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    My parents: “Adoption is amoral. Those children come from godless families.”

    My sister can’t have kids, adopts two.

    My parents: “Adoption is God’s way of making sure every child can grow up in a loving home.”

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    My dad:

    “Student loans shouldn’t be forgiven, they should be paid back! Oh, you still owe $10k in student loans? Well I hope yours is forgiven”

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      America really needs a better schooling system… Here in Switzerland the ETH, (which is rated 10th place of the best schools in the world I think) is only 800.- (about 1-2 week’s worth of salary) per semester, which is nothing compared to what private schools in the US demand, whilst still having quality education. So I believe the biggest issue is the quality difference between state-owned schools and private schools, as private school should be allowed to charge whatever they want, but the state has the responsability to provide quality education to everyone for a decent price.

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        Nah, they are too busy commercializing their football teams by taking advantage of their students(players) to care about that shit.

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    TBF they still don’t give a shit about you, they’re just fixing things for themselves and the collateral damage is that it helps others in similar situations.

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      Of the many, many reasons I have to criticize her, being adept at blowjobs would not be one of them unless she was preaching that they were sinful. I know there’s a faction out there of only missionary position within the confines of marriage solely for procreation, but I don’t know if she was in that camp.

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        Nancy Reagan was very much a hypocrite on just about everything once she and Ronnie got the backing of the right wing.

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        Oh it’s not a criticism. I have no problem with that. Perhaps a bit of hypocrisy might be flagged up for the Reagans however.

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    Rock Hudson called up Nancy and Ronnie after he was diagnosed with AIDs - they had been friends for a long time. He asked them to help him get treatment from a French hospital, to send some sort of message or advocate on his behalf. They refused.

    Ronald Reagan’s inaction on HIV/AIDs is what turned it into a pandemic. There was a refusal to fund research or advocate for preventative practices, because it was the “gay disease.” Nancy and Ronald can rot in piss.

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      when a congressman suggested to his colleagues that we even look into what AIDS is, he was laughed off the floor because “Why do you care? Are you one of those people?”

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    Practices astrology - something that gets tagged as “satanic” by the evangelicals and their entertainment industry - to the point that there is one an astrologer in the White House or Reagan payroll, gets praised by all the evangelicals anyway. Fishy, fishy people that they are. Stinky and slippery.

    EDIT: added detail for clarity

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      they would order air force one to delay landing if the astrologer told them landing too early was a bad omen.

      they gave the astrologer classified information, which she then sent to “people with computers” to analyze their relevance to star charts.

      the astrologer gave ol’ throat-goat Nancy the idea to be tough on drugs “in the community,” but like, not the white communities.

      even when Ronnie was almost assassinated, the astrologer said she totally saw it coming… but didn’t say anything.

      it’s almost like there’s a chimp-with-a-machine-gun methodology for the GOP to hire the most inept people, and end up hurting themselves in the process of using the country and citizens as pawns and property.

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    Being able to understand other people struggles is only called “empathy” if you are capable of doing it without actually being in their situation. Otherwise it’s just sparkling hypocrisy.