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29 Folks, Who Ended Up On The Evil Side They Once Swore To Destroy, Share Their Stories
Have you ever witnessed a person change so drastically that it's hard to recognize them? Sometimes this change can be for the better – they might become a braver, more successful, happier version of themselves. And other times... Well, some folks become something they once fullheartedly hated.
That's what we're going to discuss today – our listicle is full of examples of the latter change type. While some of these stories are sad but rather simple and even kind of realistic, others are absolutely heartbreaking. So, let's jump in, shall we?
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#1
Here's something not political:
**Streaming platforms.**
They initially existed to out-compete cable and allow you to access movies and TV shows without ads for a small amount of money per month instead of hundreds.
Now, there are 1,000 of them, they all cost way more, the one you have never has the content you want, and they serve you ads regardless. They are literally just becoming cable TV channels. .
Giraffe Sitter 3 months ago
They’re worse than cable channels because at least those you can record on a DVR, skip commercials, and keep indefinitely.
Bill Swallow 3 months ago
Until your DVR dies. The media companies will never, EVER allow content to be exported / copied from a DVR. They are hamstringing technology to reverse the court decision that allowed home videotaping.
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Dragons Exist 3 months ago
And then they complain about piracy, even though piracy is far more convenient then they are
Science Nerd 3 months ago (edited)
And the original attraction of cable channels is that they would provide commercial-free broadcasts, as opposed to the current on- air stations. And we believed them.
Gingersnap In Iowa 3 months ago
I only have Amazon Prime and don't really watch it bc the commercials. I'd rather just watch antenna TV.
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#2
People who kept talking about freedom of speech elected a guy who actively punishes people who exercises their speech.
Science Nerd 3 months ago
I have no idea who you’re talking about. https://www.politico.com/news/2025/09/19/trump-no-longer-free-speech-00574219
LinkTheHylian 3 months ago
"Freedom of speech is the First Amendment!" "Okay, but do you know what it really allows?" "Yeah! It means I can say this! (insert bigoted comment here)" "No... it really doesn't..."
Dragons Exist 3 months ago
It DOES mean that they can say that, but it also means that other people can react however they want
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Janelle Collard 3 months ago
"Free Speech is what I TELL you it is!" sez the big orange cheeto.
iseefractals 3 months ago
You mean like the oodles of people social media companies were "encouraged" to ban by the biden administration for daring to suggest that covid escaped from a chinese lab? Kimmel has spent the past decade pounding the same tired drum about trump....the issue is the fact that he, on PUBLIC BROADCAST NETWORK, which is overseen by the FCC, who REGULARLY LIMITS what can be said on its airwaves, and continued to spout the same ignorance and lies circulating on social media, ignoring the fact that those lies and misinformation was resulting in CALLS TO VIOLENCE.....misrepresenting facts in the face of a tragedy when doing so has the foreseeable result of violence, is directly against FCC guidelines, has been NINETY YEARS.
#3
Anyone with generational trauma. Growing up I used to always swear up and down that I'd never be like my dad, or his dad, and, well, sometimes I find myself being a f**k of a lot like my dad.
Ellinor she/they/elle 3 months ago
That's why some people decide to not have kids. To stop the generational trauma and heal themselves instead of passing it down again.
Ace 3 months ago
Absolutely my prime motivation, from an early age, for not having kids. I was't actually ab used in any way, just kinda neglected, forgotten, unloved (at least that 's how it felt). three of my four siblings have had kids, and that's great, but I aways felt that if I did I would probably be no better at fathering them than my own father, mayherotinhell.
Lee Gilliland 3 months ago (edited)
Not anyone. My father was a narcissist and so is my sister. I raised my child a little more safely. You CAN break the chain of generational a***e, it just requires a bit of character and a hell of a lot of stubbornness.
Lene 3 months ago
My family taught me not to be a family or a parent. So I strive very hard to be the kind of mom I needed when I grew up -of course so it suits my kids. But I strive to be a mom who listens to her kids and respects them as individual humans. I also shield them from all the shıt my parents do and say now. I am healing my inner child by (doing my best at) being that better mom for my kids.
