@Betsy4466@j_fishback@LeadingReport Get your head out of your ass. This is a politician who expressly wants to impose his will on others. If he can't figure out how to word something without being anti-adoption, imagine how "intelligent" his polices will be.
@team_ayahuasca@j_fishback@LeadingReport Now imagine head-in-ass comments like his coming from Christians and commies alike without having the slightest bit self-awareness.
I know, I know... unwanted children shouldn't be born... at least the left is honest about being pro-abortion.
@ian_bruh1@basedmerchant1@j_fishback@LeadingReport Adoption generally costs money regardless of who's doing it. All Fishback is referencing is the cost of adoption and thus implying adoption is evil.
You can interpret his meaning, but I can only currently tell that he opposes adoption.
@basedmerchant1@j_fishback@LeadingReport My parents were heterosexual Christians. They still had to buy me from the state because they couldn't conceive.
All Fishback is referencing is adoption, not sexual orientation.
Fishback has staked an anti-adoption position here without clarification.
@j_fishback Are you going to include banning adoption in this? Because your "Pete bought his kids" comment in another post might imply that.
I just want to know if you're pro or anti life.
One thing that too many "conservatives" and hyper-feminist progressive commies can really share is that they hate adoption, adoptive parents, and adopted kids.
It never fails to impress me how much the extremes of both sides really, really hate families and children.
@j_fishback@LeadingReport I don't like Pete either, but if you want to bring adoptive parents into it, promptly to fuck yourself with a tower of power Pete couldn't take.
My parents "bought" me. A whole lot of adopted kids cost a lot of money to a state or agency.
In Texas they told me to stop at Buc-ee's for gas.
I have been to shrines. I have stood in temples that took two hundred years to build.
I was not prepared for the gas station.
There were one hundred and twenty fuel pumps.
I counted them because I did not believe them.
A man beside me was filling a truck the size of my first apartment, and he was not filling it because it was empty.
He was filling it because he was here, and here is where a man fills things.
Inside was a hall so vast I lost the horizon.
A wall of jerky. A wall of fudge I did not know the country produced.
A brisket sandwich handed to me by a man in a beaver costume.
And I want to be clear, the beaver is not a mascot.
The beaver is a saint.
The people speak of him the way my grandmother spoke of the mountain behind her house.
And the bathrooms.
I had been warned about the bathrooms and I had dismissed the warning as the pride of a loud people.
I was wrong to dismiss it.
The bathrooms are famous across the whole state and they have earned it.
I have slept in worse hotels. I nearly bowed upon entering.
A janitor was polishing the floor with the devotion of a man tending a garden he loved, and when I thanked him he said "welcome in," which I have since learned is what Texas says instead of hello, and also instead of I am glad you exist.
I went in for gas. I was inside for ninety minutes.
I came out with fudge, a shirt printed with a joke I do not fully understand, forty dollars of jerky, and a feeling I can only describe as having been to church.
I did not need any of it.
I needed all of it.
I have walked through the great cathedrals of the old world. I lit no candle there.
I lit no candle at Buc-ee's either.
But I did fill the truck.
And I understand now that in Texas, this is the same thing.
@shipwreckshow At its core, this is caused by fiat money and decades of fiscal policy.
Money printer goes "brrrr" and consumer prices increase at rates that salaries can't keep up with.
Asset values also rise.
Asset holders get wealthier. Salary workers fall behind.
I hope for Thomas Massie's sake he retires to his farm and lives the rest of his life in peace. For all of our sakes I hope he goes scorched earth and becomes president
Huh. I was put up for adoption at birth. The people who adopted me (you know, my parents) were great parents.
Thanks for insulting the choices of my bio mother, insinuating that my life is awful, and assuming my parents were somehow bad.
You're obviously a great person
@kimkiminvestor I've lived though a few of these had price spikes and I drive several hundred miles in a given week.
This is going to hurt everyone in the US. But the bigger problem will be the the shipping cost increases.
Americans are in worse shape than we think.
@ts_hodl I use Square and got lightning payments turned on when they started the rollout. Unfortunately, no one has paid me with it yet, but I offer it to my customers just to bring it up.