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hookem2010

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  1. So my wife and I had our long-awaited sit-down with my parents this weekend. It went... not bad? My mother actually apologized for her vote. My dad admitted he should have at least left president blank if nothing else, and has finally realized Dan Patrick and Ken Paxton are clowns who he has vowed not to support. There was some defensiveness from my dad about immigration that remains pretty nonsensical, but they agreed with things like deportation being out of control, January 6th and pardons being a really bad thing (still don't see how they overlooked this in November), healtchare and education gutting being scary, foreign policy being absurd. It doesn't absolve them of their votes, but I have hope that they have been nursing the kool-aid slow enough that they may be salvagable. Somehow we didnt even really touch on the economy, which would usually be a place they'd want to direct the conversation, so I'm guessing they're none too thrilled about that. How much of this was them capitulating so they can see their grandkids more? Perhaps a little. But they didn't roll over entirely or immediately, and my mother is not able to mask or manipulate her emotions, so I think there was real sincerity with much of what they said.
  2. How quickly you forgot about the self-cut JD sported to the donut shop.
  3. I get it, man. As a guy who grew up Christian but quickly found my way out of religion as an adult, I don't know how much I can speak to your current struggles if you're wanting to remain connected to the church. But a decade ago, I would have thought it very strange to share personal difficulties on here, but now I find it therapeutic. (Mostly) strangers who share at least some common background that brought them to this site are able to air greivances, but there is also a wide range of experience and beliefs (yes, even in CR). There was a time, as a younger man working through depression, when I found speaking to a therapist incredibly helpful, moreso than any meds. This was a Christian dude who I didn't know personally, but he didn't pass any judgement and he listened and responded as a total outsider to my immediate experience. I am still grateful. Obviously this is not a judgement-free zone, or a treatment center for depression, but sharing personal shit with people who aren't intimately involved, and who may have some understanding of your general background, while also offering differing opinions, can be a useful resource. I have recently shared family drama on here that is difficult to discuss even with my spouse and siblings, who are generally on my side. But getting the perspective of others who aren't entangled in it daily, or simply venting, has helped me work through a lot of my shit.
  4. Not cruel enough, bro. Gotta make the mother have a baby that is not viable unless attached to a vent for the entirety of their torturous existence, so they can "live" as a vegetable while the mother and any potential partner or other children also become emotionally and financially destroyed. That's when you know you've done the Lord's work, and so long as you've dutifully hated the gays and browns, you may be admitted into the Kingdom of Heaven and/or elected to the highest offices in the country as a Republican.
  5. Found a leucistic cormorant today
  6. I have felt alternating depression and rage for the last 3 months, although I think I've sort of blunted my emotional response to it, I guess due to the constant exposure. But one day every few weeks I just feel truly despondent.
  7. I'd say hitting fast forward on the biodiversity and climate crisis is going to be a big problem for people too. It's not just going to be a bummer for those of us who like to go on a hike occasionally.
  8. Kilmar Abrego Garcia was here legally.
  9. Finished the season with the USS Callister sequel today. Thought that one was great too.
  10. I get to have a sit-down with my parents Friday a week after my sister did the same thing with them. Apparently, and unsurprisingly, my mother's #1 priority was immigration. Why a 67 year-old retired woman who lives in Sun City is concerned with immigration above all else, I just don't know. Well, other than the racism. And guess which "informed voter" was completely unaware of Trump sabotaging Biden's border bill?
  11. Haven't seen the final episode yet, but Eulogy and Common People are the best thus far. My wife refuses to watch it anymore because it's too depressing. Yet she just pulled me into binging Adolescence while our 2 young boys were asleep.
  12. "We can't do anything about the guy we illegally deported because he's in a different country." Ojo, we're still all good, right?
  13. Surly has unfortunately been more right than wrong about what Trump 2.0 would mean.
  14. Picked this up at the library today. Never heard of the guy, but I love a good adventure into the wilderness.
  15. I had to look it up. I don't believe that is something I can offer.
  16. I bought it used from a friend and we had each of our 2 kids in it for 4-5 months. Toward the end of the 2nd child, the movement started to get a little jerky, so I took it apart and replaced some O-rings. Works great again. Friends of Surly automatically qualify for the discounted rate of $400.
  17. I imagine it's pretty easy to be a prick to others and not care about money when mommy and daddy pay for everything.
  18. You don't think Americans can handle more suffering than the Chinese? But we quietly accepted Covid restrictions with nary a complaint!
  19. Suicide by cop in 2010 or 2011, right? I graduated in 05/2010 and I think it was that fall.
  20. "Only one epidemiologist remains in the program's team to investigate outbreaks, one official said, and was still in the early stages of their training." Investigating why a literal boatload of people have diarrhea sounds like a pretty shit gig baseline, much less when you're by yourself and don't know what the fuck you're doing.
  21. The only silver lining in all of this is that my wife and I have gotten closer with my sister and her husband as we deal with all this nonsense.
  22. The hookem2010 family feud is about to enter its next stage. After not talking for the last couple months, my parents are back in town and ready to get together to see if/how we can salvage our relationship. I can't say that I'm particularly looking forward to spending a weekend evening attempting to get them to recognize reality versus whatever world they believe they're living in, but whatever. Meanwhile, my sister, who is married to a man but considers herself LGBT+, and is a small business owner getting screwed by tariffs, also told my mother that she needed some space. This was followed by an apparently accidental audio message sent to her by my mom of her breaking down to my dad about their children not wanting to talk to them. So now my sister is going to have a big sit-down talk with them a week before me. Little Bro definitely had the right idea by peacing out to Cali almost a decade ago. Tearing your family apart to own the libs!
  23. It seems so long since Roe v Wade was overturned, but here is a reminder of how evil that shit is. Remember how the anti-abortion freaks would put up those giant billboards of aborted fetuses in front of Gregory? Well, I just saw the reverse. A baby that should have never been born, with a condition incompatible with life, due to the mother being unable to get an abortion. In addition to being financially ruined, the mother will be forced to watch her horribly disfigured, mentally non-functional child suffer until what is hopefully an early death. I can't share the inage but it's fucking nightmare fuel. Republicans just out there protecting women and babies.
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