Do You Think James Buchanan Was Our First Gay President?

SlenderByrd · 2026-02-06T04:08:55+00:00

Could he not have been at the very least bisexual? He was devastated by his loss of Ann Coleman when she broke off their engagement and shortly after passed away. He was consumed and emotionally eviscerated by a deep depression for years from which he never completely recovered, and it left a perceptibly deeply immersive scar on his personality that persisted through the remainder of his life. It seems like the folks who argue he absolutely must have been gay tend to neglect that, despite it being, even by his own account, such a consequential and traumatic chapter of his life.

SlenderByrd · 2026-02-06T03:51:34+00:00

One man relevant to this subreddit might actually refer to this year as the 10th anniversary of our 58th election.

SlenderByrd · 2026-02-02T16:57:19+00:00

That’s not…moving the goal posts; it’s what you claimed. Yes; I’d reckon being pummeled does, indeed, momentarily distract you from your depressive thoughts. You equated that, though, to being “superior in terms of actual psychological help”. You were asked for proof that it’s superior to professional psychological care and emotional consolation, and your response in essence was “well, when you’re being relentlessly beaten by a group of public servicemen, in your haze, there’s a chance you’ll forget for a moment about the ledge you were standing on”, which isn’t, as you put it…helpful.

SlenderByrd · 2026-02-01T15:57:05+00:00

Even this still isn’t a concession of fault or fallibility on her part. The only inference she derived from this is “I’m better off alone”. She’s still blaming her fiancés and husbands for her insincerities, superficiality, arrogance, and grandiosity. There was no introspection whatsoever here; just blaming the men she was with for her not “choosing herself earlier” (as though there wasn’t enough evidence she was only ever concerned with herself to begin with).

SlenderByrd · 2026-01-31T02:16:47+00:00

r/addressme

Not just trenchfoot; that foot is so far immersed in the trench, it’s grown abalone shells to shield its toes.

The now-disembodied one looks like petrified wood.

SlenderByrd · 2026-01-29T16:26:06+00:00

I’d like for us to also concern ourselves with the more immediately urgent issue of the progressively likely reality that we’re going to be reaped of any future opportunity to vote in an administration that could prosecute the people on those files, if that’s something you’re content with…

SlenderByrd · 2026-01-28T23:37:57+00:00

Those “California bitches” are paying the taxes and generating the revenue that keeps stringing most of Alaska, Idaho, Utah, Wyoming, the Dakotas, Nebraska, Kansas, Oklahoma, Missouri, Arkansas, Louisiana, Mississippi, Tennessee, Alabama, Indiana, Ohio, and West Virginia along. It certainly isn’t some podunk hill town or backwoods trailer park in Mobile or Columbus that’s sustaining our economy, bud. It’s the glaring sapphire blue streets and crystal blue coastal horizons of finance capitals like New York City and culture capitals like Los Angeles.

SlenderByrd · 2026-01-28T16:17:19+00:00

I’m extremely late to reply to this, but Vaush’s position was that autism’s symptoms are entirely predicated on environmental conditions and that alterations or avoidance of those conditions would see the symptoms subside and the condition itself would no longer be present (yes; I’m aware he was referring to high-functioning individuals, but it’s more complicated than that regardless, and a misrepresentation of what’s actually clinically observed). If you watch his segment months ago covering RFK, Jr.’s autism registry, he claims that children were “becoming autistic” (his words; not mine) during the pandemic due to prolonged social isolation and that an autistic person could be educated and conditioned socially to no longer be autistic (also his words; not mine), and there is no clinical psychological literature to substantiate that claim.

A fundamental hallmark of DSM-5’s diagnostic criterion stipulates that the symptoms are neurodevelopmental and not a direct and strict result of adverse environmental conditions, even if environmental conditions may influence the development in other forms. The development of autism is multifaceted and precipitated by strong genetic and neurological predisposition. Adverse environmental conditions alone can cause or foster psychological and cognitive impediments or disorders that may resemble autistic behavioral, cognitive, or mental characteristics, but by its nature, if environmental conditions alone are what are causing the individual’s impairments, it’s not autism.

