I believe you mean rabid.
So, black people should stay out of politics unless they can live up to a higher standard than we expect for white people?
My African friends certainly seem to refer to any older relation who isn’t a parent as “uncle” or “aunty” regardless of the actual familial relationship (and indeed do the same to unrelated family friends), and the reverse (nieces/nephews for children, even if not literally true) isn’t uncommon either. It seems to be an African thing.
Even then, I think Sage Rat would prefer it if they just stayed out of public life.
Yeah, I think a lot of future MAGAsses were freaked out by having a black man–who was also a possible Kenyan Mooslim–as a president. The horror!
One anecdote I’ve posted before is that after Oprah gave a speech at the Oscars and some people were saying she should run for president, one die-hard MAGAss I know posted on Facebook something to this effect:
“I don’t mean to sound racist, but didn’t we already have a black president? Let’s not make the same mistake twice.”
As I’ve also mentioned, his issue wasn’t that Oprah wasn’t qualified or had no experience in government or the military, because that applies to Trump, and unlike Trump, she actually runs a successful business empire. His issue, according to what he posted, is that she’s black.
And for that there is evidence:
Doesn’t believe it but believes there is evidence for it? :dubious:
This thread seems to be lacking…not sure what, but I’ll just start another IO thread just in case.
You assume a lot. When come back, bring facts.
Very important points. Let’s follow up as soon as Epstein and all his friends are behind bars.
The latinx side of our family does it too. I also call my husband’s relatives my nieces, nephews, etc. Shocking!
I’m white and from the Pacific Northwest, and we do that. I am “uncle” to some of my friends’ kids, and my daughter has plenty of “aunts” and “uncles” that are just friends of my wife and I. This isn’t just an African thing.
Substance?
Evidence?
A reply from the OP?
Any sense of shame whatsoever?
I actually meant anti-democratic racist fucking trash and by far the biggest threat to America, but yeah, also rabid, not rapid.
White and from southern US. I’m Aunt Raven to all my friends’ kids. It seems pretty widespread.
People who don’t believe something don’t advocate so strongly for them. They don’t come up with complicated ways to ignore the evidence that contradicts said belief. If you were truly neutral, you would recognize that all evidence is against your claim, but you don’t–not just no evidence, but negative evidence.
You can say you don’t believe it all you want, but your repeated actions demonstrate otherwise. The entire point of the “just asking questions” trolling technique that you continue to use is to pretend you do not believe something while just asking questions about it.
You keep on talking about all of this evidence that would be difficult to fake. But you have provided none of this evidence. You refuse to bring the evidence that you claim exists to proper scrutiny. Why would you do this other than to push a narrative? (And why do you keep ignoring how easy it is to fake a screenshot. You just edit the page in place.)
People don’t listen to your words when your actions do not back them up. You argue like the rape apologist who says they aren’t actually defending the rapist. Then why the constant excuses?
In my family we describe close friends who aren’t relatives “dutch” <insert kinship term>. For example, several of my parents’ friends when I was growing up I called Aunt <name> or Uncle <name>, but when explaining the relationship to someone else they were described as being my “dutch aunt” or my “dutch uncle”.
And now that I think of it, that seems an odd term. I’m wondering about the origin.
The Wikipedia page on the term may surprise you.
Was your Dutch uncle an asshole? 
We already have. We do it each time. But you always have an excuse for why that evidence doesn’t matter. It doesn’t matter that the brother is already an immediate family member, so marrying him would be pointless. It doesn’t matter that this was turned over to the authorities and they said there was nothing there to investigate. It doesn’t matter that the source is a bunch of screenshots, easily faked, from a right wing smear campaign years ago. It doesn’t matter that every actual expert says that there’s no evidence.
No, Sage Rat the Rational says there is something there, and we are all supposed to bow down to your superior logic that doesn’t require any real evidence to back it up. All that matters is how you can spin a tail of how it could be possible.
Sure, after all that, you try to hedge your bets and say there’s something off. But that’s the classical scam prophet technique: make your actual, on record prediction be as vague as possible so you can count anything as a valid prediction.
You seem to think that you alone are seeing the truth, while everyone else is deluded when they point out the lack of evidence. That is exactly how conspiracy theorists work.
There is no evidence for this right wing conspiracy theory. Note I don’t say “it cannot be true.” Just that there is no evidence. Which means, if you are rational, you’re not going to waste your time considering it.
You’d only consider it if you believed it despite the lack of evidence.
IO, IO, this thread will work, I know.
When my great niece (now 4 months old) gets old enough to call me anything, I’m going to tell her to call me Grunkle.
Borrowing that from Grunkle Stan on Gravity Falls, but apparently there’s an urban dictionary entry for it too.
BTW, Ilhan Omar won her seat 78%-21.7%. The seat has been held by a Democrat since 1963 and the lowest margin of victory in the last 30 years was Keith Ellison’s first victory at 56%-22% in 2006. She isn’t going to be voted out of office anytime soon. Especially not if the Republicans want to choose a pure lunatic like this, who claims to believe in QAnon.