mdwainwright (parroty)

@CanadaForEurope @james_xond Did she think putting Canada in the EU was a bizarre idea? Because it is objectively is a bizarre idea. You should apologize.

No. Political views are based on moral and ethical values. I walked away from a 20 year friendship with someone I considered a sister because we lost respect for each other. I wasn’t willing to listen to her talk down to me anymore, and I also couldn’t stand her heartless nonsense that I knew to be projections from her unhealed mommy and daddy issues, so one day I just stopped talking to her. No fight, no confrontation, I just walked away. And my sense of peace of mind increased dramatically from not having a secret hater in my life anymore. I realized after that at a certain point I simply dreaded talking to her, and the tightness in my chest was no longer there.

Can two people with completely opposite political views still be close friends?

@Gingie_Em @johndrewmarkley One could say I sacrificed a few brain cells reading your tweets. No one made me do that.

@mdwainwright @johndrewmarkley It's not a sacrifice if you choose to do it.

When I was born my father traded a job he loved for one he hated so that we could move back to my mom's hometown and be around her family. Fuck you.

@piyush100x @ragulkanthforu Um. Sure. Anyway. Can my kids have some of your “generational wealth?”

@ragulkanthforu generation after you doesnt mean your kids bro ... the impact you leave, people whose lives changed because of you ... thats the generation for me. bloodline is not the only legacy lol (atleast for me)

i hate marriages man, concept of it ... watching my most cracked friends give up their entire potential to rule the world for "settling down" ... bro you had one shot at generational wealth and you chose to marry a normal another human.

@politicalmath It’s fine. Everything is going to be fine. I was a pack a day smoker. No I smoke weed, like, once every 2 months. That’s what this generally means

This was not a good trade

@Gingie_Em @johndrewmarkley Sort of like a sacrifice.

@johndrewmarkley That was his choice, he didn't have to do that.

@PVAMU *on* Martha’s Vineyard. It’s an island.

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@marieeebabie I have fantastic penmanship. It’s also unmistakably male, like a draft engineer. There are dozens of us.

in all my years studying psychology a gender difference that interests me the most is why men usually have terrible handwriting and women rarely do. same classes, same workbooks (cursive too), and yet i could not tell you one man i have ever known with good penmanship

@krishnanc_ @kennixonette That is absolutely brilliant.

@kennixonette So many things boil down to this chart

i feel like the more interesting story is why did US republicans start naming their children Kongregation and Breighiaigh because ive never really understood that

@kennixonette The MOST interesting story would be where crunchies and militia types align on weird-ass baby names.

@MichaelZdanis @asymmetricinfo That’s a whole next level of parenting… I can’t even imagine.

@asymmetricinfo Also, if your child happens to have special needs, your obligation to them can extend beyond the duration of your own lifetime. You have to be prepared to make the arrangements and sacrifices to accomodate that reality.

I'm not even sure it's the time so much as the fact that you now have demands that absolutely cannot be negotiated with. Adult life has some give. An infant doesn't care if you're sick or tired or just had a car accident; they need what they need.

@BuffaloCompact @Brien_Jackson You used a chainsaw. Stop lying.

@mdwainwright @Brien_Jackson Yes. It’s not.

The sheer amount of work medieval peasants had to do to cook their own food would make the average leftist zoomer kill themselves

@MibshaD @ZainabSana2622 I agree, but it’s because I used to worry about the most inconsequential stuff. I became a dad at the tender young age of 38. I can remember lying awake, staring at the ceiling at 35 remembering something stupid I said in 2007, worried that someone else was remembering it too.

@ZainabSana2622 Busy isn’t a competition. Childfree doesn’t mean carefree.

"Childfree people don't understand how much free time they have." I'm going to hold your hand when I say this: there are other things besides children that are time-consuming. Taking care of children is not the only way a person can be busy. And you did not have to have children.

@eschensam @GraceLoveFaith8 It’s ridiculous x.com/mdwainwright/s…

@GraceLoveFaith8 The amount of labor women did weaving and washing their families clothes alone every single day save Sunday (if they were lucky) is STAGGERING. This "Medieval Peasants had lots of time off" myth is absurd.

Happy Monday for all those having to go off to work today. Just something for you to think about. 🤔

@GraceLoveFaith8 “So I spent my vacation chopping wood, which was helpful because ever since Christianity came to town, I had to give up my 12 hours of chopping wood on Sunday.”

@BuffaloCompact @Brien_Jackson Have you ever chopped enough wood to survive a winter? It’s a full time job.

@Brien_Jackson Substantially less work than your average person does today.

@Brien_Jackson Just chopping wood to survive the winter is a full time job.

@MT_6226 You somehow made the dumbest, most incoherent argument possible here. The better example is obvious: support for wars. Maybe find a different hobby.

The actual “luxury beliefs” actually come from elite right-wing people, eg “It’s good to have kids in your teens. I mean, I myself had kids in my 30s after my career was well settled, but teen pregnancy is good.” “Ivy League colleges are overrated. Hell, college itself is overrated, we need young men to go into the trades. I myself went to Princeton and I would never hire rabble from Penn State, nor would I let my children date someone without a degree. But we need young men to abandon college and choose the trades”!

@panarthropod @MT_6226 It’s the cost.

@MT_6226 A lot of the anti-college stuff comes down to "elite education should be reserved for children of the elites, such as myself"

@LynnMoore0321 @Samoth12 This Has Been Tried.

I know people had change god forbid we try something new. For decades we've tried the same economic playbook: tax cuts for the wealthy, subsidies for large corporations, and promises that the benefits would eventually trickle down to everyone else. That hasn't happened. People are getting spun up and don't even know anything about it except they hate it. These seem like the top 3 misunderstandings. First, it's only a basket of essential items that would be priced about 30% below typical retail prices. The vast majority of products in the store would still be sold at normal market prices. Second, grocery stores already compete using sales, loss leaders, loyalty programs, coupons, and promotions. This proposal doesn't eliminate competition—it changes where the competition happens. Third, these wouldn't be government employees running supermarkets. The current proposal is for city-owned stores operated by experienced private grocery companies under contract. If we're willing to spend billions on corporate subsidies and tax incentives with the hope they'll eventually help working families, why shouldn't we test an idea that's designed to help those families directly? It's a five-store pilot—not a nationwide takeover of grocery stores. If it succeeds, great. If it fails, we'll learn something and move on. That's how innovation works. I don't know if this proposal will succeed. But I do know that doing the same thing over and over while expecting different results isn't working for most people. Sometimes progress starts with being willing to try something new. I think this idea deserves that chance.

"It will fail because it won't generate profit!" The purpose of food is to feed people, not to generate profit for mega corporations. "Regular grocery stores will have to compete on prices!" I thought capitalists loved financial competition?

Guy who thinks bouncers are law enforcement.