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Date: July 13th, 2025 4:54 PM Author: Aggressive diverse circlehead https://archive.is/2ABC7
Opinion Guest Essay Is It Time to Stop Snubbing Your Right-Wing Family? July 13, 2025, 9:00 a.m. ET An illustration of four people sitting around a dinner table that has a big turkey in the middle. Each person has crossed their arms across their chest and is turning their head away from the others. Credit...Tim Enthoven
Listen to this article · 7:11 min Learn more By David Litt Mr. Litt is the author of “It’s Only Drowning: A True Story of Learning to Surf and the Search for Common Ground” Not too long ago, I felt a civic duty to be rude to my wife’s younger brother. I met Matt Kappler in 2012, and it was immediately clear we had nothing in common. He lifted weights to death metal; I jogged to Sondheim. I was one of President Barack Obama’s speechwriters and had an Ivy League degree; he was a huge Joe Rogan fan and went on to get his electrician’s license. My early memories of Matt are hazy — I was mostly trying to impress his parents. Still we got along, chatting amiably on holidays and at family events. Then the pandemic hit, and our preferences began to feel like more than differences in taste. We were on opposite sides of a cultural civil war. The deepest divide was vaccination. I wasn’t shocked when Matt didn’t get the Covid shot. But I was baffled. Turning down a vaccine during a pandemic seemed like a rejection of science and self-preservation. It felt like he was tearing up the social contract that, until that point, I’d imagined we shared. Had Matt been a friend rather than a family member, I probably would have cut off contact completely. As it was, on the rare and always outdoor occasions when we saw each other, I spoke in disapproving snippets. “Work’s been good?” “Mhrmm.” My frostiness wasn’t personal. It was strategic. Being unfriendly to people who turned down the vaccine felt like the right thing to do. How else could we motivate them to mend their ways? I wasn’t the only one thinking this. A 2021 essay for USA Today declared, “It’s time to start shunning the ‘vaccine hesitant.’” An L.A. Times piece went further, arguing that to create “teachable moments,” it may be necessary to mock some anti-vaxxers’ deaths. Shunning as a form of accountability goes back millenniums. In ancient Athens, a citizen deemed a threat to state stability could be “ostracized” — cast out of society for a decade. For much of history, banishment was considered so severe that it substituted for capital punishment. The whole point of Hester Prynne’s scarlet letter was to show she had violated norms — and to discourage others from doing so. But that was before social media. We live in a world of online fandoms, choose-your-own-adventure information and parasocial relationships. Few people who lost friends over the vaccine changed their minds. They just got new friends. Those exiled from one version of society were quickly welcomed by another — an alternate universe full of grievance peddlers and conspiracy theorists who thrived on stories of victimized conservatives. There has been a sorting into belief camps, algorithmically and in real life. It dictates whom we match with on dating apps and where we live. We block those we disagree with online, we leave the group chat, we don’t show up for Thanksgiving. Recent data suggests that today, one in five Americans is estranged from a family member over politics. More points of deep disagreement will surely arise: over Trump’s immigration crackdown and use of the military in domestic affairs, over Robert F. Kennedy Jr.’s MAHA mandates, over antisemitism, over a megabill that takes health care from the poor while cutting taxes for the rich. No one is required to spend time with people they don’t care for. But those of us who feel an obligation to shun strategically need to ask: What has all this banishing accomplished? It’s not just ineffective. It’s counterproductive. Editors’ Picks This Jungle Plant Is a Good Landlord to Its Tenant Ants Unpacking the Past (and the Groceries) With Your Therapist ‘I Noticed a Building Handyman Washing Down the Sidewalk’ These days, ostracism might just hurt the ostracizer more than the ostracizee. I wish I could say I learned this through self-reflection and study. What actually happened is that I started surfing. After moving to the Jersey Shore in 2022, I signed up for lessons. Despite my advanced age of 35 and lack of natural talent, I got hooked. Matt was the only other surfer I knew. I put my principled unfriendliness aside. From the moment we began paddling out together, I could tell my cold-shoulder strategy had backfired. I’d spent the peak of the pandemic in a cultural bubble, and he had done the same. Driving to a break or changing into our wet suits, he’d often express opinions — about the merits of vigilantism, or the health benefits of Mexican stem-cell injections — that I found slightly unhinged. Where is this coming from? I wondered. The answer was nearly always “Joe Rogan’s podcast.” I assumed our surf-buddy experiment would either fail spectacularly or bring Matt over to my side. Neither of those things occurred. Instead, the connections we found were tiny and unrelated to politics. We agree that “Shrimply Irresistible” is the perfect so-bad-it’s-good name for a seafood restaurant, and that Taylor Swift’s “Love Story” is a classic. Although I still wouldn’t call myself a Rogan fan, we share an appreciation for his interview with the surf legend Kelly Slater. Matt and I remain very different, yet we’ve reached what is, in today’s America, a radical conclusion: We don’t always approve of each other’s choices, but we like each other. It helped that in the ocean, our places in the pecking order reversed. Matt’s a very good surfer — one might call him “an elite” — and I am not. According to surfing’s unwritten rules, he had the right to look down on me. But he never did. His generosity of spirit in the water made me rethink my own behavior on land. Three years after my first surf lesson, Matt and I haven’t really changed