[-] xkbx@startrek.website 50 points 1 week ago

The whole party switch thing is a bit of a misnomer, or mislead - the fact is, you had completely different worlds at the time. For example, Lincoln’s republicans supported the abolition of slavery, the abolition of alcohol, and westward expansion. The opposing democrats at the time supported white supremacy and protections of religious minorities. Then go forward a few years, and Democrats (like Wilson) wanted income taxes and silver-based money, while Republicans (like McKinley) wanted tariffs and gold-based money. Then after that, you get closer to what we know now, which is Democrats wanting larger government and welfare for the poor, while Republicans wanted less government and anti-communist foreign policy.

So there’s less of a switch and more of different gradual challenges to different shifting groups of ideologies. It just looks like a switch when you look at individual issues that look like they hold the same water as other issues today.

For example, you can have people that are absolutely for welfare, but also against religious freedoms; the poor need to be housed and fed, but everyone needs to be Christian. You could have then an opposing party that absolutely hates the idea of being theocratic, because they believe in the individual person’s freedom to be themselves, but at the expense of people who need support. Sort of the same way how Libertarians and mostly left circles can all agree that drugs shouldn’t be criminalized today, but have polar opposite beliefs for economic policies and government services.

Or smth idk I’m not an expert, I’m just taking a rly long shit

[-] xkbx@startrek.website 41 points 2 weeks ago

What are you suggesting? That I stop peeling out of every parking lot and doing sick doughnuts!?

[-] xkbx@startrek.website 40 points 1 month ago

During the late 19th century, “dude” was popularized, and its meaning hotly debated. According to the Oxford English Dictionary, the word's first formal definition was: “A man who shows an ostentatious regard for fashion and style in regard to dress or appearance; a dandy, a fop.”

[-] xkbx@startrek.website 57 points 1 month ago

I thought you were a cis woman tbh. Saw the image before I read the title.

Look, I’m gonna be real with you. It’s not that you don’t look like a woman, you just think that you’re ugly. You need to compliment and appreciate that woman in the mirror, even if she doesn’t fit your beauty standards. Like would you call another woman ugly or tell a transwoman she looks like a man? No. So don’t do that towards yourself. Easier said than done but worth the effort.

Being lonely and touch-starved is a real thing, and there’s no magic solution for that. Having pets can help, if you’re in a situation to get one. I’d also recommend some body-focused meditative and physical activities like yoga or tai-chi. It helps center yourself into your body and be aware of your own presence (which yeah, can increase the dysmorphia, but see above paragraph,) which can help reduce how overwhelming that loneliness and touch-starvation can be.

[-] xkbx@startrek.website 47 points 2 months ago

So you’re saying if I fuck the same way Fremen walk the desert, they can’t track my car sex…

[-] xkbx@startrek.website 52 points 2 months ago

Hot dog and ketchup is weird then I don’t want to be normal

[-] xkbx@startrek.website 39 points 2 months ago

Only if Johnny plays Morticia and Winona plays Gomez

[-] xkbx@startrek.website 40 points 3 months ago

Please make it mammary related

Asking for a friend

[-] xkbx@startrek.website 56 points 3 months ago

This implies there could be a gay gluttony month and I’m all for it

[-] xkbx@startrek.website 54 points 3 months ago

Why not just fix it with a round freezer

[-] xkbx@startrek.website 49 points 4 months ago

If the ads survive the apocalypse, please nuke again

[-] xkbx@startrek.website 57 points 5 months ago

Ahahhaa, what a relatable meme, because of the amount of sex that I have, because this meme is about sex, which I definitely have a lot of, so I am able to relate

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