B!tchfest: a healthy release for our non-roleplay annoyances.

[TheEvanCat]

Not exactly good for your college tuition if you die before you can use it.

@Mardox

Go to college first, become officer, die in Syria when Donald Trump sends you there. That's my career path. So I *would* be using the free tuition.

[Mardox]

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Go to college first, become officer, die in Syria when Donald Trump sends you there. That's my career path. So I *would* be using the free tuition.

@TheEvanCat

Or we could just hope Trump doesn't become president.

[TheEvanCat]

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Or we could just hope Trump doesn't become president.

@Mardox

Donald would invigorate the American economy with small loans of a million dollars and a New Deal type jobs program to build his YUGE wall across the Mexican border. No way it can go wrong. The Mexicans and their lackey the Pope will pay for the wall and all our debt.

Plus with all of the immigrants he kicks out, every real American will have a job and get paid a lot and will be winners. Make America great again!

I already know who I'm voting for and it's Don-Dons Tizzle.

[Mardox]

I can't tell if you are being sarcastic or not. Trump has filed for bankruptcy several times and his business partners have always taken the fall. Let's not have the U.S. be his next business partner. As for the "small loan" thing, the U.S.A. already has taken out a "small loan" of trillions of dollars. The wall is not feasible socially, politically or economically. How the heck would Mexico pay for the wall? As for kicking out all the immigrants, we'll only have Native Americans left in the U.S.A. if that truly happens, otherwise it's hypocrisy.

[TheEvanCat]

I can't tell if you are being sarcastic or not. Trump has filed for bankruptcy several times and his business partners have always taken the fall. Let's not have the U.S. be his next business partner. As for the "small loan" thing, the U.S.A. already has taken out a "small loan" of trillions of dollars. The wall is not feasible socially, politically or economically. How the heck would Mexico pay for the wall? As for kicking out all the immigrants, we'll only have Native Americans left in the U.S.A. if that truly happens, otherwise it's hypocrisy.

@Mardox

I'm absolutely being completely serious. That's why we're slowly colonizing several countries like Burkina Faso so that they can take the fall. The Wall is feasible, just watch Game of Thrones. Worked out well for them, right? And Native Americans aren't real Americans, they came over from Russia on the ice bridge!

Donald can't be wrong. He is perfect. He is holy.

[VKAllen]

I can't tell if you are being sarcastic or not. Trump has filed for bankruptcy several times and his business partners have always taken the fall. Let's not have the U.S. be his next business partner. As for the "small loan" thing, the U.S.A. already has taken out a "small loan" of trillions of dollars. The wall is not feasible socially, politically or economically. How the heck would Mexico pay for the wall? As for kicking out all the immigrants, we'll only have Native Americans left in the U.S.A. if that truly happens, otherwise it's hypocrisy.

@Mardox

1. He did not filed bankruptcy. He took the companies that he invested and settled bankruptcies. This is a normal business matter you do if you own multiple companies.

2. Trump clearly explained the methodology of Mexico paying the Wall he planned to build. Just watch the video where he talks about it and makes it formal. He literally states where the money comes from.

3. Trump mentions ILLEGAL IMMIGRANTS. People who entered the country WITHOUT GOING THROUGH THE LEGAL PROCESS.

[Sombrero]

Okay. The following may be a touchy subject. But... here we go. Recent events have brought this to the forefront of my attention.

Putting this in a hider because, well, touchy subject(s). Don't feel obligated to read this.

Hider

One thing that personally bugs me and has been bugging me a lot lately actually has to do with internet culture. Namely: the hyper-liberal side of the web which isn't actually liberal at all.

Let me be clear: I'm pretty sure folks would classify me as liberal and as a socialist. I feel like civil rights hasn't won yet, that more work has to be done to bring real societal equality in my country (the U.S.A.), and that life in the information age provides us with an unparalleled ability to create movements on the fly. For this specific purpose, this is a good thing... BUT...

There are all sorts of people on the web who take things in a direction that boggles me. For instance, I think it's perfectly fair to ask that people be "fat positive," or at least that people learn to not cajole people for their body differences (though kids are naturally going to not listen; kids are awful). But there's a difference between positivism and, say, expecting someone to be attracted to a body shape they're not attracted to. Besides the health risks extreme body weights on either side of the spectrum involve, there's no reason a person ought to be forced to claim attraction to all people of all sizes. It's not discrimination: it's a personal choice about who is going to be your life partner.

People who change their sexual identity on a weekly basis are another culprit here. If you start by claiming to be bi, then asexual, then gray asexual, then pansexual all within the course of a few months, chances are I won't take you very seriously. Chances are a lot of people won't take you very seriously. And if you're expecting people around you to know the particulars of these changes in your identity as you go change them... Well, it can get annoying.