JayWantsACat 3 months ago
When I was in junior high, we had some acting troupe of older kids come in and essentially put on a play about child a***e. The take away was that the kid being a****d swore he wouldn't be like his dad and a***e his kids... only to end up just like his father and a****d his kids. That has always stuck with me because my father was also a*****e in his own way, mostly emotional. And I swore I'd never be like him... only to get older and see a lot of my father in my behavior. I guess the good thing is that I recognize it, the bad is it still happens. This is a large part of the reason why I'm choosing not to have kids.
You've probably heard the phrase “You have become the very thing you swore to destroy.” If you haven’t, you will definitely read it in today’s article. Well, a version of it. After all, today’s piece is a listicle of people who embody this phrase.
To be more specific, it’s people sharing stories of people or companies that ended up being someone or something they used to hate and advocate against. Or, in the words of the phrase, something they once swore to destroy.
#4
Graham crackers. They were created by a preacher named Sylvester Graham as part of a diet designed to be as boring as possible (Originally they were unsweetened, plain crackers). This was part of a larger movement of bland dieting. Apparently people thought this would suppress the desire to [pleasure yourself] lol.
Now they’re used in s’mores 😈.
Tabitha 3 months ago (edited)
And a host of other delicious foods. They do make a lovely crust when mixed with melted butter. They’re also good with peanut butter.
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Pferdchen 3 months ago
One of Sylvester Graham's contemporaries and fellow believers in the bland food movement was John Harvey Kellogg. His younger brother, who Sylvester liked to demean, accidentally came up with the production technique after forgetting to put the dough away overnight. IIRC, after Sylvester's Battle Creek Sanitarium burned down, he sold the rights to the corn flakes to the younger brother. A pretty intense legal battle ensued over who had rights to market products using the Kellogg name. The TV show "The Foods that Invented America" had a great episode on the Kellogg brothers. Another good one was about Heinz, who pioneered the use of electrical lighting in the production facilities and the work flow technique that evolved into production lines, though Ford gets most of the credit. Heinz was pretty ruthless. At one point, he was buying up all of the glass bottles produced in the city and sinking them in the river or harbor so his competitors couldn't bottle their product.
Austzn 3 months ago
This is also the original reason why some of these radicals tried to popularize infant male circumcision in the US: it made it more difficult to masterbate and thus would make people more pure or something. It didn't really catch on until after WW2 when people started having babies in hospitals and then i guess it being "medical" was more palatable. Also, the hospitals were charging for it, so there's that pesky profit motive too. 😉
Pferdchen 3 months ago
That's odd. I'm circumcised and have never encountered any problem with that particular endeavor.
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Probably many politicians. There have to be some that get into politics to fix things and make the country better for everyday people, but the system either beats them down and they leave or they slowly become twisted leaders only out to make money at the people's expense.
Austzn 3 months ago
The system does corrupt but the individual still has to choose to play. I personally knew someone who went into some local politics with good intentions like that only to go down the dark side of far-right politics. It was crazy watching this in real time. He got expelled from his elected position and is now in prison.
Lee Gilliland 3 months ago
It's because there's only one system and, therefore, only so ,any variations on a theme.
Seadog 3 months ago
The corrupt politicians will always do things to bury the honest person. ALWAYS, unless they're all removed from the living completely. Which often means removing a large number of people that back them. The honest person may make some advances, but the corruption is there, just waiting to spring into action. Maine is a prime example.
Michael Largey 3 months ago
One thing Trump has accomplished is establishing that modern GOP politicians are nothing more that a pack of unprincipled cowards. (Yes, a different set of circumstances might find the Democrats similarly revealed.)
#6
George Lucas acknowledge he became the Hollywood machine he fought when making Star Wars.
Tabitha 3 months ago (edited)
Funny, isn’t it? I have known people who, when they were employees, hated a*****e bosses or company owners. But when they became the bosses or company owners, they started acting the exact same as the a******s they used to hate—-nd there was NO trying to tell them about it either. They would not believe you.
