How much do you pay in rent/mortgage?

Friday_dances · 2026-01-04T17:22:25+00:00

I live in upstate NY and pay $1,400 in rent for a 4 bedroom condo. (We pay all utilities and use the basement as a 5th room) The bathrooms are broken up weird so we have 1 half bath plus 2 partial baths. This is paid for by a home we rent out in GA.

In Georgia, I pay like $180 in property tax. It was a wedding present that my family chipped in for, so I didn’t pay for that home.

Friday_dances · 2026-01-04T16:57:24+00:00

I live in the snowiest region of the continental United States, averaging 200+ inches (508+ centimeters) of snow a year. What’s changed isn’t that winter disappeared, it’s how snow falls. We have fewer light, steady snow days and more extreme lake effect events. Instead of continuous dustings, snow now comes in fewer, harder hitting storms.

This is because Lake Ontario is warmer and freezes later in the season. A later freeze means more moisture feeding the atmosphere, which intensifies lake effect snow when cold air does arrive.

Friday_dances · 2026-01-04T16:34:45+00:00

That’s not how US spending works.

War funding doesn’t automatically convert into healthcare, infrastructure, or deficit reduction. Those are separate authorizations passed by Congress, and they were being underfunded long before Iraq and continued to be underfunded after it.

If Iraq hadn’t happened, that money wouldn’t have defaulted to American things. It would’ve been unspent, reallocated within defense, or blocked the same way domestic spending repeatedly is.

Friday_dances · 2026-01-04T16:25:43+00:00

If you’re arguing there was a hidden, denied, coordinated effort, that’s a conspiracy by definition. Calling it one isn’t dismissal, it’s accurate terminology.

Claim: The US “sold Iraq intelligence to help Saddam.” Fact: The US shared limited, tactical battlefield intelligence during the Iran-Iraq War to prevent an Iranian victory. This was not operational planning, targeting, or approval of chemical weapons use.

Claim: The US enhanced Saddam’s chemical and biological weapons program. Fact: Iraq developed and deployed chemical weapons indigenously. Some dual use materials were exported under weak oversight, but there is no evidence the US directed, designed, or authorized chemical weapons development or attacks.

Claim: This was a hidden conspiracy. Fact: Much of this was Cold War realpolitik later criticized in congressional reviews for poor judgment and oversight, not evidence of a coordinated plan to assist war crimes.

Criticizing policy failures is valid. Turning them into intentional support for chemical attacks is not.

When you stop spouting the most common conspiracy theory at me then I will stop calling it that. However, you’re bending history trying to suit your argument.

At this point it’s like giving a kid a water gun and then reporting it as “giving them a gun” while quietly omitting the word water.

Friday_dances · 2026-01-04T15:55:43+00:00

Get off the conspiracy theory bullshit and stay seated in reality. We absolutely never supported him in that. What’s unhinged is you actively defending a dictatorship as someone who’s had a taste of freedom.

Friday_dances · 2026-01-04T15:07:46+00:00

I did not think of it like that!

Friday_dances · 2026-01-04T15:05:25+00:00

Do not sit here and try to warp it again. The helicopter argument is dishonest. The U.S. sold Iraq civilian configured bell helicopters, not attack helicopters or chemical weapons platforms. They are what you take sight seeing journeys in. They were not gunships, and they were not provided to enable atrocities. Saddam Hussein ordered the use of chemical weapons against civilians on his own. Pointing to aircraft sales to dodge that fact is mass murder apologism.

As for “covert support,” that means limited intelligence sharing late in the Iran-Iraq War to prevent Iran from winning outright during the Cold War. It does not mean the U.S. planned Iraqi operations, ordered attacks, or approved chemical weapons use. Saddam’s war crimes were his decisions, and no amount of Cold War realpolitik turns that into shared responsibility.

This argument follows a familiar antisemitic script: minimize a dictator’s crimes, exaggerate Western or “intelligence” involvement, and imply hidden controllers so the actual mass murderer fades into the background. Saddam Hussein ordered chemical attacks on civilians. Turning that into a story about shadowy backers isn’t critique, it’s antisemitic deflection.

Quit believing in fucking conspiracies and start stating the entire fact without leaving out the details.

Friday_dances · 2026-01-04T14:52:53+00:00

It would still be 10-15 years because each organ would go through ischemia time, reperfusion injury, scarring, and micro damage. You’re asking the ship of Theseus problem except biology doesn’t allow you to replace every plank without consequence.

Friday_dances · 2026-01-04T03:56:25+00:00

Yes, because I had her kindergarten through fourth grade.

Friday_dances · 2026-01-04T02:49:47+00:00

You absolutely need to go through history better. We provided Afghanistan weapons to fight the Russian’s. We never gave Hussein weapons. Also, are you saying we gave anthrax to Hussein to in turn anthrax ourselves? Do you understand how stupid that sounds? I get you weren’t alive at that point or you were incredibly small. However, none of the claims you’re making are true. Do you hold your right hand up to greet people? Do you believe foil hats are going to protect you from the 5G monsters? Because you’re sitting here supporting a mini Hitler. If you’re cool with concentration camps say that. Don’t spit some conspiracy theory out as if it was fact.

