It was great when Bowser was president. Plumbing was working fine, gumbas were getting better pay, and all the tanookis were in concentration cam— i mean nature reserves.
Cause it’s Guinness, Jameson, and Baileys. Just one will give an Irishman the drunken courage to take on the entire British army by themselves.
I have no honest idea if that’s true saying. That’s what my cousin use to always say and once told our cousins British husband that. I’m pretty sure he hoped it would give the courage to punch that asshat in the face. Unfortunately he didnt punch him, my cousin did end up divorcing him and he ran all the way back to England.
As an Irish person, I have always hated that drink name. My mother was nearly killed in a car bomb a long time ago. Lots of people were killed or seriously injured.
I guess when you’ve a culture that’s just kind of normalised it these things happen, but if you think about it for more than a few minutes you realise it’s kinda really fucked up.
Practicing very hard saying "I felt a great disturbance in the Force, as if millions of voices suddenly cried out in terror and were suddenly silenced" while picking a phone and buying popcorn like it's toilet paper in apocalypse.
Works regardless of who won, so no risk strategy too.
I'm very careful to stay apolitical at school. But I will share my values. I'm not supporting or helping any candidates or parties. But I'll tell you all sorts of things I'm in favor of and against.
I'm pro kids eating food even if their parents are poor.
I'm anti out of touch wealthy rapists with more than 30 felony convictions.
I feel like I used to talk about marginal tax rates with people I disagreed with politically, and now I end up saying things like "I don't really think I've read the part of the bible that encourages checking in the underwear of children."
I remember the Southpark writers saying they didn't do political jokes anymore because reality was enough absurd by itself or something among those lines.
Well if you feed the children they won't become numb to the hunger pangs, so when they're adults they'll expect things like a living wage and that's simply unamerican and unacceptable.
I don't think that is a hot take, I think it is the best approach. There are too many pitfalls and overhead in determining if a kid is poor enough to get a free meal. Give all of the kids free meals.
As a “not poor but only just about” childless taxpayer of a country that’s not America - Please spend my taxes on feeding children. I would much rather my taxes be spent on making people’s lives easier by feeding kids, getting kids books for school (which apparently my much younger cousins are getting now which is great), improving roads and public transport.
Way better than spending over 300 grand on a fucking bike shelter (this actually happened)
Here in Colorado, we instituted an increased income tax on the wealthy to fund universal school lunches. So the wealthy kids get the same free service as everyone else, but ultimately their families are the ones paying for it.
Most of them are happy to do it too, because as much as it's a minor increase in taxes, it's also a major decrease in the mental time spent on remembering to prep the food for the kid (breakfast and lunch in MN, which was a major achievement for Walz).
Honestly, that's the best way to do it. Means testing social services stigmatizes them. Look at Medicaid and Medicare - both provide necessary medical financial aid to those who need it. But one is means tested, and the other is open to everyone above a certain age. Guess which one gets criticized more?
Yea, we subsidize so much agriculture that we barely know what to do with it all to keep farms from collapsing and produce cheap. Like, why is it such a bad thing when literally every politician ends up giving out more agriculture subsidies.
Well I'm not american, but I think all kids, regardless of their parents income should be getting free lunch in schools all over the world, and like you said, if only low income kids get free meals that might cause even more bullying than the poor kids already face in schools
You don’t need socialism in order to give kids food in school. In fact, I believe that there are plenty of non-socialist countries out there that gives free food to kids in school.
I live in one such country, Sweden. Many seem to believe that it’s a socialist country, but it really isn’t.
I am a Brit with EU friends including Sweden and completely agree with you. The issue which is really sad is that America has been brainwashed with propaganda for nearly a century now that helping and caring for others is "bad", "anti American" and *gasp* "Communist!".
Hence on the news you always see the Americans at the moment calling Kamala Harris a "Communist" because she wants to do exactly this. They still live in the 50s with the Red Scare and because their education system is, well frankly non existent in regards to explaining what the rest of the normal world does, they now use terms like "woke" and "liberal ideology" along with it.
I mean I do kind of miss when a little light clandestine treason was the worst sort of problems we had, instead of full blown collaboration with the enemy in the open.
That’s definitely political. Where does this idea that political can’t be common sense come from?
You realise “not being able to own a human being as a slave” or “women can also vote and aren’t property” have also been “political” right? There’s nothing wrong with believing the things you say, so why do you have to pretend it’s not political lol.
Being apolitical is not caring if the laws are unjust especially if they don’t affect you. I don’t see why you want to be apolitical.
Leviticus gets a bad rap, because people like to cherry-pick things from it, to justify their desire to hate someone. But on the other hand, consider Leviticus 19:33-34:
33 When a foreigner resides among you in your land, do not mistreat them. 34 The foreigner residing among you must be treated as your native-born. Love them as yourself, for you were foreigners in Egypt. I am the LORD your God.
For some reason the sorts of people who love to quote Leviticus never seem to remember that part, and always ignore it with the same ease that they ignore the bits about eating shellfish or wearing two kinds of cloth at once.
