LDSGator

You aren’t alone my friend. Aside from the really really hardcore MAGA types I have never heard someone say they approve of Trumps personal life. I can’t imagine anyone here saying they’d be cool with it either.

Excellent point. Yup.

Apparently Darwin also married a cousin.

I never knew that. Cousin marriage was popular in the past though.

Totally fair. I’d use “alt right” or “crazy” in those cases. When I say “woke” I mean someone so PC that if their child was stabbed by a minority, their first thought would be to lecture the child about “racism” as their kid bleeds to death.

Totally agree. “Alt right” is a slur leftists use when they meet someone who is uncomfortable with letting grown men identify as women and beat up natural born women in boxing classes. Some conservatives use the term “woke” the same way when they meet someone who says who doesn’t bow down to Alex Jones or thinks the death penalty should be abolished

Are you sure? To me it means “I’m going to be an adult and put my personal feelings aside so the group can function better.” My cousins and I don’t get along. We never have. At the next funeral I’m not going to tell them what I really think of them. 1. They know 2. It’s not the time or the place and 3. I have the respect for my mom and dad and I don’t want to make them feel awkward. I’d love to tell my cousins how I really feel, believe me. But It’s called “being a grown up, so I control myself.”

Because it is. 99% of us can convey our thoughts without causing the other another person to feel uncomfortable or insulted. See? That sounds kind of blunt and tactless too. But, since you are saying that’s okay, I don’t feel bad.

Doesn’t it become an ego trip at some point? “You are all stupid and sociopathic compared to me. I’m the only one keeping it real. Aren’t I wonderful?”

So everyone who uses manners is “sociopathic or narcissistic” and rude people are the only ones who are stable, grounded and balanced?

To be clear, it’s never “Tim, how do I look in this new bikini?” Or anything that intimate!

I’ve had female friends ask me about their new hairstyles, if they look like they’ve lost weight, etc. It’s not common but it has happened.

Oh, agree, especially because there’s some red tape involved. But it is funny.

The other interesting thing about this topic? I’ve rarely seen someone’s life improve after they decided to become more blunt. Usually your life gets better when you try to use more restraint. I’m sure there is someone out there who became more blunt and tactless and improved their life-but the overwhelming majority of us moments where we wish we acted with more manners, not less.

Nothing wrong with that as long as you accept the same behavior from everyone else. If you want to put tact on the side that’s fine, but you lose the right to complain if someone gives you the same attitude.

I’ve also noticed that people who love to be rude and abrasive collapse into jelly when someone uses their own tone against them. Almost like they are so arrogant they think they can judge everyone but they cry like babies when someone punches back. That’s true with the bullies you encounter in 5th grade, 12th grade, and age 34.

It depends. If you want to be listened to and taken seriously, you need to use some manners and basic politeness. If you don’t care how others view you and like being known as a rude and nasty, then knock yourself out and “keep it real”. Obviously, if you are with friends you can bust chops and let your hair down. But I don’t recommend walking up to the relief society president and telling her how fat and stupid she is. Even if it’s “accurate.”

Presented for our viewing pleasure. note-yes, it’s more complicated than the viral video shows. But it’s still grimly hilarious

Wow. Never would have thought that about him.

Correct there. MAGA/old school republicans are fighting a civil war with no interest in making peace with each other, much less democrats.

Republican centrists voted for Beto?

https://news.gallup.com/poll/389792/lgbt-identification-ticks-up.aspx Heterosexuality is still the norm in our society. That’s what @Phoenix_person was saying. I think. Amazingly, both the hard right and hard left want to believe that homosexuality is far more common than what it is because it fits their already held views.

Little bit more complicated than that. They came with the bible in one hand, but the bayonet in the other.

Hahahahahahahahahahahaha. No thanks.