mickeywaffle.bsky.social
Just an American staving off the existential dread.
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That’s like saying why don’t Ukrainians just move to London. Indiana to Los Angeles is a 30 hour drive and the differences are virtually as significant.
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Yeah, that opinion kind of drives me nuts because no one else can read them if they’re on my shelves. I buy, read, and pass on to someone who wouldn’t otherwise be able to buy and read it. Thankfully, my wife managed to see past that apparent character flaw.
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The CFPB will take care of that! Oh wait…
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I made my whole family sick of hearing it that summer.
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The CFPB also identifies bad actions like racism in lending. They did just that very recently. I work at a big bank in the department that fixes big bank errors and has to answer to the CFPB. I don’t question for a single second why the owning class doesn’t like it.
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In December, the CFPB published a report on matched pair testing they conducted which caught banks doing a racism in small business lending. They’re doing good work.
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I work at a very big bank in the department that specifically fixes very big bank errors. We have (had) to answer to the CFPB on a regular basis. Americans may not know it, but the CFPB was working for you. I don’t think people realize how bad this is.
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Oh ffs! It just keeps going.
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Completely unrelated to Robert Galbraith Heath, one of the founders of conversation therapy. Total coincidence. It’s such a common name, that was bound to happen obviously……
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Thank you! It’s so disheartening to see yet another wave of new fans embracing work that, even if we separate it from the artist, is also classist, racist, antisemitic, etc etc etc.
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In December, the CFPB published their matched pair testing of certain bank branches’ small business loan handling wherein they found white applicants got preferential treatment compared to Black applicants. That’s the kind of work the CFPB does. www.consumerfinance.gov/data-researc...
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The upside (not really, you you know) of speed running the entire agenda is at least those who f’d around will enter the finding out phase in record time.
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Against her parents’ wishes.
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This may be controversial but I adore Xiaohongshu (Red Note) with all my heart. Not only do I not have a following but we don’t even speak the same language. Did you know equestrian archery is like a cultural heritage in China? It’s so beautiful on that app.
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Exactly. My preference is to buy from Black owned businesses. If Target won’t make an effort to carry them, then the store is not meeting my needs. They don’t carry the goods I want to buy. It’s not a boycott, it’s consequences.
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It’s not hard. He’s worse. He appointed a secretary of defense that has publicly endorsed an organization calling for the death penalty for homosexuality. As a gay person, I’m just wondering how long we have left. It’s not a hard argument to make AT ALL.
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Surely no one could have anticipated a Trump tower in Gaza……….
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I meant it to be more of a philosophical lesson but here we are.
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When teaching my kids about WWII, I taught them from the perspective of those who resisted from within. I taught them one person can choose to do the right thing and lives will be saved. One person can make a choice even if no one around them does. You can always be that person.
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You shall not charge
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She won’t see this. It won’t hurt her. Trans youth will see it tho. Consider whom it hurts and choose your own battles better.
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They are better than us.
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It’s a good joke… but I’m gonna need you to stop.
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It was hilarious at the time but when my bff followed my wife and not me, I realized this may be problematic…
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Are… are you asking bc I followed you? Listen, I didn’t wanna make the handle my name bc job hunting, but everything I wanted was taken and I put it in as a lil jokey joke but I swear I’m not a Disney bot!
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But on the plus side, I really like Red Note. Wish I’d found it sooner. I deleted my whole Tik tok with almost 9k followers before it went dark and never looked back.
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Especially in Arizona, the bigots don’t know the difference. They only see brown and will put indigenous people on a bus to Mexico if they have the chance.
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Someone in China said on Red Note that Americans think they have freedom because they’re allowed to have opinions but not choices…. That one stings.
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Underrated comment
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I live in AZ and have been prepping everyone I know for months with reminders that you actually don’t know anyone undocumented and neither do I. Bless their hearts, they want to show they can understand the plight, but from here out, let the record reflect we’ve never met an undocumented person.
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Valid! Although I recognize that owning a house is a luxery and a privilege, it’s also not terribly portable.
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Women should really do some self care right now. And by that I mean set up a trust to protect your assets. Just in case.
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MAGA even showed up on Red Note. No one expected them to be that messy, but I suppose we should have.