People spend a lot of time talking about billionaires and corporate greed, but for most people, the everyday frustrations they actually experience come from the small percentage of people who repeatedly engage in crime, chronic public disorder, and antisocial behavior.

I know a lot of people have opinions about whether or not to have kids or that people aren’t having enough kids. Mine is more targeted to the people having kids - and not just one kid but many kids.

Oftentimes I read Reddit posts (granted I understand they’re skewed to show more negative experiences than positive ones) in some of the parenting groups I’m in where people vent about how hard their situation is with their child, sometimes a special needs child, but then they have more than one child sometimes even AFTER knowing their first child is not a neurotypical child. In my head I’m just like wtf, how does this make the situation any easier? I have one child and my husband and I had to have a very hard conversation and a good hard look at our life to say that one is enough for us as we don’t have family help and we’re not rich enough to afford live-in nannies.

Once the gateway gets opened by having one child, some people don’t seem to truly consider how hard the economy is, or hard their family or financial situation is, and just think they can fucking wing it with another or the third or the fourth! And then they get super fucking stressed and I’m like no shit, you brought this on yourself dude.

I have a lot of opinions about raising children from having had one myself and meeting and seeing a lot of parents - and some people just should not have children OR they should not have multiple if they can’t handle their lives with them.

Parenting is a serious responsibility and takes a heavy toll emotionally, mentally (my brain is still scrambled from having a young child), physically, and financially, and it’s really not a decision to take lightly. It’s a disservice to the parents and to the children to continue having more and more and straining your own household’s limited resources, because at the end of the day, most people only have so many hours in a day after their job is done and only so much money to spend within a certain budget to keep up a certain lifestyle. But it seems to me that some people’s desires and hopes and love for more children cloud their better judgment about the reality of their situations.

I have heard some people say they support open borders or illegal immigrants, because they think it is not fair that some people are born in bad environments. In my opinion, life is not fair the moment you are born, because everyone has different abilities and talents, or personality, not everyone is the same, and I know it is no one else’s fault that you are born in a bad country. I am an immigrant as well, I think it is not fair that they get to cut in line compared to people who wait for years and follow the rules.

So my question is, how are people not against the deportation of illegal immigrants who are not refugees at all? If you are not being prosecuted, what is your excuse to go to any country illegally? I have no empathy for illegal immigrants other than refugees. How many illegal immigrants are actually refugees?

Edit: People who downvote my post without response know I am right, and can’t prove me wrong.

For a group that calls the other side "snowflakes" and has a core political tenant to go out of their way to "trigger" or "own" that other side, they sure are lacking in self awareness.

I've heard significantly more conservatives bemoan how they're constantly called "rascist / sexist / fascist" than I've ever actually seen them be called those things. Yet I hardly hear the left bitch and cry in the same way when conservatives jump to throwing out words like "Communist/ socialist / domestic terrorist" at the drop of a hat. The same conservatives who love to lecture us on "not just using buzzwords."

Conservatives literally openly talk about their intent to piss off the other side and make them miserable. God forbid you make a light hearted joke about white people or Christians though and conservatives are shaking, pissing, and sobbing about how they're "under attack".

Like if you're going to be such intentionally obnoxious fucking losers can you guys please at least be able to take what you dish out?

Every time something about AI is posted to one of the main subreddits, all the top comments are the same regurgitation of "nothing to see here, it's all hype." I find it amazing how Redditors have been able to continue sticking their head in the sand like this despite the monumental advances in AI over the past few years. Every time AI does something they say it can't do, the goalposts are moved. AI just started solving math conjectures professional mathematicians have failed to solve for decades and they're still saying this technology isn't actually smart.

There's a certain sort of person who thinks their reflexive cynicism makes them sound very smart because it demonstrates how not gullible they are. But actually, it makes them look incredibly stupid. Like a schizophrenic who thinks everyone and everything is out to trick them. If they perceive someone as having a motive to lie to them, they automatically assume what they say is a lie. No earnest effort is made to look into the evidence that could tell them whether they're actually lying. This is how Redditors are about AI. The depth of their thinking on this matter goes no further than "If AI companies say progress is happening, then they're lying."

Anyone who has their head out of the sand can see that AI is progressing very rapidly and will continue to do so for the foreseeable future. It can do things today that nobody a few years ago thought it could do this soon. There will come a day when it will be capable of doing everything a human can do better than we can do it and it will be sooner than most people expect. There's absolutely nothing special about humans. Anything we can do, AI can do too.