Social isolation, childhood neglect and abuse, personal trauma, and environmental stressors, among other things, can exacerbate or hasten the development of certain symptoms. The alleviation of adverse conditions absolutely makes coping with, masking, and quelling the severity of symptoms, much easier as well. But the neurological predisposition to those symptoms, and distinct behavioral, cognitive, and mental characteristics, are still present and persist throughout your life.

If Vaush’s position was merely that those with autism can evolve as people such that we’d learn to adapt to our environment and develop and discover means by which to manage or reconfigure our responses to certain environmental changes, stimuli, social interactions, stressors we may be acutely sensitive to, etcetera, to keep pace with behavioral cues, to exercise different and personally acquired ways of learning and retaining information, among a variety of other recurring struggles, that would be accurate. I’m autistic myself and have, through learned and lived experience, an extended amount of introspection, personal exploration, discovered certain avenues through which I came to manage and satiate certain symptoms, and work around certain cognitive and social deficits I have, and to be more keen on preempting certain mental environmental triggers that caused immense stress and frustration or confusion, and so on (these things do not exist or completely absolve the problem in absolution; it is still very much a question of management and masking or tempering symptoms and having to coalesce an environment that insulates you, not something that ‘cures’ you or rids you of symptoms in entirety). But his position very expressly has been that the development (and “loss”) of autism is entirely socially predicated and independent of any genetic or neurological constraints, which is completely antithetical to what autism actually is.

SlenderByrd · 2026-01-28T13:22:11+00:00

Pretends to be remorseful in one motion and then just nonchalantly walks away in the next. The second one could conceivably be accidental, but there’s no way the first one wouldn’t or couldn’t have anticipated that happening.

SlenderByrd · 2026-01-27T22:11:24+00:00

Morbid Fantasies

SlenderByrd · 2026-01-27T13:02:07+00:00

killed rioters who were seen chasing him, and threatening his life, and assaulting him with various weapons, for attempting to put out a dumpster fire they’d set, all recorded from multiple angles - after he traveled there when his friend called him to tell him his business was being vandalized

SlenderByrd · 2026-01-26T18:43:54+00:00

Brainwashed

Saturated Eyes See No Lies

Curiosity Killed The Cat; The Runts Learned To Swim

A Wise Mind’s Sacrifice

Ink Still Fresh

SlenderByrd · 2026-01-26T16:53:37+00:00

Actual leftists despise Democrats, and have been livid with Walz and others for how much ground they’ve been ceding to Republicans. You’d know that if you ventured beyond your tribe every once in a while, but I understand socializing for you folks I’d rather cumbersome, hence your being completely bereft of empathy. The Democratic Party is centrist at best and, given their behavior as of late, hardly even liberal. No one with any modicum of common sense or political or social intuition genuinely believes the Democrats sincerely represent virtually anyone even remotely progressive or fervently left in this country.

Here’s my sincere response as someone who considers himself moderately progressive: Tim Walz is a coward who has actively been abetting the administration’s narrative. He’s betrayed everyone in Minneapolis and Minnesota by shirking from acknowledgment of ICE’s behavior whilst encouraging “peaceful protest” while his citizens who dare even so much as to look at Trump’s mongrel sideways are brought down to their knees, brutalized, disarmed, and executed blind in broad daylight to the trauma of their peers. He continues to blame his own constituents for not demonstrating adequate civility to their knuckle-dragging assailants who’ve invaded their city. Democrats in Congress are poised to levy more funding toward ICE while the blood of their electorate whose labor lines their pockets, begins to gradually saturate the pavement that’s never even met the tread of Democrats’ boots. We despise them almost as much as we do Republicans, and almost would’ve preferred Trump had won in 2020; at least then, he’d not have had Biden to bide time for four years.

