No, its even worse. One side reacted by saying ‘how horrible!’ and offering sympathy and support to the victims, and the other side said ‘it never happened, and all those so-called dead kids were just paid actors!’

How can you unite anyone when a good chunk of them live in an alternate reality?

A lot of misogynists like to throw out how ‘women don’t have to suffer the draft’ (like we’ve even had one of those in forever). So if it’s just for men, probably giving that old tired jaw teeth again?

Yeah, a couple family members converted a few decades ago and the Mormons sent us all a request to list all our ancestors so they could retroactively ‘save’ them. Most of my family being Lutheran, that didn’t go over well lol.

My grandpa, my uncle, and a few other family pranksters got together and gave them the most outrageous list they could come up with. I had a Mormon kid as a friend when I was young, and some days I wonder if they looked me up, and actually believed I was related to the King of Sweden.

It’s not only about what I have, it’s about what you people don’t have!

TBF the New Deal was a stolen idea too, so…

Stolen from a union organizer, too, if I remember correctly.

Hahahahahaha

Go to any place Christian nutters have ‘missionaried’ in over in Africa and you can see them with the masks off.

The only reason that sort of shit doesn’t openly happen in most of Europe anymore is it isn’t a popular idea with secular people, and religious leaders don’t have enough power to force it down people’s throats - yet.

‘Why does my daughter never call or visit anymore!?’

21 out of 24

That was kinda fun

And that is why I love having AAA.

Uh-huh.

Oh, don’t worry; they definitely want to ban them for cis kids too (or at least girls). The one thing Conservatives the world over have in common is they like their women young.

Don’t a lot of people run for office on a platform of arresting and convicting people who commit crimes, though? Or am I missing something?

Source? From what I’ve heard, recent studies are showing the opposite.

Oh, definitely. Conservatives are all about social hierarchies and how it’s the only ‘natural’ form of society. Anyone trying to ‘rise above their place’ or help someone do so is an enemy to be destroyed, lest they cause the collapse of society as we know it.

I wonder if there’s a bit of not wanting to believe what people can accomplish if a massive number of us all teamed up to do something.

Because then they’d feel guilty for not getting up out of their armchair and going to support whatever cause they claim they’re supporting from the comfort of home.

The thing you have to understand is companies don’t have morality. They only have three purposes: get the money, get the money, and get the money. Despite legislation to the contrary, companies are not people and you probably shouldn’t expect them to act like people.

(I just consider it a win if they choose to do something, anything, moral.)

But, since they will almost always put money first, what they are is a good barometer for society, and much more accurate read on society than polls.

50 years ago, hell, even 30 years ago, you would never have caught them dead putting a rainbow on their packaging and saying they ‘support LGBTQA+’, because popular societal sentiment would have crucified them and they would have lost money.

Today, these same corporations feel safe slapping rainbow flags on everything. That means the views of society are changing as well.

‘Tell him we will pray for him.’

‘He needs your prayers.’

‘Is he, then, an unhappy man?’

Poirot said, ‘So unhappy that he has forgotten what happiness means. So unhappy that he does not know he is unhappy.’

The nun said softly, ‘Ah, a rich man…’

Poirot said nothing—for he knew there was nothing to say…

Some black people bleach their skin due to social pressures.

Kindly go put your face on a fire ant nest, and then come back and tell us how the cop shouldn’t have moved her once she yelled about the fire ants.

The nests can sometimes be hard to spot, so I’m not voting one way or another on that. But basic human decency says, if you accidentally put someone on a fire ant nest, you move them asap once you notice.

Hey, at least you’re listening and giving it serious thought. That’s better than some people.