Manos 3 months ago
It is their role to look at things differently as responsibilities change.
Load More Replies... Lee Gilliland 3 months ago
If you want to make films, you have little choice. The only major director I know that hasn't been sucked in is Ken Burns.
Vishrut Rao 3 months ago
This phenomenon of turning to the dark side should be officially named as 'The Anakin effect '
Originally, the quote was said by Obi-Wan Kenobi to Anakin Skywalker during the Duel on Mustafar. All of it was in the 2005 movie Star Wars: Episode III – Revenge of the Sith. It isn’t the only thing from the Star Wars franchise that became a part of public consciousness and speech, but it is the most important one for today's topic.
Nowadays, the phrase, or the screenshot from the movie, is used as a reaction to someone or something acting and/or becoming something they once hated, or, in the quote's words, "swore to destroy." Well, maybe in real life the "destroy" part is less realistic, but we can't write it off completely, can we?
#7
As a Christian, I saw all those so-called Christians hating on gay and trans people, hating libs, hating whoever. Drove me nuts considering love is the central tenant of Christianity. Over time I came to really hate all those people giving Christians a bad name, which created a crisis in me.
Fortunately for me, the situation ultimately destroyed my belief in God altogether so now I am free to hate people all I want.
Lee Gilliland 3 months ago
I still believe in a higher being, but cannot imagine Them being so petty.
Grumpy old man 3 months ago
Ywhw was always petty. Have you read the Bible,? Half the commenters here will quote the ugliest parts for you. I dont remember what page beast love is on, but they will
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Mel in Georgia 3 months ago
Had a similar journey myself - except now I can love all people (well, some more than others) without guilt!
Bill Swallow 3 months ago (edited)
I believe our universe was Created. I do NOT believe in Organized Religion. You want to believe in a 'God'? Go ahead, knock yourself out. You may well be right. But do NOT let anyone else get between you and your God to 'explain' things, or 'interpret' things, or 'teach you the gospel truth' (or to demand a cut of your money). Religion should be like the Tesla model for selling cars (if I can be forgiven for invoking that here) - NO DEALERSHIPS!
Peter Bear 3 months ago
You're also free to love people if you'd rather, no deity required. I'm so very, very sad that you chose to put more hate into the world.
Michael Largey 3 months ago
Being an atheist certainly does not make you free to hate people all you want. You need a rational basis, unlike believers.
LooseSeal's $10 Banana 3 months ago
As a good Christian once said, "I hate my enemies." (Insert audible eye roll.)
joseph legatt 3 months ago
Anytime I have a conversation with someone taking the MAGA point of view I just ask them "what would Jesus do:? If they say he would do the same thing I then ask them where it says that in the Bible. That usually shuts them up because most of them have never read the Bible.
#8
Everyone who said "don't believe everything you read on the internet" 30 years ago.
Austzn 3 months ago
Truth; when my MIL first got online she thought everything was curated like a library and it was all 1 source so I foolishly attempted to show her the difference between academia publishing peer reviewed research papers and what she was reading because, "it was more interesting". She was reading blogs, opinion-editorials, and would not believe it. Went MAGA eventually, who would have figured? HAHAHA
iseefractals 3 months ago
Scientific studies don't really prove much of a point anyhow, the most glaring example of this is obviously the Autism/Vaccine study that took TWELVE YEARS to be retracted. Thalidomide went through extensive clinical trials and was approved as a nausea medication for pregnant women....only to be pulled a few years later because it caused severe birth defects.....studies aren't published for consumption by lay people, and that autism study, which was published nearly 30 years ago was already highlighting a problem that has only worsened over time.....a substantial number of "studies" aren't published with any serious intent, they're performed and published because researchers are under constant pressure to keep their output up, to maintain funding.
Load More Replies... Lee Gilliland 3 months ago
Do YOU believe everything you read,internet or otherwise? I sure as hades don't.
