PugJesus

Cops in the US, including specialist groups like the ATF, have a reputation for shooting dogs unnecessarily when making arrests at domestic residences.

Imagine getting upset over "Don't kill children"

You’re their family member too, you know. They have every right to dread your mouth as yours does theirs. I say give them damn good reason.

I keep the peace for my mother's sake and the fact that I have no interest in any of the rest of the family. Otherwise, I'd consider lighting a fuse. Hell, if it wasn't important to my mother that, after long years of struggle, she gets to have a semi-normal family life, I'd not even bother going.

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Most understand neither.

Some of my friends have expressed a desire to do so. They're disappointed in the country. A third of the country voted for fascism, and a third of the country didn't give a shit. It's a hard fight to stay motivated, even for issues that directly relate to oneself, if the process feels hopeless - not simply by the opposition of powerful elites, but by the opposition of the overwhelming mass of your fellow citizens.

Ask if a mother is unable to feed her children if she should be provided with food assistance.

"Yes, by charities and the Church"

There won't even be hesitation.

Yikes, PTB

Doesn't matter. Everything is a conspiracy. Everything is the fault of some mysterious cabal.

They'll be praising the circumstances to high heaven, don't you worry.

Could I have made a scene? Oh, yes, especially when the talk turned to coal and how closing down coal mines would make West Virginia 'the poorest state in the country' and how 'Trump is already having an effect on the economy, you can see it in the gas prices'.

Would it have helped? Would I have gotten any satisfaction from it? No, and no.

I fucking hate family holidays.

It's worse than it sounds.

Of the people who can name the three branches of government, even fewer actually understand how they work.