each other’s minds on major national issues. But we have changed each other. His fearlessness in consequential surf made me more courageous. His ability to go “over the ledge,” launching himself off breaking lips, helped me curb my overthinking. Ostracizing him wouldn’t have altered his behavior — and it would have made my own life worse. I suspect that’s true for Matt as well. While I’ve never asked if our friendship made him more open-minded — we’d find that embarrassing — I’m confident the answer is yes. Last year, when I briefly considered running for office, Matt said he’d vote for me. When I asked why, his answer had nothing to do with party or policy. “You’re a regular guy,” he told me. “You walk the dog.” When I share stories about surfing with my brother-in-law, people often tell me about relationships in their own lives pushed to the brink by politics. Sometimes, they’re proud of ties they’ve severed. More often, they’re hoping for a way forward. How can we pierce bubbles of misinformation? Can friendships fractured in the Trump era be repaired? My advice is always the same. Our differences are meaningful, but allowing them to mean everything is part of how we ended up here. When we cut off contacts, or let algorithms sort us into warring factions, we forget that not so long ago, we used to have things to talk about that didn’t involve politics. Shunning plays into the hands of demagogues, making it easier for them to divide us and even, in some cases, to incite violence. There are, of course, some people so committed to odiousness that it defines them. If Stephen Miller wants a surf lesson, I’ll decline. But are most people like that? In an age when banishment backfires, keeping the door open to unlikely friendship isn’t a betrayal of principles — it’s an affirmation of them.
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Date: July 13th, 2025 4:56 PM Author: Aggressive diverse circlehead top pick Readers comment
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Lee Phoenix 8h ago No, It’s Not Time to Stop Snubbing Your Right-Wing Family
I don’t normally respond to op-eds, but this one struck a nerve. The suggestion that we should now open our arms to right-wing family members as a gesture of reconciliation ignores what we’ve all seen with our own eyes: cruelty is no longer a byproduct of that ideology—it’s a feature.
This isn’t about tax policy disagreements or rural vs. urban perspectives. This is about a sustained embrace of dehumanization. Of cheering for policies that cage children, strip bodily autonomy, demonize the poor, and erase entire communities from public life. And now we’re being asked to make room for that at the dinner table?
No. Human decency should never be up for negotiation. If someone supports or defends cruelty—whether through apathy or applause—they are not simply holding a different opinion. They are making a moral choice. And we are allowed—obligated, even—to make our own choice in response.
That doesn’t mean there’s no path forward. But that path is repentance and change—not coddling and comfort. Calls for “unity” ring hollow when they come with no accountability. Asking people to let down their guard while the harm continues is not reconciliation; it’s complicity.
If your political identity tolerates hate, justifies harm, or insists others must endure injustice to preserve your comfort, don’t be surprised when people choose distance. That’s not snubbing—that’s survival.
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Date: July 13th, 2025 5:42 PM Author: glassy property wtf (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5749931&forum_id=2/#49098382) |
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Date: July 13th, 2025 5:43 PM Author: Aggressive diverse circlehead (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5749931&forum_id=2/#49098393) |
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Date: July 13th, 2025 7:34 PM Author: Crusty Fiercely-loyal Stag Film he's a bad person, and on the wrong side of history. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5749931&forum_id=2/#49098658) |
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Date: July 13th, 2025 7:41 PM Author: Swollen plum library i didn't expect to say this, but, i'm on the op-ed writer's side here (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5749931&forum_id=2/#49098668) |
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Date: July 14th, 2025 9:48 AM Author: Aggressive diverse circlehead flame or real? what is there to despise and shun? (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5749931&forum_id=2/#49099866) |
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Date: July 14th, 2025 9:36 PM Author: Swollen plum library the op-ed writer starts to find a new path, towards embracing the brother-in-law despite their differences, by the end of the piece. but the comment above says he should've just continued despising and shunning (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5749931&forum_id=2/#49101730) |
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Date: July 14th, 2025 10:55 PM Author: Aggressive diverse circlehead sorry that was my post-comprehension-fail (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5749931&forum_id=2/#49101936) |
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Date: July 14th, 2025 1:06 PM Author: at-the-ready locus i could get onboard with this if they applied it to niggers (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5749931&forum_id=2/#49100338) |
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Date: July 13th, 2025 5:13 PM Author: Impertinent heady corner To be fair,
Lmao
I'm going to start sending that photo to guys who express bewilderment that the Democrat Party could think that Tim Walz is "a regular ol' guy's guy" and then, after brutally losing the male vote across every single racial demographic, find it necessary to shell out $20 million to a bunch of faggy professional consultants just to "learn" that men really don't like being scolded and told what to do by packs of angry middle-aged shrews.
