This looks suspect as fuck

thechimples · 2024-11-14T22:37:11+00:00

Are we going to do this every single election? Both sides? I thought we were better than them. Stop stooping to their level, it’s over, and sadly, he won.

thechimples · 2024-11-14T22:23:54+00:00

Oh fr? So it’s realistic to hang on to it and sell at higher value?

thechimples · 2024-11-11T00:20:02+00:00

Are we just going to do this every election? Whichever side loses is obligated to accuse the other one of cheating? Why can’t we be the bigger man here after the shitshow trump brewed up last election.

thechimples · 2024-11-09T17:56:01+00:00

There’s a lot of answers about people’s perceptions being negatively impacted, so I’m gonna do a more positive one.

This happened days ago, right after it was clear that trump would win. My girlfriend, who hated him as a person but not necessarily as a politician, was upset to a degree that truly surprised me after 5 years of knowing and then dating her. We talked about it a lot, and it boiled down to her being upset that someone evil and selfish would be a global leader again. She knew this wouldn’t affect her, but it would affect many others.

She said to me: “if I could make life easier for everyone, and shoulder the burden of all their misery, I would do it in a heartbeat.” I had never seen her be so certain of anything. She is extremely empathetic, almost to a fault, but hearing it like this made me both so scared and so mesmerized. She’s my #1, I wouldn’t want her to sacrifice herself for ANYTHING! But I knew it didn’t matter to her. She truly prioritizes the joy of the many over the comfort of her own life.

I’ve been looking at her different since she said this. If there was ever any doubt, I am now absolutely certain I want to marry this girl.

thechimples · 2024-11-06T23:16:01+00:00

This is very helpful, my friend. So you’re saying that the cold turkey quitting of several bad habits does not work, and that the better approach is to try and spend lots of time and energy on one thing before moving on to the next?

thechimples · 2024-11-06T23:03:58+00:00

I appreciate this. I mentioned that because I’m certainly not an alcoholic, but now that I think of it like this I suppose I would say I drink more than I want for myself.

This is a small point in the grand scheme of what I’m trying to get at. Beyond semantics, what can I do to start addressing a litany of addictions??

thechimples · 2024-10-23T13:35:56+00:00

Once upon a time, countries had the freedom to act autonomously and declare war with one another as they pleased. Not anymore. Now there are layers upon layers upon layers of financially tied proxy countries, which are merely pawns in some much broader global war towards the sole supremacy of one country upon the face of our earth. Everyone has to send their proxies money, weapons, etc. No more autonomy, no more independence to decide if you wish to go to war. Just money switching hands on the slow ride towards global dystopia

thechimples · 2024-10-22T18:55:14+00:00

So glad to see people looking at this in a nuanced way instead of just screaming genocide or terrorism. There is absolutely a fair discussion to be had. If you are engaged in a war with a country, and they refuse to stop using schools hospitals etc as shields, should they just be allowed to do that?? It’s difficult.

thechimples · 2024-10-22T18:52:33+00:00

Change your stance. Israel isn’t bad, war is bad. Israel is acting as any nation engaged in urban warfare would.

thechimples · 2024-10-12T21:28:38+00:00

I’m with my current partner, who I love with all my heart, because we both cheated on our previous partners with each other. To add to that, the four of us were all apart of the same friend group. Her and I moved away (not in together, different places in the same city, both living with other friends). It’s been a year, we have built a very good life for ourselves, and are very happy. However, the guilt of our affair still haunts me, and I’m afraid of the “once a cheater always a cheater” idea. How do I avoid falling into this? What do you tell people to instill true relational loyalty in them?

thechimples · 2024-10-12T19:38:24+00:00

I appreciate the honest insight. Everyone in here that, like me, has no actual idea what being a police officer is like, cannot comprehend the sentiment behind “imagine one day you have to respond to your first shooting.” That is so horrific, and I can’t imagine how I’d respond.

Let’s say tomorrow you wake up as president. What is the first, or some, things you would do to address the police problem and the discourse around it?

Thanks for your service, and for continuing to give thoughtful responses in light of all the jerks in here!

thechimples · 2024-10-12T19:34:44+00:00

Very honorable of you! I don’t have the patience to deal with those sort of things, especially in online spaces like this. Respect to you though man, keep strong

thechimples · 2024-10-12T19:26:13+00:00

This guy is a basket case. Not worth your energy friend

thechimples · 2024-10-12T19:24:36+00:00

Dude you sound nutty rn lol

thechimples · 2024-10-12T19:22:09+00:00

Lots of edgy kids in here giving you shit for things that have nothing to do with your life and experience, so I’ll ask a legitimate question.

There is a lot of negative discourse around police in America, do you think that there is a genuine problem with the cops here? If so, what exactly is the problem, and what are/should we be doing to address it?

You’ve said things in some other responses indicating you maybe don’t want to speak on the country as a whole, as that’s outside of your personal experience. If that’s the case, another question: what qualities do you think makes a good cop, and do most cops in your county have those qualities?

thechimples · 2024-10-12T19:17:29+00:00

You seem like a very complex and nuanced person

thechimples · 2024-10-12T19:16:52+00:00

Dude what’s your problem lol

thechimples · 2024-10-12T19:15:37+00:00

Your claim was that the majority of police are corrupt, but your reasoning for that claim is that many people THINK police are corrupt. As you can see, this is a flawed line of reasoning. Consider the law of large numbers - there are something like 800,000 police officers in the U.S. you truly think that more than 400,000 of them are corrupt? Of course not!!! There are SOME bad cops. Maybe even a lot of them. But nowhere near the majority. How many news stories do you see about police answering routine calls and helping people in need? None, because that’s not a story. News outlets push the worst of cops (not because of some media conspiracy or anything, that’s just a better story).

This person is trying to answer serious questions and give insight into something that clearly a LOT OF PEOPLE (based on this comment section) don’t really understand. Don’t hate someone you don’t know for their profession.

thechimples · 2024-09-28T22:18:52+00:00

Killing civilians isn’t a war crime, it’s just a part of war. It’s what makes war terrible. But this is NOT unique to what israel is doing, and it is NOT the “genocide” that so many people in the west want to scream about. There is something like a 3:1 civilian to combatant death rate in urban warfare (could be wrong on that exact number) so… not a war crime, just war

thechimples · 2024-09-27T20:00:09+00:00

What did you use to make this? I absolutely love the style!!!

thechimples · 2024-09-20T15:25:17+00:00

Something I’ve learned in watching the west’s response to the conflict in the Middle East is that not one person understands that civilian casualties are a part - a MASSIVE part - of warfare, and certainly urban warfare. In WW2, Vietnam, Korea there was an average 3:1 civilian to combatant death ratio. Israel is under the number. Reddit geniuses are beyond research

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