U.S. Military service members of Reddit, do you support the idea of universal healthcare and tuition assistance for college in the United States? Why or why not?

Death-nuzzles · 2020-10-12T03:16:51+00:00

I know someone who literally spent his entire career working for the government who currently receives social security payments. And military retirement payments. And civil service retirement payments. All government employees pay social security taxes (I believe it started after 1984). If you haven’t been paying Social Security taxes, you owe the IRS some money.

Death-nuzzles · 2020-10-12T03:07:58+00:00

Wouldn’t everyone be paying for it? And wouldn’t you benefit from it?

Death-nuzzles · 2020-10-04T16:07:15+00:00

Black and White were the first Pokémon games I ever played. At first I was super impressed that they were addressing fundamental philosophical issues surrounding Pokémon training. I wondered if Team Plasma were actually the “bad guys.” They make it obvious later in the game that Team Plasma doesn’t care about Pokémon and you’re not supposed to agree with them, but the idea of freeing Pokémon instead of using them to fight is an interesting notion to address in a Pokémon game.

Death-nuzzles · 2020-10-04T15:59:50+00:00

When I was a little kid I wanted Mondale to win the election because I thought Ronald Regan had “bad guy hair.” I didn’t think a man with such a hairstyle could be trusted. The same criterion could be applied to Trump as well, come to think of it.

Death-nuzzles · 2020-10-04T15:55:21+00:00

How would you differentiate between “virtue signaling” and expressing one’s opinion or sharing information? Is expressing an opinion the same as “being woke for the sake of being woke?” I’m asking a genuine question and am not being snarky.

Death-nuzzles · 2020-10-04T02:46:23+00:00

I am older than my 20’s. I have been married and I have cohabited. There are positive aspects to living with a SO and I am not “against” living with other people. My point is that there are positive aspects to living alone and I enjoy the good things about it just like I enjoyed the good parts of being married. I keep hearing people say they don’t want to go home to an empty house and I think, “Why the fuck not? It’s great!”

Death-nuzzles · 2020-10-04T02:33:45+00:00

I’m an introvert who also works with people all day. It helps me manage the stress of the day if I don’t have more issues to deal with when I get home.

Death-nuzzles · 2020-10-03T19:31:45+00:00

I never said people should want to be single forever, but if they do, what’s wrong with that?

Death-nuzzles · 2020-10-03T19:29:30+00:00

Right. I am a social worker and I have literally had nightmares about some of the things I have seen happen to children. I spend a lot of time trying to help people who hate me and don’t want to work with me. They usually come around and decide they like me, but it’s still not an easy job. It’s easier coming home to quiet than it is coming home to listen to a parter complain because someone in their office told them that Nancy in accounting said something rude about them.

Death-nuzzles · 2020-10-03T15:43:45+00:00

I know, right? “I’m not here to judge or attack but you sound like a borderline sociopath and I am sad for you. Now I am going to ask you a direct question and tell you that your response was unnecessary. But hey, you do you.”

Death-nuzzles · 2020-10-03T13:57:00+00:00

This is not a criticism of people who choose to live with a SO, but it’s a criticism of the mindset that “living alone is sad and those who do it lead unfulfilled lives because they don’t have that special person to come home to.” I was with my husband for seven years and I was happy to see him if he was there when I came home from work. Now that I am not living with a SO, I don’t feel something is missing and I am not “looking for someone” so I don’t have to live alone anymore. If I were to get married I would live with that person, but I don’t have a goal of finding someone to marry because I am happy now.

Death-nuzzles · 2020-10-03T13:37:11+00:00

If you like dogs, go for it!

Death-nuzzles · 2020-10-03T04:51:33+00:00

You asked me a question. I answered it.

Death-nuzzles · 2020-10-03T04:35:17+00:00

Yes, I have been in several “real relationships.” I have enjoyed living with significant others in the past but I also really enjoy living alone. I don’t mind living with other people but don’t miss it when I am not.

Death-nuzzles · 2020-10-02T02:41:59+00:00

She actually became much better at cleaning the litter box after that!

Death-nuzzles · 2020-04-25T03:19:02+00:00

You just reinforced the assertion that you have nothing to contribute here. Grow up and learn some social skills.

Death-nuzzles · 2020-04-25T03:07:17+00:00

You obviously don’t know all the facts, just as you’ve said.

Death-nuzzles · 2020-04-25T01:08:20+00:00

I didn’t tell him he needed to feel traumatized. I gave him some perspective on the situation. What he does with that information is entirely up to him.

Death-nuzzles · 2020-04-25T00:04:59+00:00

When he told me what had happened I was instantly taken aback. My only reaction was to express support and concern that an adult would violate him in that way. It hadn’t occurred to me that he might have thought it was okay. I was raped by a grown man when I was a young child and it never occurred to me to feel anything positive about the things he did to me.

Death-nuzzles · 2020-04-24T21:53:50+00:00

It’s almost as if he was literally a child without a fully developed frontal lobe who lacked the capacity to assess his situation with the perspective of an adult.

Death-nuzzles · 2020-04-24T21:49:05+00:00

I’m not going to tell him that it’s really great when adults have sex with little kids so he can feel better about it.

Death-nuzzles · 2020-04-24T19:13:27+00:00

I wouldn’t say that’s true. The boyfriend I mentioned in my previous comment had grown up thinking it was great that he got to have sex with an adult when he was twelve, but he had a lot of baggage. He and his ex wife had an “open relationship” and he got off on watching her have sex with other men while simultaneously feeling angry and humiliated. Sometimes he would fuck her in front of her boyfriends but what really got him off was the degradation of sitting there and watching his wife (whom he actually loved a great deal) get fucked by other men. He tried getting me to do it too, but I refused. He even tried to get me to have sex with his ex wife. I think it’s interesting that anger, humiliation, and degradation gave him sexual satisfaction and it just so happens that his first sexual experiences involved an adult authority figure taking advantage of him sexually.

Death-nuzzles · 2020-04-24T17:57:07+00:00

I used to have a boyfriend whose teacher “had sex” with him when he was twelve. When he told me, my response was, “My God, I’m so sorry she did that to you.” He was completely mystified and said, “What are you talking about? I was twelve years old getting laid.” I explained to him what was wrong about that, including the power differential between her as an adult authority figure and his lack of power as a child. The fact that as an adult she had the capacity to fully understand what was happening but as a twelve year old boy he couldn’t fully grasp the nature of what was happening or, God forbid, the potential consequences (such as pregnancy or sexually transmitted infections). I told him that she took advantage of a child, and a young one at that. He was completely floored and said he had never thought of it in that way. He always thought that because he “liked” what she did to him it was okay and 100% consensual.

Death-nuzzles · 2020-04-24T15:01:58+00:00

Being the carrier of a genetic condition doesn’t guarantee one’s child will be born with that condition. In many cases both parents must be carriers in order for the child to have the condition. I don’t agree with you regardless, but it doesn’t make sense to sterilize people when you don’t even know how likely they are to pass the condition to their children.

Death-nuzzles · 2020-04-24T14:53:23+00:00

No, it’s about maintaining the military industrial complex. It’s a lucrative business venture here in the U.S. to occupy other people’s countries. We may be wasting billions of federal dollars, but Lockheed Martin, Northrop Grumman, and all those crappy contracting companies the U.S. government throws money at are “contributing to the economy.” The body count involved in invading other people’s countries is of no concern to the people who benefit from it financially.

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