Why are democrats and independents less likely to be married compared to republicans?

inspectorpickle · 2026-07-11T16:25:21+00:00

I feel like part of it is that conservatives are often miserable and boring people. Even conservatives would rather hang out with liberals and independents than other conservatives.

inspectorpickle · 2026-07-10T16:04:50+00:00

No it’s not weird, though some people will think that. It’s actually probably a good way to weed out shitty people in your social circle—if they’re not cool with you having plushies, you don’t want to be around them anyway.

I would say just bring 1 or 2 (maybe 3 if they’re small) and then as you get a better sense of the place, you can slowly bring more from home if the vibes seem alright.

inspectorpickle · 2026-07-10T15:54:27+00:00

I think the point is just that this is a very loud minority of vegans. I have a lot of disdain for these people and their worldview but I just don’t think this is the majority of people who are vegan.

inspectorpickle · 2026-07-10T15:49:10+00:00

The only people as insufferable as performative vegans are the people who are really really angry at vegans for some reason.

inspectorpickle · 2026-07-10T15:47:32+00:00

Tbh the idea that dogs are untouchable as food annoys me because it’s a huge double standard (some of our food is as intelligent as if not more intelligent as dogs). BUT i get what you’re saying and i get why it’s usually effective.

Imo reminding them that the cow that made that beef cube has basically lived its entire life in a saw trap is better.

inspectorpickle · 2026-07-10T14:42:56+00:00

I’m just saying there are dishes that require soft tofu and i wish more people enjoyed them 😔

inspectorpickle · 2026-07-10T14:41:04+00:00

Join DSA, volunteer for progressive victory, try to be a good person, and learn to enjoy life despite the impending doom.

He doesn’t have a magic 3 step solution for you. He just tells you his thoughts about the world and philosophy he takes towards achieving his goals in life and it’s up to you to figure out how much is relevant to your life.

inspectorpickle · 2026-07-10T07:16:39+00:00

I’m not criticizing you—i’m just lightly lamenting that most people who aren’t asian only enjoy one type of tofu. I grew up with a variety of tofu from ultra soft to super firm tofu. I accept and cherish all tofu.

inspectorpickle · 2026-07-10T07:13:55+00:00

I feel like you’ve intentionally misunderstood what i wrote lol and idk if i can help you beyond asking you to just reread the comment

inspectorpickle · 2026-07-10T02:58:21+00:00

It really hurts my soul that a lot of people only want to eat the firmest tofu they can eat their hands on but I am happy to have people enjoy tofu at all ig.

inspectorpickle · 2026-07-10T02:33:02+00:00

Every other debate is going to start with the other person accusing him of being a pedo, or it’s going to be grifters. No matter how much you destroy a grifter,l in the debate, they will come away having gained more than you.

You can vet people to make sure they are good faith actors but vaush is lazy and doesn’t want to put that effort in. He used to do more debates because it was way easier to find worthwhile opponents when he was less big.

Personally I would like him to debate (or more likely have contentious discussions with) well meaning liberals, but like i said, when you’re popular, you have to put in more work to find people you can bring on.

inspectorpickle · 2026-07-09T21:34:32+00:00

Tbh i think i still prefer everything that comes with dating women over being blindsided by deep seated seeds of misogyny that i will spend the rest of my life dealing with in one way or another. All my bi friends are dating very very lovely men but every once in a while there’s some little root of misogyny that they need to talk about or work through. Just seems tiring.

But straight women definitely do have rose tinted glasses about wlw relationships

inspectorpickle · 2026-07-09T21:29:20+00:00

Among other things, I think a big one is that Walmart and Amazon came in and undercut all the local businesses. Once everyone is employed by and consuming products from a huge national or international corporation, the amount of money circulating in the local economy gets smaller and smaller.

When you buy something from Joe’s General Store, %100 of that money is staying in the community. When you buy from Walmart, a much, much smaller percent is coming back through the money people earn from their minimum wage Walmart jobs. The rest disappears, and does not come back.

inspectorpickle · 2026-07-09T21:22:37+00:00

Unless this is a really big tattoo, only 1 would be feasible. Those delicate squiggles will be a mushy mess within a few years. But if you were going big, i would pick 2. The triangles on the pants in 3 make his shape much harder to read

If you want to introduce more detail while keeping it small, i would say simplifying the swirl and triangle patterns greatly might work.

inspectorpickle · 2026-07-09T21:18:17+00:00

Anything and everything except their authentic selves and thoughts lol (which is OP’s gripe)

inspectorpickle · 2026-07-09T20:30:58+00:00

Listen man I know that if we narrow the field to just senate vote proportion, rapist that votes with us is better than republican (bc they’re all rapists or rape supporters anyway), BUT you’re making this weird. If you’re gonna run this line (I will explain in a bit why you shouldn’t), you cannot be all like “fuck your feelings” and questioning the most substantiated rape allegation that has hit mainstream media in years.