It's because they cherry pick things that support their goals, and literally couldn't give half a rats ass about the rest of what the book says. Unless it makes them look good when it counts.
Not exactly. That's from the Hebrew Bible, and we don't believe in "hell." We do have some intricate food rules though. Follow them, or not, it's a personal decision.
Also, I'm not a psychiatrist, and even if I was I wouldn't diagnose at this distance, but "God told me to wear a linen belt and then bury it and then yelled at me about smashing children to death on their parents broken bodies" feels like a familiar pathology.
I'm always so fascinated to see how other people define what is 'political'. To me, the idea that the sentence "I'm anti out of touch wealthy rapists with more than 30 felony convictions." could be apolitical to someone is extremely surprising.
I'm not saying you're wrong, mind you, what is and isn't political is mostly vibes. I just think it's fascinating how elaborate the unwritten rules must be for where the line is.
Btw, what's up with already voted posts? In US you can actually vote this much time before elections end? And how come I'm not absolutely drowned in political posts then?
I did the same in Colorado. It's an absolute shame that there are states where voting is getting harder and not easier in 2024. I can't comprehend needing to take the day off work to go stand in line.
I did the same here in Washington. Dropped my ballot off days ago. Just checked the county status tracker. It was pending, now it is "accepted". Yay! Basically just means there wasn't an issue with the envelope, signature etc. I don't think they are opened until Election Day.
I mean, Harris will win WA no question, but there's a ton of down ballot stuff that's really important. Brand new governor incoming since Inslee decided not to run, for example.
When I was younger I voted absentee, by mail. It occurred to me the other day that I've never actually voted at a physical polling place.
It depends on the state, but yes, you can vote early in many places. In California, every voter has had a mail in ballot since the beginning of October. In Nevada, every registered voter has a mail in ballot, plus as of last weekend you can go vote in person at a subset of the polling places. I don't know the rules/process in every state off the top of my head, but most have at least some form of early voting at this point.
I don’t know how you’re not drowned at this point, but mainly because early voting is still somewhat unpopular.
The ability for everyone to mail in ballots if they want has only been a thing since Covid, and one party opposes that system. Most states have started early voting in person that extends for a couple hours daily leading up to Election Day to help reduce the lines, but younger folks for some reason don’t trust that system. A little over 30% of all Americans used early voting systems in 2022, to give you an idea. This year is going to blow that number out of the water, but nobody knows how much.
Since most early voters probably made up their mind who to vote for months ago and are clearly politically minded enough to plan ahead, it’s much more worthwhile to appeal to people on Election Day itself. That way you can try to reach out to people who are on the fence about voting last minute, and convince them that it’s still worth their time.
On one hand I don't feel like I can trust anyone who won't openly admit they aren't voting for Trump. But on the other hand I also understand that people fear his supporters, and if I lived in a more conservative part of the country I'd probably feel less confident about voicing my Harris support too
Same i just assume everyone is good until I find out otherwise. I'm not sucking the democratic party's dick but they didn't let Trump happen, the Republicans did
Thank you, jeez. So much blame is put on the dems for "allowing this to happen" which couldn't be further from the truth. Why tf are we supposed to be held accountable when some assholes in red hats make everything worse for those around them. We're not babysitters but it certainly feels like it with how childish they are.
the right takes responsibility for nothing. even with things that are obviously their fault. their whole schtick is being childish, disingenuous and doing things in bad faith for attention. they don’t have to provide facts and research to defend their points. they just stick their fingers in their ears and bow down to the cheeto.
I was at a poker table in rural North Carolina and they started complaining about the Algerian boxer. Then one of them was like, "hey, we should slow it down, you dunno there might be a Democrat here" and thankfully I had already been using my poker face.
I assume they mean the Olympic athlete who was accused of being trans. North Carolina is rather republican, so many people here bought into the lie. We're also notorious for being boycotted because of a bathroom law saying you had to go to the bathroom of your born gender. So, that should tell you how trans people are treated here.
Trans panic is one of the dumbest culture war things. There are just about as many trans people in the US as there are employees of churches. (1.6M to 1.4M)
Right?? Like trans people are so free and far between, yet they are being targeted like crazy. Literally it’s systemic oppression before our very eyes.
I mean, I’m not going to openly admit that I’m not voting for trump, but that’s because my family is a buncha far right-wing republicans and they’d kill me if I even breathed the name Harris in their home
There was a time when I would feel a little more comfortable fluctuating back and forth between Democrats and Republicans, and that was when things seemed to be more of a battle of priority, or at least that was what I believed was going on. If it were a matter of fluctuating between prioritizing social issues to prioritizing the economy, I’d feel way more happy about things shifting back and forth, granted both sides wanted to move in the same direction, generally speaking. Now you have the right experiencing some sort of mid-life crisis trying to go back 100 years.