Pferdchen 3 months ago
I had a community college psychology professor who just assumed all of my papers were correct because they were generated on and printed by a computer. It was the second best benefit I received for being a very early adopter of personal computer technology 🤣 Of course, I believed in my work and deserved the straight A's! The best benefit was my boss saying I saved the computer center (no applause involved) because I was able to incorporate personal computers into our mainframe / timesharing environment, which our internal clients / scholars were clamoring for.
Janelle Collard 3 months ago
And when they throw AI-written sh!t in there, ya gotta wonder who TF programmed it.
#9
Google.
onarainyafternoon asked:
Why has Google search become literally unusable in the last couple years? It's like anything somewhat specific I'm looking up is just flooded with completely irrelevant links. It's so frustrating.
Ian1732 replied:
It's because of Prabhakar Raghavan.
Mel in Georgia 3 months ago
Google was once superior to other search engines in just about every way and that's why you used it. Now it just seems like any other commercial endeavor designed to manipulate you and destroy competition in unfair ways.
Dragons Exist 3 months ago
No one is ever going to win a lawsuit against Google, they're too powerful
Load More Replies...People switching up so much in their behavior can be due to various reasons; you know, as always, context matters. Yet, at its core, a lot of times, these switch-ups are a consequence of people's inability to keep their word.
You can always rationalize breaking promises in plenty of ways – from overconfidence and forgetfulness to disrespect or exaggeration of the promises in the first place. No matter how you justify it, it doesn't change the fact that those who do it often or on a grand scale aren't people whom you want to put your trust in.
Yet, it's easier said than done – sometimes it's not that easy to notice an untrustworthy person before it's too late. Well, let us help you, at least a little bit. Apparently, there are certain signs to look out for that can give away that a person might tend to occasionally break promises.
#10
Kids who swore they’d never be like their parents, then one day hear themselves say we have food at home.
Mel in Georgia 3 months ago
"Because I said so!" Every child hates to hear that, yet every parent eventually resorts to saying it.
Felicia Baxter 3 months ago
I hate that, I want an actual reason for why your telling me to do the thing
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Dilly Millandry 3 months ago
I managed it - didn't have kiddies! My mother did say 'I hope you have a child just like you' (she didn't mean it nicely). Hah! Mother, I didn't! 😉
Dread Pirate Roberts 3 months ago
Kind of a poor example, since not everyone can afford to eat out every time their kid wants to. It's the "because I said so", "don't do as I do; do as I say", and "stop crying, or I'll give you something to cry about" parents that need the cycle broken.
Yrral Spavit 3 months ago
Slipping into "get off my d**n lawn' without realizing it until the words fall out of their own mouths..
#11
OpenAI was founded as a nonprofit to make sure that AI would not benefit just a big corporation like Google but would instead benefit all of humanity and be developed safely.
Instead OpenAI has become another big corporation and has pushed Google and the other players into a race to ship AI products as fast as possible regardless of negative impacts, and has never delivered any tangible safety technology.
OpenAI’s non-profit board tried to fire Sam Altman but the for-profit wing had become so strong (the employees didn’t want the drama to make their shares lose value in an upcoming funding round where they could lose shares so a lot of employees threatened to quit, and Microsoft, which owns a large stake in OpenAI, threatened to just replicate OpenAI inside Microsoft outside the control of the nonprofit board) that this failed.
Ashtophet 3 months ago
I mean, did anyone ever think that AI could just be free open source? Of course it was commoditized and weaponized!
Anthony Elmore 3 months ago
There's a lot of homebrew setups for AI models, actually. The problem is they're generally one step behind mainstream models. So it can be, and technically is, but not the mega models.
