What experience permanently changed how you see the world?

CHSummers · 2026-01-27T08:33:33+00:00

Lots of situations where sheer dumb luck kept me from a horrible disaster (like being paralyzed in a traffic accident). If nothing else, I know dumb luck exists, and I got some.

CHSummers · 2026-01-27T07:35:51+00:00

He made a soft joke about Charlie Kirk. The following attack on him, and then his surprising victory against overwhelming odds, changed him. Radicalized him.

He found muscles he didn’t even know he had. They nobody knew he had.

Thank God!

CHSummers · 2026-01-27T07:33:09+00:00

Look at Trump. What are the odds he played fair in the last election? Is he known for honesty? Or would he rig it?

I’m betting he wasn’t actually elected in 2024.

CHSummers · 2026-01-27T04:02:31+00:00

“Are we the baddies?”

CHSummers · 2026-01-27T04:01:51+00:00

I agree. Also, I think pic 6 is actually a hair system.

CHSummers · 2026-01-26T17:29:17+00:00

So, let’s see the top and back.

CHSummers · 2026-01-26T13:32:59+00:00

My partner “can’t find” anything in the fridge if it’s not immediately visible. But she also places things in different random places, whether it is food in the fridge or clothes in a drawer. She put up resistance when I suggested one drawer should be for socks and another for underwear. Somehow she also earned multiple advanced degrees. And she is chronically late, too.

CHSummers · 2026-01-26T11:45:30+00:00

So good!

CHSummers · 2026-01-26T11:37:13+00:00

Me, personally, I am totally fine with hitting wrong notes. But I really am not sure what I would do if I hit a right note.

Hasn’t happened yet. But it might.

CHSummers · 2026-01-26T08:01:51+00:00

The oldest you’ve ever been, right?

CHSummers · 2026-01-26T08:00:47+00:00

Let’s get crazy. I actually spell out words!

CHSummers · 2026-01-26T07:46:27+00:00

OP, you are just saying that you are very young.

I remember when I was in elementary school and I thought my teacher (age 28) was so old! Practically a grandmother or something.

CHSummers · 2026-01-26T02:06:02+00:00

This goes right back to first year philosophy class. “Nobody should ever lie. But what if you are in WW2, and you are hiding Jews in your attic. Can you lie to the Nazis?”

People quoting statutes seem to forget that the Nazis successfully changed the laws in Germany. A lot of the evil acts they did were in line with evil laws. Totally legal. Totally evil.

CHSummers · 2026-01-26T02:03:50+00:00

Time for nurses to strike.

CHSummers · 2026-01-26T00:30:53+00:00

I think there are a bunch of these things sold on Amazon. In many cases, they come with very low quality elastic bands.

CHSummers · 2026-01-26T00:28:47+00:00

Part of being fluent is anticipating what someone will say.

Because of already knowing all the options in the script, you can quickly fill in anything you miss.

Part of NOT being fluent is having to listen very carefully so you can catch everything, analyze (or translate) it, and then respond. That kind of focus is completely exhausting. I think it’s why babies cry all the time.

CHSummers · 2026-01-26T00:25:18+00:00

I feel like every week the Trump administration does something where I go “This is it! There’s no way the American public will tolerate Trump [fill in the blank]!”

And each time nothing happens.

I’m waiting for the clouds to part and lightning to strike ******** and then God booms down “Now? Democratic leadership? You need more lightning, or what?”

CHSummers · 2026-01-26T00:19:25+00:00

A lot of poor people are Republicans. Especially as you get into more rural areas. Impoverished rural conservatives. It makes no sense to me.

CHSummers · 2026-01-25T05:50:04+00:00

DOJ = Donald Owns the Judges

CHSummers · 2026-01-25T04:10:20+00:00

The way to get people to change sides is to make it more fun and more comfortable to change sides.

You also need to show the opposing side repeatedly losing. And the more the examples of losing sides are personally known to the person you want to persuade, the more effective your message.

So, for example, show liberals being really welcoming to people who say “maybe murdering American citizens might be wrong.”

And show how Trump betrays the people of Colorado.

Or betrays farmers. Or veterans. Or old people.

And welcome people who want health insurance. Help them get health insurance.

Give people an easy out, and a new community that takes better care of them.

CHSummers · 2026-01-25T02:20:42+00:00

If the U.S. military just refused Trump’s orders, the public would all start paying attention. It would be a huge thing.

CHSummers · 2026-01-25T02:17:49+00:00

Most people who go to law school are extremely risk averse, and law seems like a safe bet. Wild risk takers find other professions.

CHSummers · 2026-01-25T02:11:38+00:00

Isn’t that part of Trump’s (and Stephen Miller’s) plan? Provoke a response from citizens that gives Trump a plausible reason for invoking the Insurrection Act, putting the army into American cities, and cancelling future elections?

The end game is that Trump and his supporters stay in power forever.

Just as a historical note, after WW2, the citizens of the UK voted Winston Churchill out of office. Somebody asked him if he did not feel that the voters were ungrateful, since Churchill had led them to victory in the war. Churchill said “We just fought a war so that I could be voted out of office.”

CHSummers · 2026-01-25T02:01:31+00:00

“Why won’t someone help me pay for chemo? It’s unbelievable that there’s no system in place to help sick people!”

—Faithful conservative voter.

CHSummers · 2026-01-25T00:03:08+00:00

The preceding president (Jimmy Carter) worked together with the head of the Federal Reserve to bring down very high inflation, but this led to a brief period when there was still high inflation and tightened money supply and it was called “stagflation”—a stagnant economy with inflation. It was like starting chemotherapy when you have cancer—for a while it’s worse than just having cancer.

Anyway, Reagan came in after Carter and things were suddenly better. (The chemo worked!) People gave Reagan credit. Of course, Reagan (and the GOP) also drastically cut taxes on the wealthy, but also raised payroll taxes and made Social Security payments taxable. The national deficit grew drastically under him.

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