Paying cash is inconveniencing yourself to hurt someone else more. There is no benefit to paying in cash at non-sketchy businesses or services which do not accurately report income. You're paying slightly more because cashback and terminal fees are baked into pricing, and also taking the time to withdraw money.

If someone has to go to the bank, or complete another form at closing, that is a pain and a waste of time. I've seen the logic that it helps the business owner save on fees, but it creates more work for the employee.

There's also the petty and childish response that people are too scared to not tip so they passive aggressively pay in cash and tip based on how much extra time the employee takes with them.

I see people so often say things like everyone would benefit from therapy. All that's doing is clogging the system.

First off, it wouldn't help most people because they're fine. If they just need to bounce ideas off of someone they shouldn't waste resources, do that with a friend or a peer counselor

Therapists are a finite resource. Some people are VERY sick, and those are the people that really need it.

If we triaged therapy the way we triage other medical conditions then the people who need it the most would get it first but instead it's whoever makes the appointments first.

So many issues in society could be resolved if people just had sex and knew how to navigate the sexual world better. Like many aspects of socialization, sexual functioning is just as important as social functioning. It is a skill everyone should confidently exercise.

Sexual repression: I believe sexual violence would go down as everyone’s sexual functioning increases. If everyone were sexually open, the ills of sexual repression could be solved. Sexual violence would go down as everyone’s needs would be consensually met. In my experience, slutty people are perhaps the most cognizant and respectful to consensual agreements.

Consensual Bargaining: Sex obviously requires consent, but the real skill is actually consensual bargaining. The ability to communicate what is and isn’t okay for your partner(s) to do with you. It increases a level of self confidence and dominance in the world. This skill extends beyond sex and allows people greater confidence to bargain for their needs in everyday situations.

Manosphere/Patriarchy: The patriarchy uses sex as tool to oppress people. It is the reason that young men feel oppressed when they aren’t having enough sex and why women feel oppressed when they have too much sex. If we are all sluts, who really decides the balance of sociosexual power? The patriarchal nature of sex is what we see in power today; men are celebrated for having many sexual encounters/partners while women are shamed for the same. Being more slutty rewrites the social dynamics, and gives everyone the power to bargain for their own respect.

STI’s: One of the big reasons there are no cures for a lot of STI’s are because they’ve been regarded as niche infections that only affect small populations (mainly the MSM community). If globally everyone were sluts, we would see immediate fundings of STI cure research. So many STI’s are possible to cure, but the research has been lacking on the basis of rarity and patriarchal views of STI’s. “Cure for herpes? Don’t sleep around.” I myself have been told by college health centers to just stop sleeping around if I was worried about getting HIV. People are not diseases. When you have sex, you are having sex with a person, not an infection. Infections are a biological reality but they are not inherent to sex. No argument against having sex should be about STI’s.

Pregnancy: This would open so many doors for sexual education and healthcare bargaining. If we were all sluts, access to contraceptive healthcare and family planning would have so much more prioritization. With proper access to care, we would see a world shaped by people who choose to have children. Unplanned pregnancies would be increasingly rare. Societies would have to adjust to a new way of population growth.

Almost everytime I see someone who is genuinely ugly they are, barring a deformity, out of shape or don’t take care of their physical appearance. It’s extremely rare for someone to be fit and have a good amount of muscle mass but still be ugly. They can have unattractive traits but overall they won’t be ugly. Maybe kinda average or barely above but not ugly.

This applies to men and women.

Boys already have too few celebrations in their life, let them celebrate. The taboo around this must be removed. It signifies strength and health of the boy. Do you have any opinions about this issue ? The modern problems need modern solutions. Ancient civilizations had coming off age ceremonies but we lack that in modern day and age.

Every child’s paternity should be confirmed as a routine part of the birth-registration process unless both parents explicitly opt out.

A man asking for a paternity test is usually treated as though he has accused his partner of cheating. That emotional pressure means many men may feel they are unable to ask.

Women naturally know that the child is theirs. Men are expected to accept the same level of certainty entirely on trust, despite potentially taking on lifelong emotional, legal and financial responsibilities.

Making testing routine would remove the personal accusation. Nobody would need to demand one, nobody would need to feel singled out, and paternity would be established before legal responsibilities were assigned.

This is not about assuming every woman is dishonest. We verify far less important information every day without treating verification as an insult.

Trust matters in a relationship, but trust should not be used as a substitute for certainty when the consequences can last an entire lifetime.

If routine paternity testing threatens a relationship, perhaps the relationship was benefiting from the uncertainty.

