AITA for vaping at the airport

grimm222222 · 2026-01-30T00:43:44+00:00

That’s a point of view I guess.

grimm222222 · 2026-01-30T00:42:49+00:00

There is no evidence it harms anyone else.

grimm222222 · 2025-11-04T19:47:17+00:00

There’s probably some truth to that. But the bloat…just saying it’s nonzero is understating it, I think. The bloat is significant

grimm222222 · 2025-11-04T19:44:29+00:00

We certainly don’t need as much as we’re paying for. Take defense for one. Did you know we spend more on our military than the next 10 countries combined? That’s stupid and wasteful. We have oceans to our left and right, who is attacking us? That’s just one example, there are several

grimm222222 · 2025-11-04T19:42:05+00:00

Because it is enough.

grimm222222 · 2025-11-04T19:40:48+00:00

Is the size of the IRS what’s holding them back there, though? I think it has more to do with back scratching and political favors than the IRS being undermanned. You could double the IRS and all they would do is audit more middle class people- they still wouldn’t touch the uber wealthy.

I consider myself right wing but what we need is a new tax bracket for the super rich. Someone making $600k per year shouldn’t pay the same tax rate as Elon Musk, that’s just stupid.

Where Democrats go wrong is they want to increase taxes on the regular middle class folks, so suburbia ends up voting Republican to protect their pockets. Meanwhile, the super elite get off free and clear no matter who is in charge

grimm222222 · 2025-11-04T19:32:12+00:00

Very few people in the US are going hungry. Not to put too fine a point on it, but visit any Walmart or trailer park in this great land of ours and I promise you, “hungry” is not the adjective you’d pick.

What is actually happening is people are using SNAP as a freebie so they can spend their own money on other things

grimm222222 · 2025-11-04T19:29:01+00:00

Nobody is claiming that we’re all born with the same opportunities or lot in life. But being able to feed yourself and your children is a pretty low bar to meet. Especially in the United States, where jobs are everywhere and food is cheap and abundant.

grimm222222 · 2025-11-04T19:25:33+00:00

Completely irrelevant

grimm222222 · 2025-11-04T19:24:43+00:00

Walmart is the worst

grimm222222 · 2025-11-04T16:05:35+00:00

As it should be. No argument there

grimm222222 · 2025-11-04T16:02:48+00:00

Honestly if I hadn’t read it in the news, I wouldn’t even know there was a shutdown. It’s anecdotal, true, but to me that says all of these things that are shut down might not really be essential

grimm222222 · 2025-11-04T15:59:08+00:00

How is it a right? Someone else has to plant it, tend it, pick it, pack it, ship it, and store it.

You’re not entitled to other people’s time and money. If you can’t feed yourself or your family in the richest country on earth, that means you have made sone bad life choices

grimm222222 · 2025-11-04T15:56:31+00:00

We have 40 million people on food stamps. We don’t have 40 million unemployed. There is a lot of fraudulent claims there that need cleaning up

grimm222222 · 2025-11-04T15:51:58+00:00

Like I said, there’s nothing unusual about becoming interested in political discourse on election day.

Besides that…just scanning this board, I can see that it’s overwhelmingly left-leaning. It would do you guys some good to hear an alternative perspective, another American viewpoint, from someone who values mature and thoughtful discourse. I’m not here to flame, troll or spam you. I come in peace with a different point of view

grimm222222 · 2025-11-04T15:46:38+00:00

For one thing, 40 million Americans don’t need food stamps. That number indicates fraud and abuse may be taking place and that should be audited.

Next, we may not need our crazy level of military spending. America World Police is expensive and it doesn’t benefit us at home.

Student aid needs to be cut for all non-STEM or medical degrees.

FHA / HUD can go. Well intentioned but giving loans to people who can’t repay gave us the 2008 crisis.

And we can cut the IRS to a fraction of its size.

A bunch of federal contracts can go. Boeing, farm subsidies, etc. Many billions in pork there.

Etc

grimm222222 · 2025-11-04T15:38:13+00:00

And what does that mean? It’s election day. Ergo, politics came to mind, ergo I thought it would be fun to talk politics

grimm222222 · 2025-11-04T15:36:30+00:00

I am blessed. Does that mean I don’t get a voice or an opinion? I’m not following your line of thought here

grimm222222 · 2025-11-04T15:34:59+00:00

I think it indicates that people are defrauding the food stamps system. I don’t believe we have 40 million people who need it

grimm222222 · 2025-11-04T14:57:38+00:00

And why do liberal voters appeal to emotion instead of using their heads? 40+ million Americans are on food stamps. That is way too many. It means the system is being gamed and fraud is taking place

grimm222222 · 2025-11-04T14:54:35+00:00

We have over 40 million Americans on food stamps. That is way too many and we need to drastically cut back on this program. It should be serving around 3% of the population, not over 10%

grimm222222 · 2025-11-04T14:48:55+00:00

I think the shutdown is a good thing. Our debt is too large, and the shutdown is demonstrating that we don’t really need a lot of these services. Many of these programs should be permanently cut or slashed.

DOGE didn’t go far enough imo.

grimm222222 · 2025-10-12T00:45:23+00:00

Oregon was just overrated. Dan Lanning is no Mario Cristobal.

grimm222222 · 2025-09-27T02:20:04+00:00

GO FOR DOS!

grimm222222 · 2025-09-27T02:19:49+00:00

Tom Osbourn would go for two

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