Oh man, this whole sexy she-animal thing wasn’t really a thing when I was a kid. Yeah, they had anthropomorphized animals, like “Miss Bunny” from Bambi or even Guinevere as a literal fox on Disney’s Robin Hood , but nothing really designed to be attractive as some kind of crossover. Even in the ‘80s if they wanted someone sexy they made it a human, like Jem or something. Wasn’t until the later ‘80s and ‘90s that I think that changed to getting more “furry” like.

This was so incredibly true when I was a kid. Really tough childhood. Didn’t help that one if my parents was authoritarian and prevented us from watching TV, further isolating us from those common social interactions of knowing TV shows or lines. Blocking TV was, of course, punishment for poor grades and failure to accomplish tasks at home too, because wouldn’t you know it, ADHD goes hand in hand with ASD.

“Fuck the little guy, hoard the assets, build bunkers.”

That’s some logic all right.

You can endorse the winner and not vote, or even the opposite, or vote for the winner. Whether or not you vote doesn’t take away your opinion on the results. It’s not really an issue that needs debating.

At face value and objectively it’s wrong.

Most Americans did not vote for Trump.

Here’s how it works:

*US Population, adult over 18: ~250 million.

*Of that population, ~244 million are eligible to vote.

*Of eligible voters, only 63.9% voted.

*Of the 63.9%, less than half, 49.8%, went to Trump. To re-emphasize that point, Trump did not get more than 50%.

*Harris got 48.3%

*The ~1% difference voted third party.

The math is pretty basic. 63.9% of 250 million is 159.7 million voting, 49.8% of that voting for trump is 79.5 million.

So out of 250 million, ~32% actually voted for trump. The rest is the issue with the electoral college, but we’re talking people, not the EC.

But wait, that’s just voters. What about people?

Pew shows 49% Democrats, 48% Republican, 3% other, so 52% are not Republican.

So by no metric are a majority conservative or Republican.

There was supposed to be a well regulated militia.

The militia we have are gravy seals and Y’all Qaeda who want to dismantle regulation and rights.

Yeah, fucking over some wageslave by making them clean that up really sends a message to the country. TF, man.

That’s an understandable position. I also agree that we should let others do what works for them so long as nobody’s being hurt even if we wouldn’t choose to do it ourselves. However, I view polyamory as something that happens in an already established relationship, not the casual dating phase.

Yeah, could be that too.

“I’m a republican, and I will consistently, and wrongly, vote in what I think are the best interests of my wallet while paying lip service to liberal social ideals. “

Only a problem if she’s lying to the guys, telling them that they’re exclusive in some way.

Casually dating more than one person isn’t a big deal as long as people are honest about it if it comes up in a conversation and isn’t a problem for everyone involved.

I assume the left is two nuts. The right is a head over two boobs.

Stupidly cryptic, though.

“I’m a democrat/liberal, but…” is a tried and true method of conservative dismantling liberal talking points. Sure, as liberals we are far more openly critical of our leadership than conservatives are of theirs, and we regularly voice those concerns. But that isn’t our entire discourse, and we just as openly support liberal policy and leadership where it’s deserved. If someone’s entire schtick revolves around criticizing democrats or liberal policy without supporting good policy or people, they’re not liberal. They’re just a waste of time.

Right? That country started backsliding democratically a while ago. They’ve suffered from nationalism, populism, and conservatism that landed them essentially a right wing authoritarian. The fact that trump likes Erdogan should be warning enough that all is not well in Turkey.

The wealthy reduced access to education and increased economic instability for the average person.

They wanted less taxation, so they made taxation evil. Taxation paid for education and could have been used for more. They also made sure things that would stabilize the middle and lower classes were cut or never materialized - free higher education, unions/pensions, and health care.

When you remove economic stability and reduce average income people need to work more and start working younger just to keep food on the table. No time for higher ed.

They created an environment that pitted people against each other where you “get yours” and fuck everyone else, crabs in a bucket, and also have been painting higher education as a bad thing ideologically. They now claim that it doesn’t work economically even though every metric shows higher education raises average lifetime earnings (assuming you don’t pursue a 6-figure education for a low-paying job and/or with poor advancement to higher wage tiers).

It must have a venomous bite.

Dimethylmercury.

Two drops will kill you in a few months and nothing can be done. It penetrates clothing, regular latex gloves, and skin very easily and unnoticed.

Pretty terrifying stuff. Not sure you’d be able to figure out availability or production in your plot, but as far as poisons go you’d be set for time between dose and death.

Still hasn’t happened in the US? You choose a single industry as an indicator to base a claim on the state of US industry vs vast manufacturing losses the US has faced over the last 50 years?

Same thing that happens everywhere. Low cost innovation gets expensive as companies grow and salaries rise, profit seekers move to exploit cheaper labor elsewhere.