person in question, this acquaintance joked, “Well, I identify as 11 feet tall!”

They let me know that, not only are they transphobic, they are willing to suddenly hijack literally any conversation to be about their transphobia at any time. I’ve had the bare minimum number and length of conversations with this person since.