Unfortunately I think we’re way too deep in the propaganda machine for this logic to work. That diehard base will simply not know she’s pardoned because Fox News will pretend it didn’t happen.

And if they’re ever confronted about it they’ll do mental gymnastics to get out of any shattering of their twisted reality.

How does “extremely limited” contact in a diplomatic context result in your kids getting $5 million each in his will?

Weekend like bookend, both sides.

That’s even more pathetic, lol. I hope they boo during the national anthem too, I can’t stand American nationalism. I refuse to stand for it during events.

Sie sind das Essen und ich bin der Cortez!

(Sorry to German speakers, I don’t speak it)

Attack on Chuck?

Really didn’t expect them to fly off the handle like that. We’re doing okay, my mom just has a lot to deal with right now. We’ve all been uncomfortable around my grandparents for a while, even before MAGA. I’m not above cutting contact, I already did with my older sister. But my mom is different and she needs to keep a relationship with her parents for her own sake, so I gnash my teeth in private and vent to my wife and we all keep the peace.

My uncle is a different story. He is very much not MAGA, so his cancer diagnosis is just a really shitty cherry on top.

You need to calm down and shut the fuck up about my mother.

Uh, okay. Turns out she’s a person who has experienced a lot of trauma and doesn’t want to cut out her parents who are probably not going to live much longer.

Calling her complacent in all of MAGA because she’s trying to do her best to hold things together for her increasingly dementia-affected father and disabled mother while her brother is dying of cancer is, oh I don’t know… extreme, cruel, and heartless?

Perhaps everyone you know and everyone they know should cut contact with you for being such a hateful person.

Sometimes it’s bigger than yourself. My mom really struggles with anxiety and losing relationships. If it weren’t for her, I don’t think I would talk to my MAGA grandparents anymore. I just can’t stand the hypocrisy and constant attempts to guilt-trip over religious bullshit I don’t believe in.

The child support system is also ineffective if the person is willing to run away. I’m not sure if this has been fixed recently, but my bio father abandoned us in the mid-90s and never paid a cent in child support. He fled the state and disappeared and the state wouldn’t do anything about it.

My stepbrother, abandoned by his mother and raised by our dad as a single father, would also like citation.

Conversely, my sister and I were abandoned by our bio father and left to my mom. Anyone can be a piece of shit and abandon their children, women just can’t do it (safely) between the time when abortions aren’t allowed and birth.

The Party told you to reject the evidence of your eyes and ears. It was their final, most essential command.

I’m sitting here cuddling with my infant son and I never want to go back to work. I’ll have to (so will my wife), and I hate that for both of us. But I definitely don’t want to.

Sure, but what about psychopathic narcissists that are also entitled imbeciles?

Pro-Palestine is not pro-Hamas. It is very possible, and IMO morally imperative, to be pro-Palestine and anti-Hamas.

Perfect, thank you!

Now I’m fairly sleep deprived at the moment so it could just be me, but I can’t parse your first paragraph at all, especially the second sentence.

Yeah, I think they’re confusing themselves a little bit. Which is unfortunate because it’s a pretty good system actually, it just counts 0-99 not 0-100 like they’re claiming.

OP used a word with a specific meaning. Someone pointed out that that word doesn’t apply here. You come in to say that we’re wrong for pointing out that word doesn’t apply and keep digging in to say why the word doesn’t mean what it means.

One of us is an ass for sure.