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The immigrants who come here stick around and spend 15 years to become citizens, if it was that bad, they'd turn around and go home.

I think many of "the immigrants" actually do.

Didn't he steal the idea from two other guys though

athletic advantages/disadvantages diminish after ~2 years of HRT

This is what I keep thinking whenever I hear about this "debate." But I guess if the bigots admitted they know how hormones work, then they wouldn't have an outlet for their transphobia.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Protestant_Ethic_and_the_Spirit_of_Capitalism

If you look at the state driver's manuals from the dmv it actually says exactly that. It's already considered a privilege. Otherwise you wouldn't have to test into it and pay annually to keep your car on the road.

Generally not a lot of traffic in parking lots.

If you find reversing in to a space hard then maybe you shouldn't be driving a giant metal death machine.

Or, if you find backing out of a parking space without hitting pedestrians to be hard, etc.

What a weird thing to be high and mighty about

She probably has her credit card info on Amazon and the seller got it and has been automatically charging her. It's harder and takes longer to get charges reversed than to just not respond to a bill in the mail

I'm buying a dvd player, fuck these greedy pieces of shit

Yes, ageism is horrible and too common especially against women. But it's really disingenuous to say there should be no age limit whatsoever, especially when it's acceptable in every other industry. No one is "preying on her dementia" as some kind of distraction. They have a political advantage to having her stay in office, it's really not that hard. The choices are bullshit, as usual, because it comes down to keeping her in office the rest of her life or open it up to some fascist conservative.

Of course reasonable Californians are mad. But do you have time to organize and get the signatures for a special recall election? Not many people do.

Yeah, it's really fucked up to keep seeing comments from non-Californians blaming us for voting for her, as though we have any kind of real choice.

Regardless, it's yet another case of Americans blaming other Americans, as usual, instead of blaming a system that allows this shit to happen and doesn't give us viable choices of candidates in the first place.

most local news sites came online as garbage and will never rise above that status

The amount of pop-ups, sleazy Taboola ads, and autoplay videos (with 2 ads at the beginning and end of a 30 second clip) is too damn high. Just clicking a link is a fucking assault on your eyes. And yes some form of this still happens to me with adblockers or firefox.

I guess I thought the goal was to get people to use their websites, not fucking punish them for it.

it feels so unfair that I don't get to experience the life I have the way I imagined because getting here took too much out of me

Fuck, that's relatable.

I thought there were laws against false advertising in the US? How can these PACs and campaigns say shit like "children will be able to get dangerous sex change operations without parental consent"?? It is so far from reality and yet it's in every piece of conservative rhetoric at every level of politics. There's always been "spin," but it used to be that they'd go out of their way to pick their words very carefully, ie. dog whistle racism.

So there's laws against lying in commercials about fast food but none that control influencing elections with misinformation? How is this kind of blatant lying even legal?

This isn't a problem in my country.

Along the same lines are the "Americans forget that other countries exist" comments.

Does American culture have a problem with ethnocentrism? Generally yes. Is reddit an American website where the vast majority of users, comments, posts, and topics are American? Also yes. When I'd see one of the "you're an arrogant asshole for assuming this post is about the US" comments, I just assumed it's someone being pedantic and contrarian for the sake of it. It just ruins what is sometimes a valid point.

Really confused by these "no one ever said redditors are creative" comments. No one ever said that no one ever said that.

Don't overthink it.

Throwing out a false equivalency doesn't make it any less true.

"Equal rights means equal lefts" or whatever tf it was, especially during the Depp/Heard thing. Basically condoning hitting women. But then if you disagree with it, it gets spun into endorsing women abusing men. Reddit comments can be fucking gross.

I love how there's never any elaboration on these kinds of comments