Just… no. Memory before 1998 is a terrible litmus test for a birth year cutoff at 1996. Perhaps you had too much lead exposure.

What are you even talking about? My point is that’s not a good measure of the generational transition from Millennial to Gen Z. It’s the wrong timing.

I was 5 when Pokemon came to the US, so I don’t think it’s fair to say I remember a world before Pokemon. I have memories from before 5 sure, but nothing that counts as knowing what the world was like. And that’s not even counting hearing about Pokemon from my Japanese cousins before it came here.

I also don’t think it’s fair to say I can’t understand how amazing Pokemon are when those games dominated my whole childhood.

I disagree, that puts the last few years of Millennials into Gen Z though. That puts me into Gen Z and I’m a few years before the cutoff.

That’s almost a litmus test for the Millennial/Gen Z border (for the US at least). Usually remembering 9/11 means you’re more on the Millennial side. Though generations are fuzzy and ill-defined.

Yeah, I don’t know any couples my age who don’t both work.

It doesn’t really make a difference if both parents are working and make similar amounts. Then that part is no different from filing separately.

You inserted yourself in a conversation about the Democrats. Not about the goddamn article. My ire against Trump is that the pedo rapist isn’t rotting in prison for the rest of his life, and this entire conversation was started by someone insinuating Kamala would have done something about it. You jumped in and took their side in this argument, so you don’t get to back off now. For someone who goes on and on about insulting people for not reading context, it’s amazing that you can’t grasp that I was responding to a comment and not the article.

The Democrats, particularly the executive leader for 4 years, did nothing with this evidence to root out the pedo rapist ring. My ire against Biden and the Democrats is that they were the only thing that could stand in the way of the fascist takeover they helped facilitate back in 2016 (Trump was Hillary’s pied piper). So am I mad at the Republicans and Trump? Of course, they’re pure evil. But I’m not ideologically aligned with them in the slightest. The Democrats claim to be ideologically aligned with me but never act on it, taking away my only sector of representation in our government. So yeah, I direct my ire at the group that is supposed to be doing something about this and chooses not to.

In the meantime, any semblance of criticism against the Democrats is always met with assholes like you who can’t stand anyone calling out the ineffective controlled opposition.

What facts have I pulled out of my ass? You think a few missing files that the article is talking about excuse the lack of action on the entire case?

I’m not talking about these specific files, I’m talking about the whole thing. Which we can all see with our own eyes right now. You don’t need to trust me on anything, if you assert that the Biden administration did its job on this case, you need to prove that.

Its existence isn’t settled science, but I have this too and I’ve found that Auditory Processing Disorder describes it perfectly. Lots of comorbidity with autism and ADHD, so it’s possible it’s not a separate disorder but just another manifestation.

But yeah, I can’t filter out background noise at all. My brain copes by completely shutting off audio processing when I’m focusing, but it’s involuntary and can be pretty inconvenient. I have to read lips a lot when talking anywhere but a quiet environment because I can’t separate speech from background noise.

Heed what dates? The ones that place the evidence firmly in existence for the entirety of Biden’s term?

Are you saying Trump took the files away and brought them back with him in his second term? Why would his admin bring them back at all?

Even if this insane world you’re pitching is true, that makes Biden’s lack of investigation even more egregious since it should be obvious if this key evidence was missing.

Even funnier that you’re claiming to only care about facts when you’re the one spinning some wild accusations to go out of your way to clear Biden’s DOJ of basic responsibility.

Ah sure you got me. Your names are similar at a glance. Doesn’t change the fact that you’re reply is just apologist bullshit.

Yep, I’m looking. Starts with your snide comment that says:

I’m sure Kamala’s DOJ would have covered this up, too, amirite?

That’s not even close to an answer. You’re the one who started this trying to say the Democrats would do better to address this pedophile ring. By your own comment you understand that this was a highly active case already by the time Biden took over. Why was nothing done from January 20, 2021 through January 20, 2025?

Why did Biden’s DOJ do nothing on this? And why do you think Kamala’s would have acted any differently?

I guarantee my MAGA grandparents would believe all hardships they’re experiencing are solely the fault of Democrats, even if I gave them sources about how Trump and the Republicans did whatever is causing that hardship. Their heads are so far in the sand it’s not even worth trying anymore, and there’s plenty of other Fox News brainwashed folk like them.

They’ll just move the goalposts. When my sister went QAnon crazy she started spouting all sorts of bullshit like the moon landing being fake.

I pointed this out to her, and she just insisted that later moon missions were real and planted evidence for the faked early ones. I also pointed out OP’s point (if the landing was faked, the USSR would have called out that bullshit) but she insists she’s smarter than the KGB.

I don’t speak with her anymore.

I didn’t do a special party or anything. But I did file paperwork to legally change my last name to my stepdad’s.

Yep, 99% of dogs beat 99.99999% of people. And 99% of cats do the same.