I typed this whole comment about how and why sociology is a science, and realized they probably don’t give a shit.

It’s like we’re being invaded, but it’s by corporations instead of an army.

Can we stop commenting this on every single political post? It just implies that the behavior in the article should be treated as normal by now. It’s not normal, no matter how common the media makes it seem.

Apparently you can’t wear black rings or have tattoos of card suites either. Which is funny, considering black rings could also signify that you’re asexual.

I don’t think anybody knows.

If you chose to live in a small and isolated down,

And then on any post about housing prices, all you see are comments like “well you chose to live in an urban area!! If you liberals would just move to rural Alabama you could afford your rent!1!” So which is it?

Then I get downvoted for saying there’s a million reasons people can’t just up and move, including a lack of jobs and other resources in rural areas. Besides, a majority of people don’t necessarily choose where they live. There are countless socioeconomic circumstances that dictate that.

It’s just proof that people continue to fall for placing the blame on one another when it should really be directed straight upwards.

What alternative would you propose for providing loans?

Making things affordable (or just priced within reason) if they are considered a necessity to live in society.

Yes, there are survival necessities ie. food, water, shelter. But in modern society, we can add Internet, phone, car (depending on where you live) or bus pass etc, and probably tuition for at least a bachelor’s degree.

If you want to buy a boat or some shit, then sure, you should have to take out a loan.

Did I mention trump anywhere in my comment?

No one said you did.

interpret all criticism of Biden as support for Trump

When you don’t vote, therefore allowing Trump to win the election…then yeah.

Equating the above with “all criticism” is what’s dishonest. Plenty of people criticize Biden who voted for him once, and they are still voting for him again. But you know that. We might not like him but believe it or not, we dislike fascism even more. Crazy, I know.

They didn’t say “any young people.”

They pointed out that 18-29 year olds have historically had the lowest voter turnout of any group. It was higher in 2020 than in the previous election year, but overall, not many young people vote. Hyperbole sucks.

https://www.statista.com/statistics/984745/youth-voter-turnout-presidential-elections-us/

“We believe in democracy in Texas…except when our feelings get hurt.”

My daughter still has to do homework during Chanukkah every night but gets the week of Christmas off

Was just thinking about this with my college, as finals week is during Chanukkah. I don’t think concessions should be made for any religion, but it’s definitely a blatant sign that christians think they are more important than everyone else and that it’s essentially already the state religion in the US.

I truly don’t understand the college students who are paying insane tuition to be there to get a degree and they couldn’t care less. I don’t know if their parents are forcing them to go to college or what.

I just don’t get it. I must be missing something really important about what makes her stand out as different from any other guitar-playing radio pop woman singer-songwriter since the early 2000’s. Why didn’t Michelle Branch get as popular? I don’t dislike her, just not my taste I guess.

The whole article could have just been this:

it remains unclear how encouraging people to vote can be construed as election interference.

But one of the weirdest things is how conservatives are totally obsessed with how many people she’s dated. One of the tweets in the article says she “runs through men like water.” Ok? Even if it were somehow unacceptable to date multiple people throughout the whole of your twenties, god forbid, exactly what in the fuck does it have to do with “election interference.”

I love how every male conservative leader can be married 5 times while paying for abortions for their girlfriends, but regular dating is where they draw the line.

This is exactly what I thought when I read that. What kind of “recalibrating” do they think they’re going to get to do with a christian fascist lording over the country?

I can’t help but have conspiracy theory thoughts, like this is some kind of conservative campaign. It’s hard to rule anything out anymore, and the idea of muslims voting for trump is just that fucking stupid.

1. Education

I really hope my student loan debt gets the memo that it was supposed to make me wealthy.

Education was the best decision I’ve ever made for myself (because there’s so much more value to education than just a career/future paycheck), but I went into it knowing that the trade off would be decades of financial sacrifice and probably hardship. The hope is that it would get me a middle to upper middle class salary, but I’m not sure anyone anticipates higher education to be even one of many keys to real financial success.

I think my wife and I did well because we teamed up early. Had we tried solo I think we would have failed.

It really sucks that marriage is now a financial necessity in the US. Some of us are ace/aro and will never get married or live with a partner. But even for those who aren’t, if someone wants to be single or just not move in with their partner, then they should be able to have that choice. I have no idea how I will ever live alone. The thought of living with roommates for the rest of my life turns my stomach. Introverts and neurodivergents should also be able to live in a situation that works for us. One of the worst parts of the housing crisis is compromising what makes a house a home - security, comfort, having your own space. It should be more than just paying to be indoors and having to live in uncomfortable, shady situations just to make that happen.

Need: Hunger is s great motivator. It also gives you this every present fear that if you take your foot off the gas, you’ll be hungry again.

I hope this is a joke. What a sad way to look at life if not.

Exactly. The problem is that it can never just stop there. If we could all just “live and let live,” then of course everyone should have the right to worship how, when, and where they want to. But humans are all judgemental, narcissistic dicks who insist on forcing beliefs onto everyone and everything because they’re right and everyone else is wrong.

In the US, it’s never just a matter of “religious freedom.” It’s a matter of people having bodily autonomy, of freedom from persecution for loving who you love, of freedom from diseases that proliferate due to the rejection of modern medicine. There are even homeless shelters/soup kitchens that won’t allow people to eat or stay the night until they’ve sat through an entire church service. And that’s considered pretty normal in terms of charities that target homelessness and addiction.

It may be a cliche way to put it, but it really does act like a societal cancer.

Alaska: cold, that one goldrush

Hawaii: warm, colonialism

I think you know more about our history than we do

Seriously. This whole comment section is disgusting.

This comment section is pathetic.