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LeeMajors posted:I can’t get over the cult of trump. I just can’t. It’s broken my brain that any person capable of functioning day to day can look at that man and take him seriously on anything. I wouldn’t trust him to run a loving hot dog stand. He’s a profoundly transparent, self-aggrandizing snake oil salesman and has been a laughing stock for more than four decades. I think Trump would've been great if he just worked at The Wiener Circle in Chicago, the staff are just constantly insulting the customers. My dad had his second shot last week, I get my second shot on 4/23. It'll be nice to be able to go over this place and not worry about getting him sick. We've hung outside a few times, but we can't always do that. We had family over for my kid's 2nd birthday a few weeks ago and my dad had to miss it because he came into contact with someone who had COVID. I'll be so glad for that part to be over with.
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Apr 7, 2021 17:19
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seiferguy posted:At the end of the day, despite all the technology in the world, kids are still kids. My parents were able to have their grandkids over after a year without them because they're 2 weeks past vaccination (and my brother and his wife have been vaccinated since January). They bring the kids over and ask the youngest what he wants to do, and he says "I've got some shoveling I need to do." Dude loves farm equipment and apparently wants to shovel bark on my parent's yard lol This is adorable.
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Apr 7, 2021 17:20
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Ehud posted:It took me 30 something years to realize that we are so different that our relationship can never be anything but surface level bullshit that I don't even care about. Ugh this point hit me like a ton of bricks. I've been frustrated for a few years now that conversations with my mom are limited to small talk or her passive-aggressively complaining about something. While a lot of it is simply my mom being terrible at conversation/asking questions, this is a big part of why I don't hold up my end - I don't want to know. And it's breaking my heart that she's all of a sudden letting racist dogwhistles slip while visiting this time ("illegal immigrants are bringing Covid into this country" and using a pejorative term for haggling when talking about trying to sell her junk).
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Apr 7, 2021 17:22
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General Dog posted:Trump was a bad president, and he’s a bad friend. At least the part about not asking for a pardon is responding to the NYT story about Gaetz asking for a blanket pardon. It is a pretty  couple of sentences considering Trump could have fanned the conspiracy flames.Both Trump and Tucker's responses seem to be going through the motions of making a statement or giving Gaetz a platform, but also going out of their way not to get too involved.
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Apr 7, 2021 17:27
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General Dog posted:Trump was a bad president, and he’s a bad friend. still voted for him twice tho right
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Apr 7, 2021 17:32
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JPrime posted:still voted for him twice tho right Nope, Hilldawg in 2016 and left President blank in 2020.
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Apr 7, 2021 17:34
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General Dog posted:Nope, Hilldawg in 2016 and left President blank in 2020. this does not jibe with my mental picture of you
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Apr 7, 2021 17:36
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JPrime posted:this does not jibe with my mental picture of you General Dog posted:It's me, I'm classic dual-issue Republican voter (anti-inflation and pro-drilling).
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Apr 7, 2021 17:37
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JPrime posted:this does not jibe with my mental picture of you I mean yeah, how does a dog even vote in the first place 
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Apr 7, 2021 17:37
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General Dog posted:Nope, Hilldawg in 2016 and left President blank in 2020. This makes so little sense.
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Apr 7, 2021 17:38
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between that and the Rush Fanboyism, I mean yea
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Apr 7, 2021 17:38
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The Glumslinger posted:I mean yeah, how does a dog even vote in the first place Do you salute or pet a dog of such high rank? I would be intimidated either way...
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Apr 7, 2021 17:40
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Ehud posted:I don't really think there is a good answer because she lives in a totally different reality. We cannot even agree on what constitutes a fact, or that there are effective methodologies to help us figure out when something is true. She just has no discernible system of internal logic or critical thinking.
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Apr 7, 2021 17:42
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Also Hillary and (this space intentionally left blank) puts you to the left of both of the archetypes for millennial Republicans I described. Especially the small-town coworkers. I watched a few of them go from "ugh this is a terrible pair of candidates" in August 2016, to "I've lived through eight years of the most embarrassing president we've ever had, give Trump a chance" in November 2016, and now I wouldn't be surprised to recognize them from the Capitol raid footage.
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Apr 7, 2021 17:44
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The Glumslinger posted:I mean yeah, how does a dog even vote in the first place Show me where it says in the Constitution where a dog can't vote
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Apr 7, 2021 17:46
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3 DONG HORSE posted:Do you salute or pet a dog of such high rank? I would be intimidated either way... 
