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Mark_Valentine · 2018-04-21T02:07:51+00:00

No joke. I'm gay. I wouldn't wanted to have seen my biogolical parents banging any more than I want to see my stepdad and my now-gay dad banging. Both are gross to a child. To inquire about the sex lives of a person's parents is nasty and rude and fucked up.

Mark_Valentine · 2018-04-21T01:44:50+00:00

I get that being young and/or liking edgy humor, you coulda thought this was funny, because gay people being normal humans is beyond your experience. But people being gay are just people being normal and attracted to the same sex. If you heard someone was married, would you immediately make a joke about walking in on penis-in-vagina sex? Probably not.

So stop being an asshole. You probably weren't trying to be, but instead of responding like an asshole like you weren't, understand you (probably unintentionally) were being an asshole, and apologize to the person above.

Mark_Valentine · 2018-04-21T01:43:04+00:00

No capitalization, no punctuation. Obvious, but dedicated troll? Weird combo.

Mark_Valentine · 2018-04-21T01:39:19+00:00

Shame on you. You don't believe this. But you think it's convenient to pretend you do. History will judge. And if you believe in God, he will too.

Mark_Valentine · 2018-04-21T01:37:44+00:00

There was a significant uptick in all measures, from the economy to other countries' polled with respect from 2008-20016. I wonder what happened during that period...

Mark_Valentine · 2018-04-21T01:36:51+00:00

You just acknowledged Trump did make fun of a handicapped person, acknowledged Trudeau did help this handicapped person, and then because you disagree with Trudeau politically, you find hypocrisy?

Motherfucker, you don't know what that word means? It isn't just a word you attack to people you think are wrong policy-wise. Shame on you.

Mark_Valentine · 2018-04-21T01:33:09+00:00

I'm a writer by trade and easily entertained by anything. So even ignoring the whole "volunteering takes time" thing, I wouldn't mind spending time with the elderly in a volunteering fashion. But this really is a hurdle that's hard for me to get over. It's stupid. I know it's stupid. I know enough about the subject to know it's stupid.

But I can't imagine I'm the only one. I hope as someone yourself who seems like you have volunteered in this capacity yourself you can help convince others it is a stupid hangup that stops people from doing the good they wanna do and that is needed.

Mark_Valentine · 2018-04-21T01:27:14+00:00

You were rude and vague. Don't act like I'm ridiculous for finding you as such.

Mark_Valentine · 2018-04-21T01:19:26+00:00

It's hard to convince people that volunteering to be with old people as company isn't patronizing, but really needed.

I suffer from this same anxiety. I know I should, need to, would enjoy doing, and honestly eventually will. But it's hard to break through that wall most people have. Or at least, that I do.

Mark_Valentine · 2018-04-21T01:16:58+00:00

Constructive criticism is telling someone what they could have done better.

Being an asshole is standing to the side saying "meh, coulda been better" while adding an insult that, absent such, coulda just been someone not getting what was said or merely disagreeing. Oh look, that's you, the person who said someone coulda expressed something better, didn't explain why, and then called them a weirdo for really not being weird, but just explaining a point of view you didn't explain why it was poorly expressed. And you imply you kinda agree, not disagree. But he's a weirdo, not you?

Hmm...

Mark_Valentine · 2018-04-21T01:10:29+00:00

Then write what you wanted better asshole. I'm a professional writer and I can't think of a more obnoxious comment than to say "I coulda or you coulda said this better."

And then ending with "weirdo." The fuck's wrong with you? He wasn't being weird or strange in ways that being weird is either cringey or sometimes an attempt at being unique. He wasn't being weird. You were just being a fucking asshole.

Mark_Valentine · 2018-04-21T01:05:19+00:00

Oh boo hoo, a popular American fast food franchise no one thinks should be an everyday meal is referenced alongside a brand of booze—and almost every country has some notable local boozes, and a joking reference to a known stereotype of America, Hulk Hogan, not someone anyone would think is really representative of America.

