very, very few. interestingly, of the extremely small number of examples I can think of, they’re all on the republican side. like, a few of them are legitimately golf buddies, go on vacation together, their kids are friends, etc. on the Democrat side, I really can’t think of anyone I’ve known over the years who has legitimate, non-transactional friendships.

I will personally ban anyone who unironically supports Trump. Supporting hardcore reactionaries is reactionary behavior and not allowed.

But, I think we enjoy, in a sort of dark humor way, the ways that he spotlights the contradictions and flaws in our system. There’s also an almost incredulous hilarity to the things he is coincidentally right about sometimes, like making American foreign policy less hawkish.

I was taught this at one point (though I’m not Christian), but isn’t the existence of such a gate irrelevant since the meaning of the phrase is unchanged? Like, either way, the point is that a camel is too big to get through the thing.

post better bait next time. this is way too obvious.

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no they’re not here. they’re over in ukraine putting up statues of Bandera and wearing nazi symbols all over their military uniforms. were you not listening, or…?

“And that’s all I have to say about that.”

We have the best system, folks. Truly the greatest.