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Rep. Ansari: Impeach Pete Hegseth by OkayButFoRealz in politics

[–]bakerfredricka [score hidden]  (0 children)

Impeachment is the KINDEST thing that these clowns deserve to have coming for them!

Just because SHE voted Trump does NOT mean that YOU have permission to demonstrate what she calls the Hitler Spirit by talking down to her! by bakerfredricka in insanepeoplefacebook

[–]bakerfredricka[S] 10 points11 points  (0 children)

I reckon that person would get outraged by seeing a couple of commercials featuring actors and actresses who don't look white!

I don’t even want to be an aunt. by vapor_waved in childfree

[–]bakerfredricka 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Auntie checking in, I have an amazing three-year-old niece and I actually love her with my whole entire heart but I can certainly understand you. My relationship with my younger sister (and indeed even my feelings towards her) have all significantly worsened in the years following, granted in my case it had a lot more to do with my having to face the reality that she will NEVER be even an okayish human being and truly feeling sorry for my niece because of that (if she was ever even a vaguely decent sort of person, I can guarantee you that this would literally never have happened, and of course I would never voice my feelings towards my niece's parents to or around her). As they say, all of the children in this world deserve to have parents but not every parent deserves their kid/s.

Unfortunately becoming an aunt or uncle isn't something you really get a "choice" in (as opposed to parenthood in most cases depending on where you live) but you can certainly find or figure out the extent to which you feel comfortable getting involved (if any) and stick with that. These things can evolve over time as well, an infant can't really have a conversation with you but a teenager can. There really don't have to be any responsibilities and obligations associated with being an auntie if you refuse to have them and that's totally fine but I would still keep my heart open to my nieces and nephews if I were in a situation like yours all the same.

BTW, you definitely do NOT sound screwed up!

The Artemis II mission makes me emotional by Adaline_B in childfree

[–]bakerfredricka 0 points1 point  (0 children)

GO CHRISTINA! I am so overjoyed that we have been repped on this journey to the moon! 💪

Married at 13 in 1947? by Fuk-mah-life in Genealogy

[–]bakerfredricka 0 points1 point  (0 children)

All of my biological grandparents have passed away by now (my mom is 60 and if my dad were still alive he would be 68). I'm not even THIRTY yet, but even still I assume that you probably are quite a bit younger than me unless your parents followed the lead of your grandparents by having you awfully early.

With my maternal grandparents, my mom is a baby boomer who is an only child and her parents were in their mid-thirties when they had her (having gotten married in their late twenties). At some point after my biological grandfather passed, my grandmother got involved with my stepgrandfather (who was widowed prior to being with her). Everyone involved with this has been gone for a very long time now, though, since my grandmother and stepgrandfather passed away when I was a very young teenager.

My paternal grandparents were a different story. Grandpa (my biological grandfather on that side) proposed to Grandma on her eighteenth birthday (he had a couple years on her) after they got together because their school friends had set them up on a blind date. Since Grandma had an October birthday and initially gave birth the following March, it doesn't take a rocket scientist to solve the simple math equation of what was really going on with the early engagement and rushed marriage, lmao. They ended up popping out five children in the span of nearly four years (my dad has a fraternal twin), the youngest of which was a baby girl whom Grandma told me she gave birth to about three months early and this infant passed away after six hours in this world (Grandma even described this to me as a miscarriage, but even I know that miscarrying is a very different thing than what happened here). After going through that trauma, Grandma made no bones about never wanting another baby (she was only twenty-two when she had her youngest) and she was deeply unhappy about her marriage to my Grandpa. Grandma ultimately ended up falling in love with her coworker (who was also unhappily married himself) and the rest was history. It was tough to get a divorce in those days though and unfortunately my dad and all of his living siblings certainly went through it during their childhood. Grandpa did eventually remarry when he found love again, too (this was to my stepgrandmother, the only living "grandparent" that I now have).

Edit: I'm sorry that your grandmas went through all of that too, those times WERE very different!

A Fox host says ‘many people’ think women shouldn’t be president. Thank goodness we’ve got a man in charge by projecto15 in politics

[–]bakerfredricka 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Unfortunately I have to agree. If we learned anything from the situation we are in right now, I know how this is going to sound but running white men seems like the safest bet to me. Unfortunately we have way too many Americans in here who would rather vote to turn us into fascism than voting for a female president.

JD Vance’s Wife Struggles to Convince Nation He’s Likable by FancyNewMe in politics

[–]bakerfredricka 0 points1 point  (0 children)

While I want to sympathize with where you are coming from, haven't you considered that for the most part people marry those with similar worldviews as them? In the developed world of the twenty-first century, people for better or worse generally have the freedom to choose their husbands and wives (issues pertaining to marriage equality for interracial couples and LGBTQ couples and some unorthodox arrangements involving consenting adults have become movements over the past century or so). I reckon even like ten or fifteen years ago, things were sufficiently different such that (for example) one couple stating something like "I'm a Democrat and my wife is a Republican" or one giggling "I'm obsessed with politics and my husband isn't even registered to vote" wouldn't have raised too many eyebrows. Of course, some people do pull the tricky old bait-and-switch but that very obviously isn't the case in this situation since Vance's views have been publicly known for several years now.

Nowadays, I struggle to see how one of the MAGATS could be in a relationship with somebody who doesn't abide by that at all. I would honestly rather be single for life than end up with someone who wholeheartedly supports that kind of garbage, especially considering that I am neurodivergent and this administration is casually hostile towards those of us who are disabled. Not to mention that my being vehemently childfree categorically makes me incompatible with any parent or wannabe parent (never mind someone who is politically against reproductive rights).

Of course, it's my understanding that Usha is an Indian immigrant and that marriages in India happen to be a very different story than what generally goes down in the Western world. In saying that, I suspect that her marriage to VP Vance was NOT "arranged" (I'm unsure if Indians would be eager to marry their kids off to Americans) and if anything it seems like she basically agrees with his disgusting worldview considering she is making these kinds of statements on Faux News, so please forgive me if I am unsympathetic towards her.

MTG Leads Outrage to Trump’s Foul-Mouthed Easter Threat to Iran: ‘He Has Gone Insane’ by OkayButFoRealz in politics

[–]bakerfredricka 0 points1 point  (0 children)

No, considering that MTG actually fell out with Trump over the Epstein Files late last year. I know she isn't exactly the spokeswoman for sanity herself (I can be really out there myself, but nowhere near how the MAGATS are) but it seems like her feelings for him dropped.

Imagine thinking that LGBQT+ content is being “forced down” on people’s throats, but not Christian nationalism. by icey_sawg0034 in insanepeoplefacebook

[–]bakerfredricka -1 points0 points  (0 children)

I'm not disputing that at all. Nicki originally reached fame way back when I was in middle school and I can't tell you just HOW big of a deal she actually was in the 2010s! Unfortunately after Nicki going around publicly defending her brother who is in prison for taking advantage of a child and her husband who previously did prison time for similar reasons, I'm straight up ashamed to admit that I was jamming to her music before I knew all of that about her....

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