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puffin, you have my sympathies. when your child passes the threshold of legal majority (18) you'll be faced with the thorny decision of whether to seek legal guardianship or conservatorship. in our daughter's case that decision was not in question. it had to be done. so we weren't forced to weigh the delicately balanced opposing sides of that question, as you may need to. good luck.

aimless: please append "i think i read something written by a racist fur trader once but i can't really remember" to your future statements about how "very often" oppressed people "displayed all the behaviors" genocidal colonialist attributed to them.

Westward ho, me organ

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now I am curious if you find that "unsatisfactory care in childhood" should be construed as a non-racist theory for the origins of alcohol addiction among contemporary native american populations?

I like to think twas being unprepared to meet paddy what done it

poch out

most people think that wanting to die is an unhealthy cognitive distortion

The average punter has no clue how excruciating living with mental disorders can be. And for some, there's no more cure than there is for end-stage chronic diseases.

now I am curious if you find that "unsatisfactory care in childhood" should be construed as a non-racist theory for the origins of alcohol addiction among contemporary native american populations?

― a little too mature to be cute (Aimless)

i live in canada. first nations people here account for about 4% of the population of the country, and first nations children make up 50% of children in care below the age of 14. first nations children's advocates have attributed this to the high rates of poverty among first nations people - and social services tendency to equate this poverty with neglect - as well as high substance abuse rates in caregivers that can be seen the legacy of the trauma caused by residential schools and the sixties scoop.

did a quick google and, although youre not a scholar, here is an interesting paper on the subjec of the overrepresentation of first nations children in canada's child welfare system (it is 11 years old so not totally up to date) https://francais.mcgill.ca/files/crcf/2004-Overrepresentation_Aboriginal_Children.pdf

i would suggest that being taken into care, for whatever reason, is not an optimal childhood experience.

beyoncé knowles is as boring as coldplay

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all of Mick Jagger's vocal performances are tied for 'Mick Jagger's worst vocal performance'

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is ilx ready to talk about birth tourism

the vast majority of people on earth don't want to fight to make the world a better place. they just want to be be comfortable and not be starving. and watch every episode of Friends again on Netflix. okay, i was projecting with that last part...

That last one seems pretty obvious to me

I'd go further to say that the majority prefer freedom from decisions to freedom. Not many of us really care enough about minority viewpoints to fight for them. Martin Niemöller's lament will never lose relevance.

Also, having only seen the discussion of Friends on The Good Place, even season 8?

I do think that people can be amazing in emergencies and in times of trouble! But they are 90% selfish in general.

A Tribe Called Quest's "We the People" is kind of terrible. (Not actually controversial, but I'd have a hard time finding anyone who agrees with me.)

Apart from a couple awkward stresses in Phife's verse, I can't find anything wrong with it, so I'd love to see this opinion developed.

Musically, I don't get anything out it. And it seems really preachy and obvious to me.

we the people is a fantastic song

that is a good post for this thread though

Agreed.

Preachy and obvious is the intention; what sounded like projection in November ("Muslims and gays/boy, we hate your ways") is prophecy now. Also, the snare backbeat and the details in Tip's lines (Ramen noodles, "niggas in the hood livin' in a fishbowl") are pleasures.

I'm not a huge fan of the Mellow Candle album. THERE, i said it. consequences be damned.

I don't think I've ever listened to an entire Tribe Called Quest album. that's not a controversial opinion though. a surprising fact, maybe.

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haha

Angela Merkel is hot

James Brown has a song about being black and proud, but isn't this kind of obvious?

i'm weirdly attracted to Kellyanne Conway despite thinking she's the worst human being alive

Alex Lifeson is the greatest rock guitarist of the last 40 years

Well now, that's just common sense

I've mostly liked the noir classics I've seen but I thought The Killers was surprisingly "meh".

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i'm weirdly attracted to Kellyanne Conway despite thinking she's the worst human being alive

??? She looks human jerky that's somehow still animate

Hence why it is controversial

NE have got this

Lady gaga is garbage

Now that's not controversial: she is awful

Lorde is better than your favorite ilm-approved indietronic songstress (Grimes, Crystal Castles, Phantogram, Purity Ring, Sky, LDR, CRJ, Britney, Kraftwerk, Oum Kalthoum, I really don't care) and you are lying to yourself if you refuse to accept this.

that's just depraved

"songstress"

The alluring indietronic of kraftwerk

and Oum Kalthoum!

people should be forced to give a 30 second warning before cumming

ok, Sting

that's excessive and impossible to project accurately...like a cable company telling you theyll be there between 1 and 5 pm