I think you have a hater, because almost every single thing I've seen you post has been downvoted the last few days. But maybe it's unrelated and people just get salty.

@walterr- I don't know where to start. Perhaps with "obviously." It may surprise you many friends routinely pay checks, buy each other gifts, open doors, listen to each other in depth and more. Being a friend is different to different people, those with more money and more generous may be more giving than others. So just by being "extra nice" you show nothing. Even if it's to one person you may like them more or know they need it, or see them being nice to others and want to return it. Obvious making a move, obvious is saying something. A real friend can't be friend zoned because they care for you as a person and not as a potential date/lay. If turned down they leave or go back to a friend. Are women to assume all nice men want sex? Don't put the responsibility on a woman that a man was too meek to make his feelings open. If you don't get what you want but stay you're either truly happy as things are or you are spineless and that's on you not them.

Lol. A small hope dashed.

It would be interesting. Moron is subjective though so it may be a hard push. Of course that would likely mean president Pence, and half morons can be dangerously effective compared to complete morons.

I am onboard for a Trumpless day. I serious do not think I haven't heard his name or something about him a single day- if not all year then maybe even since he started his campaign. Intentional or not he's got one smart thing- that. He's a brand. Very little he does he does on his own money. People pay for him- the person/brand. He's on everyone's tongue and mind and that works well for him because love or hate- repetition is recognition and he has a name that can draw atttention which is key to any brand. I would like to see some more interesting takes on the humor though than just "he's dumb." Someone asked me if he could be impeached if found mentally unsound- with his random tweets and the stuff that comes out of his mouth how would you tell if he had dementia? Like him or hate him one must admit that he does and says some very "unconventional" things. So yeah- if people want to bag on him I would like to see some more clever takes and angles.

Apologies. I meant the US government. I could easily see something similar working in many other countries if ran by the government.

Indeed! How dare Shen assume you were a person and capable of developing individually through exposure to friends, the outside world, and your own interpretations and desires! Everyone knows that anything bad a kid does or has happen in life is the fault of their parents being the ones who control their development. To assume a child could have any free will beyond what their parents gave them, most illogical.

I was wondering that myself. So many questions. Do nicknames count? Like- the only way they could know would be of it was just a random person with that name, or if it was supernatural. But if it's supernatural why does it say "real person?" The existence of this supernatural force means that others are more possible too. Could you write names of supposedly mythical figures and wait to see if the door opened to prove which ones were real or not, and if it isn't supernatural, how would they know if that was a real person or not? How do you prove or disprove a person exists short of meeting them yourself? So does it have to be a person they know? How do you know who they know? If they know all the people you know and aren't a supernatural force, does that mean you know them? If you wrote their name do they kill themselves? If so does that mean if they kill themselves no one will be able to open the door? I see some issues here.

It says "real" not living. So dead person would work. "Kill" is used as a verb here so can mean "to end" and you can end a corpse. Corpses are not uniformly treated as a person or an object (for instance ownership of a corpse and as property freedom of use.) I find no reason the person who's name is written must be real.

I'll admit that it isn't entirely what's been going on. It would be ridiculous to suggest everything that has happened the last year was entirely or based on the work of the previous administration. It would also be equally ridiculous to suggest that some of what has happened isn't. Or that it isn't related in a meaningful way to the president at all. Considering many of the economic improvements we've seen are global changes, and considering that large scale things take time to shift directions in response to changes, we haven't even begun to see any,let alone the true effects of things yet, and we can't gauge the long term "success" vs short term gain until at least the next election term. Many would point at what are seen as erosions of civil rights or other "intolerant" policies as regressions they may not feel are offset by the gains. We've also seen no real progress on any of the issues campaigned on, but it's only the first year so it's too early to really judge him on that yet.

There was once a gardener for the king. He spent his days tending the soil and composting fertilizer. The king would ask why he had no flowers for the queen and the gardener would tell Him be patient. The king grew tired of this and He called the gardener to him and fired him. He hired a new gardener. Within weeks of his start the seeds the other gardener planted and cared for flowered from the fertile and well kept grounds into a beautiful garden. The king gave the second one a medal for he had "done in weeks" what the other hadn't in months. That gardener quit that season and a new one, the greatest gardener of all time came. The second gardener had been terrible and lazy. The flowers died and rhe 3rd gardeners best efforts couldn't bring them back. The king fired him and hired a new one who was able to plant the refertilized soil and was given a medal..... and so on.

100% agree all politicians are crooked, and most regular folks honestly are too to some degree. Maybe at one persons job they take home a roll of tape, or help a friend out a little, politicians just deal with bigger things than tape and can do a lot more to help their friends. I mean, who would pay over 20x the salary of an honest job just to get hired? But I think wanting to be president should disqualify you. It's a thankless job where you get blamed for anything that goes wrong including the weather, and no matter what (as we've talked about) a bunch of people will hate and mock you. The first one to volunteer for a job like that is either too dumb to realize what is required, a real doer type that just wants shit done and has to do it themselves, or an opportunist looking for an angle. Since politicians are pretty much career opportunists, and anyone else it's 2/1 odds- I say wanting to be president should disqualify you.

Stupid seasame seeds. I've found it a wash between the two. I've been to ones all over and it seems it just really depends on the franchise owner and what they demand.

By default most everything is owned by "the 1%" that's what 1% means. They own more than 99% of people. I'm glad we agree though. Mainstream, urine stream, any stream media or individual operating as a for profit entity will use its resources and power to safeguard its own interests and better its standing. If it has to knock others down to do that, it will. It's not there to do good or be nuetral or provide a service, it exists to make money and continue to profit. So 6.5 billion people and 2-3 thousand are worth over a billion dollars. They are so far in the 1% that it's a decimal percent that rounds to zero. The standing president is of course self claimed to be worth $10 billion, part of the 1% and a for profit entity who considers themselves a personal brand to the point of trademarking things they say, and selling their name. No politics, just facts. With the "Everyman" persona and "I'm here to help YOU" platform people also forget that.

It's like the Kardashians. Some people like it knowing what they are for breakfast, some people wish they disappeared from earth, a lot fall in the middle. End of the day it's different strokes for different folks. If I don't want to see something I just scroll past it.

>inserts Jedi temple meme with "Anakin Skycopter" joke<

It's been a sad day for a few hundred years then I suppose. Quite a few Americans were VERY unfond of Lincoln, Coolridge is only recently being remembered fondly in history as while popular for a time- a small "Great Depression" helped make him quite an unlocked man for many for very long, FDR was loved for what he did but disliked for much of what he was, Truman, well.. a lot of America hated him. When a governor tries to call the national guard to stop a presidential order of say that's big. Then there was Korea and so on. Nixon was so popular they had already been trying to impeach him before watergate broke and people still throw hate for loss of the gold standard. "Reaganomics" "Star wars" many loved Ronnie, but let's say a lot didn't. I seem to recall both Bushes being widely mocked and disliked, with Jr being subject to a Trump like media blitz and protests and boycotts of appearances and things tied to him. Calling Bill Clinton a great president still starts fights.

Oh? Perhaps we are witnessing the rare birthing of a baby copter, and those marines are medics there to cut the umbilical cord and tend to the new born who can't yet even fly on its own?

Payments began in 1861 and went on for 4 years until the confeferacy said they couldn't take anymore repayment. So America didn't make that same deal.