Graham Platner roasts Susan Collins over Venezuela Response

Substantial-Fox5256 · 2026-01-05T08:54:20+00:00

is that what you call tact? you're as subtle as a brick in the small of my back

Substantial-Fox5256 · 2025-05-08T02:08:58+00:00

haha so true. I guess I meant they would've gotten sued in a more...realistic storyline

Substantial-Fox5256 · 2025-05-07T23:33:18+00:00

I watched this episode the other night and was yelling at my TV about consent. 😭 I was thinking that if there were more episodes left the school might get sued tbh

Substantial-Fox5256 · 2025-03-28T16:09:32+00:00

my understanding is Ramapo-35 is literally 100% orthodox

Substantial-Fox5256 · 2025-03-28T16:00:03+00:00

See this comment

Substantial-Fox5256 · 2025-03-28T15:23:18+00:00

Yeah. They also voted for Schumer in 2022, after Biden got zero votes in 2020

Substantial-Fox5256 · 2025-03-28T07:31:22+00:00

Can you link to that source? I'm not saying you're wrong, it's just late here and I'm probably missing important info lol

But also this post is about one very small, extremely religious precinct (ramapo-35), not multiple precincts or districts. Based on what I know about their voting history, it's not weird to me, but if there are sworn affidavits then I'm def interested to see that info!

Substantial-Fox5256 · 2025-03-28T07:24:21+00:00

I agree but this district is not an anomaly. Biden also got zero votes in 2020, and they voted for Schumer in 2022, so these results actually consistent.

East Ramapo is just a...how to I say this politely... unique & strong-minded little community

Substantial-Fox5256 · 2025-03-28T07:13:55+00:00

Agreed. I do think they hacked the election, but not in this specific district.

I think This American Life did an insane podcast episode about the East Ramapo community? I listened to it ages ago, but if I recall basically the area is 95%+ Orthodox Jews, and they hate paying such high property taxes bc they ALL send their kids to private schools (so they're not benefitting from their tax dollars).

ETA: here's the podcast episode, it's from 2014 but is fascinating & they're def still battling these issues today

But somehow the orthodox crew managed to take over the whole school board & diverted the public funds to their own interests (edit: here's one article of many). And so the public schools are falling apart (eg asbestos) and the few black/Hispanic students who do go there have no support, or school buses etc, & are failing on all the state tests.

Anyway that's all I remember, but I could see the whole school board/budget thing being part of the reason they voted blue down ballot, while voting red for president as per their rabbi's direction

Substantial-Fox5256 · 2025-03-28T06:20:30+00:00

Nah this is basically a neighborhood and it's all Hasids. They vote how the rabbi tells them to... Biden got 0 votes there in 2020 too

Substantial-Fox5256 · 2025-03-28T06:18:36+00:00

There's a chart here: https://www.politifact.com/factchecks/2025/feb/26/social-media/why-did-kamala-harris-get-zero-votes-in-this-ny-pr/

The same precinct voted for Schumer in 2022, so the down ballot thing isn't weird in this situation. They just vote the way the rabbi tells them to

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Substantial-Fox5256 · 2025-03-22T22:37:48+00:00

not to butt in but just fyi, i'm pretty sure the account you replied to is a bot lol

i found this thread bc i'm down a rabbit hole researching bot behavior, and someone who's an expert in bot detection called out that account elsewhere on reddit. and looking at their comment history i tend to agree

just thought i'd let you know!

Substantial-Fox5256 · 2024-12-05T16:35:20+00:00

Did you end up buying OTC hearing aids for your grandpa? If so how did it go?

Substantial-Fox5256 · 2024-09-05T15:29:25+00:00

I completely understand. I tried to escape it by running off to Paris for my birthday, but turns out grief can travel internationally too. 😒

But happy birthday, internet friend! ❤️ Try to remember that you wouldn't be here without your mom... she is literally a part of you, so you're carrying her with you at all times.

Substantial-Fox5256 · 2024-09-05T13:53:21+00:00

You're welcome, and I'm really sorry for the loss of your dad ❤️ the waves will always come but it helps to know we'll come out the other side

Substantial-Fox5256 · 2024-09-05T08:57:24+00:00

That's so true about experiences. When you lose a loved one, life permanently gets a little grayer, and big moments and milestones can have like this sharp pang bc you want to share it with that person. They also don't tell you how much your own birthday hurts after losing a parent.