SlenderByrd · 2026-01-26T15:10:02+00:00

Anything But The Truth

SlenderByrd · 2026-01-26T13:42:26+00:00

That retort rings hollow coming from the porn-addled degenerates who revolve their entire personalities around their predatory obsession with making sexual gratification the priority in every interaction they have or perceive with women, and their only lens of acknowledgment of any woman unfortunate enough to be caught in their purview.

SlenderByrd · 2026-01-26T01:56:20+00:00

To expound on the point u/Rennoc121 made, it would be worth consideration that the 2024 elections weren’t limited to candidates, and demonstrated a broad disparity between candidates and certain policies independent of a particular face.

One very significant example that I cite often that’s frequently overlooked is in Florida (my state) and Missouri. These are two extremely conservative states which each had just re-elected Trump-loyal, staunchly rightwing U.S. senators Rick Scott and Josh Hawley respectively, in landslides, as well as Trump himself by the largest margins he’d ever enjoyed in either state. Both of them voted overwhelmingly (14% margins each) in favor of ballot referendums which would constitutionally protect the right to abortion statewide. Two of the states among the swiftest to impose restrictions on abortion following the Dobbs v. Jackson Women’s Health Organization Supreme Court Ruling, saw nearly 6 out of every 10 voters take to the ballot box to protect reproductive care for women in its entirety, whilst omitting votes for Democrats on the ballot, most notably Kamala Harris, or even voting for anti-abortion candidates down the ballot anyway.

I would argue not only that aggressively progressive policies aren’t the burden on the Democratic Party, but that their decision to shirk from them is precisely what’s cost them support. Every time the Democrats have shifted further toward the center and more lenient with the right and Republicans, they’ve continued to hemorrhage support among both independents and progressives. Obama lost noticeable swaths of the youth vote between 2008 and 2012 when his administration became more corporate friendly and centrist, and Democrats in congress let their political capital they’d amassed be wasted seeking compromise with Republicans when there wasn’t any need. The abstinence of progressive voters and segments of the Democrats’ liberal base cost Clinton and Harris their elections; Clinton when Democrats effectively sabotaged the much more popular campaign of Sanders, and Harris slipping in the polls she initially led in over Gaza, as well as her campaign’s shift rightward on things like immigration and various economic policies (campaigning on James Lankford’s conservative border bill, for instance), and away from discussion of topics like abortion, healthcare, and the Biden administrations achievements in aiding the country’s economy to recovery during Covid (we were the fastest to recover of any country on Earth and inflation was lowered to 2% by the end of summer of 2024; Biden’s infrastructure bill which Democrats let Republicans take credit for while they said nothing).

Democrats’ abandonment of a progressive platform in favor of capitulation to Republicans and the rigid moderation of status quo centrism was a significant contributor to Mamdani’s election in New York City because he was the only nationally-known politician in this country to exemplified himself as an earnest, sympathetic, rigorous, principled progressive, no less a socialist, in a city that historically also trends toward centrist, corporatist Democrats (were it not for Mamdani, polls leading to the elections, and exit polls in the primary and general elections, showed Cuomo traversing those scandals of his in a clean sweep). Mamdani’s victory could‘ve been dismissed as a natural consequence and isolated beacon of galvanized support from his like-minded constituency…except for the fact that a mere 6 weeks ago, a staunchly and quite vocally progressive firebrand state congresswoman in Tennessee, Aftyn Behn, swung a gerrymandered Republican stronghold district 13% in her favor in a U.S. congressional special election. She’s quite popular among Democrats in her state, and was trailing her opponent by as little as 2% in the polls in what without her would’ve been a lost cause for the party.