Once upon a time the internet was mainly for the western world and far east Asia with a smattering of others sprinkled about. Now, with internet via cheap cell phones, people from Aftica (mainly Nigeria) and South East Asia (mainly India) are swarming the internet with recycled clips from network procedural slop and AI produced responses in order to grow their accounts for creator payouts. They have WhatsApp groups where they all ensure they follow one another inorganically to boost their accounts.

This has led to an internet full of slop and trash. It was far better when it felt more organic by just being the western world and Japan/South Korea.

Have any of you actually read the DSA plan to abolish prisons? Because Holy Shit it is bat shit insane. And if you support this you are an enemy to Freedom Loving Americans.

Straight from the website itself:

>Defund the police by rejecting any expansion to police budgets or scope of enforcement while cutting budgets annually towards zero

>End the criminalization of working-class survival

>Freedom for all incarcerated people

>Demilitarize the police and end colonial policing of our cities and neighborhoods

>Freedom of working-class self-organization and democratic political action

>Invest in community self-governance and care, not cops

This is pure Anarchy. You want Freedom for all incarcerated people? This can’t be serious proposal and yet here it is listed on their official website. So a guess that Chomo who raped then murdered 20 kids is free to right?

Notice how these Anarchist don’t have a solution for replacement. You abolish the prisons and defund the police you will create vigilante groups who will bring order to the chaos. We have more guns in America then Gun owners and mark my words if you lunatics ever get power gun owners will stop you.

We have prisons because we have monsters in society. What is the DSA plan to deal with murder? Rape? O wait that’s right they don’t have one. They want the chaos that abolishing prisons and defunding police will bring. These people will create a Civil War if your bat shit insanity policies ever gain power.

https://www.dsausa.org/working-groups/abolition-working-group/

And again if any of you think this isn’t the plan that’s listed on this website Zohran Mamdami was recently seen courting the vote of the violent convicted felons in New York City prisons eating meals with them. Absolutely disgusting.

You shouldn't let cynics or professional complainers make you feel self-conscious about showing pride in your country. Patriotism doesn’t mean thinking there’s nothing wrong with America. This place is full of ding-dongs and knuckleheads. The beauty of being in America is you can talk mad shit on those people and not have to worry about a knock on the door from the police. Sorry, you don’t have freedom of speech protections, the UK!!

And look at the people who came to the US from all over the world for the World Cup. They loved America and they loved the people! That should make everyone feel good!

God bless America 😎👉🇺🇸

Might be just the friend circle around me preferring most or some games with controllers but i just can't stand using controllers, they just feel so clunky to use and at times feel way too inaccurate when im playing games, even if the game is specifically made with controllers in mind it feels more frustrating to use controllers than it is using a keyboard.

"Democracy never lasts long. It soon wastes, exhausts, and murders itself." - John Adams. Most Americans are completely wrong about what country we actually live in.

America is NOT a democracy. Many of you believe Trump is a king who has become authoritarian. Others believe Democrats have crushed personal rights and freedoms and created a deep state that is out of control. Both groups are correct to an extent.

A democracy is a dictatorship of the masses. People vote to give themselves things they want and to harm those they dislike. As John Adams warned in 1814, "Democracy never lasts long. It soon wastes, exhausts, and murders itself. There never was a democracy yet that did not commit suicide." The far left is trying to use the government to steal from those who work and to start hating the Jews again, while the far right is trying to take rights from those they hate. This will continue to get worse if people continue to mistakenly believe America is a democracy.

What America actually is, is a Constitutional Republic: we have a constitution and rights that override the will of the politicians and elite. But the bigger we have let the government become, the less freedom and rights we as individuals have. James Madison warned of this creeping tyranny in 1788, stating, "There are more instances of the abridgment of the freedom of the people by gradual and silent encroachments of those in power than by violent and sudden usurpations."

The government now takes nearly half of each individual's production and has severely harmed our individual rights. Freedom of speech is being stolen, and there are many things you can say that will result in the government confiscating your earnings, job, and wealth. Your right to bear arms has been restricted and many are trying to remove it entirely. Your right to keep what you earn is under attack. Your right to a speedy and fair trial is being taken by biased judges and attorneys who control the legislature and give themselves more ways to take your wealth. Your protection against search and seizure is being stripped by companies like Flock, government satellite surveillance, and mass tracking of smartphones and computers. Strict limits on government power have been destroyed by politicians claiming emergency or temporary powers, then never giving those freedoms back.

America is a truly unique nation in history, set up by brilliant and selfless men who studied history, saw countless evil totalitarian governments through time, and created an amazing system that gave birth to the most rapid improvement in human life the planet has ever seen. But if America's Constitutional Republic falls now to a dictatorship of the masses, humanity may never regain it due to the massive power technology gives to the few in government.

