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Zwitterion
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Any more excuses to throw around? Maybe kids need to go to soccer practice or something?
October 13, 2025 at 10:16 PM
I’m sure that’s why they didn’t turn out in January or in May. Because somehow none of them can arrange for one parent to show up or have one friend babysit all the kids or realize that their kids bodies are going to be on the line anyway.
October 13, 2025 at 10:16 PM
And you are proving my point.

The really terrible MAGAs, as we are learning, are men in their 20-30s, but somehow they’ve always been given a free pass.
October 13, 2025 at 10:11 PM
I genuinely have no idea if that’s what the person you are responding to said, because they made a point of blocking me, but I suspect it’s something of that nature.
October 13, 2025 at 10:08 PM
White women are the source of all evil and can be verbally berated whenever they try to join in things. Also, white women are completely evil because they don’t agree with us!

It’s almost like disparaging a group makes them less likely to join in.
October 13, 2025 at 10:08 PM
Hard isn’t impossible, and elderly have other concerns, like restroom access and difficulties walking long distances.
October 13, 2025 at 10:05 PM
For all leftists claim otherwise, Americans are very comfortable- food & shelter, most ppl’s primary concerns throughout history, are widely available. Psychological benefits are tangible ones.

The base isn’t going to leave bc they were never hurting to begin with.
October 13, 2025 at 10:56 AM
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It's hard to help Americans left behind because so much of US identity is rooted in individualism. The average American conservative holds all three positions at once:

— Virtue signals about supporting US manufacturing
— Against raising the minimum wage
— Buys foreign imports because they're cheap
October 12, 2025 at 9:38 PM
The good news is, you can bring kids to protests!
I’d be more forgiving of them were we not coasting on stereotypes of how terrible the olds are. When tons of older ppl come out, we should start cracking down on the rhetoric against them & start deploying it against ppl who ought to be involved.
October 13, 2025 at 5:39 AM
There have been a ton of them at all the ones I’ve seen.
IMO, the stereotype that they’re not there is because there’s a lot of young lefties who figured out you can get away with all the misogyny so long as you add the word “white” to it.
Pity those young people aren’t protesting, of course.
October 13, 2025 at 5:32 AM
Lol, it seems about right.
October 12, 2025 at 6:30 PM
He might not have had to ask the Archbishop. A *lot* of priests in that area know the Pope. There’s good reason to do that in Chicago & not elsewhere.

(Source: Friend-of-a-friend was training to be a priest & lived a few doors down from the Pope. I think he still has the Pope’s number.)
October 12, 2025 at 10:48 AM
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those core values aren’t just magically going to implant themselves in Americans’ heads, we have to argue for them. but a lot of people have found there’s more social cachet in sneering at them instead. it’s disgusting
October 11, 2025 at 11:30 PM
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I would like to see protestors shouting phrases such as “WE are what is great about America!!!” Or
“We ARE America!!” Or anything along those lines. The right keeps chanting “USA USA”. We need something like that.
October 11, 2025 at 6:23 PM
I’m in total agreement with you. Israel wasn’t going to make a truce under any Dem, bc that wouldn’t benefit Netenyahu.
October 9, 2025 at 3:50 PM
Knowing about Iran isn’t the same as knowing about internal American politics. In fact, it’s even *more* likely they’ll have a distorted view of the situation.
October 9, 2025 at 10:04 AM
Okay, you don’t understand accelerationism. Good to know. Now we can ignore your opinions. Muted.
October 8, 2025 at 4:55 PM
Lol, good point.
October 8, 2025 at 12:08 PM
Ugh!
I wonder if he has to walk on them, like we did in the ‘90s. That was so gross.
October 8, 2025 at 11:11 AM
Oscar should be consulting a tailor. *I* can hem pants. It’s a really basic skill.
October 8, 2025 at 3:13 AM
Trump on Nobel Prize shortlist….
October 7, 2025 at 11:24 PM
Because a historian is trained differently from someone who does intersectional theory and because degrees matter.
October 7, 2025 at 11:21 PM
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the good news is a lot of these guys will meet very ugly ends in that scenario, the bad news is so will a lot of us
October 7, 2025 at 8:27 PM
I got an iTouch in the late ‘00s & I remember even the static bus schedule app being mind blowing. When I got an iPhone & could look at bus schedule in real time, it was a massive upgrade.
October 7, 2025 at 8:00 PM