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Cake day: June 13th, 2023

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  • I mean, off the top of my head, probably something like, “I’m asking for examples and answers. Not a stupid debate, here. Why are we complicating this?”

    Really shows the person only wants to have a conversation on their terms and isn’t actually interested in listening. Bad listeners are the worst, might as well have a convo with a brick wall.


  • Unfortunately I do, much of my extended family is what I call consistent Catholic. They oppose the death sentence, are in favour of funding good education and social programs, and yet, somehow every election they vote R because the pope tells them too. The only silver linings are that I think most of them abstained rather than vote for Trump and that they all live in a hard Red state anyway so they probably won’t have much impact. Still drives me crazy though.

    Edit: Apologies if my reference to the pope seemed flippant, I was falling asleep and probably didn’t word it well. I know that obviously not all Catholics think that the pope/church command a R vote (Biden) but my aforementioned family have explicitly said this. Not sure if its their local priest talking out of turn or if they are in a weird conservative echo chamber, but that’s what they’ve said. I don’t really follow Catholic things, so I never dug deeper.