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[Jobbs]

has anybody ever actually left a country because X politician got elected? Hundreds of thousands threatened to when Bush was running, and hundreds of thousands more when Obama came along.

I feel like anyone and everyone privileged enough to casually threaten leaving the country is also too privileged to be significantly affected by any one politician.

I find Trump offensive and obnoxious in a way that I've never found a national politician -- Not even Bush. Bush seems like a cuddly little bear compared to Trump.

I don't think I'd actually leave the country over an election, but I'm not much of a nationalist and I'm sure as hell not patriotic, In few ways do I feel as though this country as a whole represents me -- So, really, it's laziness + family that stops me from living somewhere else and little else

I used to be a super neurotic, germophobic kid. probably a little like you but worse. and it still comes through today.
and I swear it was exactly how you're imagining it. my best friend actually still makes fun of me because of the whole hand washing incident haha.

I don't know if I'm germaphobic or not. The idea of tiny organisms in itself isn't what triggers me -- It's OTHER PEOPLE'S tiny organisms that triggers me. In other words, I'm not so neurotic if I'm just in my own space here, and it actually can get a bit messy in my bedroom. I even have a monica closet -- well, a mini monica closet.

I do purell whenever the kids touch my stuff but I don't get freaked out about it, and I don't tell them not to touch anything. In fact, I even let them climb on me when they're sick. I think love trumps fear of germs.

No but that one woman killed herself when they turned on the hadron collider.

what

 

[marrec]

has anybody ever actually left a country because X politician got elected? Hundreds of thousands threatened to when Bush was running, and hundreds of thousands more when Obama came along.

I feel like anyone and everyone privileged enough to casually threaten leaving the country is also too privileged to be significantly affected by any one politician.

Like, why would you leave a country like that anyway? If you care about how the country is run at all and are so passionate that you are willing to leave to express your distaste, why not stay and fight for what you think is right?

Pft.

 

[SystemBug]

How do you feel about a cookie when it falls on the floor? Do you pick it up and eat it?

 

[trab pu kcip]

I find Trump offensive and obnoxious in a way that I've never found a national politician -- Not even Bush. Bush seems like a cuddly little bear compared to Trump.

I don't think I'd actually leave the country over an election, but I'm not much of a nationalist and I'm sure as hell not patriotic, In few ways do I feel as though this country as a whole represents me -- So, really, it's laziness + family that stops me from living somewhere else and little else



I don't know if I'm germaphobic or not. The idea of tiny organisms in itself isn't what triggers me -- It's OTHER PEOPLE'S tiny organisms that triggers me. In other words, I'm not so neurotic if I'm just in my own space here, and it actually can get a bit messy in my bedroom. I even have a monica closet -- well, a mini monica closet.

I do purell whenever the kids touch my stuff but I don't get freaked out about it, and I don't tell them not to touch anything. In fact, I even let them climb on me when they're sick. I think love trumps fear of germs.

holy shit that's an exact description of me. I'm a bit messy in my own quarters but other people & their germs generally disgust me.
but when my bf got sick I never minded being around him cause I always believed the love trumps germs thing and strangely enough it always worked too.
GAF-hivemind going strong.


btw clyde, you can't scare me! love trumps fear ( ͡° ͜ʖ ͡°)

 

[RobotNinjaHornets]

has anybody ever actually left a country because X politician got elected? Hundreds of thousands threatened to when Bush was running, and hundreds of thousands more when Obama came along.

I feel like anyone and everyone privileged enough to casually threaten leaving the country is also too privileged to be significantly affected by any one politician.

I think Phil Collins did when Tony Blair got elected

Which is one of the few decent things Tony Blair did

EDIT: Damn, just checked and it's a lie. He did move to Switzerland, but it can't be attributed to Blair.

 

[zeemumu]

Just give me a reason
Just a little bits enough
Just a second there are roaches everywhere
And I can post that GIF again

It's in the stars
It's been written on the scars of our hearts.

 

[You Know Nothing]

How do you feel about a cookie when it falls on the floor? Do you pick it up and eat it?

Straight to the trash.

 

[Misha]

I'd leave once a policy was passed that would make my life too uncomfortable to stick around. Not when a politician comes in though.

It's not like we're going to get a tyrant that will immediate create awful laws. Even the zodiac killer would wait for the beaurocracy to take its course

 

[liliththepale]

I think Phil Collins did when Tony Blair got elected

Which is one of the few decent things Tony Blair did

Ha! (I don't actually know any of Phil's work off hand)

Like, why would you leave a country like that anyway? If you care about how the country is run at all and are so passionate that you are willing to leave to express your distaste, why not stay and fight for what you think is right?

Pft.