"How is that possible?!"
This is who you're dealing with. That's how. |
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Date: July 13th, 2025 5:29 PM Author: Aggressive diverse circlehead on that point, Adam Kinzinger just wrote a Substack saying that "no! it's the MAGA males who are lost!"
https://adamkinzinger.substack.com/p/the-beta-brigade-trumps-faux-alphas
The Beta Brigade: Trump’s Faux-Alphas and the Crisis of American Manhood They pose as tough guys—but follow Trump like lost puppies. Our sons are watching, and it's time for better role models. Adam Kinzinger Jul 10, 2025 |
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Date: July 13th, 2025 8:49 PM Author: vigorous azure volcanic crater coffee pot He perfectly captures Trumpmo “males” here 😂 (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5749931&forum_id=2/#49098859) |
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Date: July 14th, 2025 1:46 PM Author: Impertinent heady corner To be fair,
("Exhibit B") |
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Date: July 13th, 2025 7:04 PM Author: Supple parlor fanboi https://www.xoxohth.com/thread.php?thread_id=5693292&mc=156&forum_id=2#48746683 (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5749931&forum_id=2/#49098611) |
Date: July 13th, 2025 4:59 PM Author: sick nowag abode “ As it was, on the rare and always outdoor occasions when we saw each other, I spoke in disapproving snippets.
“Work’s been good?”
“Mhrmm.”
My frostiness wasn’t personal. It was strategic. Being unfriendly to people who turned down the vaccine felt like the right thing to do. How else could we motivate them to mend their ways?”
Lmao, libs really think being passive aggressive fags can have a positive impact? |
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Date: July 13th, 2025 5:02 PM Author: Aggressive diverse circlehead look at the photos of him and then imagine him thinking that his prissiness will make a blue collar surfer dood change his ways. jfc. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5749931&forum_id=2/#49098279) |
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Date: July 13th, 2025 5:05 PM Author: sick nowag abode he looks exactly like you’d expect
I bet his wife often thinks “what a fag” |
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Date: July 13th, 2025 5:03 PM Author: clear indecent fat ankles Yes, because it works on them. That’s how they became libs. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5749931&forum_id=2/#49098283) |
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Date: July 13th, 2025 5:06 PM Author: sick nowag abode cr
and they never had dads or uncles so they don’t know how men talk and think |
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Date: July 13th, 2025 5:09 PM Author: laughsome nubile associate lay (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5749931&forum_id=2/#49098303) |
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Date: July 13th, 2025 8:12 PM Author: Galvanic Frisky Wrinkle (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5749931&forum_id=2/#49098742) |
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Date: July 13th, 2025 5:01 PM Author: Khaki Marvelous Blood Rage That guy is a precum baby (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5749931&forum_id=2/#49098278) |
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Date: July 13th, 2025 5:06 PM Author: sick nowag abode Lmao (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5749931&forum_id=2/#49098291) |
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Date: July 13th, 2025 5:20 PM Author: Impertinent heady corner (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5749931&forum_id=2/#49098326) |
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Date: July 13th, 2025 5:07 PM Author: histrionic sooty giraffe menage "I suspect that’s true for Matt as well. While I’ve never asked if our friendship made him more open-minded — we’d find that embarrassing — I’m confident the answer is yes."
*90s sitcom laugh track plays* |
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Date: July 13th, 2025 5:09 PM Author: sick nowag abode Matt seems like a very tolerant bro to put up with this condescending fag (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5749931&forum_id=2/#49098300) |
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Date: July 13th, 2025 7:15 PM Author: rambunctious bearded plaza hunting ground Cr Matt seems 180, this guy looks like and is a faggot (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5749931&forum_id=2/#49098632) |
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Date: July 13th, 2025 7:23 PM Author: sick nowag abode (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5749931&forum_id=2/#49098648) |
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Date: July 13th, 2025 8:50 PM Author: tan metal box office (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5749931&forum_id=2/#49098862) |
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Date: July 13th, 2025 8:51 PM Author: Aggressive diverse circlehead (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5749931&forum_id=2/#49098870) |
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Date: July 13th, 2025 5:09 PM Author: laughsome nubile associate lay lol at this dweeb. he and his kind should do us all a favor and continue “shunning” us. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5749931&forum_id=2/#49098298) |
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Date: July 13th, 2025 5:17 PM Author: mint center mexican "Hey guise I think being a catty fag about literally everything might not be the brilliant gambit I always thought it was." (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5749931&forum_id=2/#49098319) |
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Date: July 13th, 2025 5:18 PM Author: laughsome nubile associate lay “btw my brother-in-law is still a big prooooole.” (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5749931&forum_id=2/#49098320) |
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Date: July 13th, 2025 5:20 PM Author: Impertinent heady corner To be fair,
"I mean let's be clear, I'm still the 'elite' here on land, haha..."
