MightyJoe36 posted:

Can anybody translate this for me?

MightyJoe36 posted:

Can anybody translate this for me?

Smirking_Serpent posted:

Which one of my girlfriends(both F21) should I(M21) take to see my family?

Alice is literally just the most hyper smol uwu bean ever. .

Thoughts?

Fallom posted:

“You love it even if it’s not a good one” seems like a total sociopath sentence to write about a child

I mean in addition to all the others

Megillah Gorilla posted:

Can anyone remember the site which lets you see deleted reddit posts?

I've found a couple of good ones in r/legaladvice which have almost every single post deleted.

Anne Whateley posted:

"Leftbook is monsters!!!" propaganda is deliberately spread by the alt-right and similar groups.

quote:

We broke up over my ex's infidelity. I walked in on her with her boss cheating on me. I never looked back. They ended up getting married and she had a baby 9 months later. Their marriage ran it's coarse and they got divorced a few years ago. They had a few kids, but the oldest is the one I believe maybe mine. She is 23 years old. People say you don't know for sure. My ex doesn't want to know for sure. I hear she has a dad and she doesn't need you. I hear all the negative stuff from people who don;t know me or what it feels like to be in this situation. Negative people say I'm obsessed. If you are part of that crowd your opinion is not welcome. You are wasting your time posting a comment.

​

My ex and her now ex-husband should have had a dna test done. They didn't. This girl should know her father. She should know more then the manufactured world they built around her with lies and deception. Her mother unblocks my number to send me insulting text messages about once a week and then blocks my number again. She is telling the girl that I was abusive and a woman beater according to her friends. I've learned a new term called Parental Alienation. The literal erasing of family members from a persons life just because you can. My ex even has gone so far as to make up stuff to explain why her daughter looks so different then her other kids and husband.

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The police that knock on my door this evening to ask me questions were very rude. Of coarse they should have been considering what my ex had told them. She makes up lies and uses the police to threaten and intimidate me. But this evening I was lucky. An officer listened to me. He read the copy of the letter I had delivered to the girl. He looked at her photo and my photos of myself from childhood to adult. For the first time I caught a break. The police apologized for what I'm going thru. The office told me the fact that I'm black and my ex's ex-husband is white should be enough to explain why the girl I believe is daughter most likely is. The other officer told me this is bullshit. They advised me to get a lawyer. They told me to pickup their completed report and maybe try to go after my ex for slander. She has called the police on me every week for a month.

​

So why AITA for wanting a dna test after seeing my ex's 23 year old child?

Zulily Zoetrope posted:

Sorry, "literal nazi" was hyperbole. She became a spokesperson for "reaching across the aisle," and joined the alt-right blogosphere, announcing that she had been dating gamergater Chris Ray Gun and getting chummy with people like Sargon of Akkad/Carl Benjamin (currently making headlines in the UK for threatening to rape a member of parliament). Most of her tweets from that time have been deleted, but if you want a primary account, the youtube videos where she talks about taking the red pill are still up. I'll happily admit that I haven't watched them and am not going to, but she supposedly talks about how there's loads of well-cited and reasonable folks on the alt-right.

Smirking_Serpent posted:

AITA for pointing out that my girlfriend was being a hypocrite?


Me: "Well I don't think we talked for an hour that night, I bought you 2 drinks at the bar, afterward some McDonald's and you let me cum in your mouth, kind of hypocritical to go around and calling other people sluts".

Smirking_Serpent posted:

AITA because I told my girlfriend I don't want to watch or hear about depressing things she sees on Facebook?

MightyJoe36 posted:

I took it as you love your child unconditionally but maybe I was wrong.

quote:

so I had an item that was valued at 10,000 that I was in the process of getting ready to sell. I had a sign that stated it should not be touched and i told people to leave it alone when they visit.

this friend decided to take it from the glass cabinet and drop it. it's now worthless.

I took him to court and I won and he now owns me 10,000, he is now going to be broke and he has been a wreck. he has been drunk calling me every day in tears because he cant afford it, his family have been trying to get me to drop it so he does not have to pay.

now I'm feeling like poo poo and was wondering if I'm an rear end or not.

teen witch posted:

I’ve modded several fairly minor leftbook groups for about a year and change a few years ago. The largest one was approx 25k members last I knew.

90% of the people are totally normal, rational, fun online and IRL! Some of my closest friends come from there or SA, and there is some overlap.

The other 10%? Utterly loving bugnuts. They may have left HS but HS did not leave them. Having someone have the equivalent of a kid throwing a tantrum in a Macy’s over a minor April fools joke made me realize that I don’t owe these assholes my time.