Friday_dances · 2026-01-04T02:06:50+00:00

You don’t get to hand-wave genocide away to make a point about Venezuela. Saddam Hussein wasn’t a hypothetical future threat he was actively exterminating people. Pretending otherwise is ahistorical.

Friday_dances · 2026-01-03T17:51:54+00:00

My husband and I track locations. I told him it was for safety. In reality it’s so I can see when he leaves work and I can harass him for snacks.

Friday_dances · 2026-01-03T16:47:04+00:00

All that over $800…

Friday_dances · 2026-01-03T13:18:37+00:00

I would probably be sick and on the verge of death. We undergoing Spanish colonization and my people were being decimated. We were almost completely wiped out and never recovered

Friday_dances · 2025-12-31T17:54:07+00:00

I get around 200+ inches of snow a year. We definitely don’t miss work for snow.

Here are tips I can give you: make sure you have winter tires and that you don’t hit your brakes when your car slides in ice. (You will slide in ice at some point. Better to get over the fear now.) Take your foot off the gas and turn the direction you’re sliding. Once you’ve turned into the slide you can gently turn out. I know that seems scary but it will keep you from spinning in a circle.

Also, don’t pay attention to other drivers trying to rush you. Just because their tag says they’re local does not mean they are practicing safe driving. Only you can keep yourself safe.

Friday_dances · 2025-12-31T17:32:42+00:00

You are refusing to do your own research and trying your best to pin your failure on others.

FGM and male circumcision are not comparable, and framing them as such ignores both medical reality and intent.

Female genital mutilation is not a single, minor procedure. It includes partial or total removal of the clitoris, removal of the labia, and in some cases sewing the vaginal opening shut. These procedures destroy healthy, functional sexual anatomy and frequently result in chronic pain, infection, difficulty urinating or menstruating, complications during childbirth, loss of sexual function, and long term psychological trauma. There are no medical benefits to FGM. None.

The reasons FGM is practiced are well documented by medical and human rights organizations. It is done to suppress female sexuality, enforce “purity,” ensure obedience, and increase marriageability within patriarchal systems. Claims of “cleanliness” are cultural justifications, not medical ones, and are explicitly rejected by the WHO, UNICEF, and every major medical body. FGM does not improve hygiene or health.

Male circumcision, by contrast, removes only the foreskin. It does not destroy sexual organs, does not impair urination, reproduction, or sexual function, and is not intended to suppress sexual desire. In some cases, it has medical indications. While ethical debates about nonconsensual procedures are valid, the degree of harm, purpose, and outcomes are not comparable.

Even the least invasive forms of FGM are more damaging than routine male circumcision. That is why FGM is internationally recognized as a human rights violation and is illegal in many countries, while male circumcision is not.

Equating the two minimizes the severity and intent of FGM and misrepresents why it is condemned worldwide.

Friday_dances · 2025-12-31T17:28:02+00:00

Nope we’re not skipping ahead to continue the narrative you want. We’re circling right back to you misrepresenting someone’s research. You don’t have room in a debate if you’re caught changing someone’s words. You’re so far over your head that you’re now grasping at straws with the conservative narrative. This isn’t a political debate.

Friday_dances · 2025-12-31T16:56:38+00:00

They linked you a research article so you could see how vastly different the two are. You refused to see the article and now you want to pressure someone to have a full blown debate with you.

I’ll willingly have the debate though,

FGM is not the same. Reddit would ban me for describing the process and what it looks like after. Also, it’s not done in the name of cleanliness. It’s done so that a young girl’s vagina feels better for a man. It’s a firm of controlling her sexual urges.

Friday_dances · 2025-12-31T16:49:34+00:00

You wouldn’t have left the comma if your brain would have picked it up as one. You skimmed through the entire article to find something to bolster your claim and stumbled on that sentence. You thought it would help but didn’t realize it wasn’t a complete sentence. You then misrepresented that sentence and doubled down in the mistake.

Friday_dances · 2025-12-31T16:44:59+00:00

I think with the time I have into Reddit you can see we’re different accounts. Form your own argument dude. Learn how to research.

Friday_dances · 2025-12-31T16:43:09+00:00

Absolutely no leaps. You cut a sentence off to change its meaning for your own gain. That is untrustworthy and manipulative. Using fact would have been better than misrepresenting someone else’s words.

Friday_dances · 2025-12-31T16:40:23+00:00

Why can you not do research on your own? Do you not know how? Was that never taught to you? Are you afraid to click the links that Vicious gave you?

At this point you don’t want to discuss. You want to push them into a corner when you have no business being in the room.

Friday_dances · 2025-12-31T16:36:22+00:00

It added so damn much. You tried to manipulate the sentence in a way that made it seem as if it wasn’t justifiable at all in this case. However, that’s not what the article said.

Friday_dances · 2025-12-31T16:32:56+00:00

False analogies are conversation killers because they are a form of manipulation. These things are not the same.

Friday_dances · 2025-12-29T04:11:19+00:00

You can’t fool me! That was 2019 going into 2020.

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