I’d like my opposition party to be more concerned about the lives of their constituents than their electoral chances, but that’s just me.

I don’t know, I feel like we keep saying that about various Republicans and it keeps not being true.

I over tip too. I feel like there are plenty of people who under tip or don’t tip at all, so I hope I can cancel them out. While I was never a server, I worked retail for a few years while I was in college. Just having someone look you in the eyes and smile, treat you like a human, could make a shitty shift/day…

I completely get Amy on this. I worked in the service industry and I’ve also been suuuuper poor. I’m rich now, not like Amy rich, but I can pay all my bills, go out to eat, and still put money in savings every month rich (so solidly middle class). I’m a generous tipper. I’ve been known to leave a $50 tip on a $30…

Tiffany, apparently.

I casually knew Ivanka Trump for several years. Her target audience is almost exclusively other people who were born on third base and think they hit a triple.

How is “your friend’s private estate in the middle of the wilderness with lots of walls” public?

Except this wasn’t in public. She was sunbathing on private property, and they used a long-range lens to get the picture.

She wasn’t in public, though. That’s pretty relevant.

He’s not even middle-aged. At 70, he is the oldest person ever sworn-in as President.

shiplap is soon to be (if not already) the new paneling that people will be ripping out and dry walling in the next 5-10 years...

The “Lewis and Clark” thing gave me a brief chuckle.

Studies have shown that one of the few effective ways to change a person’s viewpoint can be achieved through a 10-minute non-confrontational conversation. So, this ad is portraying a method that does work.

I kind of did, too.

Exactly. I think that we do often have to demonstrate that we are worth knowing and that we have things in common with them. Literally rule one in the propaganda playbook is to dehumanize your opponent; that makes it supremely easy to do things that harm them (be it legislating against their rights or rounding them up…

That’s exactly it. Cynicism is not productive at all. We have too much of it nowadays.

I’ve noticed that some people who are racist/sexist/homophobic/transphobic, etc can change their tune once they know and care about someone in said group. It helps open their minds. Obviously not every asshole has this experience, but I’ve seen it happen around me with certain people.

This woman needs to marry the CEO of Chobani. Because that would be the funniest damn thing ever. Can you even begin to imagine how his followers would react? Exploding heads for days.

If the world was fair, he would be followed for the rest of his days by people saying his kids weren’t real and were false flags.