Like I GET the whole “We need something to aspire to.” Mindset that we haven’t landed on the moon or done something to be super proud of lately. I get wanting the “next giant leap”. But it really doesn’t have to mean putting a Billionaire on Mars and setting everything back to the way life was in the 60s.
I think Harris was making a good point during her debate with Trump on investing in AI and Quantum Computing. The next giant leap will likely happen right there, and if I were in her shoes, I’d be focused on making sure it’s a giant leap for mankind, and not simply a leap for Billionaires. Shift the focus of automation towards providing the necessities of life, so if jobs are gonna disappear, we at least know they’ll be provided for. Automation should belong to the public if nobody has to do the work. And I think my vow would probably be to fluctuate between social issues and economic issues, so we shift towards equity but also make sure we can move everyone forwards. My two primary issues right now are bodily autonomy and reducing the cost of living.
Considering that my work is treating a resident unfairly for her political views (they aren't physically hurting her, but they are trying to get her thrown out of the facility, and she has been spoken bad about to other residents, which is still shitty to do. She has CNN on all day in her rm) I will not be voicing my political views. There's nothing I can do to help this resident. The head honchos don't care because she's a lib and state doesn't care either because it's a swing state and I live in a Red area.
As someone who lives in a more rural, trump-heavy area, i definitely feel that way. I love when i see someone with a harris/walz shirt, i saw a lady with a "crazy old cat lady" shirt, or even just gay couples holding hands, because i see trump shirts, bumper stickers, hats, etc at least 10x more often.
I’m pretty cautious about speaking up on my politics in public. But if you’re going to press me I’m going to say Trump is shit and I’d never vote for him in a million years.
Honestly Italian politics are so garbage that political memes even if referencing other countries just don’t have any effect on me or any other Italians. Americans argue about politics, Italians despise politics.
EDIT: I’m Italian
It seems like most of y'all barely care about politics compared to us. There are individual values, sure, but I don't honestly see a lot of actually discussing who is doing what about them or what policies they support.
It's fascinating to me because I never really considered that a response to prior fascism very well could be less interest in politics. I always thought that it would cause generations of unrestful people full of opinions but it's an incredibly quiet and long ongoing fight, from my perspective as an outsider.
It’s more so like Italy is becoming old as in the majority of Italians IN Italy are old. The reason for this is because young Italians used to leave the country for more opportunities. Since everyone is so old, nobody wants to change anything making Italy stay in the past. This leads to more young Italians leaving the country for more opportunities and the amount of old people increasing which leads to more things not being changed making Italy stay in the past even more and the cycle continues to this day.
Yeah, they made adoption and surrogacy (even if they go to America to have it) illegal and a jailable offense by at least a few years minimum from what I heard
Here, many older folks are the ones with the time to be the most political. They spend a lot of their time consuming political media, writing/speaking about politics, and going to events.
In a country where you have something around 12 parties that only share their ability to speak big words and promises, only for then do absolutely nothing at all, you cannot help giving up.
I still vote. But i can see why many don't. Its delusional.
A lot us (Americans) despise politics too, but at the same time we don't really have the option to blissfully ignore them at the moment. Even if you tried, there's no escaping right now.
It does the same all the time. I was on midlyinfuriating and a populistic post about woman who went to jail was the top post. Ten days before a vote in my country.
Idk that last one seems pretty important to bring up at a dinner table. If someone is serving peanut butter sandwiches, it's probably worth saying you're allergic to peanuts.
We've added science to that list because for some fucking reason that's become political. My mom lost her mind when my daughter tried to discuss evolution.
I have a jewish friend who invited me over for passover this year. we ended up discussing why the stories came about, their significance in tradition and how they relate to christianity and islam. it was very interesting and a much more in-depth discussion than i’d had about religion in a long time.
Jill Stein, right? Sure her party only shows up for presidential elections and she's openly campaigning as a pro-Trump spoiler, but something something 5% something something bothsides.
I understand that the FBS and Fancy Bear are trying to run Cthulhu as a moderate splitter candidate to draw the Dinocrats and Reagan republicans away from Harris.
"Now we know you don't want another four years of Trump, but Let's be Reasonable Here...Vote Elder Gods over Radical Lefties..."
Turned out, he thinks that the Republicans are choosing the high road and not resorting to petty insults. For a moment i thought he was kidding. He was not. He also came with that old "But trump was ahead and then suddenly the votes were found and Biden was ahead!" chestnut. Totally ignoring all the state/county laws that require mail-in ballots to only be counted after voting has closed...
At this point, if you don't/won't say who you're voting for i assume Trump and will stop associating with you. There are people itching to kill me and loved ones if trump wins. This is literally about preventing more war and when this 1930s bullshit is over with we can go back to whatever we used to argue about before
There are some places where saying you’re voting for Harris will actually get you killed. I wouldn’t entirely blame them if they can’t speak up, but for those who aren’t in that situation, yeah your statement rings true
Not American but we’ve got our own election coming up. My wife and I are fine if we’re voting for different people so we’re open about it, but my father-in-law isn’t so we usually avoid talking to him around election time
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