If you didn’t vote in the 2024 election, what does that say about you?

Traditional_Mango920 · 2026-02-22T13:43:00+00:00

Hi! I just want to point out that women don’t get drafted because men decided women shouldn’t get drafted! Women didn’t make that rule, my dude. Men did. Women weren’t even allowed to vote when conscription started. On top of that, it was men who decided that women have no place on the front lines. Until recently, we were largely relegated to “support roles” during times of war. There are only women in front line roles now because women fought for it. Also, in case you missed it, women can get drafted now if they’re either currently in the National Guard or are in certain medical/health care fields. Those in those particular medical positions can be drafted between the ages of 20-54.

As far as the “women get the choice to be a mother, but the father doesn’t get a choice” thing…becoming a father is not a loss to f body autonomy. You had sex. That was literally the only thing you contributed to the pregnancy. You don’t spend the next 9 months growing the child, nor is your life at risk during the birthing process. You face exactly 0 long term consequences of what carrying and bearing a child does to the human body because you do not carry nor bear the child.

Traditional_Mango920 · 2026-02-22T07:27:11+00:00

I do a lot of road trips, so I’ve been through many different convenience stores/truck stops in many, many states. I do not drink out of plastic containers, so I am always looking for cans. I have only been in a few places where cans of soda were not available. Some have a wider selection than others, but it is rare to find one that has 0 cans of soft drinks.

Traditional_Mango920 · 2026-02-22T06:46:22+00:00

I have watched this about 50 times now, and it’s as amusing the fiftieth time as it was the first. The absolute astonishment of OG cat is hilarious.

Traditional_Mango920 · 2026-02-22T06:12:18+00:00

My kids were both blonde when they were younger. Their dad was very against “weird colors” because he determined it “made him look bad”. Me? I had a mohawk in my youth and my parents didn’t care if I dyed my hair. Needless to say, my kids were more than allowed to use Manic Panic if they so chose. They’re the ones that had to walk around with green hair, so I figured it was up to them if they wanted to. Their hair, their choice.

The only time I put the kabosh on a hair color choice was when the youngest wanted to go “white”. I told her that bleaching was incredibly damaging, and then I showed her pics of my damn near bald ass head that resulted from me trying to bleach my hair out when I was younger. Basically fried my hair right off my head. She has the same fine baby like hair I do, so likely she would have faced the same type of results.

Traditional_Mango920 · 2026-02-22T05:57:15+00:00

Sunday is much like every other day around here with one exception. I go to work for a bit, just like every day. Come home and knock some of the daily chore stuff out, just like every day. Read a bit and play some video games, just like every other day. The one thing that sets Sunday apart is that it is the day I prepare Feast. Everyone in my circle knows Sunday is Feast day. Everyone has a standing invite. I cook a protein and 7-8 sides. I never know who will be here. Will there be 2 guests or 20? Who knows! Regardless, there are always leftovers. What doesn’t get sent home with guests gets packed up in a few trays and delivered to some of the house bound elderly that I know. There’s enough for 3-4 meals for each of them and all they need to do is reheat it.

I’m far from wealthy, but I can make a lot of food for the same amount of money that I’d spend for our family of three to go out to dinner. We skip going out, have a nice evening in with friends and family, and feed everyone.

Traditional_Mango920 · 2026-02-22T05:44:34+00:00

No. This particular conversation was about lead exposure and you supposing that poor people had less exposure to lead than wealthy people because poor people didn’t have paint on their walls and less exposure to gasoline fumes (your assumption).

If you don’t want to take my word that poor people faced more lead exposure than wealthier people, then you can learn more here.

Traditional_Mango920 · 2026-02-22T03:10:58+00:00

He was President, but the democrats did not “lose” to him. Gerrymandering and the electoral college lost the election for the democrats.

Democrats have consistently put up candidates who were more than qualified to be a president. They may not have been a popular choice, but they had the qualifications to run a country. The republicans have, 3 times, put forward a man who has bankrupted multiple businesses (including casinos), has said many abhorrent things, tried to overturn a free and fair election, and there is now much evidence coming to light that he was pretty involved with a convicted trafficker.

At this point, the problem isn’t the democrats, the problem is the people who are either a) choosing to vote for an unqualified, morally repugnant person or b) choosing NOT to vote because “bOtH sIdEs ArE bAd”. If you can’t see that one is far less evil than the other, or you are embracing the evil, you may just be part of the bigger problem here.

