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Kory wrote:
Kory wrote:
Dr. Medulla wrote:
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I don't FB nor does my mother, but I have the next best thing, which is our weekly Sunday phone calls. The most recent was on Americans and guns, in which she adhered to two positions: 1) The US does not have a real democracy and 2) it's is Americans' fault that their elected representatives are so awful on the subject of guns (among other things). My efforts to point out the inconsistency failed completely.
Aren't parents fun? Our biggest argument ever was over her position that all homeless people should be in prison.
Holy crap. :scared:

Most of my family are mushy social democrats and can't understand how their position could be critiqued from the left. At the same time, I regularly call them on their blatant partisanship and accompanying double standard, which necessitates me defending the Conservatives.
The most insane thing is that my mom is the one that gave me my morals and compassion, yet she believes things like this. What the hell am I supposed to make of that?
I just feel more and more every day that she's not the same person that raised me.
How old is she?

For many, the aging process decreases the ability of the frontal lobes (via dementia, senility, etc.) to control the more reptilian parts of the brain.
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Spiff wrote:
Kory wrote:
Kory wrote:
Dr. Medulla wrote:
Kory wrote:
Aren't parents fun? Our biggest argument ever was over her position that all homeless people should be in prison.
Holy crap. :scared:

Most of my family are mushy social democrats and can't understand how their position could be critiqued from the left. At the same time, I regularly call them on their blatant partisanship and accompanying double standard, which necessitates me defending the Conservatives.
The most insane thing is that my mom is the one that gave me my morals and compassion, yet she believes things like this. What the hell am I supposed to make of that?
I just feel more and more every day that she's not the same person that raised me.
How old is she?

For many, the aging process decreases the ability of the frontal lobes (via dementia, senility, etc.) to control the more reptilian parts of the brain.
She's about 57. A friend made a good point that getting older increases one's fear of the world, resulting in these kind of opinions.
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Kory wrote:A friend made a good point that getting older increases one's fear of the world, resulting in these kind of opinions.
And yet, I'd say I find the world more unsettling, but my reaction is that we need more compassion and more awareness that our individual actions have social effects. Fear doesn't need to make a person turn meaner.
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Dr. Medulla wrote:
Kory wrote:A friend made a good point that getting older increases one's fear of the world, resulting in these kind of opinions.
And yet, I'd say I find the world more unsettling, but my reaction is that we need more compassion and more awareness that our individual actions have social effects. Fear doesn't need to make a person turn meaner.
Tell that to my mom!
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Kory wrote:
Dr. Medulla wrote:
Kory wrote:A friend made a good point that getting older increases one's fear of the world, resulting in these kind of opinions.
And yet, I'd say I find the world more unsettling, but my reaction is that we need more compassion and more awareness that our individual actions have social effects. Fear doesn't need to make a person turn meaner.
Tell that to my mom!
[insert "your mother" joke here]
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Dr. Medulla wrote:
Kory wrote:
Dr. Medulla wrote:
Kory wrote:A friend made a good point that getting older increases one's fear of the world, resulting in these kind of opinions.
And yet, I'd say I find the world more unsettling, but my reaction is that we need more compassion and more awareness that our individual actions have social effects. Fear doesn't need to make a person turn meaner.
Tell that to my mom!
[insert "your mother" joke here]
My mama's so dumb, I don't tell "yo mama's so dumb" jokes, I tell "MY mama's so dumb" jokes. Example: My mama's so dumb, I don't tell "yo mama's so dumb" jokes, I tell "MY mama's so dumb" jokes.
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Kory wrote:
Dr. Medulla wrote:
Kory wrote:
Dr. Medulla wrote:
Kory wrote:A friend made a good point that getting older increases one's fear of the world, resulting in these kind of opinions.
And yet, I'd say I find the world more unsettling, but my reaction is that we need more compassion and more awareness that our individual actions have social effects. Fear doesn't need to make a person turn meaner.
Tell that to my mom!
[insert "your mother" joke here]
My mama's so dumb, I don't tell "yo mama's so dumb" jokes, I tell "MY mama's so dumb" jokes. Example: My mama's so dumb, I don't tell "yo mama's so dumb" jokes, I tell "MY mama's so dumb" jokes.
And we have witnessed here the death and burial of the yo mama joke.
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Dr. Medulla wrote:
Kory wrote:
Dr. Medulla wrote:
Kory wrote:
Dr. Medulla wrote: And yet, I'd say I find the world more unsettling, but my reaction is that we need more compassion and more awareness that our individual actions have social effects. Fear doesn't need to make a person turn meaner.
Tell that to my mom!
[insert "your mother" joke here]
My mama's so dumb, I don't tell "yo mama's so dumb" jokes, I tell "MY mama's so dumb" jokes. Example: My mama's so dumb, I don't tell "yo mama's so dumb" jokes, I tell "MY mama's so dumb" jokes.
And we have witnessed here the death and burial of the yo mama joke.
Yo mama.
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Kory wrote:
Dr. Medulla wrote:
Kory wrote:
Dr. Medulla wrote:
Kory wrote:
Tell that to my mom!
[insert "your mother" joke here]
My mama's so dumb, I don't tell "yo mama's so dumb" jokes, I tell "MY mama's so dumb" jokes. Example: My mama's so dumb, I don't tell "yo mama's so dumb" jokes, I tell "MY mama's so dumb" jokes.
And we have witnessed here the death and burial of the yo mama joke.
Yo mama.
Zombie yo mama joke!
"I never doubted myself for a minute for I knew that my monkey-strong bowels were girded with strength, like the loins of a dragon ribboned with fat and the opulence of buffalo dung." - Richard Nixon, Checkers Speech, abandoned early draft