*Loses job within the next six months to an AI program* |
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Date: July 14th, 2025 9:25 AM Author: boyish whorehouse keepsake machete this whole article could be written by an AI it follows so many predictable beats. are these people even real (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5749931&forum_id=2/#49099833) |
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Date: July 13th, 2025 5:31 PM Author: sick nowag abode (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5749931&forum_id=2/#49098340) |
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Date: July 13th, 2025 5:32 PM Author: Aggressive diverse circlehead "I jogged to Sondheim" (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5749931&forum_id=2/#49098347) |
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Date: July 13th, 2025 7:36 PM Author: Swollen plum library ran here, only made it 2 lines into the article
He lifted weights to death metal; I jogged to Sondheim. |
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Date: July 13th, 2025 7:36 PM Author: Swollen plum library oh man, the next sentence is incredible also
I was one of President Barack Obama’s speechwriters and had an Ivy League degree; he was a huge Joe Rogan fan and went on to get his electrician’s license. |
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Date: July 13th, 2025 7:37 PM Author: Swollen plum library unreal. bravo at this effort
Had Matt been a friend rather than a family member, I probably would have cut off contact completely. As it was, on the rare and always outdoor occasions when we saw each other, I spoke in disapproving snippets.
“Work’s been good?”
“Mhrmm.”
My frostiness wasn’t personal. It was strategic. Being unfriendly to people who turned down the vaccine felt like the right thing to do. How else could we motivate them to mend their ways? |
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Date: July 13th, 2025 7:40 PM Author: Swollen plum library incredible
It helped that in the ocean, our places in the pecking order reversed. Matt’s a very good surfer — one might call him “an elite” — and I am not. According to surfing’s unwritten rules, he had the right to look down on me. But he never did. His generosity of spirit in the water made me rethink my own behavior on land. |
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Date: July 13th, 2025 8:57 PM Author: excitant misunderstood mad-dog skullcap background story lol’d at “our places in the in the pecking order reversed” (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5749931&forum_id=2/#49098889) |
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Date: July 13th, 2025 11:55 PM Author: alcoholic mind-boggling pocket flask (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5749931&forum_id=2/#49099336) |
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Date: July 14th, 2025 1:13 PM Author: Arousing slimy hominid depressive Oh my god (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5749931&forum_id=2/#49100356) |
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Date: July 14th, 2025 1:46 PM Author: translucent cruise ship (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5749931&forum_id=2/#49100432) |
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Date: July 14th, 2025 4:37 PM Author: citrine dysfunction LMAO (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5749931&forum_id=2/#49100926) |
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Date: July 14th, 2025 9:37 PM Author: Swollen plum library (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5749931&forum_id=2/#49101731) |
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Date: July 16th, 2025 9:52 AM Author: Judas Jones "Damn, you're like the Yale of the sea, bro." (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5749931&forum_id=2/#49105380) |
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Date: July 16th, 2025 10:24 AM Author: dha tux ( ) (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5749931&forum_id=2/#49105468) |
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Date: July 13th, 2025 8:13 PM Author: Galvanic Frisky Wrinkle (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5749931&forum_id=2/#49098743) |
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Date: July 13th, 2025 5:33 PM Author: vengeful chapel corn cake they absolutely should be despised--and probably executed (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5749931&forum_id=2/#49098352) |
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Date: July 13th, 2025 7:03 PM Author: Supple parlor fanboi Many people are saying this! (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5749931&forum_id=2/#49098609) |
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Date: July 13th, 2025 7:35 PM Author: Crusty Fiercely-loyal Stag Film you're a worthless criminal who has only harmed society and contributed nothing to it (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5749931&forum_id=2/#49098660) |
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Date: July 13th, 2025 9:36 PM Author: Razzmatazz Hospital Clown lol, too bad that’s a moot point for you since the remaining living members of your family want nothing to do with you (just like all the rest of polite society) (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5749931&forum_id=2/#49098981) |
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Date: July 14th, 2025 1:47 PM Author: Impertinent heady corner To be fair,
(Childless foreveralone middle-aged homosexual convicted felon meth addict) |
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Date: July 13th, 2025 6:56 PM Author: Supple parlor fanboi Prole tell: relatives who are blue collar MAGAs. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5749931&forum_id=2/#49098599) |
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Date: July 13th, 2025 7:32 PM Author: Tripping Gas Station https://archive.ph/I1YR1
Mr. Litt, 31, is a former speechwriter for President Barack Obama and the author of “Thanks, Obama: My Hopey Changey White House Years” (Ecco, 2017). He graduated from Yale. He is the son of Sara M. Litt and Dr. Andrew W. Litt of Bainbridge Island, Wash. The groom’s mother is a board member of the Northwest Immigrant Rights Projects and of Bend the Arc, a progressive Jewish coalition, both in Seattle. His father is a neuroradiologist and an executive in residence with G.E. Ventures, also in Seattle. The couple met through the dating app OkCupid.
