pahlimur

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[–] pahlimur 8 points 5 months ago (12 children)

Gun and boiling water are not equal. Stop being dumb.

[–] pahlimur 6 points 5 months ago (14 children)

I've re watched it dozens of times because I'm morbidly curious. That cop is a shit bag who was looking to kill someone.

Did you watch it without masturbating over authority figures?

[–] pahlimur 11 points 5 months ago (16 children)

Ignoring race, because you keep bringing it up to excuse shitty Police behavior.

Police closing the distance on someone they see as violent is an escalation of violence. She would very likely be alive today if they didn't choose to make the situation worse by escalating.

Pulling a gun and retreating, then shooting if she advanced, yep shooting is fine. Putting her in a corner and shooting when she flinches thinking she's about to die? That's murder. I don't know how you are too dumb to understand this.

[–] pahlimur 11 points 5 months ago

From my experience in semi rural America it's 50/50. I drive the old shit truck and hear racist shit from about half the white people I interact with. It's not a loud small group unfortunately. It's a group that stays quiet around brown people or foreign people that only speaks when it feels comfortable thinking it's around other racists. I used to think it was a loud small group. Now, I cannot overstate how unbelievably racist they are.

[–] pahlimur 17 points 5 months ago (3 children)

Middle aged white dude in 'merica here. The amount of legitimate racists who openly identify themselves when I drive my old beat up pickup truck is insane.

We have a real problem that requires we focus on race until we remove racists from power. Well meaning people are just those fighting the issue of racism. You may see it different but we won't fix it by ignoring it.

[–] pahlimur 5 points 5 months ago (1 children)

I'm a straight blue ticket voter. That debate solidified my support. Both are old as shit, but we are stuck with them because our voting system sucks. I'll choose the non-rapist, non-felon.

I always focus on how I will view my choices 10+ years down the road. I always regretted voting for bush and McCain. Haven't regretted voting blue since I pulled my head out of my ass.

[–] pahlimur 3 points 5 months ago (1 children)

My opinion might be more controversial than disliking the game. I only read the book the Netflix series is based on, but it was kind of a terrible book. I enjoyed the story for the most part. The issue for me is the writing style is terrible. I kept losing track of who was talking or doing something because the author never reconfirms which character said or did the thing. It ruined the book for me.

[–] pahlimur 8 points 1 year ago

Altria has done so much damage. Philip Morris did a damn good job hiding it's influence in the vape market.

[–] pahlimur 3 points 1 year ago (1 children)

My oldest daughter is a bit over 6 years older than our baby. I might ask her to do something similar to what you are describing. Most people on here seem to think helping the family out equals trauma because birthing someone automatically means you retain full responsibility for them existing. It's more complicated than that and I think the thing people are mad about is choosing to have kids in a way that you expect them to take care of each other.

[–] pahlimur 13 points 1 year ago

I am you. I have two kids and fucking hell our expenses are getting out of control. Fortunately we spaced them out enough that only one is in day/preschool. But it's still basically impossible to justify my wife being employed with only our youngest kid's expenses. Looking at $2.5k per month of childcare expenses for one kid makes me want to give up.

My state, Oregon, passed a leave law that is currently saving our lives. Extra 4 weeks of leave that can be taken intermittently. We are financially fucked the moment we are out of our state leave. For reference I have an MS in ME and work in manufacturing. And my wife is one of the highest paid dental assistants I'm aware of.

[–] pahlimur 0 points 1 year ago

No. Just stop with the disinformation.

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