Which is perfectly fine. Looking through your post history you seem to have a lot of posts just trying to make sense of life. That’s a good thing as long as you don’t expect answers to be very neat and logical solutions to your problems.

You sound a lot like an angsty teen with undiagnosed autism. I went through similar scenarios when I was a teen. A few things to consider

If you’re actually right, you shouldn’t really need to explain yourself. The truth should be evident.

If you’re explaining why you’re right to someone, what do you gain by convincing them? And does that justify the effort to convince them? You may be denying them that same gain by not conceding they are right.

Emotions can alter the landscape and motives might not be pure. If you’ve continually berated someone and harangued them about how you’re right, they might just argue with you to deny you that validation.

Mechanical isn’t the only part being played. There’s hormones too. I’m positive there’s differences there depending on alone or with someone. Whether or not that has any health implications I’ve no idea.

The church used to defend pedos. They still do, but they used to too.

Now I’m curious. What is Russian news saying about the war?

To be fair, their version also came with forgiveness and absolution. So I’m sure plenty of pedos confessed their sins only to be told, “say a few hail Mary’s, and try not to do it again. But as far as god is concerned, it’s like it never happened.” So they could convince themselves they did nothing wrong.

Trump supporters are more likely to say things are “great” when asked how the presidents policies have affected them.

They’re also likely to say “Biden’s policies” were terrible and “trump’s policies” are the best even if they describe Biden’s actual policies as “trump policies” and trump’s actual policies as “Biden’s policies”.

Someone just watched Liar Liar.

My recollection was if it was on like school property or some place kids were likely to be. That would trigger some enhancement to the crime. I’ve never been in a position to need to know if that’s true or not.

I’ve laughed a number of times watching a car stop at a light or stop sign only to have the entire contents of their snow covered roof slide down the windshield completely obscuring their view. Like had to put flashers on and get out to clean.

…then instructing congress to put some laws down to fix all the holes the GOP used and abused.

Honestly, I think we need someone to brazenly and publicly abuse the same loopholes they exploited. Then dare them to close them.

I’ve heard so many dumbass red hats crying that the US provided too much to other nations while getting little in return. They’re about to find out what we actually were getting in return. If other nations step up their militaries to fill in gaps where the US is abdicating its lead role, we’ll have less use for our own and can lower recruitment incentives/quotas. If we piss on trade deals with other countries, they’ll work more with China and other world leaders, stripping the US of its influence globally. Worst of all, even if their propagandist of choice have then that info, they are literally too stupid to understand.

I’m big boned.

If you ate a tub of crisco you wouldn’t gain weight equal to the caloric surplus. Your ass would never be the same, but you wouldn’t gain a ton of weight. That doesn’t mean it doesn’t have those calories.

Ask your doctor. If you don’t have a doctor, get one. If you can’t afford one, look for local resources or help.

Huh. J4k3 has several ignoramus markers reflective of generative AI in the text. Obviously those are based on traits that occur naturally, but the combination of traits here are all in harmony with a certain state of ID10T hidden layers model alignment. The background, sentence structure, overall stupidity profile in STFU, word choice on each area of the post, font color and pattern, flatness of the tone, the strands of spittle extending over the slacked jaw combined are especially curious.

Sure. But from my philosophy, everyone is to some degree. The issue becomes what they do with it.

My hot/shit take. It’s not ableist to say any disability makes you uncomfortable. Everybody is entitled to their feelings and discomfort is one of those. What makes it ableist is how you manage that feeling. If this ex-friend as you detailed stats trying to poison other friends against you, that’s bad. If they try to limit only their own interactions with you, even if it costs them friends or otherwise enjoyable times, in an effort to not sour the mood of the group or to avoid their own discomfort, that’s OK.

My philosophy is that everyone is at least a little bit bigoted. It’s simply a matter of to what degree but more importantly how they manage it. If someone is purely racist down to their core, but they do everything they can to avoid minorities and don’t try to spread their views, that’s not terrible. If they understand it’s wrong and try to minimize their impact in that regard, I think that should be allowed. I wouldn’t necessarily say applauded, but certainly not condemned.

Do they? I’m not convinced some of those idiots aren’t completely surrounded by sycophantic yes-men. They have been convinced they are worthy. My only hope is that the power vacuum on his death sucks them all into oblivion with infighting and back stabbing.

Where’s the jorn when you need it?