For me it’s saying, “we can’t joke about anything anymore”. Sirens go off immediately 🚨
“females”
I asked chat gpt…
Anytime anybody tells you “I don’t do drama”, 99% of the time they are the cause of all the drama.
Actually chill people pretty much never bring it up.
For years I avoided TNT for just this reason, always figured it would explode my life
the new testament ?
Trinitrotoluene, the explosive?
could be …
TNT - Explode
How’d you not make that connection?
I’m not a big demolitions man
Huge red flags…
…are missing from the proposed blast staging site, this is massively unsafe. :(
“I hate playing games.”
Buckle up for the relationship equivalent of Gary Grigsby’s War in the East 2.
What about people who say that they like drama
Either chill “tea” enjoyers or agents of chaos.
No middle ground.
I’m always up for some “drama” as long as that means “yapping about things that aren’t as serious as someone I care about dying/suffering something grievous”. 🤷
Why doeth thou ask?
AKA younger siblings, if you’re into the whole brevity thing
I think they just mean they like witnessing it.
I don’t care about politics
On a related note: “I don’t see why you’d stop being friends with someone over politics”
Especially these days with what basic human rights have been made political, politics is probably pretty high up there on my list of reasons I’d see in why not to associate with someone.
Politics are an extension of ethics so you kinda have every reason not to associate with someone whose moral compass is all fucked up (and so are their political takes).
Depends on the country and the party. I won’t stop being friends with someone who disagrees with me about the best way to assure solvency of pensions (even if they support a private scheme), or how to best support transitions to clean energy, whether we should forbid the installation of gas heating or wait for the cost advantage of heatpumps to speak for itself.
In some countries however the discourse is whether some people should be executed on the street or not if they displeased a thug with a gun, or if their choice of sexual partner is not of the liking of the government.
Yeah in less interesting of times I would much more understand where they’re coming from. That being said in this specific context it was the quoted person (person A) not understanding why a friend of a friend (B) would no longer speak to them after learning A voted for Trump multiple times.
The subtext I was picking up from the conversation was that B (I assume) is one of many groups being specifically targeted by Trump so they refused to be in the presence of or communicate with someone who’s by proxy targeting them. A on the other hand just seems to see it all as politics and doesn’t understand what the big deal is about.
In another country or in another time I could understand but given the time and place, their confusion came across to me as showing how oblivious they were to the policies they voted for, who was going to be affected by them, and how negatively they were going to be affected by them.
I totally would be good with someone not being friends with me due to my politics. It would be a great passive filter.
“I want my country back…”
Yeah, so did all those places we invaded.
I want my country to become what I thought it was when I was a kid, not how it ACTUALLY was.
I would sympathize with this one, honestly.
I think we all (in the US at least) grew up with a very skewed and generalized / propagandized version of its history, one that’s specifically designed so we identify proudly with it. (I’d imagine most countries are similar on that last bit but idk)
The more time goes on, the more atrocities come to light, the more insanely layered and nuanced and complicated it all is, it’s quite an overload with everything else we have to deal with as adults. (Especially when most of it is crap we can’t even do anything about.)
The constant realizations that approach closer to the truth are often painful. Nobody likes realizing they were lied to so much in their formative years.
Yeah, I too would like if my country was run by virtuous people trying their best, and if unknown badass action heroes stopped the bad guys, instead of living in an evil empire run by those bad guys, and if hard work actually meant something.
Time to rewatch The West Wing again.
Hahaha I’ve heard it described as “competence porn.”
I’ve heard similarly positive things about “Madam Secretary.”
As have i.
Never seen that, I’ll check it out!
I can’t. Not yet. It’s like watching videos of yourself with that wonderful girlfriend, before you screwed everything up
Ouch, that hurts.
" I heard you want your county back. no shit me too"
Normally said by people who very literally think that it’s their country (white, conservative, and typically male).
“Silent Majority”
It’s always their go-to when pressed on when they’re called out.
They can’t grasp the idea that their beliefs are really that unpopular so they cling to an idea of a “silent majority” that agrees with them but is either too censored or too bullied to speak up for what they think is the truth.
Sorry buddy, there is no such thing as a “silent majority” quietly agreeing with you but afraid to speak up, you and your illiterate buddies are just assholes and your opinions are shit.
“There are things I like about both sides.”
Self-identified centrists are always well to the right of the actual center
Centrism is an ill-defined concept that loses meaning outside the US
What a Americanocentric thing to say. What do you call centralism outside the US? I’m the middle?
TBF nobody does the 2 party system quite as 2 party as the Americans. At first I was inclined to agree with you and disagree with OP, but the more I think about Canadian politics the less enlightened centrism I see… Just conservative doofuses who view the world through tik tok.
Centrism as it exists in its colloquial form often ends up referring to a bridge between Republican and Democrat ideas—both American parties. As the other comment said, no one two-party-systems quite like the US.
Guys who refer to women as “females”
ninja edit - I see I’m late to this party
Anyone who uses ‘woke’ unironically
Grown men getting extremely worked up about cartoons or woman in videogames.
“There are not a lot of people like us out there nowadays.”
This is a common MAGA comfort/greeting line they use when they meet new people.
caring a lot about low birth rates and demographic shift (into an aging population). i have litereally never met a single person who’s reason for worring about these wasn’t just racism. when pressed enough their arguements almost always deteriorate into some variant of the nazi “great replacement” psueudoscience
Low birth rates do have a great impact in the pension schemes of countries…
That problem can be mitigated with immigration. Immigrants pay taxes and are entitled to the use of fewer social services.
People that are opposed to this might be concerned about “great replacement”.
Of course, a country’s current occupants have the right to have a family of their own (though not everyone should exercise that right) and their children should be able to grow up healthy and happy. The country should not descend into the wealthy 1% that can afford children and a rotating underclass of immigrants. That’s basically Saudi Arabia.
Exactly, that’s why instead of telling them to go fuck themselves, I tell them to go fuck one another.
I’ve always thought it was just rich people making sure they had laborers.
“I want to eat the people from the surface.”
good reference
Is this a reference to Morlocks?
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/C.H.U.D
Full disclosure, I only know it from Rick and Morty
For me it was Simpsons and Clerks 2.
“And that’s when the CHUDs came in”.
Never heard of it! I do enjoy a B-movie now and again. I’ll see if my library can request this.
The people who respond to everything with “no one owes you anything” and “pull yourself up by the bootstraps”.
We all know no one owes us anything, going out of your way to respond like this, actually shows malice.
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