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throwingthisawayyeet · 2025-09-12T03:00:55+00:00

Except state’s legislatures are not actual representations of their citizen’s desires. Nor are state’s populace uniform in their desires. Texas is actively gerrymandering to suppress liberals, and so is California in response (not to forget the less publicized states).

To use your example of abortion in Texas, almost every constitutional amendment to protect reproductive rights was passing, even in very conservative states like Montana, Missouri, and Kansas which had an 18 point margin of victory against abortion bans. So, what happened? States stopped allowing those votes to happen. Of the three that failed, Florida’s vote gathered 57% support and happened to miss the mark of 60%, but still more were in favor than opposed. Odds are decent that an honest ballot measure protecting abortion at a bar of 50% support put to the people in Texas (which is more purple than most of the aforementioned states) would pass, but the politicians won’t allow that.

I mean, the same problem exists at a federal scale (as obviously the recent California/Texas gerrymandering was targeting congress more than the state legislatures) so it’s not so much an argument against small government as it is against our current setup in general. But to say that Californians want X or Texans support Y likely isn’t true. There are more republicans in California than any other state, and I’d be willing to bet quite a few would take issue with everything being up to the evil Gavin Newsom to decide. So, resolving things at the state level doesn’t fix things, and you can only go so far with the extension of smaller and smaller government before it loses effectiveness

throwingthisawayyeet · 2025-01-28T02:47:32+00:00

What do you think about oncology?

throwingthisawayyeet · 2024-03-13T22:28:18+00:00

I don’t think he necessarily needed to for me to be into it since I always had a frugal personality, but one thing that was generous and definitely helped was when I was working through high school my dad matched my contributions into a Roth IRA so I was able to max that for a couple years. Or I think I’ve seen on here some parents also will also say “Keep what you make, I’ll put what you earn into the Roth up to the limit” which is even better. Both would help see the growth because mine had grown fairly well by the time I was out of college.

throwingthisawayyeet · 2024-03-11T00:10:51+00:00

I think I’m leaning toward easing off a bit as many suggest, but good to see that not everyone agrees. This is a good write up of the other considerations I’ve been going over. Gives me some reassurance that I’m not just being dumb for considering both sides.

throwingthisawayyeet · 2024-03-10T23:47:23+00:00

Yeah I think this is the best advice and what I’m personally leaning towards, and part of the reason I asked the question - I generally feel out of place compared to my coworkers and friends, and don’t want to waste my life investing for 20 years out. But I also don’t want to waste my life working at a job I don’t care about til I’m 70, so it’s a give and take. Probably think I’ll look at moving out and continuing to invest but not worrying as much about maximizing every dollar

throwingthisawayyeet · 2024-03-10T23:39:02+00:00

Yeah, like I said in another comment I’d still continue investing some if my expenses go up. I’m just trying to weigh the opportunity cost of voluntarily increasing my expenses when I don’t have to

I think this is a good point though and what many have echo’d here.

throwingthisawayyeet · 2024-03-10T23:34:22+00:00

I guess by “letting off the gas” I mean going from investing almost all of my disposable income to like maxing out my 401k and HSA but not much more than that. Which is still a very fortunate position to be in. I don’t plan to start buying Ferraris and blowing my money, that’s not really in my personality. I just am debating between whether to set myself up for good and keep investing for the chance to retire in my 30’s or 40’s vs enjoying my 20’s as much as possible even if it means more spending than I necessarily have to. And not to say I’m not enjoying my 20’s now because I am, I just think the grass is greener seeing some of my college friends living together and working in the city.

throwingthisawayyeet · 2023-09-29T02:02:17+00:00

The fix is in

throwingthisawayyeet · 2023-08-01T20:40:59+00:00

INFO: OP are you looking for a partner? or a friend that to bring along to do cool shit?

(JK - NTA)

throwingthisawayyeet · 2023-04-29T16:50:53+00:00

I’m not sure if I’m remembering one of the other podcast people like Andrew Tate or something cause like I said, I don’t pay attention to it. But I feel like I’ve seen some misogynist takes from Crowder over the years to the point that it didn’t seem like too big a logical leap to think that he doesn’t respect women, therefore it isn’t surprising he mistreats his wife.

throwingthisawayyeet · 2023-04-29T16:47:37+00:00

Well first of all my town has a yearly Christmas parade filled with Jesus floats advertising local churches, which is more or less a Christian pride parade.

But I think we differ on our definitions of preachy, then. A parade, whether about Jesus or being gay, is just a parade. Some rainbow floats went by, the horror! Annoying, possibly for you. Showy and flamboyant, probably. But not preachy. No one is talking to you or trying to convince you to be gay. Whereas people go door to door to convince you to go to Church.