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Date: July 13th, 2025 8:35 PM Author: Aggressive diverse circlehead "The groom’s mother is a board member of the Northwest Immigrant Rights Projects and of Bend the Arc, a progressive Jewish coalition, both in Seattle." lol. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5749931&forum_id=2/#49098808) |
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Date: July 13th, 2025 8:36 PM Author: sick nowag abode 🤮 (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5749931&forum_id=2/#49098810) |
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Date: July 13th, 2025 8:52 PM Author: Aggressive diverse circlehead more like the "Bend and Arch" men's coalition. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5749931&forum_id=2/#49098872) |
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Date: July 13th, 2025 9:16 PM Author: 180 salmon party of the first part Intriguing coupling. Groom from an educated and affluent UMC Jewish family, bride from a working class (and probably Catholic) family. He married down. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5749931&forum_id=2/#49098942) |
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Date: July 13th, 2025 9:40 PM Author: Razzmatazz Hospital Clown Yeah lots of Catholics are named “Kappler”
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Date: July 14th, 2025 10:19 AM Author: 180 salmon party of the first part Plenty of German catholics. Was just a guess. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5749931&forum_id=2/#49099925) |
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Date: July 13th, 2025 11:58 PM Author: alcoholic mind-boggling pocket flask My Hopey Changey Terraform the Earth into Very Jewy Years (Goyim Will Never Notice) (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5749931&forum_id=2/#49099343) |
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Date: July 13th, 2025 7:40 PM Author: Exciting Ebony Friendly Grandma This guy is too Short to post on the internet imo. This op-ed should’ve ONLG appeared in the print version https://miro.medium.com/v2/resize:fit:1024/1*8EEg85GYGHOVP0QpPBLoRg.jpeg (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5749931&forum_id=2/#49098666) |
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Date: July 13th, 2025 8:50 PM Author: tan metal box office (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5749931&forum_id=2/#49098865) |
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Date: July 13th, 2025 7:42 PM Author: Exciting Ebony Friendly Grandma Writer and the brother-in-law. How could he talk so much and not mention that the BIL is a Chad and far Taller than he and thus is what CAUSED their political disagreements to begin with?
https://media.vanityfair.com/photos/685d7800ac96d89b3e197655/master/w_960,c_limit/David-Litt-Surfing.jpg |
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Date: July 13th, 2025 8:08 PM Author: bateful market ibf BIL is prob like 5'10" max, op is PP short (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5749931&forum_id=2/#49098733) |
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Date: July 13th, 2025 8:36 PM Author: Exciting Ebony Friendly Grandma How can someone write an article like this and not mention phenotype? All of the great novels of the past spend pages and pages describing phenotypes (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5749931&forum_id=2/#49098812) |
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Date: July 13th, 2025 8:40 PM Author: razzle-dazzle electric furnace fiction is for Losers (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5749931&forum_id=2/#49098827) |
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Date: July 14th, 2025 2:21 AM Author: talking church I assume the person on the right is the guys wife (Matt's sister)? (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5749931&forum_id=2/#49099565) |
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Date: July 14th, 2025 6:57 AM Author: sick nowag abode That’s the author (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5749931&forum_id=2/#49099671) |
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Date: July 13th, 2025 8:01 PM Author: Hideous Stage Windowlicker These are not people. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5749931&forum_id=2/#49098715) |
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Date: July 13th, 2025 8:37 PM Author: Curious slippery theatre The BIL looks like he’s thinking “I really hate this faggot”
https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!9PS9!,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fe08822de-db57-4113-876e-bbf58277bb9d_4284x3922.jpeg |
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Date: July 13th, 2025 8:53 PM Author: Aggressive diverse circlehead look at Litt and remember that he says he "jogs to Sondheim." (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5749931&forum_id=2/#49098880) |
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Date: July 13th, 2025 9:18 PM Author: histrionic sooty giraffe menage Irl lol
This needs to be turned into one of those 'Redpill Comics' memes |
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Date: July 13th, 2025 9:22 PM Author: histrionic sooty giraffe menage Just noticed his fucking sandals. Lmfao
Absolutely incredible pic. A Triumph |
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Date: July 14th, 2025 6:58 AM Author: sick nowag abode (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5749931&forum_id=2/#49099672) |
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Date: July 14th, 2025 9:28 AM Author: boyish whorehouse keepsake machete (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5749931&forum_id=2/#49099836) |
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Date: July 14th, 2025 10:38 AM Author: Aggressive diverse circlehead (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5749931&forum_id=2/#49099957) |
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Date: July 14th, 2025 10:42 AM Author: Aggressive diverse circlehead Litt fails the green-line lean-in test.