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Dr. Medulla wrote:
Kory wrote:
Dr. Medulla wrote:
Kory wrote:
Dr. Medulla wrote:
[insert "your mother" joke here]
My mama's so dumb, I don't tell "yo mama's so dumb" jokes, I tell "MY mama's so dumb" jokes. Example: My mama's so dumb, I don't tell "yo mama's so dumb" jokes, I tell "MY mama's so dumb" jokes.
And we have witnessed here the death and burial of the yo mama joke.
Yo mama.
Zombie yo mama joke!
Still not as bad as Zombie Simpsons.
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Kory wrote:
Dr. Medulla wrote:
Kory wrote:
Dr. Medulla wrote:
Kory wrote:
My mama's so dumb, I don't tell "yo mama's so dumb" jokes, I tell "MY mama's so dumb" jokes. Example: My mama's so dumb, I don't tell "yo mama's so dumb" jokes, I tell "MY mama's so dumb" jokes.
And we have witnessed here the death and burial of the yo mama joke.
Yo mama.
Zombie yo mama joke!
Still not as bad as Zombie Simpsons.
I've been watching episodes of season 20+ Simpsons because it coincides with my work break, and I'm surprised to find that there is a little bit of worth in them. Maybe only two jokes per episode, which isn't nearly enough to justify their existence, but not a total graveyard either.
"I never doubted myself for a minute for I knew that my monkey-strong bowels were girded with strength, like the loins of a dragon ribboned with fat and the opulence of buffalo dung." - Richard Nixon, Checkers Speech, abandoned early draft

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Dr. Medulla wrote:
Kory wrote:
Dr. Medulla wrote:
Kory wrote:
Dr. Medulla wrote: And we have witnessed here the death and burial of the yo mama joke.
Yo mama.
Zombie yo mama joke!
Still not as bad as Zombie Simpsons.
I've been watching episodes of season 20+ Simpsons because it coincides with my work break, and I'm surprised to find that there is a little bit of worth in them. Maybe only two jokes per episode, which isn't nearly enough to justify their existence, but not a total graveyard either.
A case of a broken clock?
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Kory wrote:
Dr. Medulla wrote:
Kory wrote:
Dr. Medulla wrote:
Kory wrote:
Yo mama.
Zombie yo mama joke!
Still not as bad as Zombie Simpsons.
I've been watching episodes of season 20+ Simpsons because it coincides with my work break, and I'm surprised to find that there is a little bit of worth in them. Maybe only two jokes per episode, which isn't nearly enough to justify their existence, but not a total graveyard either.
A case of a broken clock?
Maybe. Or the writers are good enough that they can still find an odd nugget inside a mine that has been fully hollowed out.
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Dr. Medulla wrote:
Kory wrote:
Dr. Medulla wrote:
Kory wrote:
Dr. Medulla wrote: Zombie yo mama joke!
Still not as bad as Zombie Simpsons.
I've been watching episodes of season 20+ Simpsons because it coincides with my work break, and I'm surprised to find that there is a little bit of worth in them. Maybe only two jokes per episode, which isn't nearly enough to justify their existence, but not a total graveyard either.
A case of a broken clock?
Maybe. Or the writers are good enough that they can still find an odd nugget inside a mine that has been fully hollowed out.
In that case, they're geniuses. It's really not their fault.
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Despite some assertions from people I actually think are pretty politically astute, I'm reasonably sure this sit-in won't lead to gun legislation that materially makes anyone safer. But I do think there's a pretty good chance this has helped solidify the surveillance-state watch-list concept as not only bipartisan consensus, but as a legitimate tool to advance so-called progressive causes. So that's something, I guess.
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