Hemingways_Shotgun

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Cake day: June 7th, 2023

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  • That’s…gross…

    The age difference is pretty much the difference between me (49) and my S.O’s daughter (18); a girl who I very much think of as a step-daughter.

    Being legal means you can’t really do anything. But morally it absolutely should change the way people see your father, and rightly so. He’s a pedo, plain and simple. When the age difference is so large (31 years), the 365 days difference between 16 and 17 doesn’t make any difference from a moral perspective.




  • Canada:

    A disappointment in some ways based on what we were promised during the campaign and especially in his dealings with the fascists to our south. Not an absolute catastrophe (despite what Maple MAGA cries on every social network), but definitely not focused on the little guy like they said they would be.

    To be honest, I feel kind of tricked a little bit. We had a legitimately good third party that usually held the balance of power (NDP) and could use their votes to cooperate with the ruling Liberals to get some legitimately good things done. (You support 10 dollar a day daycare or we won’t use our votes to help you…that kind of thing). But during the last election, there was so much fear mongering about the Conservatives that we were essentially convinced that we needed to sacrifice the NDP in order to avoid splitting the vote. So now we have a party that can basically do whatever they want for the most part.

    Even if it is the far far better of the two parties that has that power, the lack of a third party check and balance is bothersome.

    but…still far far far preferable to Pierre Poppinfresh and his MAGA-lite cultists.





  • Religion.

    It served a purpose when societies were first moving from hunting and gathering to agriculture. A community needed to coalesce around something tangible for resource sharing, protection, decision making, etc…

    It’s why, from a societal evolution perspective, we went from totemic religions based on fertility and family groups, to mass religions with defined hierachies and roles, because the evolution or religions reflect that evolutions of society at the time.

    We don’t need that anymore. It does more harm than good in the modern world.


  • I just get disgusted with everyone who’s calling for violence left and right (metaphorically and politically).

    There’s a fine line between advocating for violence, and being aware that violence is going to happen whether we want it to or not. As someone else mentioned, the Right Wingers are absolutely ready to pull the trigger and it’s naive for people on the left to think “It won’t happen to me, so why bother being ready.”

    I look at this killing the way I look at Luigi; I’m not going to shed a tear for the victim. He had it coming to him and then some. And I hope the shooter never gets found because fuck Charlie Kirk.

    I’m not saying there needs to be all out revolution. But actions such as this killing are good in that they make the other side realize that “yes…we are ready…and you’re not safe if you keep trying your shit”.