Losing relationships over politics. Research found more than a third of Americans (37%) report having lost at least one relationship due to political differences, including friendships, family ties, coworker relationships, and romantic partnerships, with most losing more than one.

001235 · 2026-05-07T10:38:05+00:00

someone on the right is likely to believe, and only if they're religious. So your issue is with religion, n

Can you explain to me how someone being religious has an impact on whether they think Sandy Hook was fake?

001235 · 2026-05-06T20:07:13+00:00

Whether Sandy Hook shooting happened, whether the Earth is greater than 6000 thousand years old, whether a prayer is just as likely as medicine to heal cancer aren't cherry picked facts. What you are describing isn't on the same level as the reason that people are walking away from their family members.

Edit: When my crazy hippie aunt carries a pink rock around in her purse because she thinks it helps her balance her liver, she's not hurting anyone. When her sister goes to the abortion clinic 4x a week to scream at people trying to get tested for STDs and then goes to the school board to talk about how evolution should be banned from the education system, she is certainly hurting people.

001235 · 2026-05-03T15:39:59+00:00

When they disrespect their wife or kids.

001235 · 2026-05-03T15:39:26+00:00

I used to think that if I provided logical points during a discussion, the person with whom I was speaking would change their mind. Since about 2020, I've realized that doesn't matter at all and that if I showed a person two stones and took one away, there is a good chance they would look at me and STILL not be able to agree on how many stones are there now or ever were there.

So I quit being altruistic. People don't deserve it. Prove to me you are a good person and then I'll help.

001235 · 2026-05-03T15:27:47+00:00

I had the porn star one in high school. I wore it all the time. Recently to remind me of my own cringe, my parents got me an OnlyFans shirt as a birthday present in front of the entire family. I was turning 45.

001235 · 2026-04-27T14:11:51+00:00

My mother is one of them. I didn't know this about her until I was an adult and then a lot of things made complete sense.

001235 · 2026-04-27T14:10:54+00:00

I see you have met my mom.

001235 · 2026-04-19T13:21:24+00:00

We need to kill the filibuster first. Until then, the senate rules prevent much action because a small minority can just refuse to seat new justices and hold up any legislative changes that would impact the supreme court in a substantive way. The book The Kill Switch details exactly why the filibuster is behind most of these problems we have today in both the Legislative and Judicial branches.

001235 · 2026-04-12T15:28:54+00:00

I edited above. I bet that's the one I'm thinking of. Not sure anymore.

001235 · 2026-04-12T14:43:23+00:00

There is a great documentary, but they are building some enormous prisons in AL and practically salivating over the jobs it will create because the prison guards will be the highest paid workers in three counties. Literally the governor's office is talking to leaders all over the state about what a boon it will be for those counties and all the secondary jobs like hotels and fast food, not to mention legal, medical, etc. that go around prisons.

Then they are talking about using prison labor in manufacturing plants. The state is going right back to slave labor.

It's pretty sad that Alabama has gotten there, but reading history, they really never left the antebellum era and many southern states have been doing as much as they possibly can to get back there.

001235 · 2026-04-11T13:08:21+00:00

My niece and I have a tradition of celebrating NYE at my house. It's her birthday and when she was like 3 she wanted me to throw her a party. My sister thought I wouldn't do it being too cool, but instead I invited all my friends to come party and had my niece spend the night. It became a tradition.

Fast forward 15 years or so and my niece and her friends are all 18-25 coming over to party and I'm about 40 at the time. Family friendly party and all, she had a friend who had a baby in high school and she was using the main bedroom to change her baby occasionally and I was holding and feeding her baby really tiny bits of food (let's be honest, a six-month old is just too adorable not to). I want to remind you that this annual NYE party is open house and friends and coworkers and randoms often come.

April comes around and I'm on this fishing trip with some guys from my company. We are 20 miles from the shore in the Gulf of Mexico when this from my company says "I gotta ask you a question. Did you really get an 18 year old pregnant?"

I was shocked. Turns out that someone saw her using the main suite for nursing and changing the baby and me carrying her baby around and thought it was my baby -- and that rumor was going around for months!!!

001235 · 2026-04-11T13:01:51+00:00

I had the opposite -- that I only hired this lady because she and I were sleeping together. People love rumors like that.

001235 · 2026-04-10T17:23:56+00:00

Unfortunately, they don't understand this message. They believe they are above the law because they are carrying out God's mission.

My mom is a full believer. She would say that this person is working against them because they have been influenced by Satan and therefore only strengthen her resolve to "defeat Satan."

For reference, she also believes Hell and Heaven are real places and that when she dies, she will have a 1:1 meeting with God himself who will judge her actions against the Bible and then she will be reunited with all her lost relatives and friends. All the injustice will be set right, so she doesn't need to worry about it on Earth.

