@LurkGod_@river_is_nice ??? You literally said I'm afraid to go outside and need to learn how to interact because I don't want to visit the islamic nations of Europe lol
While I completely understand the idea of making it a party rule to not endorse outter party candidates I do find it sort of funny how hard it contrasts with freedom of association
Every person who supports aborting kids with disabilities is against gene editing to remove the disabilities without ever harming the kid.
They just like killing kids. The cure is on the table, they refuse to use it because using the cure means they can't kill the sick
Watch
YouTuber Jesse Ridgway and his wife reveal they aborted their Down syndrome baby after getting a prenatal diagnosis
Lord have mercy
No child should be aborted
@LurkGod_@river_is_nice I can watch live video and interactions of anywhere in the world in those nations native languages without ever risking being mugged by a Gypsy
@unusual_whales I actually think the government should be forced to own shares is every company but not have any voting power. A government should have some skin in the game of the economy they ruin
I used to think expressing interest in someone in a relationship was completely off limits, but as I've gotten older I've realized there are levels to it.
I'm not in the "if there's no ring, go for it" camp, but if an attractive woman is clearly unhappy in a long-term relationship, it doesn't seem so crazy to poach her and give her something better.
@rachelbovard They need to learn we aren't in the placating era anymore. This type of stuff doesn't make a single person say "They are trying" it only makes them gleeful about not voting for them.
I think the Euros forget that X, like 99% of social media sites, are American platforms and any implication they have legislative power over is whole heartedly false
βWeβ are the international consensus who care about freedom. You know β the one NATO member nations invoke when they want defense subsidies.
And βweβ still agree on something: nations should apply their own sovereign laws. Which is why pathetic censorship flailing by foreign bureaucrats directed at American speech, on American platforms, protected by Americaβs First Amendment gets you sanctioned.
Sorry you canβt control the conversation anymore.
Ideological conditioning and two-tiered policing are glaring symptoms of civilizational decline. They must be rejected across the West.
The United States sends our condolences to the family of Henry Nowak and the people of the United Kingdom at this troubling time.
@StateDept Oh shove your division,
Britain wonβt import your MAGA crap.
We will grieve Henry and investigate what went wrong.
We will not turn into MAGA
@ElectionWiz They do this in an attempt to make MAGA look bad but by them doing this -in a public vote no less- it proves that MAGA isn't the problem, it's the GOP
USA. Summer. It is 95 degrees outside, and I am shivering inside a sandwich shop.
I have discovered how Americans forge strong souls.
Outside, the sun is trying to kill everyone. Inside this small restaurant, it is winter. My breath does not fog, but it is thinking about it. A man near me is eating a cold sandwich while wearing a jacket. In summer. Indoors.
In Japan we would simply turn it down. Americans do not turn it down. And now I understand them better than they understand themselves.
This cold is not an accident. This cold is a gift.
The owner has built, inside his shop, a second season. He invites you in from the brutal heat and hands you the one thing the sun has denied you all day: a reason to be cold. To endure it is to be tempered. You walk in soft and sweating. You walk out sharp and clear, a slightly stronger person than you were.
So I did not complain. I removed my outer layer and offered it to the woman at the next table, who was hugging herself. She said, "Oh, no, I'm fine, thank you." She was not fine. Her lips were blue. But she, too, understood the training. She would not break first. I respected her deeply.
The owner asked if everything was okay.
"It is perfect," I said, through my teeth, which were chattering. "Thank you for the winter."
He said, "...I can turn the AC down if you want?"
I told him no. A man does not ask the mountain to be shorter.
I stayed two hours. I ordered a hot coffee to survive. Then a second one, to hold. By the end I could no longer feel my hands, but my spirit had never been clearer.
So now, on the hottest days, I seek out the coldest rooms. I sit. I shiver. I sharpen.
And when I finally step back out into the summer heat, and it wraps around me like a warm bath, I feel it.
Reborn.
A man who has survived the winter, in August, indoors, for the price of a sandwich.