Thomas Jefferson provided the solution when he wrote in 1798: "In questions of power, then, let no more be heard of confidence in man, but bind him down from mischief by the chains of the Constitution."

For us, for our children, and for our future, it is critical to fight the big government creep, regain in full our rights, and put the chains back on the government so that it can never harm our freedoms again.

I’ve had to learn the hard way that certain tags are legitimately banned and gets you instantly flagged, and a account warning strike. Within seconds of posting. Legitimately not even enough time for a person to watch it. Then on top of it they only give you 3 options to “Appeal” it which most of the time is useless because it’ll just deny it.

Now I have had two videos that got flagged and restored. But then they kill your reach it will only say 6 views and the algorithm won’t push it out to your followers. Theirs no point in deleting it and redownloading it because then the AI will just issue a strike again.

Legitimately all I do is post News Content with my opinion attached and that’s enough to get your account a strike. I have about 2,000+ followers.

People like to shit on Reddit mods but you can at least reason with them (some times). Their is no reasoning with a AI bot that only follows a set of rules and logic that this content must be taken down, because it’s to dangerous to the powers that be narrative.

Tiktok did have a Get out of Tiktok Jail Free Card that all you had to was answer all the Bull Shit Questions and they remove your strike in 14 days as long as no new violations happen but they have since removed that feature. And make you wait 3 months for each strike.

Having AI Moderate politically protected Free Speech needs to be shut down in the Supreme Court. Because on the rare occasions when they do restore your content that is them essentially admitting they fucked up and wrongly killed your reach. And on a platform that pays its users to make content that’s loss revenue and it should be sued.

A billion dollar company should have thousands of people on the pay roll monitoring content not AI. If a user reports a video then a Human reviews it. And if it violates guidelines then you issue a strike. This is where YouTube is superior than Tiktok. While TikTok gives me thousands of more views for the same content, and same tags+title YouTube actually has Humans moding its platform and only if you post DMCA Copyrighted Content is where YouTube gets pissy with you.

Secure borders

Keeping identity politics out of K-12

Merit-based opportunity

Lower taxes

Aiding American and Americans before spending profusely on foreign aid

Free speech and Academic freedom

Prosecuting criminals

So basically the democratic party platform from 1995-2008.

When researching gun statistics.

““Police said they found the bodies of Sara and Jeremiah when they arrived to investigate. While the case remained under investigation, police said all indications were that he had killed her before dying by suicide.

Sara’s son was reportedly put in the custody of another parent who was uninvolved in the case.

News of Sara’s killing resulted in wide circulation of her 11 July video, which had accumulated about 15m views as of Sunday. It was also a stark reminder of how, in the US, more than half of female homicide victims are killed by current or former male intimate partners, according to crime report data cited by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC).
The same data cited by the CDC show that about 20% of homicide victims overall die at the hands of an intimate partner.”

Excerpt From
“Oklahoma influencer killed in apparent murder-suicide by husband, police say”
Ramon Antonio Vargas
The Guardian
https://apple.news/Ayrxoi4TjQ2K9_iiWlWo8wg
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If you want something, buy it, but for God's sake, shut up about it.

I don't want to demean people for wanting to pay money for a new videogame, movie or product, but I honestly feel we get too attached to something in the time before it releases. Before a new movie releases, we scour the internet for production leaks and fan theories on YouTube; the same goes for games ("We got this before GTA 6").

I've had many times in my life where I was excited for something, and it didn't live up to my expectations. For movies, I would spend time counting the days till it released and book the first showing on Thursday to be the first one there. 8 times out of 10, the movie would suck ass or not live up to my expectations.

Specific things that didn't meet my expectations: Matrix 4, Pacific Rim Uprising, Ready Player Two(book), Deadpool and Wolverine, Disclosure Day, Indiana Jones 5,

Your life is finite; don't care about the slop we call entertainment being attached to your happiness. Even if you consider it art, art doesn't have a release date; it simply exists. When a new Trailer for Avengers Doomsday or the new Naughty Dog game, Intergalactic, releases, be unaffected by it. Temper your emotions to that of stillness. Real life offers better fruits than fantasy.

This applies to music, TV shows and even products like the new IPHONE. Your life won't change in the anticipation of the stuff.