In short, leftbook is a land of contrasts.

TheMaskedUgly posted:

If you're standing in front of literal nazis, and you're saying things that are making literal nazis cheer, and you don't do anything to dissuade their support, and you actively defend them, and you build your career around doing those things, then you're, at a minimum, a nazi-collaborator, i.e. a nazi.

'ethno-nationalist/ race-realist / whatever'

therobit posted:

therobit posted:

So when you said "literal nazi" you didn't mean "literal nazi?"

TheMaskedUgly posted:

I dunno man, I think
"once you have a child you love it even if it’s not a good one"
has a laconic beauty to it

Smirking_Serpent posted:

My parents are installing cameras in my room after my dad caught me masturbating.

We live in Alaska.

I'm 15. Last week I was doing "things" in my room. My dad barged in without knocking and started screaming at me. He and my mom then sat me down and told me I'm not allowed to touch myself. I was mortified and agreed and left the room once they let me. Today we got an Amazon package. I opened it and found indoor cameras. I asked my dad and he said they are putting them in my room and bathroom so they can monitor and make sure I'm not masturbating. I said that wasn't okay and he said that I agreed to not masturbate and this is holding me to the agreement. He said they would check the cameras daily.

Besides the fact that I'm 15 and think I should be allowed to touch my own body, this is embarrassing and destroys my privacy.

What can I do? Besides this they are good parents. They just think sex is for marriage and I shouldn't do anything until I get married. I wasnt allowed to go to sex ed classes but learned some things off the internet.

Please help

therobit posted:

Are we gonna say every red-piller is a nazi now? That seems to be stretching the definition a little. On the spectrum of abhorrent political views, nazi is the worst and most extreme thing you can be and its clear over on the right edge of the continuum. If you are using the compass model it is also pretty much all the way into the authoritarian space. If you start using that for everyone that has a few bad opinions, you are cheapening the term and re-anchoring it for things that frankly just aren't as bad as wanting to round people up into concentration camps and murder them. That actually does harm when people start to think that by "nazi" you mean "garden variety republican" and start tuning it out. Actual nazis love this because it lumps them in with sane people that are not a threat to the very fabric of our society.

therobit posted:

That actually does harm when people start to think that by "nazi" you mean "garden variety republican" and start tuning it out. Actual nazis love this because it lumps them in with sane people that are not a threat to the very fabric of our society.

Pinecone Sample posted:

AITA Why? for wanting a dna test after seeing my ex's 23 year old child?

therobit posted:

zakharov posted:

I'm not a Nazi but

ad090 posted:

AITA for making someone broke.

therobit posted:

Are we gonna say every red-piller is a nazi now? That seems to be stretching the definition a little. On the spectrum of abhorrent political views, nazi is the worst and most extreme thing you can be and its clear over on the right edge of the continuum. If you are using the compass model it is also pretty much all the way into the authoritarian space. If you start using that for everyone that has a few bad opinions, you are cheapening the term and re-anchoring it for things that frankly just aren't as bad as wanting to round people up into concentration camps and murder them. That actually does harm when people start to think that by "nazi" you mean "garden variety republican" and start tuning it out. Actual nazis love this because it lumps them in with sane people that are not a threat to the very fabric of our society.

Smirking_Serpent posted:

My parents are installing cameras in my room after my dad caught me masturbating.

We live in Alaska.

I'm 15. Last week I was doing "things" in my room. My dad barged in without knocking and started screaming at me. He and my mom then sat me down and told me I'm not allowed to touch myself. I was mortified and agreed and left the room once they let me. Today we got an Amazon package. I opened it and found indoor cameras. I asked my dad and he said they are putting them in my room and bathroom so they can monitor and make sure I'm not masturbating. I said that wasn't okay and he said that I agreed to not masturbate and this is holding me to the agreement. He said they would check the cameras daily.

Besides the fact that I'm 15 and think I should be allowed to touch my own body, this is embarrassing and destroys my privacy.

What can I do? Besides this they are good parents. They just think sex is for marriage and I shouldn't do anything until I get married. I wasnt allowed to go to sex ed classes but learned some things off the internet.

Please help

quote:

Dear Prudence,
For a friend’s birthday, I decided to paint a portrait of her, her late mother, and her adult children (two girls of her own and a stepdaughter). I contacted all three children back in January to please send me a picture so I could paint them. I contacted the stepdaughter (she lives out of state) several times. I even sent her a letter with a paid-for return envelope for the picture. She told me she would get around to it but never did.