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David 3 months ago (edited)
Both not totally correct, and Microsoft isnt just a large stake, but 20%. overall with a 49% claim on profits. When OpenAI was in financial trouble and needed cash in 2019, Microsoft gave them 1 billion dollars for 10% with an option to buy up to 49% whenever they wanted at fair market value at the time, as well as being OpenAI exclusive cloud service, and Microsoft had full access to integrate their software into any Microsoft programs, like Azure. This was approved unanimously by the board with a press statment "OpenAI is producing a sequence of increasingly powerful AI technologies, which requires a lot of capital for computational power. The most obvious way to cover costs is to build a product, but that would mean changing our focus. Instead, we intend to license some of our pre-AGI technologies, with Microsoft becoming our preferred partner for commercializing them." This was the Non Profit board, back in 2019 that did this. The attempt to oust Altman was for different reasons, as a well as why he was brought back
David 3 months ago
by the time of the ouster, the original Non-profit only owned 2% as they had sold off the rest to investors, all deals unanimously approved of. Altman was ousted by the board, bc he didnt disclose his personal investment in OpenAI and how much he owned himself, as well as withheld info from the board like the launch of ChatGPT which they learned from the Press Release. Also 700 of the 770 employees signed a demand to bring him back or they would quit, after that letter, Microsoft and the other investors who, along with Altmans shares, owned 98% of OpenAI, forced the board to bring him back. Further several invesorts threatened to sue, bc their investment contracts required to the board to notify them before any firings, which they didnt (Ironically, bc they fired him for not disclosing). During those 5 days they went through 2 CEO's who quit, among other drama. With the threats of lawsuits from investors and 90% of the employees threatening to quit, they rehired him
Load More Replies... Michael Largey 3 months ago
Why would a non-profit organization have shares? No profits = no dividends. Does, say, the American Heart Association issue stock? If the shares are being held with a mind to gain on selling, it's not a non-profit organization. Apple has paid no dividends for a long periods of time, but no one called it a non-profit. Profits for shareholders came in the form of appreciated value when sold.
#12
Robespierre was against the death penalty once.
Lee Gilliland 3 months ago
Robespierre was a despicable SOB who deserved everything he got. He turncoat left and right and was George's inspiration for Littlefinger.
For instance, they might be a person who often overcommits to things. They take on more things than they can handle, which inevitably leads to breaking some of those promises. Granted, it's not always intentional – in some cases, it can come from people's desire to please others or an overestimation of their own capabilities.
This can come from their inconsistent prioritizing of tasks, as these people tend to juggle tasks without properly deciding what's most important, which ends up leading to not finishing what they take on.
Or they simply procrastinate. They keep pushing away the tasks, as they feel not ready for them or believe that they'll have time to finish them later. And while sometimes they're successful in fulfilling everything, at other times they fail to deliver.
#13
Austin Pets Alive, a large animal rescue org in Texas with designs on expanding nationwide, recently outed themselves as being pro-life for pets, and confessed (inadvertently) to being a puppy mill.
The leader actually believes that if every family that wanted to buy a pet came to her instead of a breeder, there would be no pet overpopulation.
But realizing that people buy so they can get soecific breeds and puppies and kittens, she has spent 30 years taking pregnant dogs from city shelters (and tax dollars for the honor of doing so), letting them give birth, and selling the puppies.
That's just being a breeder. With an infinite supply of new moms, all paid for by the state.
In a way it's brilliant in its pure, impressive level of evilness.
Pferdchen 3 months ago
The accusations that PETA is a leading killer of animals fits into this category. Our cat was feral and we took it in because it was getting hit by rocks at the nearby homeless shelter (another cat was set on fire). It took a month for her to come out of hiding and adapt to a serene home life. I wager that PETA would have declared her unadoptable and euthanized her in 24 hours. Now she comes to bed anytime I do and will frequently sit here waiting for me until I do ❤
#14
Facebook.
helm replied:
Facebook was never made with good intentions.
Bec 3 months ago
The creator's intentions were never 'good', but most users joined so they could keep up with friends and family. Now it's all rage bait, data collecting ads, and lots of sh1t no one asked for.
George Costanza 3 months ago
Sooo...quit. I did. Plenty of people have. You don't have to stay on there for any reason. It's useless.