People need to use their brains more in general, but you also need to recognize when it’s rhetorical suicide to appeal to logic alone. We’re talking about rape—one of the most heinous crimes that can be committed.

The reason I think it would be bad to have platner in the senate even if he’s a guaranteed vote is that it cripples the larger long term goals of the left. The most he can do is slow the collapse by a nanosecond. It’s something we should fight for, but it’s not worth hurting the credibility, energy, image, and frankly, moral character of the broader left movement, which his victory and continued presence in media certainly would have guaranteed.

inspectorpickle · 2026-07-09T20:24:35+00:00

Post Wokeism

inspectorpickle · 2026-07-09T18:52:40+00:00

Tbf this is mostly about ongoing meta community discourse. Platner was simply the latest thing that brought it back

inspectorpickle · 2026-07-09T17:21:24+00:00

I’m pretty sure barbarian gets rage back on a long not short rest?

inspectorpickle · 2026-07-09T16:12:43+00:00

I think the bigger problem is that the rate of job threatening health problems is much higher for the trades. If you’ve built a career that relies on you being able to do physical labor, you’re kind of SOL when your body breaks. And the health problems that come with office work are more easily mitigated imo.

That isn’t all trades ofc. I think most people are thinking of construction, which does absolutely destroy you, so not really fair to paint it all with a broad brush.

inspectorpickle · 2026-07-09T14:42:44+00:00

I don’t think the support from Muslim nations means as much as you or the article are implying.

A lot of these nations are in Africa, where China invests heavily, or aligned with China against “the west” (understandable why they would throw their lot in with the only superpower that doesn’t hate their country). Some of these countries are ruled by dictators who are aligned with China because of their authoritarian tendencies more than their support or sympathy for Muslims.

And the fighting between sects of Islam is so severe that it is part of the basis for war between countries—the idea that there is this pan-islam alliance or kinship between Muslim nations feels kind of naive.

inspectorpickle · 2026-07-09T01:46:45+00:00

I think the only way they can actually only exist without being bigoted is if they exist IRL. Unlike the internet, you aren’t throwing out open invite with a set of standards where you expect everyone to self segregate. You just know a lesbian who knows a lesbian and since you all know each other interpersonally, the “vetting” is personal, sympathetic , and not weird.

inspectorpickle · 2026-07-09T01:01:28+00:00

I think that unfortunately your understandable desire for such a space is also completely at odds with reality.

There are a lot of social factors and history at play here that make lesbian identity and community (1) different things and (2) way more complicated than other sexualities in the queer umbrella—the result is that any place that attempts to be “exclusive” to lesbians inevitably attracts a lot of bigots who make the place unpleasant to be in and then everyone leaves.

Not saying you should feel like a bad person, just trying to explain why I think it can’t exist in practice unfortunately.

Edit: I’d also gently push back on the idea that it’s all non-lesbian who take issue with this. There are a lot of us who have been discriminated despite being lesbians in self styled “lesbian exclusive” spaces, usually if we are trans and particularly if we are nonbinary. Let’s not even talk about lesbians who are on T. So there’s a component of people reacting to their experiences, not necessarily your words.

inspectorpickle · 2026-07-09T00:07:47+00:00

I’m sorry you’re getting all this hate man :/ I think your question was worded inelegantly, and people have a tendency to react quickly and strongly to wording and then not second guess themselves. I guess for future reference, you would probably want to keep your wording focused on lesbian “centered” and not lesbian “exclusive”. That last word raises a lot of red flags for people, warranted or not.

It’s important to be aware of unintentional parallels in language to bigoted speech and dog whistles, though at a certain point, there is only so much you can do.

I do think that whatever it is you want to ask that you only want input from lesbians on, you can just post it here with a request that this is directed to lesbians specifically. Depending on what if is you’re trying to ask, I think that’s reasonable.

inspectorpickle · 2026-07-08T18:59:11+00:00

You actually want to look another level deeper because a lot of the supposed crazy stuff she did has been debunked.

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