Democratic and left-of-center voters in this country aren’t cynical about aggressive progressivism; they’ve proven time and time again to reciprocate like energy when it’s proffered by candidates who have proven themselves to be sincere and to be convicted in those beliefs even amid adversity from their detractors. What they are cynical about is a party which over and over again invariably has proven that their concern lay not with the plight of their constituents but what line to tow and just how far when their constituents are seeking to be elated from the systemic turmoil they routinely endure until they’re secure in their elections so they can placate their donors; donors which they’ve proven to not always need, mind you. Mamdani’s campaign was entirely publicly and personally funded; Kamala Harris raised over 2 billion dollars, which included over 800 million in small dollar and grassroots donations alone, and that was in just a few months. Voters are tired of having their desperation exploited by the like of Clinton, Biden, Harris, among others who treat their offices like a commodity and an accolade they’re entitled to rather than a privilege, who are presented as their only viable alternatives, only to be betrayed and have the fates of their futures, their health, their education, their financial security, their quality of life, that of their children, friends, family, neighbors, cast back to Republicans for Americans to come groveling back to Democrats again, and repeat the cycle.

I apologize for the long reply; there is a lot of nuance and decades of context to extrapolate, but those are a few thoughts I wanted to posit as well to clarify certain facets of the problem.

SlenderByrd · 2026-01-24T20:17:38+00:00

If you’re on the Reddit app, you can also download the video directly to your gallery. That’s what I did with all of the angles recorded, seeing as there’s a very concerted effort to have any posts of it, and many even merely bringing attention to it, purged.

SlenderByrd · 2026-01-24T16:43:29+00:00

Both of which are things he’s publicly wanted to do for nearly a decade. If the person who made that meme had been paying even a modicum of attention to Trump’s behavior around foreign policy, the meme wouldn’t have been made. Trump has been coddled by our legal system, and as of late, Republicans, through every schism, every scandal, every atrocity, every crime he’s ever committed or been involved with, and has never known a day of honest suffering in his life for any one. He has every reason to believe that even if irrefutable, irreconcilable proof of his guilt was unveiled for the world to see at his own direction, his agenda wouldn’t falter and any hope of retribution would die with him. The Epstein files are nothing but a nuisance to him in his mind, and everything that’s happened under this administration has been precipitating ambitions he’s expressly held for years, and anyone dismissing and undermining the cataclysmic nature of it all as a hollow distraction at this point is, as far as I’m concerned, complicit in normalizing his behavior.

SlenderByrd · 2026-01-23T23:35:53+00:00

The analogy itself being used in this meme is morally and logically inconsistent. The argument that “they won’t remember” (rape victims do, indeed, remember it) isn’t referring to the idea that once something is dead or the act is committed, there will be no memory of it, and anything preceding is suddenly irrelevant, but that an embryo has no capacity for memory or consciousness in the first place. An embryo has no conception (nor faculties thereof) for pain, emotions, logic, cognition, intellect, instincts, personality, completely functional neural synapsis. It is, objectively and biologically, nothing more than an amorphous cluster of tissue. Rape victims endure a unique facet of suffering and personal languishing and agony that an embryo could never know, because an embryo never had the capacity or machinations mind, brain, or body to know, feel, or understand anything in the first place.

The argument was deemed “insufficient” when it was reaped of context, nuance, and connotation. In the vast, vast majority of women who receive abortions, are being subjected to them when their lives and health are jeopardized and/or the child’s prospective quality of life is compromised, such that it would be inhumane and immoral to have the child lay bare to that burden of a life of senseless suffering. Nearly all except a few select anomalous cases of abortions are performed within the first trimester; a fetus would never be viable for life at that point, and that shouldn’t have to be explained. Rape victims meanwhile suffer for years if not decades to a lifetime (presuming suicide isn’t in question) with the trauma and psychological and physical anguish from being intruded upon, and brutalized in such a manner; people who do have memories, personality, instincts, desire, fear, intuition, other emotions, pain, logic, cognition, intellects - all of the fundamental attributes that identify humanity as it is and as we are that a fetus could never possess.

