I had multiple involuntary physical reactions to that sentence.

You win.

Yes but if we can’t spell divide I’m not sure I’d hold out hope for nuanced or accurate political commentary.

I think a lot of the responses you’re getting (and their upvotes) are pretty good reflections of the problem you’re addressing.

I imagine the user base is a bit more diverse than the comments etc let on. It is just exhausting to even try to explain a conservative perspective viewpoint t here so I think a lot of folks just keep their heads down on anything political.

While a lot of folks have zero interest in venturing outside of their ideological comfort zones, I wonder if there sre enough of us that we could make some /community work. There were a few on reddit that were private or super tightly moderated that were pretty interesting for stuff like that…

If you talk at all like you’ve written, I would treat you like a child too.

Maturity has nothing to do with your calendar age.

I thought the game awards were like the Oscars in that they are supposed to ignore the commercial success of the nominations? (Never follow that stuff so I could be completely wrong.)

This is simultaneously horrible and amazing.

You might ask if they have the meds in a liquid solution. My cat’s on some anti seizure meds, was very tricky about eating around even crushed up pill etc. The liquid solution cost marginally more (less than 5% difference I think) and is significantly easier to give and more importantly, be sure she ingested exactly as much as she should.

A lot of folks are overlooking one of the largest factors, unlimited student loans for whatever.

As long as people have access to an ever increasing amount of money to use for tuition, it is in those institutions’ interests to rise their prices to extract as much as possible.

Whereas other countries tend to subsidize their education at source, that is to say, by funding the schools directly which somehwat obviates the price gouging aspect.

Not agreeing with OP.

According to that, there is no better defender of women’s rights than Donald trump, as he himself has declared.

Inadvertently or not, you’ve parroted a lot of Right Wing talking points. They usually insist thinking of race is itself racist, white people are actually the most discriminated and so on. From the Left, the refusal to see/think of race etc is a convenient way to ignore structural racism etc.

The first part of your last post comes across as a tone deaf right winger trying to say we should stop talking about race. And once people have read that first paragraph, they are unlikely to read much in depth of the next few.

That sketch was my forst thought too.

I mean, just reading that question as one long run on sentence certainly didn’t make me think of you as an adult.

Also, might be a language thing, but buddy has almost no age connotations and is used pretty frequently across age groups.

Thanks, I was super confused for a bit!

I don’t have the app (well, for main facebook. Still have messenger as a friend group uses that as the primary communication medium) but do have a few friends who live elsewhere on there so keep it around. It’s also my yelling into the virtual void place but with feedback from folks I know.

API issue made me leave, AI scraping posts and forcing ads made me stay away.

Well, that’s the cutest thing I’ve ever seen. (Apologies to my cat.)

Dressing in drag had been a staple ofEnglish comedy for decades if not much, much longer In the first world war guys were doing it for concert troupes (essentially, vaudeville acts by and for the soldiers.)

I fully excuse folks who are really struggling. Though given thrift shops are a dime a dozen, I don’t entirely think it’s a free pass.

Sorry, this one just bugs me. I absolutely hate that our culture has this huge blind spot to the very real exploitation that so many people engage in but we’ll simultaneously get furious about sins that are, in comparison, fairly minor.

Investing in something evil is reprehensible but I put it on about the same realm as buying an expensive slave made product. At least for the investment, maybe it’s for your kids or something rather than looking cool.

Really appreciate the reasoned response though!

You can invest money for your childrens future and still be struggling. Many people choose to forego a lot for their children but know investing for their education etc is a sacrifice they’ll make.

*yawn