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SDcomics said:
What am I missing about your Dad and pants? It's in some thread somewhere, isn't it?

I wanna look but I'm afraid.
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Haw! I had to search for it, but of course it was in the Joe Classified thread:

Ru1977 said:
When I was a kid, and really still the case, I was horrendously modest. This was probably because my dad was the complete opposite. My cousins are still traumatized from the time our whole family went to the beach and my dad didn't have swim trunks so he wore boxer shorts. And they were white, so he may as well have been nude when they got wet. He slept naked, which was a major issue when I had a friend spend the night and we got too rowdy too late and he jumped out of bed, threw my bedroom door open, and yelled "ENOUGH!!" But all we heard was his hanging dong flopping around. And I laugh about it now, so don't think I'm weeping while bringing this all up, but the funniest one to me is when he got work as an artist model for a college art class and got in the middle of the class then stripped naked without even being asked. The teacher said "whoa, you don't have to do that" and my dad said "eh, I mean, I'm already naked, so..." And lounged for them to sketch. Ridiculous person, and he actively tried to break my modesty growing up which of course probably fucked me up worse. So basically, as a kid, I had a lot of issues with male nudity. (Sidenote, my dad also chastised me for owning the D&D figure Warduke and called him "a little sissy boy", but I never got the new version they put out a few years ago despite intending to not only because he is neat but also as a slight, passive act of defiance years later heh.)

Just airing my personal little piece of shit story heh. But it's kinda fascinating all the things we all carry that are tied with our collecting. Trauma but also intense joy. We get excited for the ones we loved as kids and it's really so wonderful.
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Ru, if it makes ya feel any better, the indigenous people in Tahiti, Australia and New Zealand didn't believe in pants, either. It seemed to work for them.

Me, I keep my pants on.

To the everlasting relief of those around me.
 
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SDcomics said:
He has the Epstein files hanging over his head. Not to mention jail time from his 34 felony convictions. I'm afraid he's going to get Congress to try and delay or even cancel the 2026 elections, which they have the authority to do "in times of national emergency".
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And look at the language he's been using since he won. Everything is an emergency. Everything is a war. Everything is TERRIBLE and he needs full and total control, as well as military intervention, just to keep the United States from completely collapsing. He NEEDS to have ultimate POWER or we're all doomed.
He's been setting us up for 'elections will be too dangerous to have right now' since day 1.
 
Damien said:
And look at the language he's been using since he won. Everything is an emergency. Everything is a war. Everything is TERRIBLE and he needs full and total control, as well as military intervention, just to keep the United States from completely collapsing. He NEEDS to have ultimate POWER or we're all doomed.
He's been setting us up for 'elections will be too dangerous to have right now' since day 1.
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That's been the thing keeping me up at night all year. He's been setting himself up to cancel elections since day one and his entire political party is perfectly happy to flush democracy down the toilet if it means their stocks will benefit.

altcunningham said:
I don't wear pants when I'm at home. Including D&D sessions.
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I KNEW IT.

True story--back before remote work was a thing I worked for an almost fully remote international team. A couple of us were driving distance to one of the offices, so we'd go in a few times a month really just to grab lunch and catch up rather than for work reasons. We were checking in one day and decided we'd all go in on Thursday to meet up. One of the guys goes "yeah, it'll be a good excuse to put pants on."
Me: "Steve, I need you to tell me you have pants on right now. Lie to me if you have to."
Him: "OH, I meant real pants, I've been wearing basketball shorts all week."

To this day I do not believe him.
 
Somebody was telling me that the way the civil War is going to actually break down is that the conservatives are just going to put up walls and fences and tell you to stay on your side and live your life and leave them alone and they will live on theirs.

That's it. There's not going to be a conflict. No one's taking over. They're just going to happily divide these spaces and let you live your life and they will live theirs. Your values can stay with you and their values will stay with them. No conflicts. Agree to disagree.

I don't even know how you respond to that. Like what about anything since this January has said this is definitely a compromise agree to disagree peace talk.
 
That is BEST case scenario. I don't know how you respond to it either. These are not people who want to live and let live. They want to destroy anything they disagree with and make anyone who believes differently suffer as much as possible while also stealing every red cent they can from us.
 
I feel like the best case would have been a trail of tears just to get all the Liberals on the liberal West coast and wall them off.

I don't think that's the plan though. We'll have to go take a look at the young Republican chat.

Edit: And how is that even a solution that you could be happy like what the f*** is wrong with you. As a human.
 
One of the hardest things for a lot of Americans to accept is the one-two punch of conservatives being far, far too comfortable with treating people they don't like as sub- or inhuman and unworthy of dignity, and liberals being convinced they can convince conservatives that the people they hate are worthy of dignity or humanity. It's like - darlings, they don't think we're real. At best they think we're lying and posturing in saying we give a shit about people who are different from us; at worst we're NPCs to be mowed down and left to rot.
 
docsilence said:
That's been the thing keeping me up at night all year. He's been setting himself up to cancel elections since day one and his entire political party is perfectly happy to flush democracy down the toilet if it means their stocks will benefit.


I KNEW IT.

True story--back before remote work was a thing I worked for an almost fully remote international team. A couple of us were driving distance to one of the offices, so we'd go in a few times a month really just to grab lunch and catch up rather than for work reasons. We were checking in one day and decided we'd all go in on Thursday to meet up. One of the guys goes "yeah, it'll be a good excuse to put pants on."
Me: "Steve, I need you to tell me you have pants on right now. Lie to me if you have to."
Him: "OH, I meant real pants, I've been wearing basketball shorts all week."

To this day I do not believe him.
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That is probably the only saving grace right now. 2026 is still over a year away and nothing he and his cronies are doing is making the economy better for the majority of people. I was watching a podcast yesterday and they were talking with a pollster who had been polling self identifying Republicans/MAGA and it was interesting to hear the results.

Basically the MAGA are what we expect. Fine with everything except price increases. So they are not going to be reached pretty much no matter what. At best if prices keep going up they'll stay home in a vote, especially if Trump is not on the ballot. Non-MAGA Republicans varied a little, but most were in a similar situation. They were, at least, non-committal about the regime's tactics. Although some were not happy with how they are doing immigration. For the most part it seems they were unhappy with Trump specifically and how he isn't focusing on bringing prices down and spending too much time on other things.

So it seems like the cost of living (it's the economy stupid) is the one thing that will continue to hound Trump going into 2026 and if things go south like all the experts are predicting then that is the one thing that could really hurt Republicans in a (supposedly) fair election.

Otherwise even regular Republicans seem too far gone to reach. Who would've thought unintended voter suppression from the party of intended voter suppression could be the salvation of the US.
 
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