I finally gave up and did the portrait without her. I know that my friend had a difficult relationship with her stepdaughter growing up. I presented the painting to my friend at her birthday. She loved it so much that she cried. Later, her husband approached me. His daughter came down to visit, saw the portrait, and threw a fit. She screamed at her parents about how she obviously was not loved or wanted in the family. He wanted me to “fix” the portrait now to include this girl. I haven’t brought this up with my friend, but frankly I am insulted, and I think a good slap across the face might work wonders for this brat rather than indulging in this emotional manipulation. She did not want to be in the painting; she has no grounds to be upset now. It would require me to start over from scratch. How do I respond properly here?
—Picture’s Not Perfect

quote:

I don’t doubt that your friend’s stepdaughter is difficult, and I agree that she was the main architect of her own misfortune by ignoring the deadline and the prestamped envelope you sent her. But I do think that choosing not to find a workaround (say, by asking one of the girl’s siblings to supply you with a photo of her, or working off an image from social media) and instead presenting your friend with a picture of all her children except the one she’s had the hardest time connecting with put her in a slightly tricky position. I don’t say that to discount the hard work you put into this or the generosity of the project as a whole. I just hope it helps you contextualize the girl’s response and to soothe that itchy slapping hand of yours. (Slaps very rarely work wonders. Usually they just hurt.)

Given that this girl isn’t part of your family, and you did work hard to include her in the first place, all you have to say to your friend’s husband is this: “I’m really sorry you’ve been having a tough time with [stepdaughter] over this. I contacted her a few times about participating and didn’t hear back from her. I’m afraid I don’t have the time to start over such a big project, but I understand if you decide not to display the portrait in order to smooth things over. I hope you three are able to find a good way to talk this through.”

Smirking_Serpent posted:

AITA for cancelling my wedding because fiancee almost got my dog killed?

Me (28M) and fiancee (27F) have been together for 4 years, engaged for 6 months. I also have a 7 year-old lab mix who is the greatest dog in existence.

On Saturday, fiancee had a hen party at home. I stayed with my parents but I left the dog with her because she likes having him there. However, I made sure to tell her to put the dog in our bedroom once the party gets going.

5am on Sunday I get a frantic call that something's wrong with the dog. She was drunk, so I told her to get a taxi and go to the emergency vet clinic. When I got there, she looked like she hadn't stopped crying for hours and she couldn't even speak. Two of her friends were there so they told me my dog is alive but not well. I felt sorry for her for an entire 10 minutes while waiting for the doctor.

But then, the doctor told me my dog ingested large amounts of alcohol and chocolate edibles. The girls apparently thought it would be cool to leave everything out on short coffee tables, leave the dog to wander around instead of putting him in our bedroom, and then get wasted and not notice he was going to town with the booze and edibles.

When we got home, I told my fiancee to pack and get out of my house and my life. I told her to tell her guests the wedding is off, and I'll tell mine. She was shocked, but she took her things and left.

2 hours later, I get bombarded by messages on Messenger, Whatsapp, by her sisters, brother, brother's wife, her mom, her friends, telling me that I am insane to do this to her after 4 years. They started off defending her, but it quickly turned into insulting me.

The logical thing for me to do was look for comfort in my friends and family. Nope. They all loving agree. My mom said: "Well, it was a mistake, she didn't do it on purpose, besides - the dog didn't die!" Lucky me, eh? My dog didn't loving die!

My sister was appalled that I cancelled the wedding "over that?!" and even my best man said I might have overreacted. Yes, our relationship has had ups and downs, but it's mostly worked fine. But I am so disgusted at my fiancee that I can't even imagine looking her in the eye, let alone spending my whole life with her. She isn't loving 17, she is 27!

By the way, this is not the first dumb thing she has done. She likes to text while driving, she always leaves stuff on the electric stove (like kitchen towels, the cutting board etc.) even though she has turned on the wrong burner and burnt whatever was on it several times in the past, and similar DANGEROUS things. It's not something I hold against her in the sense that I would ever mention in a fight, but I'd be lying if I said I wasn't worried that she might end up killing herself or someone else. For example, my dog.

I'm 99% sure I will stand by my decision. But am I really an rear end in a top hat? Literally nobody is on my side and I have no idea what to think.