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Apr 7, 2021 17:55
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Silly Burrito posted:Yeah I talked with my boss about that. I'm all in favor of requiring the passports for things like cruises. For all the people that bitch and say "well I'm not cruising then", there are people like me who say "Only verified people with Covid-19 vaccinations will be allowed on the ship? Sign me the hell up." I understand you and your wife enjoy cruises, but I really, really wish COVID had completely and utterly destroyed that entire industry to the point it would take years for any company to even think about hosting another one.
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Apr 7, 2021 18:03
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General Dog posted:Show me where it says in the Constitution where a dog can't vote https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jt40yL31mdc
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Apr 7, 2021 18:05
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Just got back from taking my mom for stabbing number 2. Whole family is vaxxed now! Let the subway pole licking begin!
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Apr 7, 2021 18:06
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my mom went yesterday for shot 2 and apparently since they shifted from 24/7 to starting at 5pm due to the heat it's been awful. the appointment was at... 6:45? 6:15? and she had to wait until like 7:30 for the shot. state farm stadium for the local goons.
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Apr 7, 2021 18:12
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Dango Bango posted:Ugh this point hit me like a ton of bricks. I've been frustrated for a few years now that conversations with my mom are limited to small talk or her passive-aggressively complaining about something. While a lot of it is simply my mom being terrible at conversation/asking questions, this is a big part of why I don't hold up my end - I don't want to know. Sorry, bud. I spent years being frustrated and trying to find some kind of breakthrough with my mom. Somebody in TFF pointed out that you have no obligation to have a certain kind of relationship with a toxic person just because you're related. So I tried to put up some boundaries (no religion, politics, etc.) and she kept violating them. Then I cut her off for over a year. We're talking again now, but basically just about baby stuff. Now I just feel indifferent towards her. Then I feel guilty that I feel indifferent towards my own mom. I guess this is how it will be for the rest of my life  Nick Jr. Face posted:I think I already know the answer but has your mom ever been to therapy? I offered to find her a therapist and pay for it. She refused. Then I begged her to let me do it. She refused. I asked my aunt (my mom's sister and best friend) to try and convince my mom to go to therapy. She refused. She told me that the way she feels (spending every waking moment wanting to die because of her grief) is actually normal and I just don't understand because I never lost a child.
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Apr 7, 2021 18:16
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Skwirl posted:I understand you and your wife enjoy cruises, but I really, really wish COVID had completely and utterly destroyed that entire industry to the point it would take years for any company to even think about hosting another one. That's wishing a lot of people out of a job.
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Apr 7, 2021 18:20
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shirts and skins posted:You'll age and stay in touch perfectly fine if you are humble about your beliefs and remain willing to learn and grow. My parents are largely good at this and we have stayed close. You'll all do great as parents, just asking and thinking about these questions puts you all well ahead of the curve. Yeah, my entire family, including grandparents while they were alive, have always existed on the "care about others" side of the politics spectrum. Even my insane aunt who is super racist (came to Thanksgiving that my neighbors were also at, a Black man with a Latina wife, then insisted she'd seen them outside her condo an hour away that they'd have no reason to ever be near) adores her mixed race grandchildren. It was weird because towards the end of my grandparents life I'd find out things that made them way more leftist than I'd previously thought. One set of grandparents voted for Jesse Jackson. Grandma on the other side would take pregnant women who didn't want to be on "shopping trips" up to Canada when abortion was illegal in Washington State. I read stories about people's insane family and I'm empathetic but I have absolutely no personal frame of reference for it, so I don't think it's inevitable that you become a mouth frothing lunatic as you age.
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Apr 7, 2021 18:26
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Braksgirl posted:That's wishing a lot of people out of a job. They should be provided for financially, but just because something that is absolutely a horrible burden on the environment also provides people jobs doesn't mean it should still exist. I don't want General Dog destitute on the streets but I also think fracking should be illegal. This isn't the environment but just a public good, I still want universal Healthcare even though it would eliminate a ton of jobs in the insurance industry, I think we should eliminate cash bail even though it would gently caress up the lively hood of bail bondsmen. We should abolish police but I don't want the cops starving (mostly because I know they would almost instantly turn to a life of crime, given it's the only thing they know).
