Right? Most kids are easily influenced, that’s a big part of being a child. The fact that this dude had no interest in being in Guy’s life probably had the highest influence on how he developed. Because the “I didn’t choose to be born” line says more about his parents than him, I feel
Maybe, but a couple months ago Trump made an executive order about reducing the cost of IVF. I’m sure some of that is Musk’s influence, because AFAIK all of his kids are IVF babies
Oh boy. I totally skipped over the white part lol.
I agree with you. I guess some of what I said will hold true for white Americans, but may be more generically Southern than white
I grew up in the south.
Sunday dress was a thing. Modern day, it may not have been as special because you didn’t wear the same two outfits all year. But it’s still different from funeral and wedding attire.
Sunday meals were special too. Maybe we didn’t always go out for food after church, but guarantee there was BBQ involved. If not BBQ, then fried, and/or with a salad filled with carbs and mayo.
Uh, speaking of Sunday, you could say being a Christian is a big cultural thing. My family rebelled a bit, we were Catholic.
Don’t bother Daddy while he’s watching his sports. Don’t put more work on mommy (no dirty clothes, keep your shoes clean). Mowing the lawn takes all day because we live in the boonies (or you don’t have a lawn because you live in a triplex).
All holidays are Christian. And you spend them with extended family.
The crazy thing about using that act is that I hadn’t heard of Venezuelan migrants specifically being criminal masterminds or even Tren de Aragua until Trump was in office this year. Just like I hadn’t heard much about ms13 until Trump’s first term. (I had heard of them but not nearly as much as after he talked about them in a speech)
So how can he declare Venezuela an enemy if the actions he was focusing on weren’t even national news until he pushed the narrative?
It’s on Chewy for $120 and at Walmart for half that lol
Privacy has been a big issue upheld by courts in Montana. Recently an anti-trans law failed because parents made a point to say they were losing the freedom to make decisions for their children. I don’t know where the republican brains went with that, but that law completely floundered when it came time to vote.
I judge the Gadsden flag when I see it on vehicles (MT is the only “northern” state that has a license plate with it), but people in Montana generally do care about privacy much more than than hurting the outgroup
I did that around the 2020 election and got a very sad text back that a real human sends those texts and didn’t deserve the “abuse”
So if anyone is wondering, 'fuck off" worked great in rural America years ago. Maybe it still does, because I didn’t get any local calls last year asking for my money and vote
According to a source familiar with the president’s decision, Nesheiwat’s previous positions on masking, social distancing and her support of COVID 19 vaccines do not mesh well with the MAHA vision.
Trump really is trying to beat his previous high score for American deaths
Cats have better clocks than we give them credit for. If part of petting and loving is brushing, it might help to start brushing him at a given time every day before moving to meds and brushing. My kitty is 15 now, but the addition of meds to bed routine started maybe a year and a half ago.
She is currently pawing and sighing at me because I hyper fixated and missed her usual bedtime xD
I was part of the crew for the first production of RHPS at my university last year. We are in an extremely conservative area, and knew many people wouldn’t know the callbacks. So we included a few in the programs we handed out, but we also had helpers (Frank’s “Only Fans”) that would wave/flip posterboards of callbacks as needed. By the end of each show the audience was shouting so loud our actors couldn’t hear their cues xD
Have you gone to see it again since your first show?
I just wonder if this is the elder or younger
My ancient kitty expects treats at bedtime, so I have tried to teach her she gets a pill then treats at bedtime. She doesn’t run away because she knows treats are coming, but she’ll try to spit the pill out if I don’t manage to drop it right where her tongue meets her throat.
She can get this one in liquid form to mix into liquid treats, but then the rest of my zoo gets jealous and I can’t have that xD
A little over a decade ago I slid to an icy stop as the yellow light came on in a turn only lane, about an hour north of Seattle. The guy in front of me tried to stop and ended up going through the intersection as the light turned red. I got a ticket with a photo of the intersection, but you could clearly see my car was stopped a good four feet behind of the line. It was dismissed, but I was pretty mad that I even had to fight that.
I don’t know if the tech has improved or if they have people double checking tickets before they are issued now, but I can’t say my experience made me feel positive about the automated ticket system lol
Ngl I like the last one enough to buy myself a couple pairs of fishnet socks lol
You don’t have to be barefoot in sandals
Can’t tell if you only want answers from Americans in 40-50s, but I’ll offer mine anyway lol
I was raised upper middle class, and homeschooled until a private school my parents agreed with opened nearby. I learned about nazi Germany only in the sense that was wrong to punish people for what they looked like, what race they were, and what professions they had. Very little was said about the people who were punished for helping Jewish people, and nothing was said about how the typical citizen was treated. I was taken to a traveling Holocaust exhibit and told to never be racist because of the human lives lost.
You could say I was raised to think authoritarianism was correct, especially because “democracy allows stupid people to have a voice”. I was not allowed friends from other races or social classes as far as my parents could help. So I was taught “don’t be racist”, but at the same time was very strictly told I couldn’t have anything in common with anyone else that didn’t look and live like me.
That changed a bit when I met my best friend in high school, they are a first generation immigrant. I remember later, as 19 or 20 year old, I took a quiz on my preferred government type and was fucking floored when it said I was a fascist. My dad moonlighted for an enforcement agency for much of my life, so I guess I learned some fucked up things that way, but still it was a shock.
Anyway, I have had to do a lot of introspection and self education, and I’ll never be done learning and growing. I’m not a billionaire, so I’ve probably been a bit successful with that
Gen Z: All of the above
When I was a kid there was a big lawsuit about a brain dead woman whose husband wanted to take her off life support, but her parents didn’t. Fifteen years passed from the time she went into a coma to when she was finally allowed to die.
That was only twenty years ago