@techhsiren As someone who didn’t just bounce back, I do think the discourse is overwhelmingly negative and it’s nice to hear people sharing positive / good experiences. I do think there’s a bit of negative bias.
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Abigail
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Christ is Lord. America First 🇺🇸 🇮🇱
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women who have good genetics talking about how it's "not so bad" after having a baby and call those of us who DON'T have good genetics and still look 6mo pregnant with ugly zebra lookin-ass stretch marks up to their ribs a year after giving birth "fearmongering" & "discouraging women from having babies" need to just admit they have good genetics and stop shaming the rest of us for complaining. no one said the babies aren't worth it
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@VitaCatholica Not to mention that the amount of harm done to families through unnecessary intervention. It's not innocent to accuse parents of abuse with no just cause or evidence, you are inflicting emotional stress on the entire family.
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We visited a new pediatrician when we moved. Brought in my baby & took my oldest with me bc we were going to pick out some new shoes on the way home.
Made introductions a little small talk. Mentioned that I had 5 children total that would be new patients. She immediately changed her attitude from cheerful to annoyed and looked over at my son asking "how many diapers a day do you change" he answered "eww none, my mom does that." Then she asked what kinds of chores I make him do. It felt like we were suddenly on trial for no reason other than having a bigger family. We found a new doctor.
It gets kind of exhausting when people especially those in the medical community auto assume bad things about everyone seemingly searching out red flags all the time.
I am a mandated reporter so I am aware of how vital it is to keep children safe but it is important to not just go overboard and make unfounded assumptions. I see a lot of pushback to this post is based on the premise that it gives a child an opportunity to report abuse but as a parent we also need to be aware that thousands of doctors have been charged with sexual misconduct and the consensus is that the numbers are also wildly underreported.
Julie@JulieLovesFluff
I took my 11 year old to her checkup this morning and the nurse asked me to step out of the room for a moment. I politely declined and she said, "It's just for a moment." And I told her, "No thank you, given all the stories about children being abused my husband and I decided to never leave our children alone with anyone, even medical providers. Anything you need to do or say you can do with me in the room." She looked all miffed and just left, no idea what her plan was but she didn't feel the need to continue it with me present and that makes me even more suspicious?? When she left my daughter thanked me for not leaving, she's already shy about the doctor, her eyes got so wide when the lady asked me to leave.
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@techshotgun @gatorgar People don’t want to die and will avoid doing things that might result in execution
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@gatorgar I get it, but no. I refuse the government access to capital punishment for citizens.
Besides, repeat public punishment can deter crime for decades.
A public execution doesn't have the same reach.
Punish public, punish often, see results.
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What can I do to be a more effective advocate for capital punishment?
I truly believe people like this should be publicly executed in brutal ways. I promise you an immediate reduction in this type of behavior.
Feed them to snakes and make sure everyone knows. Problem solved.
New York Post@nypost
Boy, 3, slashed by maniac wannabe kidnapper suffered massive laceration to face, photos show trib.al/FEd9bt5
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@WarClandestine It’s not personal or moral, world powers can never be fully at peace….. until the end of the world anyways. Lol
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What if Russia and China didn’t want to deal with nations like Iran and Venezuela?
The West have been trying to isolate Russia and China for decades, and gave them no choice but to deal with unsavory regimes.
What if we offered them a seat at the table instead of being enemies?
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Children should not be allowed to express certain attitudes or emotions that are objectively immoral
Josh Barzon@JoshuaBarzon
What’s an opinion about parenting that will get you into this situation with other parents?
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The current anti-Israel and even anti-Jewish sentiment online is a social contagion, no different than transgenderism or autism before it.
Of course, there is actually a condition known as gender dysphoria. But every family in Hollywood didn't suddenly and coincidentally have at least one child with gender dysphoria at the exact same time by natural processes.
And of course there is actually a condition known as autism. But every family in Manhattan didn't suddenly and coincidentally have at least one child with autism at the exact same time by natural processes.
You aren't an Israel skeptic, and you didn't start "noticing." You were told, and shown by interested parties, and you were rewarded with attention and dopamine by the tellers and showers.
And as with every social contagion, what you have been told and shown is an overwhelming quantity of selectively chosen half-truths -- or full-truths with half-context.
You believe you are a free thinker, but when every "free thinker" arrives at the same conclusion at the exact same time... well, the thinking isn't as free as you believe it is.
