The whole problem is that I was in gifted programs so I know plenty about Pete’s type. The smarmy, but quietly seething little turd who demands to have all of their worst takes taken seriously. Easily half of the boys in my class thought they were intellectual giants who were owed the world. If I’m bitter about…

Yep.

I appreciate that Pete is on “my side” but I have not been able to stand him from the start. The fawning celebrity endorsements that swear he’s some kind of genius really couldn’t hold up for me under his brilliant logic of “we can’t give poor kids free college because rich kids might get free college!”

Gut punch. Thank you!

You are absolutely correct in that the Democrats will have brought the losses of the next two elections on themselves. And somehow they’re supposed to be the thin line between this country and total fascist control!

Being a conservative must be such an arduous experience, day in and day out.

sTalkinggoat is on the right track. This all is complicated by Greenberg. *Someone* helped Greenberg get PPP money even though Greenberg did not have an active business at the time. That *someone* certainly didn’t just give Greenberg the inside scoop on how to steal the governments money.

“remain one of the only countries in the world with no form of national paid leave.”

So I’ll trust Lego with this transition as far as I can throw them. They were praised endlessly in the early 2010s for the gender-neutral toy they used to be. Only to bring the same girl-now-woman back to hold their very gendered Lego bricks.

I appreciate your appreciation.

Reddit isn’t real life.

I am not saying each side is equal in how wrong or harmful they are.

No person is an island.

There’s absolutely an academic approach that can be taken and studied to try to understand the reasons why we do the things we do, like why we think baby animals are cute and also want to eat cute things.

I get your angle but evolutionary psychology has been around long before women could attend college. It’s just an excuse for those in power to denigrate their “lessers.”

Evolutionary psychology is such a scam rooted conveniently in patriarchy and capitalism.

I guess it depends on what you define as “niche”

I don’t think a lot of girls discourage their male siblings from helping

Yeah, a real shame what the comment section turned into.

To anyone genuinely confused as to why someone would do this: