You sure complain a lot for someone “having fun”.

This line of reasoning may have made me even stupider.

Do you realize how hard you deflect or is your normal MO just a constant red herring fishing expedition?

I’m going to break this down in summary for the audience, then I’m disengaging to preserve my mental health.

You: these people just want to live in Portland because it’s fun. They should move. Jobs are everywhere. I work from home.

Me: that’s an awfully privileged thing to say (as in, jobs aren’t everywhere for everyone and not everyone can work from home, including the electrician husband in the article).

You: The woman in the article is privileged too.

Me: what does that matter?

You: she could work from home like me.

Like any of that has any bearing on anything. You’re just stretching hard to justify being judgmental and are cranking out bad faith arguments to support that.

But so do the folks in the article (also have privilege):

And that is relevant to my comment how?

I suspect you’re just deflecting now as that’s not what your comment communicated or suggested. You said they’re making their decision to stay in Portland because they want to live somewhere fun, something that isn’t even suggested in the article.

When you make a statement with no evidence to support it, it’s often referred to as “making shit up”. If you can cite a reference in the article that explicitly states that they’re staying in Portland because they want “fun”, I’ll eat my words and issue a public apology (edit: as a post, not a comment, on .world for all to see.)

I work from home. Everywhere has a job.

Someone here clearly hasn’t checked their privilege or even just thought about it.

But, no, these folks weren’t complaining about jobs. They were complaining about not having stuff to do.

If you actually read the article, you’ll see this is also just made up.

Or maybe where their friends and family live? Where their kids have friends and support groups? Maybe where they’ve lived much of their life and don’t want to leave?

The previous poster is just making shit up so they can cast shade. It’s sad, really.

Big oof here. Maybe make sure you understand what you’re talking about before criticizing others?

I think you meant gambling, but gamboling is probably disallowed by these nitwits too.

“Yaehab, such demonstrations of joy allow Satan into your heart!” *Backhands child*

Ummm, ackshally, he’s an ephebophile, being attracted to young women, not children…

Just kidding, he’s a fucking paedo.

You could always stop and wonder why they’re calling you a bootlicker, but most bootlickers are bootlickers because they lack the ability for introspection.

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It’s also possible they’re not from the US. There are dozens of us. Dozens!

So if they instead said “known ephebophile Matt Gaetz will continue to do children and get away with it”, you’d just be like “well done, carry on”?

Add this comment to the huge list of shit I would never expect to ever say or type.

Edit: linked up definition of children highlighting that teenagers are generally considered to be children.

Dammit, I missed it! Nice response time by the mods, though.

Edit: I’m wrong, they’re still ephebo’ing strong below.

You’re a much more honest person than I am. I’d have just claimed mine was BSODing too.

Oh please, I’m hardly the only one that ghosts people on these sites. Half of the time, the other person stops talking and ghosts me instead.

Looks like you need therapy for your lack of empathy. “At least half of the other people are assholes too” is a piss poor excuse for being an asshole yourself.

Your whole post is a big, glaring, flashing red flag. It makes it pretty clear that in a potential relationship of two people, only your feelings are important to you. Definitely not good friend material and you sure as shit shouldn’t be raising children.

This is all assuming that most of this isn’t political theater, and I’m really starting to wonder how much of United States politics is actually genuine. So often the Democrats have had the opportunity to do something drastic, if less drastic then that frequently done by Republicans, to counteract the erosion of personal freedom and democracy. Yet they always seem to find a reason not to, typically with the justification that they don’t want to push the envelope like the Republicans do, despite the fact the Republicans will continue to push the envelope to their benefit when back in power.

I’m starting to think a lot of this is bullshit.

This is what happens when politics becomes team sports in a country where critical thinking is discouraged. Every time I see someone post “vote blue no matter who”, I become just a little bit stupider.

I get it. The United States has two political parties that have politics locked down. If you don’t vote for the blue team, the red team wins the championship and gets the trophy er, presidency. Red team is a bunch of fascists, blue team is fascist adjacent. Red team promises to hurt the right people and further institute a surveillance state, blue team promises to fight the red team, maybe provide better policies (the red team will just undo in four years), and further institute a surveillance state. Both will happily kill little brown kids to further enrich old white men.

What is discouraging is the number of people who freak out when someone points out both teams suck. The “get out of here with your both sides bullshit”. No, you just live in a shite country with terrible politicians. Both sides suck. If that upsets you so much that you can’t even consider it, you suck too.

I also hate it when I find shitposts in my shitpost community.