https://www.boredpanda.com/man-leaning-in-meaning/ |
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Date: July 14th, 2025 11:23 AM Author: blue glittery brethren (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5749931&forum_id=2/#49100053) |
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Date: July 14th, 2025 1:49 PM Author: Impertinent heady corner (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5749931&forum_id=2/#49100441) |
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Date: July 13th, 2025 11:59 PM Author: alcoholic mind-boggling pocket flask (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5749931&forum_id=2/#49099347) |
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Date: July 14th, 2025 9:42 AM Author: Khaki Marvelous Blood Rage "we ate tex mex instead" (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5749931&forum_id=2/#49099852) |
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Date: July 14th, 2025 9:46 AM Author: razzle-dazzle electric furnace Lmao @ jews (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5749931&forum_id=2/#49099864) |
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Date: July 14th, 2025 4:07 PM Author: Mahogany candlestick maker The jaw line differential merits and entire chapter in the Phenotypes 101 textbook. And probably an entire graduate level case study. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5749931&forum_id=2/#49100856) |
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Date: July 15th, 2025 10:45 PM Author: Swollen plum library (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5749931&forum_id=2/#49104676) |
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Date: July 13th, 2025 9:24 PM Author: Tripping Gas Station David: "I jogged to Sondheim this morning." Matt: "Where's that?" |
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Date: July 14th, 2025 9:49 AM Author: Aggressive diverse circlehead (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5749931&forum_id=2/#49099867) |
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Date: July 13th, 2025 9:32 PM Author: magenta main people "It has pomosdoro on top. Are you sure?"
"Whatever, man. It sounds delicious."
"Never mind. We're going someplace else." |
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Date: July 13th, 2025 9:43 PM Author: histrionic sooty giraffe menage (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5749931&forum_id=2/#49098989) |
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Date: July 14th, 2025 10:48 AM Author: Well-lubricated Iridescent Scourge Upon The Earth Private Investor (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5749931&forum_id=2/#49099971) |
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Date: July 16th, 2025 10:30 AM Author: msj (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5749931&forum_id=2/#49105485) |
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Date: July 13th, 2025 10:00 PM Author: bossy canary tanning salon nibblets Then the pandemic hit, and our preferences began to feel like more than differences in taste. We were on opposite sides of a cultural civil war. The deepest divide was vaccination. I wasn’t shocked when Matt didn’t get the Covid shot. But I was baffled. Turning down a vaccine during a pandemic seemed like a rejection of science and self-preservation. It felt like he was tearing up the social contract that, until that point, I’d imagined we shared.
My frostiness wasn’t personal. It was strategic. Being unfriendly to people who turned down the vaccine felt like the right thing to do. How else could we motivate them to mend their ways?
I wasn’t the only one thinking this. A 2021 essay for USA Today declared, “It’s time to start shunning the ‘vaccine hesitant.’” An L.A. Times piece went further, arguing that to create “teachable moments,” it may be necessary to mock some anti-vaxxers’ deaths. do you think this arrogant faggot is getting his booster shots in 2025? libs have shit for brains, but sometimes even i am amazed at the amount of shit |
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Date: July 13th, 2025 11:59 PM Author: aromatic elastic band 1. It's interesting this guy was a speechwriter for Obama and this got picked for the Times. The writing...isn't good? This should be a fun, moving piece - and instead it reads like political policy.