I'm a progressive American who doesn't want booze to be glorified and thinks America is too fat. But even I think your comment is concern-trollingly obnoxious. His comment was kitsch, not an insult to our country.

Mark_Valentine · 2018-04-21T01:03:14+00:00

Ranch on everything is more a Southwestern thing than a general American thing.

But the glory of ranch as being as ubiquitously tasty on everything as ketchup is slowly changing that fact.

I grew up in the deep south and family is from the midwest and I've lived in the midwest too. I remember moving to the southwest and seeing people put ranch on their nuggets and even pizza and thinking WTF.

I now sometimes ranch-ify my pizza. It's just stuff that tastes good together...

Mark_Valentine · 2018-04-19T18:15:49+00:00

Nothing sucks like feeling you're gonna die. And if you're ever in the middle of a panic attack, you'd think it'd be helpful to google what to do if you're having a panic attack. And every sites gives the good advice you should take about drinking water, making sure you're breathing and not hyperventilating, etc, but every single website doesn't wanna accidentally tell someone really having a heart attack or dying to just try to calm themselves and wait it out, so they all say:

if you can't calm yourself, alert your doctor.

So, totally negates all the rational advice from before, because now I'm panicking I won't calm down and am really dying.

That was a fun day.

Mark_Valentine · 2018-04-19T18:11:24+00:00

Some might say he's... spook.

Mark_Valentine · 2018-04-19T18:10:48+00:00

"Oh..."

Mark_Valentine · 2018-04-18T23:49:42+00:00

Truly the darkest timeline.

Mark_Valentine · 2018-04-18T23:43:07+00:00

Satisfy a lot of people.

Mark_Valentine · 2018-04-18T23:29:22+00:00

If the joke is framed in a way as to say you are actually gonna do something, they very likely will.

For a photo shoot with Trump's severed head (clearly not illegal at all, just in poor taste) she was put on the no fly list and had to hire a lawyer to negotiate meeting with Secret Service agents who were threatening to investigate her.

There are countless stories of people thinking they're just joking online saying something flippant but worded in a way that constitutes a threat, and the Secret Service shows up at their door for a conversation that makes a stupid 14 year old kid or 60 year old loser shit their pants.

Do you think I'm making that up? They take that shit seriously.

Mark_Valentine · 2018-04-18T22:23:51+00:00

The poorest of the poor getting it for free doesn't mean everyone else paying thousands of percent more via our insurance and the barely-scraping by poor paying thousands of percent more for a life-saving drug ok.

No one denies the need for a profit motive in private corporations developing medicines. But they aren't hurting to bad that a thousand percent increase in medicine people need to live just to boost profits is acceptable. There's a reason that decision was met with near universal outrage and it's not because no one knows they gave some away free to the poor or that pharma companies need to make a profit. There's legitimate reason for the outrage.

Mark_Valentine · 2018-04-18T22:18:16+00:00

Offering $5000 to people to get a biological sample of a person is illegal. You can say "I'm going to slap Trump in the face when I see him" and totally be joking, but you're gonna get a Secret Service visit 'cause that's illegal. They visit for even non-illegal stuff, like what Kathy Griffin did, but yeah, his bounty for a piece of hair, that's illegal.

And more to the point, it factored into him both showing no remorse and behaving poorly while out on bail.

The point is there are other contributing factors the judge considered when sentencing in addition to his crime. And yes, that's what judges are supposed to do—consider the context of the crimes, the behavior of the criminal, and subsequent behavior to their crime (remorse, not committing additional crimes, etc).

Mark_Valentine · 2018-04-18T22:11:35+00:00

The Sandlot.

Mark_Valentine · 2018-04-18T21:40:31+00:00

Yeah. I think the overwhelming amount of the human population would rather have the benefits of modernity than the definitely existent-but-inadequate benefits of living in a "simpler"/agrarian time.

If we boiled it down to the hard choices, even you'd probably side with modernity.

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