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@BasedMikeLee Thank you for your service for your constituents!
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I got a call tonight from a constituent whose son is in federal prison
He explained that he hasn’t heard from his son in several days (which is unusual for him), that his son suffers from multiple, potentially life-threatening health conditions that are going untreated in prison, and that he needed to know whether his son was still alive
He sent me the main switchboard number for the prison in question (which is on the east coast), and I called the number
Someone answered almost immediately
I explained who I was and why I was calling, and in particular that I needed to know whether this particular inmate was alive and well
The guy scolded me three times for calling “too f***ing late” and refused to tell me anything
Only when I persisted did he agree to check his records to confirm that the inmate in question was alive and well
After checking a list briefly, he came back to the phone and said “he’s here, and he’s alive and receiving the treatment he needs”
(His parents assure me that that’s simply not true)
I asked politely if someone could leave the inmate a message asking him to call his parents in the morning
He said, “it’s too late”
I responded, “I don’t mean now, I mean in the morning”
He scolded me again for calling too late, and then told me I’d have to call tomorrow and track down the inmate’s counselor
I asked him if he could relay the note to the counselor for me
He scolded me again for calling too late and asked me to call back tomorrow to track down the inmate’s counselor
I asked for the guy’s name
He refused to answer
I asked for his name again
He hung up on me
That’s not okay
Sadly, this is not the first time I’ve had this experience when talking to people from the U.S. Bureau of Prisons on behalf of constituents with an incarcerated family member suffering from a severe medical condition
And each occasion, I’ve been treated at best with dismissiveness and at worst with contempt and profanity
Has anyone else experienced this with the U.S. Bureau of Prisons?
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@brittilina Perhaps too simple but have you tried Powerade? Always got a boost with that
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Every single one of you spent the last 2 days crying about a meme President Trump posted on truth social.
But when Erika Kirk get death threats then mocked by the very people who cause the threats just 7 months after Charlie was killed you're all silent.
Where are the "quote posts" condemning this rhetoric? I thought Charlie was your friend?
@Riley_Gaines_ @megynkelly @bennyjohnson @TheOfficerTatum @TuckerCarlson @JackPosobiec
Call out the evil directly. It's not difficult.
Speak now or forever hold your peace.
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We wrestle not against flesh and blood
Calvin@RealCalvin1
King Charles pushing Islam William and Kate visiting Mosque's. Pope pushing Islam Woke right pushing Islam None of this is organic.
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Candace: harassed by kids at school. Declares war on her high school
Candace: doxxed by some leftists. Declares war on the left.
Candace: criticized by Ben Shapiro. Declares war on the Jews
Candace: excluded from Charlie's memorial. Declares war on TPUSA
(Pattern recognition)
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@bonchieredstate ...same with Charlie's actual memorial. It was safe for the president, Elon, countless cabinet members & political figures, Tucker Carlson, etc..... but not Candace Owens! Hypocrite.
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My kids have this little plastic Ikea table they use to draw & stuff and my 3yo is just desperate to help me in the kitchen, but I find it so stressful & difficult to have her on a step-stool at the counter while I’m trying to get things done
BEHOLD, A REVELATION
I brought the plastic table into the kitchen, gave her a cutting board & the kid friendly chopping knives & let her make the salad tonight. I have never let her do this before
Every time she cut through a cucumber or tomato it was like “WOOOOOOO!!!” She was literally shouting she was so excited about it
Then she helped me add ingredients & whisked the salad dressing totally on her own
So she made the whole salad tonight. And she coated all the asparagus in oil & seasonings, the salt & pepper grinder unassisted. I let her do it all. She was insanely proud of herself & it actually was very helpful to me instead of intrusive & dispersing
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A TPUSA student asks Vance who he would reccomend for podcasters for young people 👀
His recs:
- James Dobson, founder of Focus on the Family,
- Andrew Kolvet and the other hosts of the Charlie Kirk podcast
- Theo Von
- himself
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Okay, so alone time when you’re married with kids.
That is virtually impossible to have this without planning & intentionality.
First, your wife needs to be informed that you need some sort of alone time periodically to rejuvenate your body & mind. It’s very likely she will not know or understand this without you telling her (unless she is a massive introvert, but still let her know).
Once you have that communicated, you will likely have to inform her of when you would like some time to yourself. Then you two can plan that out.
