In many foreign countries the worst thing to call someone is a sucker. That means you got cheated. Someone swindled you on a transaction. But that isn't a huge insult in America. Why? It implies the wrong is with them, not you. You were a trusting consumer for this one-off transaction.
Whereas, the worst insult in America is to be called a loser. A permanent state of defeat and not being able to compete
@BonesawMD Institutionally there's this sort of double-edged demoralization game where they will blame you for not patronizing them (if you know so much better than us, white boy, why are you holding out on us) and then mock you for having the educational beliefs in question
@mtracey I had liberal friends in 2017 who kept having this nightmare where the walls closing in on Trump would for some reason culminate in Putin dropping the big one on Times Square during the New Year celebration
@liminal_warmth I thought it was terrifying enough when I decided to try synthetic cannabis and became spiritually one with the bathroom floor for thirty minutes, good to know it can always get much much worse
@DanFriedman81 Let's have a random white bitch travel back and forth on the 3 to New Lots every day and still have the balls to say it's 'basically safe'
@bendreyfuss This checks out because you see it a lot more at Union Square and at Bowery than at say Columbus Circle (inside a mall) or even Bryant Park (where they shut the self-checkout exit at peak times)
@DoctorPerin This is true but unfortunately homosexuality turns out to be less like getting molested and more like doing a drug called thinking about boys
@dwaldenwrites I refuse to believe someone writes for the New York Times and can't tell when words have been left out of a sentence for an actual reason.
@mattforney I got myself committed three states away to escape my mother and once I got a place she outsmarted me into letting her visit on my birthday weekends and compress all her passive aggression for the year into three days. OTOH she's worked in nursing homes for decades already.
@gotrice2024 Maybe different as a boy raised by a single mother but l lived like this from 17-26 and it got to the point where getting myself stranded in a psych ward three states away was a positive solution for both of us. If this wasn't mostly staged after the fact then it's very alarming.