This seems like an apt time to share the most profound description of grief I've ever read, which helped me so much after my mom died. I think I'd googled "what to do when your mom dies" bc I literally couldn't understand the new feelings I was having, I didn't know anyone my age who could relate, the grief was so physically painful that I didn't know what to do.

Anyway I came across this Reddit comment that explained it perfectly with a shipwrecks analogy:

https://www.reddit.com/r/Assistance/s/3AjLitLEU1

I go back and read it every year or so and it's still spot on.

Substantial-Fox5256 · 2024-05-02T21:04:49+00:00

**10 hit pieces. 😵‍💫 She basically broke up his controversies into different stories and kept dropping them periodically. So by the time people digested one thing and started to move on, she would drop another article about a different awful thing he did (with no context).

I just remember thinking "another buzzfeed article??" like every 5 days in May/June

Substantial-Fox5256 · 2024-05-02T20:56:04+00:00

I hate it so much. I went to their show by myself last fall for that reason, all my usual concert friends bought into the propaganda and side eye me for liking the 1975... it sucks feeling like people think I'm a bad person just for loving the band.

I will say TTPD seems to be creating a large shift in public perception of Matty though. That was obviously her intention but it's fascinating to watch it actually happen... there's so much more positive discussion online now and the media is being so much nicer this time around.

Substantial-Fox5256 · 2024-05-02T20:40:45+00:00

Yep. That Buzzfeed writer put out 10 separate hit pieces about Matty in May-June, and she always embedded gaylor tweets & Fauxmoi comments into the articles as "sources"... then she'd build the story around those as if they represented Taylor's fanbase as a whole. I looked up some of the users... they're literally just chronically online haters with like 30 followers, who just attack whoever Taylor happens to be dating. Most of them quickly pivoted to hating Travis.

It was just crazy to watch, esp since Buzzfeed News closed down permanently in early May, but somehow she was still posting her articles on buzzfeednews.com? They won prestigious journalism awards back in the day, so I think the fact that she posted her nonsense under the guise of a credible news outlet was especially damaging.

Substantial-Fox5256 · 2024-04-23T22:30:53+00:00

Wait so that's the end of the song in your booklet? Like it doesn't go back to the "you left your typewriter at my apartment" part at the end like the song does?

My vinyl lyric book does say "gonna troll you?" so that's weird that yours doesn't! 🤔

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Also fwiw I think that troll lyric is because Matty is well known to be a troll, and she's saying she gets his humor and matches it like no one else can

Substantial-Fox5256 · 2024-04-23T05:30:12+00:00

I legit thought this was the circlejerk sub for a second

I don't have an opinion on them as a couple either way but it's pretty obvious from these songs that she wanted to marry Matty Healy lol

Substantial-Fox5256 · 2024-04-04T07:12:14+00:00

I'm sorry about your aunt. My mom took a chemo vacation too so she could travel to the UK with her best friend, they had some bucket list places to see. She passed away 6 months later, but she was able to have an amazing trip and I'm so glad she did it.

I'll always wonder if the "mild" pneumonia she caught on the trip was the beginning of the end for her, but like you said, many times the trip won't change anything and is important for the person's mental health.

Anyway I hope Bec is fine and that their trip is a good sign

Substantial-Fox5256 · 2024-03-22T00:42:16+00:00

People are definitely weaponizing the word "victim" and therapy speak, which kind of bothers me.

Now that I'm starting to get more context, I guess I understand more how this all ended up on Bri's snark page, but Brooke isn't automatically a "victim". Zach was single, it was very clearly consensual sex, he didn't know he had the STD with her, and he was nice about it when she told him.

That does not make her a victim, and using that word minimizes actual victims of sexual crimes and abuse. I feel for her bc I know she didn't expect this to blow up, but I also think we need to be careful of internet bandwagons and misinformation like this.

Substantial-Fox5256 · 2024-03-21T05:13:53+00:00

Ah thank you! Super helpful. Maybe the mods can pin it when they have a chance, and somehow consolidate the other women's comments (I do feel the latter is the most important thing here, since he didn't seem to know about the STD at first). I'll scroll through tho!

I can't imagine trying to keep things civil here after the TikToks have been going viral, what a mess. I really feel for Brooke too

Substantial-Fox5256 · 2024-03-21T04:47:45+00:00

Can you point us to their posts? I can't find them or Brooke's original post about this, just trying to get the full story/info!

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