Exactly! I'm certainly no nationalist but running away from your problems is not a great solution most of the time (exceptions of course for the victims of assault and abuse).

I find Trump offensive and obnoxious in a way that I've never found a national politician -- Not even Bush. Bush seems like a cuddly little bear compared to Trump.

I don't think I'd actually leave the country over an election, but I'm not much of a nationalist and I'm sure as hell not patriotic, In few ways do I feel as though this country as a whole represents me -- So, really, it's laziness + family that stops me from living somewhere else and little else

It has nothing or very little to do with patriotism. It's simply more convenient for people to stay put and abide small changes in governance than to pick up and move somewhere else. Like for you I know you wouldn't want to leave your niece. And I don't want to leave all my friends or nice beach town. That has nothing to do with nationalism.

 

[Jobbs]

Straight to the trash.

You put a cookie against the new radiohead? weird but I'll allow it

It has nothing or very little to do with patriotism. It's simply more convenient for people to stay put and abide small changes in governance than to pick up and move somewhere else. Like for you I know you wouldn't want to leave your niece. And I don't want to leave all my friends or nice beach town. That has nothing to do with nationalism.

The policy he may or may not enact isn't what's really at stake. It's about identity and legacy -- The next president will put the supreme court either liberal or conservative for a whole generation. I'll be an old man by the time the supreme court has a chance of cycling around again following the next POTUS' term.

The fact that Trump is an unprecedented douchebag who openly says bigoted things just makes it that much harder to bear.

I don't see leaving over an election, that's a tad hyperbolic, but.. damn

 

[SystemBug]

Straight to the trash.

thats a waste of a cookie son

trump being president is going to effect my brown skinned cousins and family living in the states.

quite a few of them are already tired of being shit talked despite being doctors

 

[Clydefrog]

btw clyde, you can't scare me! love trumps fear ( ͡° ͜ʖ ͡°)

Please don't use the T word

 

[SolVanderlyn]

I dropped a banana on the floor today and straight up threw it out and got another one.

 

[smokeandmirrors]

has anybody ever actually left a country because X politician got elected? Hundreds of thousands threatened to when Bush was running, and hundreds of thousands more when Obama came along.

I feel like anyone and everyone privileged enough to casually threaten leaving the country is also too privileged to be significantly affected by any one politician.

it's not something i would immediately do but i would start attempting to get my affairs in order and look to move because any country that elects trump is too stupid to live in for me.

 

[trab pu kcip]

Please don't use the T word

jobbs used it. he's a bad example cat for me!

 

[SolVanderlyn]

vote donaldo-kun wai wai ~(=^–^)

 

[Granadier]

Fuck you and your fucking cockroach gif.

 

[Jobbs]

I think my face is swelling again. lol... the fuck

I need a doctor
Call me a doctor
I need a doctor, doctor
To bring me back to life

 

[trab pu kcip]

I think my face is swelling again. lol... the fuck

I need a doctor
Call me a doctor
I need a doctor, doctor
To bring me back to life

call HN

 

[You Know Nothing]

I think my face is swelling again. lol... the fuck

I need a doctor
Call me a doctor
I need a doctor, doctor
To bring me back to life

Feel the fever.

 

[FloatOn]

Just finished season 1 of the americans

Jobbs was right

 

[Jobbs]

call HN

what's she gonna do? btw today she's checking the wound on a kid who lost his eyeball. shit is METAL!

Just finished season 1 of the americans

Jobbs was right

maybe my face is swelling with validation, rather htan an accumulation of fluid...

edit: what's the word I'm looking for? it wasn't validation, but I can't think of it... it means, like, being right

Feel the fever.

you are so gay

 

[Professor Beef]

Mission accomplished

Did not ask my crush out or anything, just had small talk as we left work. Maybe two minutes worth.

kbye

 

[You Know Nothing]

maybe my face is swelling with validation, rather htan an accumulation of fluid...

edit: what's the word I'm looking for? it wasn't validation, but I can't think of it... it means, like, being right

you are so gay

Vindication is the word you're looking for.

And I know.

 

[SystemBug]

Mission accomplished

Did not ask my crush out or anything, just had small talk as we left work. Maybe two minutes worth.

kbye

try tomorrow. it's friday. ask her if she wants to get some drinks or something

 

[FloatOn]

And holy shit there is a snake on my back porch :0

Picture is taken from inside the house behind the protection of the sliding glass and screen door because I'm a giant pussy

 

[Professor Beef]

try tomorrow. it's friday. ask her if she wants to get some drinks or something

But I don't drink

 

[RobotNinjaHornets]

Mission accomplished

Did not ask my crush out or anything, just had small talk as we left work. Maybe two minutes worth.

kbye

Right

Ok

How about this

If you ask her out I'll give the online dating thing a proper shot with effort and everything

Spoiler

I'm going to massively regret this aren't I

 

[trab pu kcip]

And holy shit there is a snake on my back porch :0

cool. take pics

Right

Ok

How about this

If you ask her out I'll give the online dating thing a proper shot with effort and everything

Spoiler

I'm going to massively regret this aren't I

yesss you both do your things now!!!

