If there’s one thing these assholes cannot stand, it’s being made fun of. They are desperate to be taken seriously.

Just ask Mel Brooks if you don’t believe me.

Speaking as someone who would have been stillborn if not for a C-section, there are some surgical procedures that are kind of important.

Sorry! :(

The second, and it’s far more likely than you think. See the Tulsa Massacre, Chicago Race Riots, Rosewood Massacre, and the Wilmington Insurrection as depressing examples.

It was so much easier to blame it on Them. It was bleakly depressing to think that They were Us. If it was Them, then nothing was anyone’s fault. If it was us, what did that make Me? After all, I’m one of Us. I must be. I’ve certainly never thought of myself as one of Them. No one ever thinks of themselves as one of Them. We’re always one of Us. It’s Them that do the bad things.

-Terry Pratchett

I mean, they’ve won basically unfettered power, so yeah.

Because they’re Koreans. Don’t kid yourself, Japanese people are crazy racist.

Really, that’s what these businesses are good for: a barometer of social pressures and cultural views.

A poll can be twisted whichever way, pundits on TV can say whatever they want, but at the end of the day a company will do what makes it the most money. It’s the truest measure of what the majority of society thinks.

So if being LGBTQ friendly gets them more money, they will, and if being nasty to LGBTQ people gets them more money, they’ll do that.

Them pulling LGBTQ stuff back is far more a condemnation of society than of the company.

Yes, yes, we should totally be understanding of the people who want to see my cousin dead and my uncle run out of the country.

/s because there are sadly a lot of people who legitimately think this way

At this point, with him announcing to all and sundry during the campaign that he was going to do this, not bothering to vote was still a vote.

Last time this happened, they were thrilled to take it to the chin since it meant ‘helping Trump’. I foresee them cheering this on too, even as they fall into poverty and have to sell the farm.

Academia, here I come!

They don’t care. The owners of Walmart are some of the richest people in the world. So like all rich people they just figure they’ll hike prices and people will still pay (and they’ll have to, because Walmart tends to drive all its competitors out of town).

Maybe because they’re trying to get people to pet a blue-ringed octopus?

Mexicans were often among the first to be laid off after the crash of 1929. When combined with endemic harassment, many sought to return to Mexico.

They were run out of town by racist shitheads. They didn’t have much of a choice.

From what I can tell, it’s based off the state the parent lives in.

Just because you haven’t heard of it doesn’t mean it doesn’t exist, or doesn’t happen. Another poster already linked the Wikipedia article, but they’re called Filial Responsibility Laws. The states that have them are:

Alaska Arkansas California Connecticut Delaware Georgia Indiana Kentucky Louisiana Massachusetts Mississippi Nevada New Jersey North Carolina North Dakota Ohio Oregon Pennsylvania Puerto Rico Rhode Island South Dakota Tennessee Utah Vermont Virginia West Virginia

Iowa used to but they got rid off them in 2015.

Nope, USA does it too.

And the hell of it is, the government can force you to. They have full authority to garnish your wages and give it to your parents, even if you don’t want to support them.

Dude… these guys go there because us western women are ‘too woke’, ‘too feminist’, ‘don’t understand traditional gender roles’ (i.e. we refuse to be a housebound sex slave) etc, etc.

They’re told that women in X country (Mexico, Japan, and Thailand are the usual culprits listed) are submissive, traditional, uneducated, and you can just buy one, instead of, you know, actually working at building a relationship.

They don’t bother to learn the culture. They don’t bother to even learn the language. They believe that, because they’re white, all they have to do is show up and wave money around and every woman will fall all over their epic alpha maleness.

These guys are just gross.