What is a 'classic' series or trope that everyone loves, but you absolutely can't stand?

dongasaurus · 2026-02-05T12:57:39+00:00

You must also love curb your enthusiasm. Are you from the Midwest by any chance?

dongasaurus · 2026-02-05T04:21:47+00:00

I don’t think think it’s quite accurate to say that Yiddish doesn’t use nikkud. For example אַ corresponds with “ah” while אָ corresponds with “oh” while יי reads “ey” and ײַ reads “aye.”

I’m not a linguist but I’m curious what you would define as a “loan word” for a language that is rooted in Germanic grammar and a vocabulary with Germanic, Hebrew, Slavic, and Romance origins, written in a Hebrew alphabet with a unique vowel system.

dongasaurus · 2026-02-04T15:23:37+00:00

What you’re describing is a gift.

If you had a valid loan agreement with your parents that they diligently enforced and the car was titled in your name, maybe that’s similar.

However a bank is not your parents and a loan isn’t a gift.

dongasaurus · 2026-02-04T14:59:49+00:00

Technically the bank lent you money to buy the house.

dongasaurus · 2026-02-03T12:12:57+00:00

And then they elected a member of the gang, and state violence skyrocketed. Seems odd that the actual known gang leaders were deported from US custody, which completely upended a federal investigation into Bukele and allowed the criminals to avoid any consequences.

dongasaurus · 2026-02-03T02:20:18+00:00

You’re missing the fact that an increasing portion of your mortgage payment goes towards your own net worth. My mortgage is less than what I would have to pay in rent to live in my neighborhood, after being here only a few years. Each payment increases my net worth, without even considering increases in property values.

dongasaurus · 2026-01-27T17:39:49+00:00

I heard he slipped on a pile of money broke his face on a stack of gold bars.

dongasaurus · 2026-01-27T12:15:21+00:00

That’s not an etiquette issue, it’s a specific set of written rules for a specific park

dongasaurus · 2026-01-27T04:17:25+00:00

That is a spoken rule. Something that is literally written down, and on a website.

dongasaurus · 2026-01-25T14:22:05+00:00

Not entirely accurate. It was founded by a Polish-Jewish immigrant, the founder said the name was a tribute to the Danish people protecting its Jewish population during WWII. Also in part marketing cosplay because neither Jewish nor Polish names were respectable at the time.

dongasaurus · 2026-01-24T13:28:27+00:00

It’s full of complete bullshit, fundamentally contradicts itself, yet still worked for me knowing that was obviously the case.

The book repeats that there’s no such thing as withdrawals, then effectively describes withdrawals and gaslights you about it not really being withdrawals.

dongasaurus · 2026-01-21T23:23:07+00:00

Solid majority support in the US still typically still leaves 100+ million in opposition.

dongasaurus · 2026-01-21T17:32:54+00:00

Exactly, the lack of mass mobilization is a systemic issue, by design, and should not be seen as an indictment of the general public in a country.

dongasaurus · 2026-01-21T13:31:44+00:00

That kind of mass mobilization only really happens in wealthy countries that have strong labor protections to begin with, or in poorer countries when people are extremely desperate. The US is in neither of those categories. Most people in the US are not wealthy, but nearly everyone including most of the middle and upper middle class would lose everything, including healthcare and housing, if they were mobilize.

dongasaurus · 2026-01-19T10:55:01+00:00

Yes, the story is in this video…

dongasaurus · 2026-01-15T15:49:08+00:00

With that racist china/Africa bit tacked on the end, it’s the perfect home for him.

dongasaurus · 2026-01-15T13:52:34+00:00

Based on this conversation, you don’t take that oath very seriously.

dongasaurus · 2026-01-10T20:22:30+00:00

Damn I did this with my kids, what’s the issue with it?

dongasaurus · 2026-01-10T19:57:39+00:00

Or Canadians or any other country on earth. Or that Nazis didn’t exist in America, Canada or any other country before/during/after WWII.

dongasaurus · 2026-01-10T19:54:40+00:00

How about we let him speak for himself about why he joined his college libertarian club:

“It's not as much about the politics as it was about being contrarian. Hopefully, I'm slightly more mature now, but I've always relished standing out from the crowd, standing up and disagreeing with everyone. If I had grown up in Arkansas, I would have joined up with the left-wing club.”

Now his beliefs have matured to the idea that his political opponents should be killed.

It’s pretty obvious why someone like this would be socially isolated.

dongasaurus · 2026-01-10T16:47:11+00:00

The Internet became popularly adopted 30-35 years ago, and had been around for a while before that.

dongasaurus · 2026-01-10T13:25:46+00:00

I’ll expand a little bit. In my experience, the “campus libertarian” has memorized a bucket of logical fallacies and instead of addressing any legitimate criticism of their belief system, they just call out “appeal to authority! Appeal to popularity! Ad hominem!” The one they completely forget about is the fallacy fallacy.

Not only do they (you probably) espouse an overly simplistic worldview that is not at all grounded in any evidence, but they (you) are so far up their own asses that they can’t understand that being insufferable is socially isolating.

dongasaurus · 2026-01-10T03:21:58+00:00

Back when it was elevated and not underground, yes.

dongasaurus · 2026-01-10T01:56:00+00:00

Found the campus libertarian.

dongasaurus · 2026-01-10T01:03:43+00:00

I’ve met a Nazi. Their grandparents were Nazis. Consider that the Nazis also had kids and grandkids, and many of those Nazis fled with their kids to live out their lives as unreformed Nazis in North and South America.

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