I've had a guy tell me he votes for Trump because he's trying to take a balanced centrist view of things. But dude, if Trump is the center, wtf are your extremes?

Dolly Parton is the kind of saint the Catholic Church will never canonize.

Having trans people in my life led me to question my relationship with gender. In doing so, I discovered that while I am cisgender, I have a lot of hangups about the expectations of my gender in society and among certain cultural groups, including the one I was raised in. It's helped to resolve some things in my mind and discover things about myself, and I'm grateful for that.

Not surprised. What I saw that I haven't seen mentioned in the handful of news articles I've seen about this is that pretty consistently Biden was winning the Dem primaries with 80-90% of the vote with the remainder scattered among a few other options, maybe protest votes of a kind, while Haley was taking 30+% of the Republican votes. I don't honestly know how this compares to previous primaries. Could this be an indicator of some red reluctance for Trump? Will there be a similar follow through in the presidential election to tear Republican votes away from him?

What if my $1500 PC built 5 years ago has been more capable than multiple generations of consoles that have been released since? My brother has bought like 3 XBoxes in the same amount of time and my PC still outpaces it by a pretty wide margin.

Or that he's not a psychologist or neurologist, did not administer any kind of formal cognitive examination, and is not qualified to make this kind of claim.

This kind of counteracts the "AR-15s aren't assault rifles" argument, no?

Yeah, this is like one of those illusions where you can't tell if you're looking at two people staring at each other or a vase. If you're a leftie, you look at this and go, "Good, based Bernie." If you only consume the mainstream narrative that the Israelis are on the right side of history here and opposition to their campaign or our support for it are heresy, this reads like "Bad Commie Bernie."

Edit: Just read the article. It quotes Bernie heavily, seems to let him represent his own position. It juxtaposes the Israeli claim that they're not being indiscriminate against some pretty ugly numbers about the dead and displaced. The article reads pretty pro-Bernie to me.

It takes my kid half an hour of screaming and throwing a public fit just to get within two miles of a needle, so I'll take it.

At the end of Peter Pan, the Lost Boys along with Wendy and the other kids are tied to a mast while Captain Hook monologues at them. Peter has pushed Tinkerbell away, and she's fading out of existence. It seems all hope is lost.

But then Peter gets an idea and begins to chant. "I do believe in fairies, I do, I do." Soon, they're all chanting it together. "I DO believe in fairies! I DO I DO!"

And Tinkerbell pops back into existence to save the day. This is what faith is. The idea that if you believe in something hard enough it will pop into existence.

Of course, it's a fantasy story for children. I can't believe grown adults think it's true, either. It's absolute insanity, agreed. But that's where Republicans have to meet their constituents, who apparently live in Never Never Land.

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“What is it with liberals that want to control every damn aspect of your life?”

The party of Don't Say Gay and Abortion Is Murder expect me to think that it's the liberals who want to exert control over my life?

one of the first things they wanted to do was ban gas stoves

Not true. Cruz is (probably intentionally) conflating two different Republican talking points here. The New York State issue mentioned here involves preventing the use of gas stoves with inadequate exhaust that leak illness-inducing gasses into upstairs living spaces, and even then people can get exemptions for this. The changes at the federal level are for making stoves more energy efficient. This can only help consumers.

They’re trying to go after and regulate ceiling fans.

They've proposed more energy efficient ceiling fan criteria for manufacturers. This can only help consumers.

now these idiots have come out and said drink two beers a week, that’s their guideline.

These "idiots" are an organization built around reducing alcoholism. I don't think they're idiots for suggesting that drinking more alcohol leads to more alcohol dependence. I also think it's probably not fair to categorize this org as liberal. It was created by Richard Nixon in 1970. It also has no executive or legislative capabilities as far as I can tell. It only reports information to the government and citizens. A "guideline" from the NIAAA is not a law and does not represent any amount of control over people's lives.

Ted Cruz is a liar of the highest order. Newsmax is raw, uncut fascist propaganda. The only way to believe this shit is to be completely braindead, unwilling to do the 15 minutes of basic googling that I just did to form this comment, and unable to accept that the world they believe they live in doesn't align with reality.