25 points

By this logic, the movie ‘Stand By Me’ is kiddie porn.

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2 points

The Sandlot and the Little Rascals are every neighborhood’s worst nightmare.

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2 points

I remember a kids’ book written around 1965. The 12 year old hero travels from his home in Harlem to Penn Station by subway, buys a train ticket to Washington, and goes to the Lincoln Memorial unaccompanied.

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11 points

Damn…

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58 points

Americans have degenerated so fast.

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We BEGAN our existence with slave holding white men who created documents to rule the country which stated “All men are created equally”. Then went home, treated the women in their lives like shit for the next 142 years AT LEAST, while also owning slaves.

Today slavery is mostly abolished, and women have equal rights.

Believe it or not, this IS progress…really really slow progress.

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1 point

Well we’re kinda on track to undo start both of those things so…

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11 points

I mean, California just voted to KEEP prison labor slavery so…

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4 points

Really? That’s disappointing. That sounds like a Texas thing more than a California thing.

Shit, what’s next? Texas raises their min wage to $20 an hour, and tied to inflation?

God damn! These states are losing their identity. Michigan voted red…I mean, I know I’m legally obligated to hate Michigan as a resident of Ohio, but damn. Michigan used to make me jealous of their government. Now it’s voted red.

And yes, I’m aware Ohio also voted red. But we’re Ohio. Nobody was expecting anything cool from us. Michigan had expectations.

Of coarse none of that matters. Without PA, Harris had no path to victory. So, we should all be mad at PA.

So I propose for the next 4 years we boo every PA sports team. Their residents don’t deserve happy sports.

Of coarse, that being said, who CAN you cheer??? I propose Seattle. That way, you don’t have to cheer the Yankees. Plus, you don’t get caught up in the whole Boston fued.

Who’s going to fued with Seattle? Assholes. That’s who.

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I used to believe this, I truly did think that overall there was progress. But I’m worried now because it looks like we’re going backwards, I just hope we don’t slide too far that we legitimately undo it all.

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There are more slaves nowadays than ever before, we just outsourced them to the south with some middleman that way pay so nobody can say, that we are slave holders anymore.

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42 points

All of Gen-X would like a word…

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1 point

I love this comment!

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Really? They’re generally pretty quiet and forgetable.

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5 points

Because we’re independent AF. We don’t need looking after. We’re hardened by years of raw neglect 😅

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13 points

‘be home for supper’ and/or ‘call if you’re gonna be late’.

those were mom’s rules back then. she only got worried and upset if i was late and did not call.

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Locking the door and forcing a kid to ring the doorbell and beg to be let in after dark was just a thing back then. I hope the lack of any consequences and independence doesn’t hurt American kids’ development when, say, Romanian kids are still afforded freedom.

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8 points

Come in when the street lights turn on.

Don’t go too far.

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117 points

Dunno how I’d have gotten home from school or to soccer practice if I needed an adult, ffs I was staying alone overnight and cooking dinner for myself by 5th grade. How do you acquire independence and skills with someone hovering all the fucking time?

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76 points

we have infantalized children all the way through high school. no more open campuses, nothing. we live in a world where an 18 year old high school senior has to ask to use the restroom during the day, but could go to her night job as a porn star.

the main issue is parents suing school districts over any little thing, requiring them now to lock everyone down or else

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Nah the real issue is that people will cave in to those helicopter parents making everyone else deal with whatever insanity they force onto their children’s

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3 points

not in my experience working for a large district (50+ buildings).

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I’ve got 4 kids ages 15 to 3. I’m noticing that the helicoptering I’ve seen from other parents was much worse pre COVID than it is now.

I remember when my oldest kid was like 3 or 4 and hearing the word playdate for the first time. Hate that word. Sorry I’m rambling lol

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And depending on the porn genre, she might be denied bathroom rights in the shoot too!

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12 points

You don’t.

Source: raised by a single parent who yelled and chased me out of the kitchen anytime I tried asking questions of what he was doing.

Now 41, and have NO CLUE how to cook.

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9 points

at 41 its now your job to train yourself, if you care to. if that is your excuse on a blind date, its a red flag.

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Pssshhhhh, if you think lack of cooking is going to affect my dating life, don’t worry. I’ve yet to find the type of woman who’s personality type would mesh well with mine.

So, I can’t remember the last time I had a date, but I do remember always being disappointed. The VAST majority of women look down on you if you tell them that you’ll never have a drivers liscense (me, not her), that you don’t forsee yourself traveling ever, that you don’t like music, and the whole concept of marriage seems like a financial scam from start until either death or divorce.

If I were to date someone long term, I’d need them to be my speed by nature. Them being my speed has to be something that is within their personality, not me trying to get them to slow down.

My idea of a fun Friday night is to stay in, avoid the bars, and maybe watch a dvd. Most women want to go out, go to clubs, or go on a road trip somewhere. I don’t even want to leave my recliner. Although if I was with someone I’d switch to the couch.

But that person doesn’t exist.

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4 points

Similar experience growing up here.

I taught myself every single adult skill in my early 20s. I couldn’t have done it without the internet.

I’m a great cook though. I’ll figure out how to wash clothes without ruining them next.

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As my dad’s friend would say, “Wash with colors only? Clothes are one color: laundry-colored!”

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6 points

That sucks.

If you want to try learning, start with some pasta. Put water on the stove, boil it, add salt and pasta, stir, drain when the box says (don’t cook it too long or it’ll suck), put whatever you want on it. You can start by just pouring a jar of sauce on top and upgrade to something tougher when you’re more comfortable with it.

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4 points

I remember when I was maybe 14, 2001 or so, and my mom forgot to pick me up from wrestling practice after school.

We lived about 6 miles outside of town, and wrestling is a winter sport, so it was well dark.

I walked home along the side of the highway (in all black because that’s what I had that day…) after waiting well over an hour and calling several times (no cell phones). My options were to continue to sit in the glass entryway indefinitely or just leave and go home. It took me 3 hours, and when I walked in my parents were shocked that they forgot… not that I made it home safely or that I felt feelings… they were shocked at themselves that they forgot about me. (I wasn’t at that point)

I mean hell when I was 5-7 I was walking home from school daily, going around suburb town on my bike, and one time around age 6 I got lost for several hours (only a few streets from home, but so windy and confusing I was just lost…) it ended in trauma and an ER visit, but did not actually cause my parents to restrict my movement, when it absolutely should have. It was normal routine stuff back then.

I’m into parents caring more now, but man if someone had arrested my mother for allowing me freedom I’d… have felt really bad for causing it… that’s also intensely traumatic.

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21 points

Fuck that county and DA. I hope she wins. Bullshit. My 15 year old is out right now with his friends. My kids walk to and from school. Double fuck the old cunt who called the cops to begin with.

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