If you’re like me & find the most rejuvenating alone time to be by yourself at home, that will require her to take all the kids somewhere else, & that is not an easy thing to just do spontaneously. My job often lets me take leave whenever I want, so during days I know my wife is going to take the kids to her mom’s for most of the day, I usually take off work and drive back home. Outside of that, I need to put work in to get alone time.
But if you can get rejuvenating alone time anywhere, inform your wife in advance, plan it out, & then go to a library. Or a park. Or Starbucks. Or I don’t know… McDonald’s?
But finally, once you have that set up, you still need to have the expectation that whatever amount of alone time you WANT, you will not get. Wanting one full day a week is usually unrealistic. Multiple days a week is ludicrous. You may not even get one day a month. But whatever time you get will have to involve intentionality to get it.
Simpleton900@simpleton900
@TheEbonyMaw @TheEbonyMaw have you ever had a time alone? How do you managed that
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@capstellium @JadeAtrophis And then those same kids end up being the ones who get medicated because our schools can’t handle kids energy. You did the right thing!
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one of my final straws for taking my son out of school was during covid, they had an evening zoom class. the kids were showing off their teddy bears and my son was bouncing a little in his seat. I heard his teacher YELL his name saying she was going to kick him from the meeting if he couldn't "behave". he was in his own house, on mute, and she couldn't stand seeing him excited and happy. he started to cry so I had to turn his camera off
Ante D. Luvian@uncle_deluge
My little brother was singled out and bullied by his female teachers because he would bounce up and down when he got excited. We used to call him Tigger. He was a single digit age and they would scream at him and insult him for hopping in place in anticipation of recess or something. It was hardly even moving, imagine bouncing your leg up and down when you feel antsy. He did it with both. They took away his recesses. They wouldn't let him go outside. They took him off the soccer team, his greatest joy in the world. They made him feel like a piece of shit. He couldn't help himself and it stressed him out so much he just started having tantrums in the morning and refused to ever go to school again. The teachers held meetings where they determined amongst themselves that they had done nothing wrong. That my little brother, whose crime was that he felt so much excitement that he couldn't contain himself, needed to be medicated. They brought in some experts who agreed and convinced my mom to start giving my brother anti-anxiety medication at like 10 years old. The life faded out of his eyes. He was never been the same. The tantrums never stopped. He never even graduated school. I hate every single one of them.
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Apparently a "full closure" of the Strait like the 'Panicans were hyperventilating about even 24 hrs ago is not as full of a closure as you would read on X or Truth Social for that matter.
Appears commercial traffic is transiting if it avoids Iranian-origin cargo or ports. That distinction matters.
It shows selective, targeted pressure rather than blanket disruption.
Something the US Navy is particularly good at.
Avi Kaner ابراهيم אבי@AviKaner
Everyone’s busy, except the Iranian ports. Blockade is working perfectly as designed.
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@brittilina Exactly! now we’re seeing how this type of parenting results in adults who are incapable of self control, discipline or diligence. They haven’t learned how to do hard things and don’t understand consequences for failure. They want small rewards & persuasion for the smallest task
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TL;DR: Redirection ≠ “building trust”
Ah, so here’s the answer. Redirection is not parenting. Redirection is not structure. Kids obey when there is a framework in place and they know what their place in it is. Kids LOVE this kind of structure. The older the kids are when you put it in place, the harder it is for you to enforce and for kids to follow.
But redirection is not going to always be there for your kids. You have to teach kids how to do things that they don’t want to do. If your parenting relies on redirection for obedience, you are not helping your child.
Why is disciplined obedience better than redirected obedience? When they are little, they can’t understand “you brush your teeth bc it’s good for your health” but they will understand “bc Mommy or Daddy said”.
You can’t dopamine them into obeying immediately when a car is driving toward them in a parking lot. So you practice teaching them to obey immediately on low-stakes things like brushing their teeth.
Anthony Migliorino@PeacefulFathers
If my kids didn't want to brush their teeth, I would talk to them about it. I make it fun, and I find a way to get the job done without violence. I use influence, negotiation, and persuasion instead of hitting.
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Spanking is good and biblical. Practice this discipline while they’re young.
“Do not withhold discipline from a child; if you strike him with a rod, he will not die. If you strike him with the rod, you will save his soul from Sheol” (Proverbs 23:13-14).
Josh Barzon@JoshuaBarzon
What’s an opinion about parenting that will get you into this situation with other parents?
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