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Could have stopped at “AITA: I’m a Republican…” and the answer would be the same.

Yes.

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Really interesting to spend 2/3 the article framing the discussion. I totally think it works, but I was surprised how much time we devoted to tardiness and speeding tickets.

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The audience wasn’t Lemmy/Reddit…I don’t think retired English teachers write for us usually lol

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I’d be more convinced if it wasn’t the 4th time they were going to lose their license. Also, they agreed to stop speeding if he cooked dinner more but that was a lie and immediately started again but expected him to keep cooking. Also …

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The concept behind AITA is that even though a title can lead people in one direction the explainition may take you in another. All the people who didn’t read the article and instead made snap judges based off a title… YTA

Or rather a EHS

Don’t you all see how the current reflection of governance is not aligned with the views of the people? Your news pits you all against each other with fear factors. I don’t agree with views of Republicans but freedom caucus and my neighbor Bob have different agendas. One is being told someone is trying to destroy them and the other one is on tv telling them that. It’s easy to fall in with views your comfortable with and stay there long after they get out of hand. Education takes time

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You’re not an asshole. You just don’t understand how majorities work.

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if you think of yourself as a Republican right now, your default state of mind is finding someone to blame for your little headache… and your default activity is bitching about it as loud as possible to whoever will listen to your crying ass…

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Funny enough, all the republicans I work with have been silent on this whole debacle, and the trump cases. They sure as hell can’t stop running their mouth about biden though.

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