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[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Valentina is my favorite. Both the black and yellow labels are good, but I like drenching shit with the yellow (milder one).

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 month ago

Didn't mean to paint entire religions. It was just a convenient way to differentiate the 2 people I was talking about, and to imply where their motivations may come from. I've known plenty of less right-wing Catholics and Protestants. I am an anti-theist though, and think religion does more harm than good.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (1 children)

Yeah, these people are ignorant of and don't care about civics. The ignorance of the one guy surprised me, because they went to a decent college, but didn't even know what gerrymandering was. They are un-american, IMO.

[–] [email protected] 50 points 1 month ago (12 children)

I know a couple life-long Republicans I sometimes briefly talk about politics with (one family, one acquaintance). Neither of them like Trump, but like the idea around Project 2025. One is an evangelical Christian, the other is a Catholic.

The Catholic strongly believes government should be run like a business, and the president should be like a CEO, so he should be able to fire everyone and replace them, if needed, with workers that will execute his plans. He's also an anti-abortion, and tough-on-crime/immigration type. However, he strongly disapproves of Trump seemingly being pro-Russian now, Trump and his cabinet's personal lives (he's always strangely fixated on people's personal lives, in a moral sense, for some reason), the take-over of the FBI and CIA, and the tariffs hurting his stock portfolio.

The evangelical Christian just doesn't like Trump as a person, and doesn't like Russia. He's a just-world-hypothesis, small government, women are subservient, pro-business type; but also low/lower-middle-class, and has needed, and will need the social services he opposes. I guess his opinions are pretty similar to the Catholic's, just a little more extreme on the social side, and supports policies that have always hurt him. I mean, Republican policies hurt the (fairly wealthy) Catholic too, but at least they get to say their taxes are lower and there's less red-tape.

[–] [email protected] 10 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Child labor is used all around the world still. Just have to loosen laws a bit and make people poor enough to accept low wages, then it will be (more) of a thing in the US too. Below-living wage is cheaper than automating for many tasks; doesn't require the rich to risk as much capital either.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 month ago

Oil-based poly is much more durable. But, as other commenters say, it's not going to protect against dings. Thick, bartop epoxy would a bit, but that scratches easily. Poly on top of epoxy may give you the best of both worlds, but haven't tried that myself.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 month ago

Looks expensive.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 month ago

LOL. I'm not conservative or even liberal. It seems obvious he's talking about the 2020 election to me 🤷. Yes, Musk and Trump are fascists, and yes they are destroying the US, and are probably going to cause unimaginable amounts of suffering.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 month ago (2 children)

He's saying the dems rigged the election, so his second term is late enough to be president during the Olympics and World Cup.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 month ago

Since they mentioned food and water, I think they had economic and societal collapse in mind for reasons for having a firearm and being in shape.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 month ago

I can't read the article. I'm sure Trump has mental issues, but he's got an entire cabinet, other advisors, and a shadow president behind him. There are reasons behind what they're doing.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 month ago
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