Load More Replies... Yrral Spavit 3 months ago
Just looked it up who uses it most. No not boomers "As of February 2025, it was found that men between the ages of 25 and 34 years made up Facebook's largest audience" https://www.statista.com/statistics/376128/facebook-global-user-age-distribution/
Skywitness 3 months ago
It was never a trap I fell into. Big Brother had to search for personal information in the book 1984. People didn't gleefully hand it over.
#15
Is nobody going to say McAfee?
Drogovich said:
Even the founder of McAfee later said that he hates what they turned his antivirus into and starred in a commercial where he blasted the PC with a [weapon] because he couldn't uninstall McAfee
Janelle Collard 3 months ago (edited)
It's a total PITA to write down every one of the website "addresses" these spams come from + then tell my browser to block them.
Essentially, promise-breaking might not be a malicious act, but rather one that stems from people's poor decision-making, poor self-esteem, and inability to prioritize their work.
That leads us to the conclusion that while sometimes people becoming something they once hated might be a moral failing, other times it's something more sad than wicked. And while it's reasonable to call out people who end up in this situation, it's always best to think about what could have made them become like this.
Do you know any more examples that would fit this quote? We're always eager to hear what you have to say in the comments!
#16
The friend who swore they hated meetings, became a manager, and now books five “quick syncs” before lunch.
Grumpy old man 3 months ago
Then they have more meetings about work not getting done
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Michael Largey 3 months ago
Always go to meetings. They are the first line of defense against bad ideas.
David Houde 3 months ago
Oh man, I wish that was the case at my job. There the meetings are just to tell everyone what their role is in the bad idea. Then we have follow-up meetings to find out why we are so far behind on the poorly thought out and generally useless project. At least until the next bad idea gets approved and we can what we were working on to chase the next ghost.
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In 1981, I watched Emma Thompson as a student performing a comedy monologue she wrote herself, which was a superb parody of the sort of mock-modest, gushing speech you hear when you see a British actress receiving an Oscar for Best Leading Actress.
11 years later, she gave an almost identical performance onstage at the Oscars when she received the Award for Best Leading Actress.
#18
Joe Rogan.
itsfish20 replied:
I like when he was just the host of Fear Factor. Could have ended with the show and the world would be much nicer
EmJay 3 months ago
Should have. Because Newsradio provided so much wonderful humor.
Load More Replies... iseefractals 3 months ago
Oh yeah, what a terrible person. Talking to people. When the problem that most people have is that he's talking to people who have opinions that you :::gasp::: don't like. But obviously free speech is only for those who validate you, right?
#19
JK Rowling.
As a struggling immigrant queer middle schooler in the 90s and early 2000s, Harry Potter was my saving grace and educator in more ways than one. My English improved, I understood a clear sense of right and wrong and morality rooted in character versus bloodlines and power structures. Acceptance and platforming of various creatures and humans against a common enemy etc. Uplifting the marginalized and inclusive etc. "Love" being Harry and his friends greatest weapon etc.
Fast forward to today, and now with her reputation and oppression of Trans people, she's become the very amoral, opportunistic, alienating and exclusive "bad guy" she once warned against in her writings.
iseefractals 3 months ago
You mean having her reasonable, obvious and logical views validated after a years long smear campaign that attempted to paint her as hitler for trans people? Imagine that. Again..."Isla" Bryson, was a biological man.....who was arrested for viciously R.A.P.I.N.G multiple women in Scotland....and once arrested claimed to be trans, threw on a cheap wig and dollar store clothes to sell the grift, and once convicted was placed into a FEMALE PRISON. It's not a theory, or a manufactured scare tactic, or a straw man.....this actually happened. That is her whole stance, preventing that kind of unhinged insanity from taking place. But somehow the people who support rapists being locked in close quarters with more potential victims think they're on the side of the angels.
