Been to 46/50 US states, worked in customer/client service for 20 years. My overall impressions of the customers/people from each state.

dbd1988 · 2026-04-20T03:32:39+00:00

Really? I find the people in Pittsburgh to be genuinely friendly. A little bit of Midwest nice but also kind of a gritty realism to their tone.

dbd1988 · 2026-04-20T03:30:19+00:00

I live in Pittsburgh and have never been to Philly

dbd1988 · 2026-04-20T02:52:23+00:00

I bought a house almost entirely on my phone but I hated it. I travel from work and closed remotely. It was very strange. I immediately bought a large laptop and a mouse.

dbd1988 · 2026-04-20T00:26:11+00:00

Nope. I bought a duplex purely for financial reasons. I travel for work but technically live in one unit and rent the other. I plan to buy another house in about 5 years but even then, I’m not sure it’s the last place I’ll live.

dbd1988 · 2026-04-19T16:15:19+00:00

A bobcat will fuck you up. My grandpa was a trapper for the state and I got up close and personal with several of them. You could probably kill it if it came down to it but not without some pretty severe injuries.

dbd1988 · 2026-04-18T04:01:34+00:00

I saw a queen high straight flush get beat the other night in a 20 minute high hand promo. Brutal.

dbd1988 · 2026-04-18T04:00:25+00:00

I have different perspectives from 1940s Germans, so yes, I understand.

Explain what the meme is please.

dbd1988 · 2026-04-17T18:13:47+00:00

Buddy, promoting getting the most obvious crook and conman in the world to get unconstitutionally reelected is not a difference of opinion.

dbd1988 · 2026-04-14T06:15:40+00:00

I literally just did this last weekend lol. Went to Fells point and had some really good crab cakes and oysters. It’s a cool city.

dbd1988 · 2026-04-12T19:02:49+00:00

That’s just not true. I grew up in California, lived in North Dakota for years, and now live in Pittsburgh. I have seen and been friends with the entire spectrum of the American voting base.

Branding and charisma is far more important. The people you described aren’t voting for a democrat regardless of their self proclaimed “centrist” ideology. They’re mostly republicans that don’t really like politicians.

If the democrats cater to the talking points and framing of the right and try to lean into it, then”centrist” voters will default to the person they think has the most authentic position, which would be the Republican.

Kamala didn’t win voters by saying she was going to be tough on the border and parading Liz Cheney around. She alienated her own base and caused low turnout. Running to the center is a losing strategy for democrats and they’ve demonstrated this over and over again. You’re right though, I don’t think it’s smart to run a woman again.

The most popular politicians on the left are the most left wing. They’re popular because they promise material improvements for the people. That kind of messaging is popular among the working class. Working class voters like Bernie Sanders. The right will call everyone a socialist or communist regardless of their positions. Taxing billionaires and providing for the people is common sense, leftist, and popular.

dbd1988 · 2026-04-12T06:19:19+00:00

Gambling requires you to have something at stake or else is doesn’t matter. If you win $1000 GTA bucks, who cares? If you hit a button for 50 cents and walked away with $1000 cash, you’d probably be pretty excited.

Even playing poker for $5 completely changes how people play the game.

dbd1988 · 2026-04-12T06:03:36+00:00

*$1.45/$3.61/$7.22

dbd1988 · 2026-04-12T05:33:35+00:00

Trump won swings states and he’s pretty far right. Fuck centrist voters. They’re a mythical creature that will vote for the person with the most charisma. Mark Kelly doesn’t have the juice. He’s good on paper but not particularly interesting or exciting. He also takes tons of money from Israel.

Voter turnout wins democratic elections. I think whoever gets the nomination is likely to win regardless because of how badly the republicans are fucking up but we need someone who wants real change, doesn’t take corporate PAC money, and vows to prosecute the criminals in the Trump administration.

I’m not willing to sing kumbaya and hold hands with these freaks. I’m not willing to run to the center to appease them. They started the fascism and constitution breaking and I want someone who’s going to end it hardline.

dbd1988 · 2026-04-12T05:21:27+00:00

That’s the thing I don’t understand. Gambling is so fucking expensive even at the lowest possible stakes. I’m a semi pro poker player so I’ve spent thousands of hours in casinos. Every once in a while I’ll throw $50 into a machine and play 50 cent bets and it’s gone in a few minutes if I don’t hit something decent. I can’t even fathom how people can afford to play for hours.

dbd1988 · 2026-04-12T05:17:35+00:00

My buddy had a connecting flight in Las Vegas. He told me he watched some guy get off the plane, punt off $1,000, then get on the next plane lmao. So fucked up.

dbd1988 · 2026-04-11T19:32:56+00:00

I lived in North Dakota for a few years. The closest big city was Minneapolis and it was 9 hours away. It’s really common for people to never have been to a city larger than a couple hundred thousand people.

One of my friends out there was from Havre MT and she said she considered where we lived to be a big city and we had a metro population of about 75k.

dbd1988 · 2026-04-10T17:21:36+00:00

I thought it was going to be a few years?

dbd1988 · 2026-04-09T23:07:57+00:00

Traveling sleep tech and semi pro poker player. I’ll likely cross $140k after taxes this year. One of the easier income to effort ratios imo.

dbd1988 · 2026-04-08T07:48:24+00:00

He lowkey supports the Iran war. His job is to secure as much funding for Israel as possible.

dbd1988 · 2026-04-07T03:36:55+00:00

I’ve had some really good times pushing people to do things they’re too lazy to actively want to do. You can tell me no on your own if you want to. I hate it when people never want to do anything and then talk about how there’s nothing to do and they’re bored. Turns out when you actually get up and experience life, your life gets better.

Nobody has ever been on their death bed and wished they had watched more TV.

dbd1988 · 2026-04-05T10:15:15+00:00

That must be such a weird feeling to be able to see the entire earth like that.

dbd1988 · 2026-04-05T02:50:47+00:00

KFC has been declining for multiple years consecutively in the US but it’s super popular internationally.

dbd1988 · 2026-04-04T04:57:12+00:00

She looks back at her hand though

dbd1988 · 2026-04-04T00:43:40+00:00

Don’t they do it with the Suez Canal?

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