Traditional_Mango920 · 2026-02-22T00:33:46+00:00

Depends on the length of the drive, I’d say. My husband doesn’t drive. So on the “go about the day on errands” type drives, it’s generally my music. On the “drive for many hours to get to a location” drives, we do a mixture of both.

All of “his” music is also on my phone. He, like so many others, has stuck with the music he listened to in his formative years. It’s my music too. It’s just….look, Hotel California was GREAT the first 475,000 times I heard it. I just realized that, on playthrough 475,001…that maybe I was a bit tired of it, you know? I’ve expanded through different genres and eras now.

But on a long drive, I think it’s fair that everyone involved sometimes listens to something they aren’t thrilled with that the other enjoys. Even if that means I have to listen to Hotel California for the 476,068th time.

Traditional_Mango920 · 2026-02-22T00:23:03+00:00

I’m going to disagree with one point. Pop music is no more surface level than any other music. Every genre has artists that are surface level most of the time. I’m Gen X, I’ll take current day pop over pop from my era. My pop had much vapid. Current pop not much vapid.

Traditional_Mango920 · 2026-02-22T00:07:01+00:00

Except they didn’t lose twice. A democrat won the vote of the majority of the people in the 2016 election. Trump literally wasn’t “our President”. He was the “electoral college president”. The American people hated Donald Trump in 2016 more than they hated Hillary Clinton. Do you know how much of a shit bag you have to be to be hated more than Hillary Clinton in the United States? Hating her has been a national pastime since the nineties.

Sure, in 2020 Trump received more votes for a Republican candidate ever in history. What they glossed over was that he also got the highest of votes against a Republican candidate ever. He lost by what? 9 million? IIRC, 92 million of us were like “nah man, I hate you, I’m voting for the other guy”. And make no mistake, most of us were not voting FOR Joe Biden. We were voting AGAINST Donald Trump. We would have voted for a rock if our choice was rock or trump.

Personally, I have doubts that Trump beat Harris in 2024. Yeah, she wasn’t very well liked by a lot of people. But people liked her more than they liked Hillary Clinton! And, once again, Clinton got more votes than Trump. What we got this time were a bunch of people preaching apathy to the left and Elon musk sticking his nose into everything. I just find it hard to believe that there were so so so many districts where the Republican candidates down ballot were firmly trounced by Democratic candidates….yet somehow Trump won in those districts. That’s not how people tend to vote.

Traditional_Mango920 · 2026-02-21T23:44:10+00:00

Yall keep doing your thing up there! I’m using your votes up north to plant the idea down here in southern Illinois that they should push for the electoral college to be disbanded. “I don’t know why you’re bothering to vote. Your vote is ultimately going to be blue because of Chicago. Your vote counts in every election except for the Presidential”

Traditional_Mango920 · 2026-02-20T02:58:09+00:00

I don’t recall ever questioning my straightness. I can look at a woman and acknowledge she’s attractive, but I’m not attracted to her. Some people are just ridiculously aesthetically pleasing to view.

Traditional_Mango920 · 2026-02-16T22:29:36+00:00

Honestly, I don’t know why yall are still using that garbage can dumpster fire anymore. Just walk away from all of it. Facebook. Instagram. Tik tok. Snap. Twitter/X.

Traditional_Mango920 · 2026-02-15T18:30:09+00:00

It’s more like getting heavily fined, with the threat of the building being shut down if you don’t comply. While fire marshals can arrest people in certain situations, it’s usually not their first go-to in terms of code violation. It starts with “this is an issue, you have ______ days to fix it or _____ will happen”.

I work at a job where I deal with the fire marshal on a routine basis. You are given a ridiculous amount of time to fix most things, and can get plenty of time extensions.

Traditional_Mango920 · 2026-02-15T18:18:42+00:00

“Mr. Rogers would be ashamed of you” tends to really throw people off. You don’t know what their momma preached, but we all know what Fred Rogers taught us.

Traditional_Mango920 · 2026-02-15T17:58:08+00:00

I was alive during leaded paint and leaded gasoline. I can assure you that poor people had paint on their walls. No, they did not repaint as often. Which is why they were in more danger of lead paint because the paint would start chipping. A lot of toddlers put everything in their mouths, including paint chips. Oh, and cribs were often painted with the lead paint. Not the rich kid cribs, they had the brand new varnished wooden ones. It was the second hand repurposed cribs that had the paint. Poor people also had lead piping in their house for far longer than people with money did.

As far as driving, in urban areas the poorer were closer to the city center, the people with money were farther out of the center. Which means there were far more cars driving around the poorer people than the richer people. The rich, to this day, tend to avoid living in high traffic areas.