Load More Replies... iseefractals 3 months ago
Rowling took issue with insane push for "self identify" to allow anyone to become entitled to enter any space, regardless of the consequences. That was her whole thing....she didn't self identify to allow anatomically complete, biological men into domestic violence shelters, or to have opportunities stolen away from biological women, or have men housed in female prisons.....like "Isla" Bryson....a man, who once arrested for R.A.P.I.N.G multiple women, claimed to be trans......and once convicted was placed into a WOMEN'S PRISON. That's not a theory, or a scare tactic....that happened, and it's happened many times in service of propping up the tenets of "self identify. It's the same basis for female athletes watching their dreams be crushed after someone who ranked 500th as a man, makes a claim, starts competing against women and starts "breaking records" Cloaking yourself in some sort of identity doesn't entitle you to whatever you want.
Earonn - 3 months ago
However you want to call it that she behaves like a b***h whenever she thinks she has "won" over trans people. If she was a decent person, she would feel sorry for what she thought she "had to" do. Not suck on a fat cigar, grinning, and occasionally saying (paraphrased) "I'm rich, so I'm right".
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Robin Roper 3 months ago
She is unable to get beyond her exclusion as having lived in a poverty. That exclusion is so huge, it has blinded her to other's exclusion.
Colleen Glim 3 months ago
Burning books never did anyone any good. Just don’t buy them. Support who you want to support but don’t interfere with my ability to make my own opinions. I don’t agree with her opinion but I love and will always love Harry potter
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#20
Dating apps.
Built to help you connect and fine better matches. Destroyed any chance of connecting and finding good matches lol.
George Costanza 3 months ago
"Destroyed any chance of connecting and finding good matches lol." How?
Seadog 3 months ago
Most send you computer generated responses Match.com being the worst of them all. Many of them allow scammers and foreigners (zoosk) with evil intent to troll the legitimate users, mostly because no one of them do anything to verify you are who you say you are or where you are. They're all just a money racket. BUT....even if you get through the shark infested waters, come across a person who hits close to your personality, the chances of getting any reply from them at all is nearly zero.
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Elon Musk becoming what he thought George Soros was.
Colleen Glim 3 months ago
The muskrat needs to go die in a hole already. His fifteen minutes of fame were up two hours ago
#22
Republican Party said they wanted to balance the budget and reduced the national debt. They have voted over and over to increase it. They also were advocating for a smaller government intrusion on society and personal freedom.
Lee Gilliland 3 months ago
Republicans haven't balanced the budget since FDR. Had you done a little research you would have known this.
Giraffe Sitter 3 months ago
They weren’t then either. His 2001 “tax rebate” was funded by borrowing.
Load More Replies... Yrral Spavit 3 months ago
The right wingers tend spend like drunken sailors as soon as they get in no matter what they say.
Janelle Collard 3 months ago
Meanwhile, they're stomping all over our civil liberties and sending in Lump's not-zee troops to the places he thinks "needs" them.
Seadog 3 months ago
As long as our politicians keep trying to support the entire world and as long as the people living off the taxpayers outnumber the taxpayers, it will never be possible to balance anything. You can't spend what you don't have. But when a large part of those funds filter back to those same politicians bank accounts, it will never stop. Start executing said politicians and things will soon change for the better.
#23
Baptists and other evangelical religions.
LooseSeal's $10 Banana 3 months ago
To be clear, not all Baptists. There are plenty who subscribe to a faith grounded in indiscriminate grace, mercy, and love. Southern Baptists just get all the press.
Michael Largey 3 months ago
Those "not all" Baptist denominations you describe are pretty much silent about the distortions the southern Baptists present as God's word.
Load More Replies... Colleen Glim 3 months ago
Religion in general. It started as a way to explain what we didn’t understand. The more we learn, the less we need it
Sally Moen 3 months ago
There are LDS church groups that broke off from the main church to form their own groups. Fundamentalist LDS is one, but there are others. One I know of was formed from ex-wife of one of the founders, and that church is now aligned with the Southern Baptist Church.
Dread Pirate Roberts 3 months ago
Some, unfortunately, but not all. Like LooseSeal's said, it's the hate groups and such that get the most publicity, which in turn, make Christians look bad.
#24
"Task Manager is not responding.".
Anthony Elmore 3 months ago
I trusted you! Actually no I didn't. I switched to Process Hacker years ago. It's like the task manager, but just better.
