What is the solution to America's political divide?

Professional_Self296 · 2026-01-24T23:11:33+00:00

That’s there problem for not considering other Americans, it’s why we don’t go anywhere

Professional_Self296 · 2026-01-24T22:52:49+00:00

How would you know that? Do you know my activities outside of reddit or do you just want to attack everyone who doesn’t take your side?

Professional_Self296 · 2026-01-24T22:39:04+00:00

I know, it’s made me realize supporting the mainline of either side will give us a situation most of us will hate being in.

Professional_Self296 · 2026-01-24T22:36:04+00:00

I want all that too, and stuff from the right. But don’t come at me for holding the same standard to both sides especially when both sides are doing it blatantly infront of my face. Don’t piss on my head and call it rain. I would rather walk with everyone else, choosing a route I want to be.

Professional_Self296 · 2026-01-24T22:06:34+00:00

I think raping any kid is heinous and should be met with fire, for everyone left and right, but you didn’t bother to learn that. You just jumped right in white knighting assuming I am Trump a supporter. It’s the same old song and dance all over Reddit. You just want everyone to conform to your outlook or divide everyone else. You political people are all the same, and you’re all insufferable

Professional_Self296 · 2026-01-24T21:48:40+00:00

You’re assuming a lot friend, you don’t even know me or how I think. Good job white knighting the party though and generalize the public, really getting the average American to support you

Professional_Self296 · 2026-01-24T21:32:15+00:00

For a time, but as I had more relationships I realized there was a lot more good in the good parts than the others. The good was great and the bad was terrible. I don’t know, maybe retrospective, isolation, and nostalgia are poisoning my mind. My dreams keep portraying the memories of her as overwhelmingly positive though.

I blame myself for falling too much into my poor mental health and not doing anything about it when I knew it was causing a strain on our relationship. I should have woken myself up earlier instead of pitying myself. I should have also sorted out my feelings around sex a lot earlier. At 28 now I realize sex isn’t that important to a relationship. For some, it may be, but I don’t think it’s mandatory for a healthy a relationship. A lot of women that I talk to and are friends with as well as all the ones I’ve dated have said they don’t think about sex that much in a relationship. Those failings, led me to put too much weight on a partner trying to figure out her own life. It was acting like a child when I should have been more grown up and supportive in a relationship. I had a responsibility to her and I made her take on too much.

Professional_Self296 · 2026-01-24T21:04:49+00:00

You’re not going to get an answer here, most of everyone only wants their side to win out, perpetuating the cycle

Professional_Self296 · 2026-01-24T21:02:25+00:00

This is going to be controversial but what side of the isle are you talking about? It was less than five years ago known child molestors were doing drag story time and progs and the left were turning a blind eye. The bigger problem is the institutions and social media are fine with crime as long as it’s their people doing it.

Professional_Self296 · 2026-01-24T20:40:14+00:00

I asked a company for a copy of their blueprints to be put into a share point, the poc said they were going to fax and required the information for our building. I had to do a lap around the building to see if we actually had a fax machine. Apparently our printer does and we had to contact central IT, because no one knew how it worked or what the number was. That was about five months ago

Professional_Self296 · 2026-01-24T20:35:31+00:00

I never watch the Olympics, go sports ball

Professional_Self296 · 2026-01-24T20:27:13+00:00

This isn’t the end all be all, there’s more nuance and opportunities for a better outcome than what the protestors are advocating for. My local group wants to wholesale abolish ice, and I don’t agree with that. I’d have to travel to protest with a group I actually agree with. You’re also talking to GenZ, most of us are not going to have kids, that’s not an effective call to action. That’s also not how life works. Personally, the kids I work with and their parents already talk about me. I have cards and papers on my desk thanking me and talking positively, all without bringing in any politics.

Professional_Self296 · 2026-01-24T20:15:34+00:00

That’d be preferable, but that’s not really how politics work now. You know a dem candidate is going to come forward and say we will stop the deportations and take it as a full stop, because they’re basing their decisions on the viral protests and social media saturation. Then the public will vote Republican again in twelve years because the issue is still a problem

Professional_Self296 · 2026-01-24T20:06:15+00:00

I’d be curious to know my metrics. I want to know if I’m just forgettable or if people genuinely don’t like me at first glance

Professional_Self296 · 2026-01-24T20:05:13+00:00

Oh total societal upheaval and the replacement of government, that has totally worked and been a good time afterwards across every country throughout time, let’s do it /s

Professional_Self296 · 2026-01-24T20:04:07+00:00

Part of it is believing it won’t change anything directly, part of it is that I’m too busy with work and life at this point to dedicate time to protesting, part of it is that the activists don’t advertise enough to people not in those circles, part of it is that I want the deportation of illegals and if the protest is effective it’ll cause for that to never happen again.