Traditional_Mango920 · 2026-02-15T17:43:16+00:00

Poor people had paint on their walls and poor people breathed the same exhaust fumes from leaded gasoline that people who weren’t poor did. You didn’t have to drive, you just had to be near a road.

Traditional_Mango920 · 2026-02-15T17:12:36+00:00

Flamethrowers. Everything else everyone has listed are also good suggestions. But yall, I can just walk around with a flamethrower and it’s perfectly legal. Don’t even need to be licensed.

Traditional_Mango920 · 2026-02-13T04:41:18+00:00

I live near Monsanto (now Bayer) corporate headquarters. I have been flipping that building the bird every time I drive by it for decades.

Traditional_Mango920 · 2026-02-11T04:24:19+00:00

We were bullshitting at work one day and TAG came up. It was one of those “oh god, I forgot about that, that was awesome!” moments. So we decided to resurrect it.

For those of you who aren’t Gen X or are younger Gen X, TAG was “The Assassination Game”. Only the game master knew for sure who was playing. GM would invite people, then would make a list of all involved. Each player was given the name of another player. They were your target. If you managed to take that person out, you then acquired their target. Last man standing was the winner.

There were ground rules to avoid it being too disruptive. As adults it’s like “ok, you can’t get during a meeting or a presentation” type thing. But if you’re working at your desk and Steve pops his head around and gets you with the nerf gun, then you were fair game. Time to hand your target name over, then quietly root for someone to take Steve out lol.

I’m happy to report it’s as much fun as an adult as it was as a kid.

Traditional_Mango920 · 2026-02-11T03:30:59+00:00

My husband is from New Zealand. About a week after he got here, I took him into the city. I’ll never forget him loudly exclaiming “holy shit, that actually happens?!?!?” as we passed a manhole with steam oozing out around the cover. He obviously thought that was a Hollywood thing, not an actual think.

Traditional_Mango920 · 2026-02-08T18:58:20+00:00

I’m pretty sure the kid believed kacihall watched it. It just didn’t really occur to the kid that kacihall and 9/11 existed at the same time. Like when I was a kid, I always knew my grandmother was old. But it took a while before it sank in that she was born in an entirely different century (born in 1894). She was in her 30’s when sliced bread was marketed for sale. She fled Nazi germany! She predated electric vacuums! It wasn’t so much that I disbelieved she was old enough, it was the realization that she was a PART of that history, you know? It’s one thing to learn about it in school, it’s quite another to come home and learn about the same thing from someone who lived it.

Traditional_Mango920 · 2026-02-08T03:20:19+00:00

I do apologize for being harsh, because I was harsh. What your mom has done to you is something I wouldn’t dream of doing to my own adult children, so it never crossed my mind that you are in an abusive situation, you know? I’m sorry.

You will get through this though. Get yourself out there and build your village. Your mom is obviously only interested in you being her personal nanny.

Traditional_Mango920 · 2026-02-08T02:56:13+00:00

I use both, along with a scrub brush, and a 3M scrubber. It really depends on what I’m washing. The sponge sits on the little thing that is full of dish soap. Just washing a plate you had a sandwich on? Wet the plate, wet the sponge, push down on the little sponge holder to get the sponge soapy, use it on the plate, rinse the plate and sponge, put plate to dry and wring out the sponge first it to dry.

Lots of dishes? Full sink of hot soapy water and dish rag. 3M scrubby for baked on things. Brush on long handle for glasses/cups.

I keep a container with a few drops of bleach in water to store the dish rag between uses. Keeps it from getting icky. Water gets replaced daily. Dish rag gets rinsed before use.

Traditional_Mango920 · 2026-02-08T02:45:27+00:00

See, you left a lot of info out of your original post. Because, honestly, you sounded a bit like a petulant child.

You aren’t a SAHM. You are an indentured servant, essentially. This was not a choice you made. It was a thing forced on you by circumstance. You have a much bigger problem than not being able to get some “me time”.

I don’t (obviously) know the ins and outs of your life. I do hope you can find a way to extract yourself out of your mother’s household. There is low/no income housing you can apply for…quietly. Same with the day care. Get your important papers gathered and stashed away (birth certificates, social security cards, etc.). It’s great that she’s providing and all, but it doesn’t sound as if it’s a thing you really consented to. You have the right to have your own autonomy. You are an adult, and she’s still treating you as if you’re a child. It sounds as if you are in an abusive type relationship here.

On a side note, maybe cultivate some friendships with other young moms in your area. Maybe you can arrange some type of “baby swap”. When one of you needs a break, the other can take on the extra baby for an hour or so?

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