 

[Jobbs]

And holy shit there is a snake on my back porch :0

go dress it in people clothes, take it with you to rob a 711, then get strangled by it before you make it to the getaway vehicle -- and appear in florida newspapers as a pretty mundane story

 

[Professor Beef]

guys I said mission accomplished not fission mailed

I wasn't intending on asking her out today

 

[RobotNinjaHornets]

guys I said mission accomplished not fission mailed

I wasn't intending on asking her out today

TOUGH WE'VE DECIDED OTHERWISE

 

[SystemBug]

But I don't drink

go get ice cream then

 

[FloatOn]

My dog Miles is losing his shit. He wants to play with him

 

[Professor Beef]

TOUGH WE'VE DECIDED OTHERWISE

YOU CAN'T JUST CHANGE THE MISSION PARAMETERS LIKE THAT

go get ice cream then

They serve ice cream in bars?

 

[SystemBug]

YOU CAN'T JUST CHANGE THE MISSION PARAMETERS LIKE THAT

They serve ice cream in bars?

you said you don't drink, so im just trying to give you an alternative. there are ice cream places where you are from I'm sure lol

 

[FUME5]

Fuck yeah it's Friday.

I love it when AMAs backfire.

Good old Seagal, snatching every motherfucker Birthday.

TOUGH WE'VE DECIDED OTHERWISE

Fill out that fucking profile, son.

 

[trab pu kcip]

TOUGH WE'VE DECIDED OTHERWISE

still do your thing man!




why is this so funny

 

[RobotNinjaHornets]

*watching election results come in like a boringboy*

Fill out that fucking profile, son.

still do your thing man!

Woah, hey, woah now, hold up, woah

I only said I'd do it if Beef asks said girl out

That ain't happened yet

 

[FloatOn]

I think the snake made its way back to the lake

 

[FUME5]

*watching election results come in like a boringboy*





Woah, hey, woah now, hold up, woah

I only said I'd do it if Beef asks said girl out

That ain't happened yet

Take the lead, show some initiative, be fearless and fierce.

Or go get high and blame Beef for being a pussy, both work for me.

 

[trab pu kcip]

I think the snake made its way back to the lake

 

[zeemumu]

My friend's dogs are always so happy to see me when I come visit. And somehow know that I'm here before I leave my car regardless of how far from her house I park

 

[RobotNinjaHornets]

Take the lead, show some initiative, be fearless and fierce.

Or go get high and blame Beef for being a pussy, both work for me.

That second option sounds much more fun. Don't have any weed though. Fuck.

 

[trab pu kcip]

That second option sounds much more fun. Don't have any weed though. Fuck.

you dont wanna end up like me. go out there and live son. girls aren't that much into inline skating, even the online dating ones. so nothing to lose

 

[Clydefrog]

I think the snake made its way back to the lake

omg it was a lake snake!

*slither slither, puts on snorkel, slithers into lake*

Watch for that little snorkel bobbing up and down

 

[Jobbs]

you dont wanna end up like me. go out there and live son. girls aren't that much into inline skating, even the online dating ones. so nothing to lose

oh yes you're doomed

 

[liliththepale]

it's not something i would immediately do but i would start attempting to get my affairs in order and look to move because any country that elects trump is too stupid to live in for me.

But it's already a stupid country. We have people who watch Jersey Shore, Keeping up with the Kardashians, Honey Booboo, and Friends. Those are already your compatriots yet we've somehow survived.

It just reads like vacuous moral posturing to threaten to leave when you or your way of life are not under direct threat. Mind you, this isn't an endorsement of Trump. I would much, much, much rather Hillary win. But we see people threaten to leave every cycle and yet no one really does.

 

[trab pu kcip]

oh yes you're doomed

I know. I'm making peace with it. IN HELL

 

[FloatOn]

But it's already a stupid country. We have people who watch Jersey Shore, Keeping up with the Kardashians, Honey Booboo, and Friends. Those are already your compatriots yet we've somehow survived.

It just reads like vacuous moral posturing to threaten to leave when you or your way of life are not under direct threat. Mind you, this isn't an endorsement of Trump. I would much, much, much rather Hillary win. But we see people threaten to leave every cycle and yet no one really does.

I love all the subtle mind fuckery that happens in this thread. Waiting to see if this triggers Jobbs or Trab