“It makes [ICE agents’] job a lot harder and a lot more dangerous.” - said like it’s a bad thing? They could have a mortality rate three times that of truck drivers and it still wouldn’t be enough by half.  

“We should let people die in the streets due to poverty because some people paid A LOT of money for their education.”

“Alright, let’s make education free as well.”

“WHEN WILL IT END!?!?”

Not trying to “um, actually” too hard, but Grindlewald isn’t killed by Dumbledore, he’s beaten - and imprisoned for the rest of his life, until Voldemort shows up and kills him in an attempt at becoming master of the Elder Wand - believing that whoever kills the previous user is its new master. Not realizing at the…

I hope Ben Shapiro gets eaten by a slightly-larger-than-average catfish.

Off topic, I’m 28 and I’ve never had another gay male friend. I’m doing fine. It’s fine. I’m fine. It’s all fine. Really. It’s fine.

On the one hand, if someone hands me basically -any- dish that doesn’t have the one thing I’m allergic to on it, I’ll eat it. I’m not a child. If it’s not going to poison me, I’ll put it in my mouth and ignore that I find it tasteful, like an upsetting number of my sexual experiences.

On the other, I was getting lunch…

I dunno, if you had a marriage that didn’t outlast your britta filter and it was over a decade ago, I think it’s weird to have any feelings at all about the situation.

I know you're worried about the financial ramifications for your torch business if people start burning fewer bridges, but there's no reason to get so defensive.

That's alright, you seem like you could use it more. Thanks, though! 

And see, if you told me that on a date, I’d recognize the problem with dating you immediately: you’re two decades older than me and at a completely different life stage.

I’m in my late twenties, but your point is taken.

Circumstances matter! But anyone who has a hard/fast rule that they cut their exes out of their life, tells me that everyone they’ve ever dated has been a jerk/liar/crazy person, or gives the advice that you suddenly start owing people nothing just because you dated - yeah, I generally assume there’s something wrong…

Yeah, or, I could continue to comfortably use my own definitions and parameters and you could continue to take this whole thing weirdly personally, whichever works. 

I agree with you! I’m arguing that if your position is “you owe other people nothing”, and every ex should be swiftly excised, then that says something about how you approach relationships which isn’t exactly flattering

I don’t think you’re wrong, but 1) I’m referring to every relationship a person has. We all have bad exes. But if all your exes are bad, there’s a chance that you’re actually the bad ex.

I think there’s a difference in what you’re saying and the very real phenomena of people who are like “all of my exes are crazy liars” or “If I see my ex at a bar, I need to leave that bar”.

I’m not mistaking anything, your point is just weird and baffling to me. If I’m friends with someone, and we try dating, and we aren’t compatible because our needs or goals or wants are/become different, why would that impact the friendship?

If you don't see a point in being friends with someone, you shouldn't date them. If they don't enrich your life on a fundamental, platonic level then it's never going to work anyway. 

Yeah, based on the tone here and some the responses, probably something along the lines of “being a person instead of a self-serving goblin is haaaaarrrrddd.”