And the reason all of this upsets me is we have real issues concerning these above topics and more. Dude, minorities are getting shot by police still in situations where they haven't done anything criminal. That hasn't stopped. The Supreme Court allows gay marriage now, but that could potentially be repealed, and it certainly isn't the end of the fight for gay rights. And women ARE being sexually taken advantage of in ways that people don't recognize is... well, illegal, like getting a woman drunk and then having sex with her while she can't make decisions with a clear head. But spreading fake statistics about this, or claiming that sitting next to a woman on the bus and accidentally touching them with your leg is rape only distracts the world at large from actual cases of trauma and abuse.

That's the crux of the issue: internet culture has a habit of blowing up little things and calling them big issues, and it's angering people who aren't on the side of change and distracting them from the reality of horrible things happening around us. And there are real issues concerning things like fat positivity. Television and Hollywood have always painted this terrible depiction of women that demands they be pretty and skinny and photoshopped and sexy. That is a dangerous depiction that has warped our perception of beauty in America. That's what we should be attacking in a quest for change, not individuals' sexual preferences for one body weight or another.

@Shorticus

Did you just precede a complaint about SJWs with a trigger warning?...

[Mardox]

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1. He did not filed bankruptcy. He took the companies that he invested and settled bankruptcies. This is a normal business matter you do if you own multiple companies.

2. Trump clearly explained the methodology of Mexico paying the Wall he planned to build. Just watch the video where he talks about it and makes it formal. He literally states where the money comes from.

3. Trump mentions ILLEGAL IMMIGRANTS. People who entered the country WITHOUT GOING THROUGH THE LEGAL PROCESS.

@VKAllen

1. I'll look into it.

2. What about upkeep?

3. I was simply answering what TheEvanCat had said, I actually support deporting illegal immigrants.

[TheEvanCat]

Real talk, if I had my choice it's gonna be Bernie or Kasich (even if he is pretty unelectable.) I've started to like Kasich more and more lately. But I'm independent and can't vote in my adopted state's primaries.

[Mardox]

I have no idea which candidate is the best.

[Rin]

I have no idea which candidate is the best.

@Mardox

Vermin Supreme, clearly. :D

...If I was actually American I'd go for Sanders, but I'm ill-equipped to talk about the American political system. XD I mean I'm against the Republicans but that's partially because I'm Scottish and we have a natural hatred of anything even remotely conservative. Case in point: our "conservative" party is led by a gay woman, showing just how conservative we are not. XD

[tsukune]

I'm not American and thus the whole election process is merely a dramatic piece of news in my region, but if Trump wins in the end and becomes the president...

Then racism in US is probably beyond just a hopeless issue. And the world will hate America even more than we are already now.

Oh wait.

As if US would give a damn about that - when pretty much half the world are so deep into this poison called American culture.

:/

[Shorticus]

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Did you just precede a complaint about SJWs with a trigger warning?...

@Sombrero

I... did not realize that until you just pointed that out to me.

I'm going to go sit in the corner.

[Vilageidiotx]

I'm not American and thus the whole election process is merely a dramatic piece of news in my region, but if Trump wins in the end and becomes the president...

Then racism in US is probably beyond just a hopeless issue. And the world will hate America even more than we are already now.

Oh wait.

As if US would give a damn about that - when pretty much half the world are so deep into this poison called American culture.

:/

@tsukune

I will say that, though we have our racists, this is the one issue the rest of the world can't get us on. Maybe Canada might be able to claim some moral victory in that department, but Europe? Australia? Phh.

[TheEvanCat]

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I will say that, though we have our racists, this is the one issue the rest of the world can't get us on. Maybe Canada might be able to claim some moral victory in that department, but Europe? Australia? Phh.

@Vilageidiotx

And Canada screws over its Natives.

[Sombrero]

Hey, Japan wasn't racist! It hated everyone else equally!

[Mardox]

Hey, Japan wasn't racist! It hated everyone else equally!

@Sombrero

Until America nuked them a couple of times and took away everything about their culture and beliefs that they held dear.

[Vilageidiotx]

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Until America nuked them a couple of times and took away everything about their culture and beliefs that they held dear.

@Mardox

They got us back real good by ruining our culture with anime.

[TheEvanCat]

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They got us back real good by ruining our culture with anime.

@Vilageidiotx

And cheap imports.

Wait, I own a Nissan and a Toyota.

[Shorticus]

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And cheap imports.

Wait, I own a Nissan and a Toyota.

@TheEvanCat

I own a Kia...