2. Why use the COVID vaccines as a starting point when the BIL is largely correct? You think he'd be smart enough to go with ICE raids or something. This dudes probably had COVID 4 times now and is like "can you believe my BIL isn't vaccinated?!" |
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Date: July 14th, 2025 2:24 AM Author: mint center mexican they truly, honest to god, for no fucking reason at all that I can comprehend, don't get how fucking faggy they sound all of the time, I know it's crazy but they really think they are being cool (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5749931&forum_id=2/#49099567) |
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Date: July 14th, 2025 2:27 AM Author: Soul-stirring National Dragon This guy is such a giggafagot I could only stomach a few paragraphs of this
Imagine thinking that going to Dalton and Yale makes you better than an electrician surfer bro who married into the same family as you. And then having the poor judgment to write an NYT op-ed blabbing about it. What a piece of shit. |
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Date: July 14th, 2025 3:06 AM Author: alcoholic mind-boggling pocket flask He's Jewish (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5749931&forum_id=2/#49099615) |
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Date: July 14th, 2025 6:59 AM Author: sick nowag abode (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5749931&forum_id=2/#49099673) |
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Date: July 14th, 2025 10:01 AM Author: magenta main people (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5749931&forum_id=2/#49099894) |
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Date: July 14th, 2025 10:48 AM Author: histrionic sooty giraffe menage (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5749931&forum_id=2/#49099973) |
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Date: July 14th, 2025 1:52 PM Author: Impertinent heady corner (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5749931&forum_id=2/#49100448) |
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Date: July 14th, 2025 7:21 AM Author: Tripping Gas Station (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5749931&forum_id=2/#49099687) |
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Date: July 14th, 2025 9:11 AM Author: irradiated disrespectful karate and the electrician surfer bro was chill enough to let this annoying dickweed learn surfing with him even though he probably is a whiny fag the whole time and cramps his style. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5749931&forum_id=2/#49099810) |
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Date: July 14th, 2025 9:49 AM Author: sick nowag abode if his sister ever divorces this jew dweeb then Matt’s gonna tell him what he really thought of him
“listen dork, I put up with your childish antics cuz I love my sister. now you can rot” |
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Date: July 16th, 2025 7:09 AM Author: Exciting Ebony Friendly Grandma What a weird fantasy. No one would even go near their “in-laws” after a divorce. Do you have a history of getting pwned by Chads? You call everyone a chad btw (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5749931&forum_id=2/#49105104) |
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Date: July 14th, 2025 9:52 AM Author: razzle-dazzle electric furnace That’s a jew school! (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5749931&forum_id=2/#49099873) |
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Date: July 14th, 2025 10:00 AM Author: Aggressive diverse circlehead what does she think of this article? does she not realize how badly it exposes her husband? (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5749931&forum_id=2/#49099890) |
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Date: July 14th, 2025 10:03 AM Author: Khaki Marvelous Blood Rage I'm sure him being a sniveling fag was lost on her until now (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5749931&forum_id=2/#49099899) |
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Date: July 14th, 2025 10:08 AM Author: Galvanic Frisky Wrinkle (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5749931&forum_id=2/#49099909) |
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Date: July 14th, 2025 11:25 AM Author: blue glittery brethren (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5749931&forum_id=2/#49100058) |
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Date: July 14th, 2025 12:51 PM Author: naked codepig church building (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5749931&forum_id=2/#49100295) |
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Date: July 14th, 2025 1:01 PM Author: sick nowag abode (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5749931&forum_id=2/#49100329) |
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Date: July 14th, 2025 5:09 PM Author: alcoholic mind-boggling pocket flask (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5749931&forum_id=2/#49101047) |
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Date: July 14th, 2025 5:08 PM Author: Tripping Gas Station Surfer bro Matt didn't marry in, he's his wife's brother. Imagine his wife's parents reading this Jewish faggot shit-talking their own son. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5749931&forum_id=2/#49101038) |
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Date: July 14th, 2025 5:12 PM Author: Aggressive diverse circlehead that's what i'd love to know. i can't imagine the wife being ok with this article unless she actually buys into her brother's condescension. and the parents must either (1) laugh with derision at their son in law, or (2) weren't consulted before this ran. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5749931&forum_id=2/#49101060) |
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Date: July 14th, 2025 5:30 PM Author: sick nowag abode she’s an insufferable cunt herself (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5749931&forum_id=2/#49101120) |
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Date: July 16th, 2025 7:17 AM Author: Exciting Ebony Friendly Grandma This whole thing reminds me of this famous David brooks article except we get the Name and Phenotype of the prole they’re denigrating:
“Recently I took a friend with only a high school degree to lunch. Insensitively, I led her into a gourmet sandwich shop. Suddenly I saw her face freeze up as she was confronted with sandwiches named “Padrino” and “Pomodoro” and ingredients like soppressata, capicollo and a striata baguette. I quickly asked her if she wanted to go somewhere else and she anxiously nodded yes and we ate Mexican." |
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Date: July 16th, 2025 10:35 AM Author: msj how is her prole family going to read the new york times? accidentally ask siri to vocalize the text while they’re simultaneously playing candy crush and wrapping fish? what are the odds of that? (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5749931&forum_id=2/#49105494) |
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Date: July 17th, 2025 7:16 AM Author: Paralegal Muhammad How many degrees of separation are they from a NYT reader? You don’t think the wife reads them or has any friends whatsoever who’ll be like “guess what I saw 😏 “? It’s the NYT not a Ph.d thesis |