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Apr 7, 2021 18:33
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Pizza Dog being in the upcoming Hawkeye show is one of the faint residual bits of interest I have in the MCU
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Apr 7, 2021 18:38
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Thaddius the Large posted:Pizza Dog being in the upcoming Hawkeye show is one of the faint residual bits of interest I have in the MCU https://twitter.com/MarvelNewsHub/status/1334273023063441409
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Apr 7, 2021 18:45
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Franconia spitting truth. https://twitter.com/RuiterWrongFAN/status/1379843665036730369?s=19
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Apr 7, 2021 18:53
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hifi posted:my mom went yesterday for shot 2 and apparently since they shifted from 24/7 to starting at 5pm due to the heat it's been awful. the appointment was at... 6:45? 6:15? and she had to wait until like 7:30 for the shot. state farm stadium for the local goons. this was my wife's experience, we're right up the road from the stadium and door to door it took us almost as long to get hers as it took me to get mine all the way down in mesa
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Apr 7, 2021 18:57
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Skwirl posted:I read stories about people's insane family and I'm empathetic but I have absolutely no personal frame of reference for it, so I don't think it's inevitable that you become a mouth frothing lunatic as you age. Yeah this, at least in terms of politics. My mom has been complaining about the democrats not being far enough left since Clinton. Paul Wellstone was one of her idols, although she said even he was to the right of her politically. Both my parents were actively worried about Trump winning again and having to try and emigrate from the US during the pandemic.
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Apr 7, 2021 18:58
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Skwirl posted:I understand you and your wife enjoy cruises, but I really, really wish COVID had completely and utterly destroyed that entire industry to the point it would take years for any company to even think about hosting another one. That's going to be hard to do. People enjoy cruising. It can be a fairly inexpensive vacation and way to see different parts of the world in comfort (and to let your hair down and have a good time). I know it's not a perfect industry, but I don't see it going away any time soon.
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Apr 7, 2021 18:59
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Silly Burrito posted:That's going to be hard to do. People enjoy cruising. It can be a fairly inexpensive vacation and way to see different parts of the world in comfort (and to let your hair down and have a good time). I know it's not a perfect industry, but I don't see it going away any time soon. It would have been easy a year ago, give financial support to the people who lost their jobs on cruise ships and absolutely none to the companies that ran them, but instead we did the opposite.
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Apr 7, 2021 19:03
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Skwirl posted:It would have been easy a year ago, give financial support to the people who lost their jobs on cruise ships and absolutely none to the companies that ran them, but instead we did the opposite. I thought we told most of the cruise industry to get hosed because most of the ships had flags of convenience
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Apr 7, 2021 19:06
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Yeah cruise lines aren’t actually based in the US. They’re based in tiny rear end tax shelter islands.
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Apr 7, 2021 19:08
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Skwirl posted:It would have been easy a year ago, give financial support to the people who lost their jobs on cruise ships and absolutely none to the companies that ran them, but instead we did the opposite. As someone who has worked with the cruise industry I'm with you that it'd be overall good for the world if it ended, but it's not nearly as easy as you make it sound. Very, very few Americans work on those ships. Usually the only Americans you see are youth staff. The vast bulk of employees are Filipino, Indonesian, or Indian, and the ships are all foreign flag registered. I doubt most employees would be provided for in any way if the industry dies out.
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Apr 7, 2021 19:09
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Then we should have torpedoed them while they were sitting empty. Could use their husks to rebuild the dying coral reefs.
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Apr 7, 2021 19:10
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Important interview https://twitter.com/derektmead/status/1379853281904652288?s=19
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Apr 7, 2021 19:10
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It’s honestly amazing the lengths that Cruise Ship companies will go to fit through loopholes. Like they’ll make seemingly random detours to tiny uninhabited islands in the middle of nowhere because the company owns it and by driving by it classifies the company as something else or some poo poo. It’s bonkers.
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Apr 7, 2021 19:13
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It's going to be another brutal year for SE Alaska, too. Their economy is basically fishing and tourism, and cruise ships are the only feasible way to do the latter because it's not accessible by road. The Canadians have scotched the 2021 season by banning the ships from their waters. Juneau has the legislature and will be fine, but I don't know what people in Ketchikan or Sitka will do.
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Paint Crop Pro posted:Franconia spitting truth. It's unfortunate but maybe foreseeable that the Indians would have a tough time of it.
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