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  • Ok, let's point out how poorly timed this meme is.

    The election isn't until November. It's July.

    We did vote, and we can't vote for any state or district that we are not in. Democrats won 2020, and avoided total disaster in 2022.

    Americans cannot and never have had the ability to vote in SCOTUS.

    The last chance the Democrats had at preventing this shit show was under Obamas first term when he could have briefly stacked the courts.

  • Is my girlfriend gaslighting me? (Edit: No, she is not gaslighting me, but may have some other issues.)
  • It absolutely does not. I'm not sure what you guys aren't reading here, but the very first paragraph is about her wanting HIM to greet her when she arrived home in the Uber.

    Being scared of being kidnapped is not fear of abandonment.

    Y'all aren't helping him if you're telling him the wrong reasons to do the right thing. That ends up hurting both.

  • Is my girlfriend gaslighting me? (Edit: No, she is not gaslighting me, but may have some other issues.)
  • No, SHE wanted him to meet HER at the Uber when SHE got home.

    Today, before taking an Uber home, she sent me a text wanting me to be downstairs on the street to greet her as the Uber arrives. I read it and told her that yes, I’ll be there. I didn’t notice any further text because I was in the middle of something.

  • Is my girlfriend gaslighting me? (Edit: No, she is not gaslighting me, but may have some other issues.)
  • Really? No.

    Borderline personality disorder is a special kind of crazy, yes, but it's severe abandonment anxiety at it's core. I hate how much BPD gets thrown around, because it's quite a bit more benign than people understand.

    This situation doesn't tell us ANYTHING about any mental disorder she may or may not have.

    IT DOES tell us that she is not a healthy individual and he needs to fucking run because we don't want to find out what really is wrong with her.

  • Moderate conservatives be like
  • What doesn't make sense is that unless you've tried to change it from the outside, and your taking real risks on the inside, you can't make changes and stay "inside".

    Voting against the Facist? Outside. Protesting? Outside. Advocating for legislation to protect the outside groups? Outside.

    Reallocating funds from inside groups to outside groups? Changing from the inside. Disobeying direct orders, or purposefully making decisions that weaken the group? Changing from the inside. Sabatoging ammunition manufacturer? Changing from the inside.

    You can either be on the outside to make change or risk your life on the inside. Otherwise, you support them. Unlike many things, it is a black and white thing.

  • Supreme Court weakens federal regulators with Chevron overturning, threatening net neutrality, right to repair, big tech regulation, and more
  • The truth is the winners have already won, and no one else ever will. They do not intend to make the American Dream obtainable for anyone but Those Approved.

    It's a big club. You aren't in it. I'm not in it. everyone you or I know isn't in it. You know when your in it, because you benefit from this. If you will likely lose benefits, like all of us will, you aren't in the club.

    How do you fight those in power uninterested in giving up that power?

    You take it from them.

  • Life pro tip: Maybe give her some pointers if it's her first blow job.
  • And then there's me. Who has been with one woman, who was actually appalled by the whole attachment thing, but controlled so much of my life that I became permanently awkward, uncomfortable AND stuck with super low self esteem.

    I don't know if I suck at sex, or just suck in general. If I survive this divorce I'll take that win right now.

  • When existing becomes illegal
  • Jeez. It's sort of the worst kind of dystopic future there is.

    Concrete walls, iron bars, hard labor, and an ever increasing debt.

    Maybe I'm dumb, but how hard would it be to just not agree to work? They gonna beat you to death? Sounds better than being a slave

  • How long would it take to create a Pyramid today?
  • If anyone wants to understand the pain of fissile uranium production, play factorio. Gives you a little tiny fraction of what it's like to produce enough fuel for a powerplant. You need a lot more for a bomb.

  • How do long time married couples with a single income split finances (not seeking legal advice, literally the how)

    I'm talking like one person brought in all the money for a decade, then a divorce happens. Some of it makes sense - a house with mortgage, one spouse buys the other out of the house. Which is great, but if one spouse doesn't have the income to take a loan out to buy the other, does that mean that the spouse who does have the income has the choice to buy out or sell?

    Similarly, things like 401ks and pensions I imagine you can't just take out half the cash in them and give that to their spouse. Or does that have to be a loan for the amounts in those plans?

    Is it debt all the way down for both?

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    In Today's Cliche Post: How the fuck do I meet new people locally?

    Let me set the stage: Newly single dad of a young kid. After COVID-19 I haven't done much outside of my home and taking care of my kid. I work full time-remote, and between the kiddo and leaving room for a hobby or taking care of the house, it seems like the only other thing I have time for is sleep.

    The thing I know is that this is likely an issue with my anxiety and anxious attachment. The conclusion we've arrived at in therapy is that I gotta meet people. I apparently forgot, or don't know how to do that. Where to meet people. It's not a big city, but 200k-300k people in the county.

    Maybe I'm looking for something of a strategy more than anything.

    edit: thank you guys, I really appreciate it!

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