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

Nah, fuck you. I have voted in every election I’ve been eligible for, and your stupid ad hominems are meaningless coming from someone who would rather take pleasure in your twisted idea if a high ground than actually discuss anything. I owe you nothing, if you want to discuss facts you bring them yourself.

Let me leave you with this: you, specifically you, have done more harm to American democracy in this conversation than anyone who decided to sit out any election in the last 10 years. Your defense of an organization that blatantly undermined democracy and even publicly admitted it is disgusting.

You’re the one disconnected with reality. You seriously think you’re winning an argument by petulantly saying the same irrelevant thing over and over. The vote count is not relevant to this discussion when the main offenses occurred before a single vote was cast and very much influenced the course of the election. That’s why the corrupted DNC in collusion with the Clinton campaign did them in the first place.

Right, the vote from the election where the winning candidate installed a sycophant as head of DNC who eventually had to resign in disgrace because she was actively rigging the election for Clinton. The election where the Clinton campaign siphoned funds from state races for her own campaign. The election where the Control campaign had documented authority over what the DNC could say. The election where the media, working for the same elite class, reported Clinton as insurmountably ahead before a single primary vote had been cast.

That’s the election that you think the end vote is even a little bit relevant for when people are talking about how it was a corrupt election? Give me a break, you’re just a standard issue neoliberal apologist.

Yeah, our struggles definitely pale in comparison to marginalized groups. And no worries! I didn’t think you were, I just know how much my brother-in-law struggled with dyslexia, though he didn’t have a very supportive family so he didn’t even get diagnosed until he was an adult.

They think my nephew is showing early signs of it too, but hopefully his experience will be closer to yours since he’ll get support early on.

Auditory processing disorder is such a weird one. In a lot of contexts I actually like it, it’s like having earmuffs without wearing anything. I just wish I could turn it on and off intentionally. Sometimes I need it because the unfiltered background noise is too much but it won’t turn on. Sometimes I’m trying to take in audio and don’t realize it’s turned on and I missed a bunch.

I’ve also realized that I actually read lips a lot to compensate for background noise, so I’ve been trying to hone that skill more intentionally. Another thing that’s maybe a benefit of the disorder.

No, you infantilizing asshole. The fact that you’re still pushing this stupid game means you clearly don’t intend to argue in good faith. The fact that even after making me explain a very simple and straightforward statement you still think the vote results are relevant to a discussion about the corruption of the 2016 primaries means you’re just yet another liberal apologetic. If you’re unwilling to grapple with the fact that the DNC is a corrupt organization, we’re done here.

No, I’m saying the election itself was corrupted in order to feed the victory to Hillary. Superdelegates, DNC-run smear campaigns, election rigging by limiting debates to reduce the visibility of the outsider. Accusations of sexism simply for not supporting the candidate with a vagina.

Manipulating votes is not the only way to rig an election, you can do a lot just by manipulating the voters themselves. The DNC admitted to this, they didn’t have to run a fair election. So stop pretending the end result of a blatantly corrupt process justifies the process.

Do you really think the vote results of a corrupt election somehow make that election not corrupt? How are we still having this stupid ass argument in 2026?

I guess Putin really does have 88% support in Russia. That’s what the vote says after all, so it must be true.

Damn that sounds rough. I’ve got some dyslexic family members and I can’t imagine combining their struggles with auditory processing disorder.

Other conditions exist. I have auditory processing disorder and one part of it is an involuntary disabling of my audio processing when my brain is trying to focus on something, particularly anything else to do with language like note-taking. My ears will “hear” but my brain won’t.

It wasn’t completely debilitating, but it made certain kinds of classes inordinately difficult for me. Discussion based classes were a nightmare for me, and no amount of practice could change how my brain works. So instead I pursued STEM where the notes are math and I could work ahead and tune in if I got stuck.

That being said, handwritten notes are still definitely the way to go in math!

My one that I share with my mom is that jalapeños taste like mold. I don’t get it with other kinds of peppers, and vinegar will mask it so pickled jalapeño or hot sauces with it are usually okay. But it’s always just a bit there.

It is a bit jarring, but your context is more than enough. Sorry you have to deal with that, no need to apologize to anyone for trying to keep your own world accessible to you.

Unfortunately I think we’re way too deep in the propaganda machine for this logic to work. That diehard base will simply not know she’s pardoned because Fox News will pretend it didn’t happen.

And if they’re ever confronted about it they’ll do mental gymnastics to get out of any shattering of their twisted reality.

How does “extremely limited” contact in a diplomatic context result in your kids getting $5 million each in his will?

That’s even more pathetic, lol. I hope they boo during the national anthem too, I can’t stand American nationalism. I refuse to stand for it during events.

Sie sind das Essen und ich bin der Cortez!

(Sorry to German speakers, I don’t speak it)

Attack on Chuck?

Really didn’t expect them to fly off the handle like that. We’re doing okay, my mom just has a lot to deal with right now. We’ve all been uncomfortable around my grandparents for a while, even before MAGA. I’m not above cutting contact, I already did with my older sister. But my mom is different and she needs to keep a relationship with her parents for her own sake, so I gnash my teeth in private and vent to my wife and we all keep the peace.

My uncle is a different story. He is very much not MAGA, so his cancer diagnosis is just a really shitty cherry on top.

You need to calm down and shut the fuck up about my mother.

Uh, okay. Turns out she’s a person who has experienced a lot of trauma and doesn’t want to cut out her parents who are probably not going to live much longer.

Calling her complacent in all of MAGA because she’s trying to do her best to hold things together for her increasingly dementia-affected father and disabled mother while her brother is dying of cancer is, oh I don’t know… extreme, cruel, and heartless?

Perhaps everyone you know and everyone they know should cut contact with you for being such a hateful person.