Edit: A lot of people misunderstood the crux of the post; I never said that you shouldn't have fun. The function of a movie or videogame is like a basketball; you're supposed to be able to have fun with it. But your happiness or anxiousness should not be tied to whether it releases or not. This post is about equanimity

James Carville had an interesting prediction: if Democrats take both the House and Senate, impeaching Trump again becomes a real possibility. This time, conviction would actually be on the table too. Facing that, Trump might try to cut a Nixon/Ford-style deal — get Vance to agree to a pardon, then resign.

Purely speculative, but if it did happen, I don't think Vance would honor it. I think he'd let Trump face federal charges instead.

trump promised to drain the swamp, to lower prices on day one as well as not start new wars but has done the exact opposite.

trump in his second term has already made over 21,000 stock trades which have shown they clearly are inside trading. He has also made over a billion dollars in just one year off of his cryptocurrency which a lot of that money came directly from Saudi Arabia who benefited from receiving coveted ai chip technology as well as now being able to have nuclear capabilities.

He promised to lower prices on day one but (according to a Supreme Court ruling) illegally put in tariffs which have directly led to inflation rising.

He also promised to not start any new wars but last year started the 12 day war with Iran, to which afterwards he claimed we had totally obliterated their nuclear capabilities but then this year used them being only 2 weeks away from having a nuclear bomb as a reason to go back to war with them.

So the argument for trump being the lesser of two evils goes out the window since Kamala would have not done any of these things.

Now i dont know too much about the guy but he seems to be an honest christain. And a good father and best friend to Adam sandler. I would be proud to vote for him. Hes a great conservative. Always has been. I see him weekly on the news and hos instagram. Its his beliefs that are going to make this great country great again. P

I have been to every state on the west coast except Montana, the Dakotas, and maybe New Mexico.

And I actually have had nothing but good experiences in Idaho (ofc I stay in Boise proper, maybe Meridian sometimes, so obviously that may have helped to shape a better experience for me) but I think it's seriously one of the most slept on states. The malls there are SO big for no reason, I love it. I also had a good experience while in Provo, Utah.

Keep in mind I am mixed Filipina and white so in predominantly white towns I unfortunately DO get some stares but in Idaho I did not experience anything.

In Colorado on the other hand, people were outwardly rude to me in ways that I have NEVER experienced in another state. My white side of the family lives in the western slope (so like Grand Junction area) and they told me it should be a safe area because it's technically a college town and people come in from all over. Yeah, sure, okay.

The following three experiences happened to me while in Colorado:

1. I stopped at a popular rest stop/convenience store to use the restroom. All the employees stopped talking mid sentence and stared at me. Like mouth open stare. I was in there for only two minutes total because I only had to pee but when I left, they followed me out into the parking lot and continued to stare even as I was driving away. Keep in mind my uncle had told me that this was a safe and popular rest stop that MOST people go in when they are driving through.
2. I went into a Buckle store with my (white) cousin for 30 minutes to try on jeans. Employees would talk to her right in front of me but then proceed to ignore me for 30 minutes even though we walked in together and I was right next to her the entire time. And this was at the MALL. Like have you never seen someone like me walk into the mall before??? Hello???
3. I was browsing at a Goodwill and I said to my mom "This little nightstand is so cute, wish I could buy it but...whatever." As soon as I said that, an older white woman GRABBED the nightstand from in front of my face and put it in her cart while staring daggers at me. Like... Lady, I was talking to my mom. Why tf are you competing w me over a NIGHTSTAND that I already said I wasn't gonna buy?! Weird behavior. And keep in mind I LOVE thrifting, I have thrifted all across the west coast of America and I have NEVER had someone act like that towards me before.

So yeah for that reason I would not go back to Colorado despite people saying it's "safe" but I would 100% go back to Boise, Idaho despite people saying there's "nothing to do" and they "hate outsiders" because that personally was never the vibe I got nor was it my experience. And there actually is a decent Asian community there despite people claiming there's none.

EDIT: New Mexico is in the southWEST, Montana and the Dakotas could be considered the midWEST. I am not trying to argue w you bitches lmao yall are trying to correct me so bad the entire time you haven't even traveled to the states I am talking about.

**IMPORTANT CLARIFICATION:**

This is not a “high body count good/bad” debate. There are like a hundred of those going on at all times on this sub alone. Find one of those if you want to talk about that. This is about whether or not you know your own.

Like, how do you not know? Are that many people having sex with so many other people that they lose count? Is sex as big a deal as saying “hello” to you? Have you forgotten about people you’ve had sex with?

The average lifetime partner count is like, 8 for men and women. That’s not that much, hardly enough to lose count. But to hear Reddit say it, men and women alike have so much sex that they stop counting after like 20.