I really can’t tell if you’re being an asshole or not. These are people I grew up around, admiring some of. The uncle I fished with and his son, my cousin, currently beyond reach. I spent every summer with them. It’s heartbreaking. Am I going to cave and let them back in without some kind of ‘come to Jesus’ moment? No, but I am willing to let them admit that they were wrong, successfully lied to, and become welcome members of the family again, because I’m not a monster and neither are they. I don’t think they genuinely believe half of the shit they spout, but do it to fit in. They never had an opinion about immigrants or trans people until it was fed to them. They were just happy hicks doing normal happy hick shit.

Idk man I’m just upset about my family and jealous of people that don’t have to deal with writing off roughly half the people they care about.

If you label every person who voted for Trump a Nazi, you might be a Nazi

What about when it’s your family? I am estranged from a lot of people that I care deeply for because they refuse to engage with reason. I’m not trying to put anyone on a pedestal, good or bad.

I just want people to know that they are welcome to change their minds, nobody is going to mock them for doing so, or say I told you so. That’s what they expect, and pride is part of what holds many of them back from admitting that they were wrong. Because it’s what they would do. Unfortunately, we’re going to need to take the high road.

At some point we need to start welcoming people to the Light, instead of demonizing them for having been in the Dark. It’s pretty difficult for me not to dunk on people as they wake up to the nightmare that they voted for, but a lot them ARE actually otherwise decent folks. Making America Great is going to involve deprogramming a lot of people.

There’s really just one way to close your government account and I really wish Elon would do it.

I’ll usually throw a little Amanda code in there to stay by my side.

So glad for you to have properly functioning bowels. You’re among the lucky ones and should just be grateful and shut the fuck up

Your dad looked ridiculous Vinnie did him a favor

I want to be a hairy wizard! One entry for Hogwarts please!

Meme folder is a little dry right now so here’s a picture of my new puppy Ásgeirr. Thanks for doing a giveaway OP, just another of the good bits of reddit I’m happy to see here at our new home.

Can I come visit and mow your lawn? Are you on Hokkaido?

Thank fuck your hear too correct him, I didnt understand what he meant because of the typo!

“Ahh no see, you wanted entomology man, which coincidentally means study of bugs”

What’s his issue? Give him something tangential.

Big drinker? Cheapest bottle opener or a nip of his favorite sauce.

Angry asshole? Get him a therapy ball.

The biggest thing my condescending asshole stepdad taught me was “Kill them with kindness”. If you’re kind in a backhanded way, it’ll piss them off and you can feign innocence.

Personally I’d give him a box of dogshit

This is where I wind up every time I ask.

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Check out the company Silicon Power. If you don’t need anything fancy storage has gotten laughably cheap. I impulse bought more because I couldn’t install a game and was so surprised by the price.

So like, don’t hang out here. Nobody’s making you

Sanity?

Put me in for Hogwarts. Thanks for bringing these to Lemmy and happy holidays