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Date: July 17th, 2025 9:26 AM Author: msj well, initially my poast was intended as a comedic exaggeration of the depraved idiocy of retarded proles as seen through the eyes of the author of the essay. however, your inability to comprehend that obvious fact makes me consider whether it can be taken at face value as well. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5749931&forum_id=2/#49108343) |
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Date: July 17th, 2025 9:40 AM Author: buttfaggot (✅🍑) (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5749931&forum_id=2/#49108414) |
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Date: July 14th, 2025 10:29 AM Author: translucent cruise ship Ok, this is libel: "We agree that “Shrimply Irresistible” is the perfect so-bad-it’s-good name for a seafood restaurant, and that Taylor Swift’s “Love Story” is a classic." (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5749931&forum_id=2/#49099941) |
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Date: July 14th, 2025 11:26 AM Author: blue glittery brethren whiny jewish beta mistaking BIL’s noncommittal grunts of resigned annoyance for assent (tp) (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5749931&forum_id=2/#49100059) |
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Date: July 14th, 2025 4:26 PM Author: french high-end locale place of business (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5749931&forum_id=2/#49100895) |
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Date: July 14th, 2025 6:25 PM Author: Low-t Kitchen (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5749931&forum_id=2/#49101299) |
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Date: July 14th, 2025 1:08 PM Author: naked codepig church building Matt is evidencing a heroic degree of Christian charity (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5749931&forum_id=2/#49100342) |
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Date: July 14th, 2025 4:04 PM Author: Aggressive diverse circlehead (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5749931&forum_id=2/#49100849) |
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Date: July 14th, 2025 5:07 PM Author: sick nowag abode (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5749931&forum_id=2/#49101031) |
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Date: July 16th, 2025 7:27 AM Author: Bistre Spectacular Parlour Gaping (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5749931&forum_id=2/#49105121) |
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Date: July 14th, 2025 1:09 PM Author: Silver dopamine In the BILs whole lifetime I bet he hasn’t spent as much time fretting over the author’s political beliefs as the author spent writing this article.
Fuck libs. That is all. |
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Date: July 14th, 2025 6:33 PM Author: bossy canary tanning salon nibblets to be fair, we don't fret, but we make fun of libs in the family all the time when they aren't around (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5749931&forum_id=2/#49101312) |
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Date: July 14th, 2025 11:04 PM Author: Supple parlor fanboi Aren’t you extraordinarily poor? (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5749931&forum_id=2/#49101954) |
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Date: July 14th, 2025 11:59 PM Author: bossy canary tanning salon nibblets sure. super extraordinarily poor. point? (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5749931&forum_id=2/#49102009) |
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Date: July 16th, 2025 10:45 AM Author: msj In the BILs whole lifetime I bet he hasn’t spent as much time fretting over *his own* political beliefs as the author spent writing this nothing article (which still manages to undermine the cause he so passionately supports). (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5749931&forum_id=2/#49105509) |
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Date: July 16th, 2025 12:44 PM Author: fuck computer (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5749931&forum_id=2/#49105806) |
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Date: July 16th, 2025 9:51 AM Author: ,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,, thanks, everyone, for a fun thread. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5749931&forum_id=2/#49105378) |
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Date: July 17th, 2025 12:09 AM Author: ,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,, kind of funny that the NYT ran that piece and then this one:
For Trump, Domestic Adversaries Are Not Just Wrong, They Are ‘Evil’ The president’s vilification of political opponents and journalists seeds the ground for threats of prosecution, imprisonment and deportation unlike any modern president has made.
https://archive.ph/hFwVu |
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Date: July 17th, 2025 12:41 PM Author: Trump Tariffs Can Do No Wrong (TDNW) (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5749931&forum_id=2/#49108961) |
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Date: July 17th, 2025 8:51 AM Author: An 8-INT Orc AA'ing their way into mage school The author reveals a lot about himself, unintentionally, and none of it is good. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5749931&forum_id=2/#49108244) |
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Date: July 17th, 2025 9:41 AM Author: ,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,, (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5749931&forum_id=2/#49108420) |
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Date: July 17th, 2025 10:05 AM Author: CapTTTainFalcon jews totally lacking in self-awareness, news at 11 (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5749931&forum_id=2/#49108502) |
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Date: July 17th, 2025 10:08 AM Author: titus chicken (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5749931&forum_id=2/#49108510) |
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Date: July 17th, 2025 10:14 AM Author: Judas Jones I don't know how he never circled back to reflect on how his dumb, prole electrician BIL was correct about the vax and is his superior not just in surfing, but in any measure of a man aside from jewish intellectualism. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5749931&forum_id=2/#49108530) |
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Date: July 17th, 2025 12:41 PM Author: Trump Tariffs Can Do No Wrong (TDNW) (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5749931&forum_id=2/#49108962) |
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Date: July 17th, 2025 12:49 PM Author: David Poaster Wallace Because his status/identity is based on repeating whatever he perceives as high status/privileged ideas or values. The end-result is irrelevant, because, even when he turns out to be wrong, he was wrong for the right reasons.
The electrician's clients don't care what he thinks about these things and would never ask anyway. |