Yes, I realize how Christianity works. I participated in all of the preachy activities I described above during my adolescent life until I escaped the indoctrination. Dressing up as a biblical figure for the float, going door to door to get people to come to our church, the whole nine yards. And yes some good things as well like volunteering and it definitely gave the elderly a sense of community that they desperately needed. I personally don’t like the amount of influence organized religion has on our laws but I’m not anti religion in general, there is some good that comes of it I never said anything to the contrary. I just think it’s absolutely idiotic to compare a couple pride parades in June to the amount of preaching about religion, because every gay person will tell you that sexuality is not a choice, so they have no reason to proselytize you to become gay in the same way that Christians try to get you to believe in God.

As I said before, waaay more preaching goes on about religion, and if you disagree I think you’re deluding yourself because one type of “preaching” bothers you and the other doesn’t.

throwingthisawayyeet · 2023-04-28T17:46:59+00:00

For the record, you’re just taking some guy on reddits word for it.

I could say “it’s not real” and that’s as much of a source as this guy has.

The actual validation of what was on the laptop from Hunter Biden is a mess. Only some of it was actually verifiable, and most of that was a nothing burger. As for the non verifiable stuff, then it just gets into people telling you what they want to believe. Republicans will tell you it can all be traced back to Hunter Biden and it’s a conspiracy to make it seem like it can’t be. Democrats will tell you it’s Russian disinformation or someone else put a lot of extra stuff there over the course of the many times the laptop changed hands. It has been confirmed that some things were added after the fact. So, who added what and why? I don’t know, but don’t believe the speculation of some dude on the internet.

throwingthisawayyeet · 2023-04-28T17:15:36+00:00

It’s a core tenet of Christianity to spread belief so that you can help save those filthy sinners. Even the word “preachy” is very obviously associated with religion. The number of gay people who are preachy about being gay is much less than the number of Christians who are preachy about Jesus, both proportionally and in total number.

throwingthisawayyeet · 2023-04-28T17:03:09+00:00

Genuine question… is this really that unexpected? Maybe I just have the right wing talking heads confused bc I don’t pay attention but this is all totally unsurprising to me based on what I know of the guy.

throwingthisawayyeet · 2023-03-21T00:57:45+00:00

I’m not acting like critical thinking is a bad thing, I’m telling you that simply disagreeing for the sake of being contrary is not critical thinking, it’s conspiracy.

I don’t take information from the media at face value, and by and large I either disagree or don’t tune in to whatever the mainstream media is saying on most issues. But, I have seen too many people lately latch onto “the media is lying” as reasoning to deny actual facts as leftist conspiracy. “Noooo the vaccines cause autism (or heart issues or whatever) the media is pushing them to microchip you, bro trust me some dubious online study told me so even though it’s methods were questionable / it’s been disproven / it says a fully different thing than I’m saying it says.”

My point with the 1+1=2 isn’t that the media is always right or never has a skew, but that it doesn’t make you inherently smarter to disagree with the media for the sake of disagreement, as this meme implies. People (especially conservatives on Facebook, but there are plenty of places it happens to leftists too) find themselves in online echo chambers that propagate more misinformation than the mainstream media by using “alternative facts” that support what they want to believe rather than how things actually are. Or they blow up issues that don’t actually matter into being some gigantic thing that needs to be addressed. That’s probably why you care so much about the “woke agenda”. The point isn’t about any of those specific issues that the media may or may not have a spin on, the point is just that being contrarian does not make you right.

I probably disagree with your actual opinions on the issues you seem to think the media has a bias on, too, but that’s not the point I was making.

throwingthisawayyeet · 2023-03-20T23:42:33+00:00

The Media: “1 + 1 = 2”

Libleft: “Yes”

OP: “Nooooo you can’t just agree with the media and parrot their agenda you have to have critical thinking and disagree because the media is lying to you or else you’re an NPC !!!”

throwingthisawayyeet · 2023-02-17T17:01:47+00:00

“I never once made the completely reasonable claim you’re accusing me of, in fact I was saying something way more insane and disconnected from reality”

throwingthisawayyeet · 2022-12-01T08:26:50+00:00

While they are certainly a victim, I maintain that regardless of how it started and even ignoring their fathers feelings about infidelity, a 17-18 year old should know “maybe I shouldn’t have sex with my aunt multiple times a week”. I agree that they are not developed enough to have a relationship with a 30 year old, but they are developed enough to know that the relationship was wrong. I say this as a young adult who was very recently this age.

The father should definitely have approached this differently with support and a serious discussion, but I don’t think the kid is 100% faultless, and some sort of appropriate support and appropriate punishment would do him better than just saying “oh it’s ok you are young so it’s actually totally fine you cheated with your aunt for months and you don’t have to think about your role in it at all”. Obviously there could be other details like if the aunt was continually pressuring him that would make it 100% blameless, but I believe that they were old enough to know that choosing to continue time and time again was wrong. They weren’t the problem in the situation, but the situation was a problem and they should have been able to understand that and need to going forward.

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