Cont: I’ll use as evidence the fact that my Swedish family and my Norwegian family never got along growing up. They didn’t have much in common aside from geographical proximity.

Yet Americans constantly conflate the two national cultures and identities as “Viking people” or “Scandinavian” at large.

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Kink is becoming popular because we live in a society of slop and trash, where nothing is anything and everything is disposable. Kink is profoundly useful for repurposing trash and filth into something impactful and fulfilling. Of course the world is becoming kinkier

2) in fact I’d argue that permissiveness towards otherwise homoerotic intimacy is essential to every platonic relationship in america, irrespective of gender combination.

The target I sometimes have to go to had these installed in half the store and now they are all opened and unlocked during business hours because they were not able to staff up enough to see the products. Now you have to push like 10 clear doors aside to walk down an aisle.

I know more wealthy individuals than anyone should and every one of them liquidated their portfolios and shifted their focus to cash as soon as he was elected. This isn’t surprising, it’s the expected outcome.

Ya ever notice that, despite not being anywhere near the top of the false/overturned convictions list, this is the one crime certain people are concerned with false allegations surrounding?

$1.2 trillion dollar industry.