My in-laws voted for Trump because they were certain Biden was going to outlaw Catholicism.
tmyakal
joined 10 months ago
Trump was fucking the economy well before COVID. His first-term trade war with China was doing serious damage to several different sectors of US manufacturing, pig and soy farmers, and the price of many durable goods.
The problem is that everybody has the memory of a goldfish.
The only reason to contact the police if something gets stolen is so that you can show the report to your insurance company.
My current phone is a Galaxy S9 from 2018. I bought it used three years ago for less than $100, and it does more than I'd ever need it to.
A decade? I thought it was closer to two decades.
Felt like less racism
To you. I promise you, racism has always been a huge problem.
I used to be a buyer for a manufacturing facility. We'd joke that if something went wrong in production, they would blame the scheduler, the scheduler would blame the buyer, the buyer would blame the supplier, and the supplier would blame our quality team.
As long as you're not the last on the list, your job is secure.
(Our QA dept had incredibly high turnover.)
Probably not a lot of “queer devout Christians” out there.
Many, many more than you'd think. Plenty of denominations have no problem with queer people. Even the Catholic church has walked back a lot of their anti-queer messaging in the last decade.
Friendship with Tim Robinson is the best modern satire on this topic because it actually makes the people who don't get it deeply uncomfortable instead.
Anything in the WAMC listening area is New England. I'll accept no other opinions.
Ah, so you, too, grew up poor?
The money is going to disappear soon no matter what I do; might as well do something fun.