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Long before Trump was in politics, the thing most people knew him for was not his business acumen, but that he was essentially the physical avatar of avarice and greed and everything wrong with capitalism. He was not an aspirational role model, he was a caricature of the negative stereotypes embodied by the average American businessmen, everything dialed up to 11, including his contempt for the common laborer.

He was well hated before getting into politics, and it had nothing to do with his political opinions at the time.

Oh, I've seen this one before!

Oh fuck, I forgot that's what you're supposed to say!

FSM, please forgive me for my apostasy.

Is this an adhd thing? I thought I was just fucking stupid and couldn't appreciate music the way other people apparently did.

Their home province may be rural and not have hospitals equipped to treat certain diseases? China is a big country and not all of it is well developed.

Al'dente 🙏

1000% agree. We didn't just end up this way by accident. We are all victims of a system that has been slowly and deliberately eroded to ensure maximum apathy. It's not the voter's fault that education, journalism, and social safeguards are hollowed out husks of what they used to be.

The frustrating part is that I don't see a way out of it. There's no easy or obvious solution to the problem. You can expose the man behind the curtain as many times as you like, but partisan politicians will always be playing defense for their team and all the many scandals and earth-shattering revelations will be reduced to a political disagreement, where for every narrative there must be a counter narrative that explains why the other people are wrong, even if it must fly in the face of observable truth.

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There is little risk of you consuming a 15lb pizza in one sitting.

Silence, mortal!

Reconciliation was Lincoln's blunder, but we can't pin all the blame on him. The fact of the matter is the vast majority of the electorate has been purposefully dumbed down and lulled into a state of learned helplessness, while those who do manage to stay engaged are drawn into endless political culture wars that keep us divided down predictable party lines.

There are issues out there that 80-90% of Americans agree on, it's just that no candidate can ever make a platform out of those popular ideas without getting dragged down into the mud of divisive rhetoric so that people can easily place them into a neat little box that predetermines if they hate them or not without thinking too much.

Nah, your posts are good. Fuck the haters. I don't even bother to look at usernames 90% of the time but I recognized a few of the posts you've made over the past few days in lemmy shitpost and they are genuinely good.

His family says they really like me, but they’d never accept me as his wife since I’m not Arab

Who is saying this to you? Are they saying it, or is he saying it?

Because if his family says that they really like you but they are not willing to accept you as part of their family if one of their own desires it, then no matter how good they think their reasons may be, they don't actually like you. They are just making excuses.

And if he's the one saying it and you've never received any kind of verbal confirmation from, say, his siblings or parents about the topic, I would be highly suspicious of his motives.

I think that this is a larger discussion that has to happen with your boyfriend. Telling him how playing second fiddle to another woman would make you feel might give him some much needed perspective. If he's not willing to budge on the traditional marriage, you have a choice to make - you can continue to be with him and reap the benefits of the relationship, but you are going to accept that eventually he's going to push you into a situation that you cannot tolerate (being a mistress, essentially) and you are going to end up with nobody and all the time and years of your life that you can never get back spent cultivating the failed relationship will be lost.

On the other hand, there is a nonzero chance that he might change his mind. Maybe money isn't as important to him as your love and affection for him is. Maybe he will mature a little more and recognize the importance of keeping someone he knows he cares about close, rather than taking a chance on someone else who just happens to be of the same race. But that's a lot of "maybes" and "what ifs".

Personally, I would draw a line in the sand. Like a savvy gambler, you have to know when to quit while you're behind, because losing the relationship will no doubt be hard for you emotionally, but you know what's worse? Losing the relationship anyway after trying for years to salvage it and then realizing that you wasted that time of your life chasing someone who didn't value you instead of hitting the dating scene right away. If you straight up tell him that you want to be his #1 and only wife, and he rejects that, you should leave him. Stick with him for the sex and the company if you want, but don't hesitate to put yourself back on the market, and take time to start emotionally distancing yourself from him.