​

Edit: Posting here kind of triggered me to conclude this isn't about the dog at all. She is negligent and irresponsible and I don't want to stick around and possibly see our child die in a car accident some day because she was texting or she forgot to put his seat belt on. I'd rather be an rear end in a top hat now than spend years of my life worrying every time our child is left alone with her. If she'd accidentally killed a person while texting and driving, I would also leave her. I guess I realized I don't want to spend my life with someone who has such blatant disregard for human (or animal) life.

Some questions keep coming up so here: I left the dog with her because she gets lonely and scared and she was supposed to be alone on Sunday. I was planning on taking him with me but she asked me to let him stay. I told her to put him in the bedroom and she said she would, but she didn't because the girls wanted to play with him. People also asked if she has ADHD, I don't know, she's never gone to a psychologist and doesn't have a diagnosis.

​Edit 2: This has blown up and I simply can't respond to everyone but I noticed some questions keep getting repeated, so here are the answers:

- She didn't say she was sorry or offer to pay the bills (she doesn't need to do either as far as I'm concerned), she hasn't spoken to me at all. I've only spoken to her family before I stopped replying to them yesterday.

- Yes, I have talked to her about her recklessness A LOT. It's not something I keep a list of to bring up every time we have a fight. When we fight about something that just happened, I don't mention stuff that happened 3 months ago or last year. She knows she is like this. When I tell her I worry about her using as hosed up phone charger with wires hanging out and leaving her phone to charge all night underneath her pillow and it heats up, she just tells me I'm being cute and I worry too much. So I just go and plug it out myself.

- I didn't get cold feet, I didn't hate her, or have disdain for her, or string her along for years. I spent 4 years loving her, and now I'm angry and I can't forgive her.

- Yes, I was dumb to propose to her while having even a single doubt in my mind that she would become more responsible. That is 100% my fault. But I didn't trick her in any way. I honestly believed we would work out. If I tricked anyone, it was the both of us.

Barudak posted:

Theyre onto the final stretch now and its Risky Sexual Behavoir neck and neck with Ongoing Affair followed by Toxic Friend Group with Lets Make it Work pulling up the rear. These issues are going all out folks and were seeing some last minute moves by Lack of Coping Mechanism and oh wow folks out of nowhere Ex-Con Boyfriend is making space and making a move its now right on the tale of the flagging leader Ongoing Affair and yes, what a photofinish as Ex-Con Boyfriend comes in first.

Willfrey posted:

Has anybody here actually seen a nazi? I mean, not on TV or internet but in real life.

I am not talking about your garden valley racists, I mean a suited up swastika adorned jackboot.

I grew up in north/central Idaho. Everybody associated the panhandle with the aryan brotherhood but I never saw nothin.

Certianly saw the Coeur d'Alene parade they attended in 98' on TV. But they have since been bankrupted and they literally burned the compound to the ground (training firemen)

Smirking_Serpent posted:

My parents are installing cameras in my room after my dad caught me masturbating.

We live in Alaska.

I'm 15. Last week I was doing "things" in my room. My dad barged in without knocking and started screaming at me. He and my mom then sat me down and told me I'm not allowed to touch myself. I was mortified and agreed and left the room once they let me. Today we got an Amazon package. I opened it and found indoor cameras. I asked my dad and he said they are putting them in my room and bathroom so they can monitor and make sure I'm not masturbating. I said that wasn't okay and he said that I agreed to not masturbate and this is holding me to the agreement. He said they would check the cameras daily.

Besides the fact that I'm 15 and think I should be allowed to touch my own body, this is embarrassing and destroys my privacy.

What can I do? Besides this they are good parents. They just think sex is for marriage and I shouldn't do anything until I get married. I wasnt allowed to go to sex ed classes but learned some things off the internet.

Please help

Whorelord posted:

too bad the actual laconians would throw a not good child off a cliff

Smirking_Serpent posted:

My parents are installing cameras in my room after my dad caught me masturbating.

We live in Alaska.

I'm 15. Last week I was doing "things" in my room. My dad barged in without knocking and started screaming at me. He and my mom then sat me down and told me I'm not allowed to touch myself. I was mortified and agreed and left the room once they let me. Today we got an Amazon package. I opened it and found indoor cameras. I asked my dad and he said they are putting them in my room and bathroom so they can monitor and make sure I'm not masturbating. I said that wasn't okay and he said that I agreed to not masturbate and this is holding me to the agreement. He said they would check the cameras daily.

Besides the fact that I'm 15 and think I should be allowed to touch my own body, this is embarrassing and destroys my privacy.

What can I do? Besides this they are good parents. They just think sex is for marriage and I shouldn't do anything until I get married. I wasnt allowed to go to sex ed classes but learned some things off the internet.

Please help