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by iammisc 5y ago
Right, we should do something like require fathers to pay support to their children, and become involved in visitation rights should the parties request it. I don't understand what you thinks happens in divorce that's so special.
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> And it’s really jarring to have so many things in common and then discover they’re promoting the destruction of western values … I dunno who your friends or acquaintances are, but if your view of them is that they want to destroy weste
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Look, I hate Bezos and Mark Zuckerberg and Bill Gates as much as the next guy, especially so due to my politics, but the comparison between these guys and monarchies / dictatorships is misplaced. Bezos, Zuckerberg, and Gates have all d
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yes, in some regards, no in others.
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Haha thanks. Yes... there's a benefit to being a socially awkward kid raised in a culture of close friendship in that my parents taught me in very clear terms how to make friends, that I use to this day (to apparently much greater succ
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> Why can't we just skip to the drinks part? Well if COVID didn't exist, I would have invited everyone we knew to a large baptism party, but given that we can't do that and are basically resolved to socializing in our home
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> I will say I am constantly struck by how some of my relatives from previous generations were able to have 10 kids in a 3 bed house (relatively poor) and survive, let alone be happy. Anyway that one could be relevant overall, but I am c
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People want immediate gratification, and friendship is like dating. Often, I'm the first to take initiative inviting people out... This is fine. I don't care about that. But sometimes, i'll invite someone out I don't cli
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I have two thoughts here. You seem to imply that having many many shallow friends is normal... but it's not necessarily the case. I think it's totally normal to have one or two close friends and then other more distant ones that a
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> I am at the last few years of my life before I have children and have the most advantageous combination of free time, youthly energy, and money that I will ever have I had children younger than most, and have never been starved for fri
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> granted to a corporation by granting it its special, fictive-person, liability-shielding status. There is no such thing. This is such a silly argument made by people who have no understanding of corporate liability laws. Incorporating
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> returning to treating gay people like garbage, for example, and denying their relationships legal rights. A lot of what gay people claim is treating them 'like garbage' is just the natural limitation of a homosexual relations
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Divorce can't be easy because it often involves children, which are not easy. They are the reality check on life.
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I understand that white people would find this scary, and I honest to goodness hope that the majority of white people in this country go back to having some semblance of a successful culture, but I don't see that happening in the white
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> I'm doubtful of that. Homosexuality was very normalized in the ancient western world, but it looked very different then modern conceptions. Indeed... most of what modern day LGBTQ+ activists conceive of as homosexuality in the anc
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For the vast majority of history, the vast majority of muslim men have only had at most one wife.
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I'm not sure what a 'non-traditional' family is. It has nothing to do with judgement, just a return to a culture that produces success, including in the form of a culture that can reproduce itself. Cultures that fail to do su
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Yes. I should restate... I'm not mad at low-level IRS employees. Rather the ones nominated and approved by Congress, who ultimately make these decisions.
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I'm just upset with the IRS. The IRS officers hold a position of public trust. Intuit does not.
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If you want to 'save the nation from tax filing', California should begin by simplifying its own tax forms. I'm sorry... you can't say you're trying to save us from tax filing while simultaneously having a tax form
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Eventually western countries will be taken over by Muslims and non white Christians and we will have normal social structures again. This is not a pejorative. As an immigrant, I think this will be great.
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The port of long beach is actually the port of Los Angeles. It's in la city. There's a weird finger that reaches out from downtown.
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Canada has no need to fight wars of aggression. It has only one neighbor, the united states, a nation with which it essentially shares most culture and language (Canadian English and American English is almost 100% identical). It never will
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Thank you for pointing out European backwardness. America is extremely stable compared to Europe. The time between the founding of the eu and now is the longest Europe has ever been without two major powers at war. Europe was basically the
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5 drinks/week is a lot.
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Okay sure. I don't buy that theory at all. The ruling class uses morals as a way to control society while having few themselves. Just look at the behavior of the Saudi royals.
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No not really. Protestantism is so divorced from traditional Christianity as to be something else. Half the gospel preached is terrible new age nonsense bearing no resemblance to Christianity. If we look at more catholic countries in the Am
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It doesn't matter if they were first, or if they themselves slaughtered whomever lived here before... being 'first' to be somewhere doesn't give you automatic rights over something. That is not how human civilization has
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We've lost all sense of aesthetics as something that exists outside an individual's mind. Aesthetics used to be an independent study of philosophers for millenia, until our modern age decided that all aesthetics are equally good.
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> Ok, you are not a hypocrite, but I still think it's objectively bad policy from a cost-benefit standpoint, and it's bad from every political perspective. Four arguments that might move a right-leaning person: I'm not a l

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