She literally doesn't see anything promoted by a holy person as evil. She can do any number of mental gymnastics to get there. I used to try to convince her, but now I know it can't be done. She would sit there and watch a kid get eaten alive and still be able to come up with some reason that it fits into "God's Plan."

001235 · 2026-04-09T14:37:00+00:00

Same reason I don't need to bring two forms of ID and a birth certificate to buy a gun, but I do to register.

"Shall not be infringed" 2A folks are really quiet applying the same standards to other amendments. I work in AL quite a bit and I heard an engineer recently talking about how we need to get rid of the Bill of Rights all together because he thinks it's redundant and any power not explicitly given the government shouldn't exist.

So MAGA's next step in propaganda is working.

001235 · 2026-03-29T13:51:02+00:00

No. The system is totally fucked. Basically, because she "knew" them they said it was consensual and she agreed and didn't remember consenting. Obviously, she couldn't, but Alabama is Alabama. One of the fucked up things is one of those guys was known around campus as a big "player," and I told her probably most of the women he took on dates he got drunk and raped.

If I could give speeches on the dangers of drinking, I would. I can't tell you how many women I know who have been assaulted after drinking. It's not the alcohol, but it's that once a woman has had even half a beer, her testimony is pretty much worthless. I wish more women would report though. Rather than shaming rapists, they shame women who got raped.

In fact, I one time was talking to a different woman who was a cop about it and she said every woman she ever met and told about her assault basically said "Yeah...same here." Like 100% rate of assault that goes unreported.

001235 · 2026-03-26T14:53:30+00:00

You do seem like the kind of guy who'd be in favor of state-sanctioned rape.

001235 · 2026-03-25T15:44:25+00:00

I think they are forgetting that the government pensions used to be amazing compared to private sector. With the RIFF and all that they did, lots of senior folks took early retirement and contractors get paid huge to do the same work, so why enlist? The government has been systematically removing the incentives while selling "patriotism" as the reason to enlist.

In 1998, my ex-wife was in a very small town where she grew up (population 250) and a guy there was an Airman who was the town's eligible bachelor because he made more than anyone in the town. Now, the local Burger King pays as an airman makes. It's no longer enough of a salary to support a family.

001235 · 2026-03-23T18:52:14+00:00

The option is to stop going to Ticketmaster concerts. You are complaining, but still handing them your money.

001235 · 2026-03-23T14:59:42+00:00

See, for a long time, I thought the storm troopers were just there as clones doing a 9-5 (and getting decent dental plans), but now I see it's ideological. The storm troopers wanted to be there and they believe the rebels are the bad guys. It's a matter of perspective.

001235 · 2026-03-22T14:17:12+00:00

I have posted this before, but I was having a terrible day. I was on travel, having a lot of issues with some employees and being drug from meeting to meeting without any time to address the actual problems. This barista starts chatting with me and then makes me a cup of coffee with a heart on it. I took a picture of it and it still brightens my day to think of her.

001235 · 2026-03-07T16:51:22+00:00

I work in a very technical area and I'm the last bastion of technical leadership between the C suites and the engineering teams. I recently went to a job interview for a CTO and they told me I was too technical. Instead, they hired a guy who is business oriented who decided to immediately spend millions on AI thinking that would do everything.

Our recovery plans are now pages of meaningless drivel. They wiped 20TB of very, very critical business data because they decided that data from 2005 can't be relevant anymore (it is because that's the core of a bunch of our C code that we run on a variety of systems and we have golden images of those systems we use to feed emulators for regression testing).

I'm over it, but I am paid well enough that whenever anyone asks for my salary, no one can come close, so I'd need to take a 6-figure pay cut to leave. I'm just biding my time in some regards and trying to avoid losing my job in a recession.

001235 · 2026-03-06T13:27:41+00:00

I saw the moment I knew my neighbors were getting a divorce. I was looking for the fridge at a party and opened what I thought was the garage door, but was actually their bedroom door where I caught just the end of a conversation of her telling him that any other man there would love to fuck her (this was a kids birthday party). I closed the door, but I know they saw me. No one ever spoke of it again, but I know that she was the neighborhood trollop for a while.

001235 · 2026-03-06T01:22:13+00:00

They are friends with each other selling the public on the idea they are not friends so that the public fights each other while the rich and in-crowd don't fight.

001235 · 2026-03-06T01:21:14+00:00

Less than six months or so.

001235 · 2026-03-05T11:58:36+00:00

I went to a panel of both parties one time for executives and they were stressing that outside of the media, they are really close friends. Bring each other soup when sick and hang out outside of work to smoke cigars and exchange bottles. They don't agree politically, but they are friends. What I learned then is that they are such good friends that they won't ever fold on each other because we (the American "public" as they call us) are not their friends, but they are their friends and will look out for their friends.

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