I'm not unaccomplished, by any means, but I genuinely felt like I wasted my life before having a kid. We had our first at 36 and we're about to start trying for a 2nd at 38.
Which is to say, while it's hard, it's one of the only things worth doing in life. IMO, obviously.
(For the record, in our 20s we were the "no thanks" crowd, I changed in my 30s and my wife took an extra 6 years to come around)
Edit: lol love the downvotes for this benign comment. Lemmy is a dumpsterfire.
Let's not live in a bubble. Most polls still show trump winning.
Lol sure buddy, until I prove otherwise, 50% of voters have no goals other than to kill and destroy. Totally reasonable viewpoint to have.
Lol I'm sure that will change your mind, and it won't devolve into me saying "people that vote for the GOP aren't a monolithic group of evil tyrants" and you saying "all right wingers are vermin that should be extinguished", I definitely haven't had that same conversation 10 times on lemmy
Yep, their only goals in life are to destroy the planet and kill liberals.
Don't even speak that into the ether
Lemmy users decry this while almost constantly demonizing all right-wingers as soulless racist misogynists. Anytime I suggest that right wingers might be more complex than a caricature of a 1960s villain, it goes over like a lead balloon.
The rhetoric is exactly as divisive on both sides and leads directly to politicians feeling comfortable calling for a civil war. It all feeds into the frenzy.
You're going to ignore my very reasonable response in favor of "WELL I COULD ONLY CLICK ON THE FIRST RESULT GOOGLE GAVE ME". You're unwilling to take your head outta the sand, and I'm unwilling to make any more good-faith arguments to obstinate, willfully ignorant people. Have a good one.
I don't like Harris at all, but I'd love to see her in a debate with trump.
Christianity, for sure. But maybe if you're trying to actually find out what people like about Donald Trump, every single one of your sources being "people who hate Donald Trump" isn't the smartest approach.
Feel free to Google "what do people like about Donald Trump". Nothing I say will change your mind about half the country being racist misogynists and nothing more. Just living villainous caricatures.
Even if everything you said is true - that's still not his appeal to his base. Those are things that they are comfortable writing off due to his actual appeal. His actual appeal is something that you and most commenters on reddit would never verbalize because you'd rather stick to your simplistic worldview that every single trump voter is a racist, misogynist, etc.
Do you guys not know what "appeal" means?? He is all of those things at his core, but do you think 50% of voters are like "I LOVE THAT HES RACIST!! I LOVE THAT HE LIES ALL THE TIME". Your viewpoint is ignorant and dangerous.
Oh yes I'm clearly very angry and am very invested in this conversation
So overdramatic