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    1. AlicesReflexion on

      So, I’ve got these three cousins. We’ll call them Daniel, Jay, and Louise. They’re getting to the age where they’re fighting over toys a lot. Louise will start playing with a truck, and immediately, Daniel and Jay will want the same truck.

      So I thought, you know. Maybe I can inculcate my liberal values in these kiddos. Teach them about the wonders of private property. Why don’t we all form an agreement about which toys belong to whom. And then, the “owner” decides what happens with the toy. Maybe they want to share, maybe they trade, it’s all up to them.

      Problem was, they could not ever agree on who owns what. As soon as I ask the question “okay, who wants the castle?” “oh, ME ME ME I NEEEED IT”

      Clearly, this wasn’t going to work, so I thought I’d do something more subtle. I’d start with low value items first. A penny, a piece of string, stickers, et cetera. The items would go up progressively in value, and they would each take turns claiming them. If they couldn’t get something they wanted, they would at least take comfort in knowing they’d get the next thing.

      This seemed to work well. They seemed to begrudgingly agree to the ownership structure… Until about 5h later, I come back to them hitting each other, yelling, biting, over some god dammed twine. I yanked it out of their hands and yelled “NO! THIS COUSIN JAY’S THREAD!”

    7. Top-Back-7626 on

      How much does this Iran debacle help Obama’s legacy? I remember all those republicans pearl clutching. I know he wasn’t perfect, maybe even not that great, but Obama was still the best we had.

    8. MyrinVonBryhana on

      My (114F) boyfriend (83M) fucked up and wore mismatched clothes to a party even though I SPECIFICALLY told him what to wear. I even went out of my way to buy the clothes myself and he still managed to look like a clown in front of all these people. AITA for yelling at him in front of everyone and then teleporting him into a swamp?

    10. AmbientMorning on

      Immigration thread outside the DT? Yeah, I’m probably downvoting half the comments.

      We’re a pro-immigration space, not a pro-immigration-only-if-the-public-doesn’t-dislike-it space. And the people — often infrequent posters here — who aren’t pro-immigration at all and are using the public as a pretense to whine about how they were downvoted when they posted anti-immigration comments on this sub four years ago can have another one.

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