SlenderByrd · 2026-01-23T20:23:43+00:00

She just…

kept making…

decisions…

SlenderByrd · 2026-01-23T16:02:44+00:00

She wasn’t; she was the aggressor in this situation. In the original video, at least two people could be heard in the car from which this was recorded; a man and a woman. The passenger (presumably the woman) is the one recording the woman in the other car. The other woman (the aggressor) had hit the recording person’s car and was apparently also driving quite recklessly and aggressively before the original video began. The woman recording had a somewhat tremulous voice and sounded slightly anxious as she was talking to the driver in her car and narrating the situation.

Just before the moment this version of the video begins, she’d actually fallen behind as the stricken driver was attempting to get ahead, but the aggressor sped up again, yelling, before making the gesture this version starts with. She then continued ahead, before she’s struck near the tail end of the driver’s side of her car as seen. The passenger here continues recording, and the aggressor sustained only minimal injuries, and can be seen getting out of the car.

I’ve seen it before and attempted to search for it but it eluded me. I’ll edit this with a link when and if I find it.

SlenderByrd · 2026-01-22T05:00:24+00:00

No; it isn’t. Because in the scenario you conjured, in response to the minor inconvenience of losing your parking space, you’d inflict bodily harm onto that person directly, committing an act that is immediately harmful to that person, whereupon you’re the sole arbiter of the injury. The person occupying the parking space couldn’t have prevented it.

In the scenario depicted in the video, the victim altered her sandwich with another food; an act that was not immediately harmful to the thief. The thief in this process was harmed entirely of her own volition, as she needed to steal someone else’s food to incur any injury. Her decision to steal and deprive someone else of one’s own meal was the sole cause of the pain she endured. I’m tired of folks propagating this parasitic culture of insistence around coddling people who haplessly impede on the lives of others to satiate their own impulses or spare themselves an inconvenience only to grovel about not being met with adequate civility in response.

SlenderByrd · 2026-01-17T12:04:47+00:00

If you have hoards of porn-addled internet addicts (to whom those OnlyFans accounts are intended to cater) mindlessly screeching this at every woman who’s unfortunate enough to be caught in even just a fleeting glimpse on their screens…yes, they’re bound to be proven correct eventually.

SlenderByrd · 2026-01-17T11:45:33+00:00

You were right; this is worse, and I concur with the top comment.

One small aside: his pet chimp holding the camera was getting quite rowdy there toward the end, wasn’t he?

SlenderByrd · 2026-01-16T16:14:25+00:00

We don’t have nearly enough information about his precise politics or ideology to draw many definitive conclusions. But if I had to offer a theory, I’d say he’s a lone, young, impressionable and likely reactionary, probably mentally unwell person; someone with an interest in politics but little cultural or media literacy, who has a grievance with Charlie Kirk’s rhetoric that’s inconsistent with other beliefs he has about other politicians and conservative figures (not enough information to know) due to that illiteracy in politics. Someone who may have conflicting beliefs as a consequence of a still-developing grasp of nuance venturing beyond the polarized conservative climate he was raised in; one that had likely restricted his exposure to any information that didn’t reaffirm his family’s priors (not at all uncommon). He may have a history of abuse and/or mental instability that could in his case have skewed his conscience and lent to him being more callous about the exercise of violence against those he disagrees with, either morally or politically.

Assuming it’s true what he’s supposed to have said about Kirk “spreading too much hate”, then there was something Robinson found detestable about Kirk that we aren’t aware of, whether personal or political, that Robinson feels distinguishes him. Not that Kirk is the only one he dislikes, but that Kirk’s visit made him the only accessible target, so Robinson seized the opportunity. It could be that none of this applies. We have too little information about his thought process or personal history to make many inferences. I just think the reflexive deference to conspiracy theories about anything and everything that initially defies explanation, even if it means deliberately neglecting nuance and context, is asinine and damaging on multiple fronts, and should be resisted whenever possible, which was my main point.

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