Absolutely, mileage will vary, so do your research.
Mine got me a mortgage when nobody else was lending. Got my wife the house she'd always wanted, her grandma's place. I'd been a member for more than a decade by that point. The mortgage wasn't even through them, they found us the lender, so they at best got a referral fee.
I'm seething, but that isn't all that useful, I need to find a more productive way to be.
Hopefully we will get there. But we have to build before we can break down.
If that victory is won, and I do believe it can be, then we can rebuild better than before.
With climate change and everything else we face, can we realistically pull through? Fuck if I know, but this is literally the fight of our lives and futures. We have to unite, no matter how angry we are at various leftist factions.
Me? I assumed women would unify for their right to bodily autonomy. Since they didn't I don't dismiss them but hope to bring them into the fold, because they're needed and do not want to live as Handmaids, for one example.
Okay, fair. But we need to be allies in this. I don't know where to start either but I want us to pull out of it somehow.
Help build us up, please, and not tear us down. I apologize for discounting you. We can only move forward if we unify, and the left is goddamned bad at that.
There's no useful discussion to be had from you. You're just looking for a fight.
I'm tired of reddit refugees coming here and bringing that attitude.
I'm an American who has never had that bravado, has always voted against this bullshit, and even online we get spat upon when we are the ones who will somehow have to overcome the largest military on the planet.
Fucking hell, try being, I dunno, useful or supportive. If we fail here, you'll face the consequences. That's the sad reality.
The Christian Science Monitor is amazing, and from it's name you'd never expect it.
My grandmother was a Christian Scientist. I respect her but it's a baffling cultish offshot.
Its basis, though, was in radiacal feminism in the late 1800s. I used to read the Christian Science Monitor when we would visit her when I was a kid.
A large part of why I defaulted to atheism is from the fact that my Dad's parents were never openly religious, my Dad is a Buddhist, my mom was nominally Christian, her mom we already discussed, and her Dad was a Congregationalist Minister and organ player.
I figured none of them could be right and it was better to try to be a good person without those structures.
Grandma and I never saw eye to eye, unfortunately.
I should've given the full context - when I was a kid watching the news with my parents it was likely late in the Carter administration, or early in Reagan's. So yeah, fully agreed.
What we needed, twenty to forty years ago at the bare minimum, were journalists who were willing to shut that shit down.
I remember being a child watching the news with my parents and seeing an oil company defender accusing the scientists of chasing profits.
Like what the fuck? How did that not end immediately with "And who is currently profiting?" is and always has been beyond me.
...I'm not sure that's a great example of the gish gallop. Technically.
My point was that we now report the untrue claims rather than saying, from the start, "This candidate said something completely false and not worth repeating."
For clicks, views, the algorithm, for profit. Nope. It was all to game the system in order to destroy it.
Sorry, this probably isn't coherent but I'm tired and tipsy, and I've chosen to hit save.
That's all fair. I'm not at all satisfied with their performance, just not surprised. Legislators don't know how to respond to the Gish Gallop, especially when it's taken the top offices.
Absolutely, mileage will vary, so do your research.
Mine got me a mortgage when nobody else was lending. Got my wife the house she'd always wanted, her grandma's place. I'd been a member for more than a decade by that point. The mortgage wasn't even through them, they found us the lender, so they at best got a referral fee.