houseoftolstoy @houseoftolstoy@merovingian.club

@griffith @Will2Power @deprecated_ii Yep. Every time I see a German pop up on any social media platform you will always get a spiel about how, "We are so embarrassed and ashamed that our country followed Hitler!" Followed by a lecture to others how they should also be ashamed to elect any politician who is even slightly nationalistic because "DON'T YOU DARE ELECT ANOTHER HITLER! DIDN'T YOU READ HOW I SAID WE DID THAT BEFORE!"

Germans are indeed insufferable to encounter online.

@sj_zero USAID falls under the category of "It's not that much money, so what is the point of cutting it? It won't make a real difference!" But if you were to cut something that accounts for more spending, such as Medicare or Social Security, we would hear that "It's too important for us to cut!"

So we will get nowhere on our spending problems if nothing is permitted to be touched if we accept these conclusions.

@deprecated_ii this has not been my experience with my marriage. We make sure that we are on the same page with our budget and we currently have no debt (except our house mortgage).

I am likely an outlier when it comes to this sort of thing, because I have heard far too many horror stories with men who have wives that lack any long term thinking and spend like drunken sailors.

Both my wife and I grew up in non-wealthy households, so that might have something to do with it.

@thefinn this was quite the read. A work that could only come from extreme neuroticism that a leftist woman can bring.

>But the sadism is accompanied by a trollish glee that reads far more like a 13-year-old boy's failed attempts at humor than what one would expect from a 53-year-old businessman and father of 12.

Meanwhile the article is written with the emotional stability of a high school girl. But that is unfair to most high school girls, as most are not nearly this bad.

Nit picking at a statement that I see often:

"No one put you in the friendzone except, you put yourself there."

This is not quite accurate. You are put in the friendzone by someone else, not yourself. But you decide whether you stay there or not.

This might seem like a distinction without a difference, but the way I see it the distinction demonstrates that others can put you in categories, but you decide whether or not you accept the role or not.

I have been hearing a lot of sob stories from federal workers being cut from their jobs on my NPR recon. They can cry me a river, because people losing their jobs is nothing new. It happens all the time. I have not only no sympathy, but less because we should not be having the federal government doing so many functions in the first place. No they are not essential, we can go without them.

If we cannot cut spending in these ways, how could we possibly tackle the much larger spending cuts needed?