thedickgrant

[thedickgrant]

Short of violence, business is the battleground

Blind consumerism does not help democracy

[thedickgrant]

We answer questions to ourselves based on our own personal experience. I'm looking at this U-Haul that is parked not in front of my house but next to the neighbor's house. I've seen a U-Haul parked for about 24 or 36 hours there irregularly as long as I remember. I've only been in this house two plus years. I think it started after the neighbor moved in 4 to 6 months after myself. Yeah the U-Haul shows up I notice it's sitting there. I never see who gets in and out. And it always seems to disappear without anything going in or out of it.

Now if this had had anything to do with me over the years It would be an illegal weed transportation across state lines. That's the first thing that jumps to my mind but anything else really fits. I've never smelt it coming from his basement and I probably would have. And I never see him loaded up so even if he's doing that it's getting loaded somewhere else which means it could be anything. Which given that I know he is a truck driver of some sort he might just be sitting on a vehicle until an appropriate time to return it at his convenience.

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Got pulled over. Had a little yelling match with a cop. He was in the wrong and ended up apologizing. He got excited for a sec when he came back after running the registration and it obviously wasn't my vehicle. Asked me really excitedly whose car it is.

He didn't zipper properly so I honked at him like a bitch! - like excessively. Then he got behind me and turned on his hidden lights. When he came up to the car I told him that I felt like he was driving unsafely and that zippering meant alternating cars and that he didn't do that and I had him on video. And then I asked him if he's got video of it. I did it angrily.

I over-reacted and apologized. We we're having a nice conversation by the end of it. Guys are fucking weird. Respect often is not given but must be demanded or earned.

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A black Republican is a lost and sad human.

A gay Republican is a lost and sad human.

A female Republican is a lost and sad human.

The Republican party does not want you. They will be very glad when you are gone from their country. That is their goal.

They talk about you when you're not in the room

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My struggles with self-promotion have not helped me along in life I don't think. Humility just doesn't seem to be quality that is lauded or held up in our society in my experience. It's still my tendency though. I mean when I tell somebody that I'm not very good at something or that it's not what I'm best at what I mean by that really is I'm not as good at that thing as the best person that I've ever seen do it. But I'm better at it than everybody else. I'm just not as good at it as I wish I was. That doesn't always come through.

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I jus heard an appalling statement!

"I'm not looking to take anyone's home. I want to make that clear - but y'know an investor deserves to make their money back. And, and there is real money at stake. '

I think if you make your living buying mortgages and foreclosing on people's homes you deserve - to be shot.

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When you open up a search engine are you looking for information or confirmation?

I think I'm beginning to figure out that when my 23-year-old friend Adam uses the internet he's not looking for facts he's looking for information points that support his existing argument. He was trying to support his argument that Texas was not a Republican state based on some past voting records he had found.

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I wuv u

I 2 b wuvin' u

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I hate brunch. I don't like to use that word hate. I don't like to use that word brunch either. But I'll pull it out for brunch. I hate brunch. I hate people. I hate the prices. I hate the food. I hate brunch

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I think I probably present as a sigma. But those who know me know better. There is no self-assuredness deep down

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Why do people that don't know what they're doing think they should make a video about it?

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Oh I don't care about her. She's not who I'm concerned about. The world gets a little lighter when an idiot dies. No I'm concerned about the person that hits her. What an awful thing to go through that is. This idiot breaks the law either willfully or through ignorance and gets herself killed and an innocent driver has to live with that shit. No the rules are good rules and they're in place for good reason. You should follow them or stay home.

Notes on a young woman crossing the street in a pedestrian crosswalk on a rented electric scooter.

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Not one thing I did, said, or bought met your approval. And you made it apparent

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I have so many thoughts. So much still to say. But let me draw attention to this point. You are not the reason he gets upset. He gets upset because every day he's dealing with loss and abandonment. He is upset because his wife killed herself and left him alone on this earth. His soulmate - the person he relied upon to help him through this harrowing journey of life is gone. Every day he wakes up empty and alone. The person that promised to help him left him alone. He spent decades believing that he knew that he would have a partner for the rest of his life. That security has been ripped from him. He may never get over it. He needs your help. How can you help him? Listing his foibles is only the first of many steps. I think you accurately identified some areas that he's having trouble with. How do you help him through them? Well, the answers are in books. We have to educate ourselves. We can spend our lives trying to find the therapist that has read the book that pertains to us or we can find the book that pertains to us and read it ourselves. I have found that we have to do both. Neither your first therapist nor your first book will have all the answers you're looking for. It takes many. There are no easy answers. This is going to take decades of work from you and it's just begun. The truth is this is a long long long long hard arduous terrible process. Patience. Understanding. Kindness. These are our allies. Work to remember that your father is hurting every bit as much if not more than you.

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I guess you're drunk.

Yes you'll never realize that you left the bag of chicken on its side and the crazy chicken liquid dripped on across the counter and onto the floor and splashed on all the dishes that are on the shelf below it and that all that had to be cleaned up. And I guess you'll never realize that you filled the sink part way up with disgusting water and left at the slowly drain so that suddenly required cleaning. This is just what it's like living with an alcoholic. You just totally oblivious stuff how much work you create needlessly fucking needlessly

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I'm so quick to want to be a part of

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You being a contrarian is just never helpful.