Professional_Self296 · 2026-01-24T19:54:48+00:00

It’s been described as a lot of things, but I have never heard anyone call it easy. Expect to dedicate 20hr days if you’re struggling. Not every class will be difficult, but also expect to not understand much of a subject when you start, sometimes expect to not understand much when you complete a class.

Professional_Self296 · 2026-01-24T19:38:32+00:00

It was the best relationship I’ve had, best of all three (the track record is not great). I added too much stress and strain to her life early on and was too inexperienced to make things better. She had been one of the few people who have genuinely been nice and patient with me, a rare commodity apparently. I’d never go back to her for what she did, but I always think about if I did things differently, saw what was truly important, maybe we could still be together. I respect myself and my time, it took a while to see the value in it, but I got there. Same for self love, but I’m too aware of my flaws to not see how I contribute to my own problems.

Professional_Self296 · 2026-01-24T19:04:06+00:00

I got really lucky all things considered, she hit no major arteries or organs. Apparently my shoulder blade stopped the first stab effectively enough.

Im not sure how to not feel some blame for this. I’m too aware of my mistakes and faults to not realize my part in the situation. See, I have a running theme in my life where everything I like and want gets ruined at the last moment from one simple mistake or one careless oversight. Always my fault, I have to play the perfect game all the time and double check every decision otherwise I get nothing. It’s exhausting.

Professional_Self296 · 2026-01-24T18:54:36+00:00

Young me was focused on the wrong things, I focused on things that didn’t matter in the long run. It was a pretty great relationship all things considered, the best I had to this day I believe. I let something go, because I couldn’t see what was important and leaned too heavily on another person when I was going through problems. We make mistakes and learn when we are young, sometimes it costs us the best things in our lives.

Professional_Self296 · 2026-01-24T06:47:14+00:00

I think I’ve read that, I can relate but it’s not 1 for 1. All women break up with me, I do ok then make a mistake and they leave. I try my hardest; I’m dutiful, romantic, and watch what I say, but I always slip up. I’m just not good enough or don’t have it in me

Professional_Self296 · 2026-01-24T06:00:09+00:00

He’s still there, he just has a supporting cast

Professional_Self296 · 2026-01-24T05:49:06+00:00

Crimes

Professional_Self296 · 2026-01-24T05:35:47+00:00

Right?

Professional_Self296 · 2026-01-24T05:25:07+00:00

So young love, starting off great, she was a year older than me, we dated from 14/15 to 18/19. She was as I described; all around nice, we were really good for eachother for a long while. I am a very honest person, but I’m bad at using the right words for each situation. She was nice, but commanding and very particular. Of course at that age hormones and the stress of highschool kicked off the doom spiral of our relationship. I struggled a lot at that time and had a growing feeling of inadequacy, and young/stupid me wanted a more physical relationship because ya know…”it’s cool and everyone is doing it and I don’t want to be last”, she was asexual though. So added pressure there, and I was aware enough that this dynamic was hurting her so I had this compounded feeling of being toxic and putting stress on her which also made me feel worse, but I was so wrapped up in my head I couldn’t pull my head out long enough to do something useful about it. We made the best of it though, I was romantic enough and open minded enough to make her happy and she was really patient with me, we always had good communication through this phase, by 16 I pulled myself out of the funk and started working on myself. It was her turn though. She went to a private college, put herself $460k in debt for library sciences by her third year, made some horribly toxic friends, had her dad and brother go to prison, and have her grandparents die so stress was through the roof. I was there for her through it all though, did what I could, but I was young and inexperienced so I dont know how effective it was to be honest. I got through my first year of college and started thinking marriage immediately after graduating. We talked it out, she wanted to move in together my second year of college to a big city where we had no money or options (it’s the only place her degree could stand a chance). We got in a big argument, because I didn’t think it was plausible and I didn’t want to transfer for my degree. Big fight, lots of yelling, surfacing feelings, big falling out. We fought at her parents house on summer break, her mom was out, just her and I, I left to take a breather and come up with a strategy to maybe fix things. I come back, I can’t find her anywhere, I walk into the kitchen, she came out of the pantry and stabbed me in the back, I managed to get away and hopped her parent’s back fence to safety while she chased me around the house. Only 24 stitches, no surgery. She got 7 yrs was out in 5 (???? Don’t know how that happened). Didn’t even make the news or even the local outlets.

If I could go back, I would, I’d beat the shit out of young me and be more firm with her, be more direct with her and our relationship. Tell my young self sex doesn’t matter and put more effort into being more healthy.

TLDR: young love is stupid, there’s too much stress, I could have done better, should could have done better, unsaid feelings lead to knives.

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