#26
A lot of self owned businesses. .
Lee Gilliland 3 months ago
This you cannot help. In order to be and stay in business there are regulations you must obey and entitlement you must bow to.
Anthony Elmore 3 months ago
I believe they're talking about the businesses scaling up, not to meeting regulations. It is an unfortunate necessity that reaching a larger customer base means you can't maintain the quality that many small businesses offer. It's particularly noticeable in food-related ones, since mom-and-pop can't cook for the entire country. It needs to be good, but not so good that it can't be mass produced, which lowers the original quality.
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Everyone becomes what they swore to destroy
Only Gabe Newell is forever.
Mel in Georgia 3 months ago
Had to look him up: Gabe Logan Newell (born November 3, 1962), also known by his nickname GabeN, is an American video game developer and businessman. He is the president and co-founder of the video game company Valve Corporation. He went on to develop the digital game distribution service Steam. Not sure why he is "forever" unless that's referring to him being against game developers' efforts to use anti-piracy technology.
Anthony Elmore 3 months ago (edited)
They just like him, but you're probably right. It should be noted that Steam is basically THE platform for PC games right now. Every PC gamer has steam, so he's synonymous with PC gaming. Anti-piracy software has negative impacts on the playability of games. It slows down the game itself due to the memory consumption. In addition, they can be overly aggressive and throw out false positives as well as add just another area of the game where more bugs can occur. It's kind of funny hearing they don't know who Gabe is, but more of a "it feels surreal to someone who's practically obsessed with video game" sort of way.
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#28
Hippies.
blart_institute replied:
I know a millennial who self identified as a hippie. She grew up poor and had family living in Native American Reservations so she had a vocal distrust of the US government and the military. But then when her husband joined the military for the money now she’s making American Flag crafts that say things like “proud Navy Wife” and it was shocking to see her change her mind so quickly
#29
SNOOOOOP DOGG.
Dread Pirate Roberts 3 months ago
How has he become evil? I'm genuinely asking because I haven't heard that kind of news about him. Can someone enlighten me please?
CJandMuse 3 months ago
I was going to ask the same thing. If you're going to name someone as 'evil' you can at least say why
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May Barnett 2 months ago
He went on some tirade about Disney having gay characters and not knowing how to explain that to his grandkids or something
What do you think ?
Apatheist Account2 3 months ago (edited)
Four legs good, two legs better... Actually, the best example of this is Jean-Baptiste Jules Bernadotte. Took part in the French Revolution, and allegedly got a tattoo that said "D3ath to Kings" or "Long live the Republic" - it's disputed but all agree on it being of republican sentiment. Ended up as King of Sweden and Norway.
Lee Gilliland 3 months ago
His wife was easily as interesting, seeing as she was Napoleon 's first love.
Load More Replies... Ace 3 months ago
A lot of these, particularly the work-related ones, work better as examples of the naivety of the young, how little junior employees understand about why thigs have to be the way they are. As they gain in experience they're able to see the point of a lot of the thigs they used to disparage and scorn. So yeah, they become the people and things they used to hate, but usually because they learn to recognise that the hatred was itself misplaced.
Apatheist Account2 3 months ago (edited)
Four legs good, two legs better... Actually, the best example of this is Jean-Baptiste Jules Bernadotte. Took part in the French Revolution, and allegedly got a tattoo that said "D3ath to Kings" or "Long live the Republic" - it's disputed but all agree on it being of republican sentiment. Ended up as King of Sweden and Norway.
Lee Gilliland 3 months ago
His wife was easily as interesting, seeing as she was Napoleon 's first love.
Load More Replies... Ace 3 months ago
A lot of these, particularly the work-related ones, work better as examples of the naivety of the young, how little junior employees understand about why thigs have to be the way they are. As they gain in experience they're able to see the point of a lot of the thigs they used to disparage and scorn. So yeah, they become the people and things they used to hate, but usually because they learn to recognise that the hatred was itself misplaced.
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