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people being like “it was always just a handshake! we never had a real government!” how do you make it to adulthood without grasping the concept of the social contract? and how many people like this think that there is some kind of metaphysically self enforceable ur governmental system that doesn’t require us to all agree to participate?

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Been worried because a bit ago I walked past a group of kids and one little fella yelled at another one “I just stabbed you with the most deadliest poison in the world”. I don’t even think he should have that. I don’t want him to have that near me

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This reply to leftists scolding liberals for expressing negative feelings about Trump voters very accurately describes the mindset of the scolds, which is that all liberals, regardless of who they are, are not *allowed* to be angry at the self-centered assholes who voted to destroy the country, because they're not real people with normal lives that are being affected negatively, unlike Trump voters, who are the salt of the earth, and who must be treated with grace and gentleness in the hope that they eventually learn to care about other people

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if you’ve never worked in a factory in the south I don’t think you get to talk about the white southern working class and how they’re little babies who were swindled by propaganda

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"The culture war is manufactured to distract us so that the working class can't develop class consciousness and work together!" well the thing is that when poor people are offered the choice between continuing to be racist and socialism, they choose continuing to be racist 11 times out of 10

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really sort of addicted to snuggling my wife….

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if heaven was real and I got to pick my own personal one it would be snuggling with my wife for the rest of eternity

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I think if you put someone from 2005 onto a website from 2025 without the slow creep we've lived through, they'd think they had malware

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I feel like there's a certain type of "ex-evangelical" progressive who obviously supports mandatory progressive causes like abortion access and LGBT rights, but then in practice supports them "so strongly" that they can't compromise on anything. And if that means that they can't vote for candidates who support those issues because they aren't "good enough" and those issues get set back, well... That's a trade-off they're willing to make!

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civic duty

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if pointing out that the age of getting a phone decreasing along with the prevalence of short form video as the dominant form of social media content during the most significant collective educational gap in recent history all of which happened during one of the most significant windows of psychological development in a human lifetime has had a deleterious effect on the attention spans, self-regulation, impulse control, social skills, tech literacy, and actual literacy of zoomers and gen alpha. if pointing out that that is a real and serious problem makes me a boomer and an old crank who has fallen for “kids these days” propaganda someone find me a porch and a rocking chair so i can yell at you to get off my lawn

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the generational gap between me and the people my age who use chat gpt

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forgive and forget? wrong. charged two-handed heavy attack with my greatsword of resentment

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