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I don’t mind my fellow liberals being critical of one another. I mind when we eat our own.

Liberals often lose because we fight a two front war. Conservatives just have to fight liberals. Liberals fight both - conservatives and other liberals.

There’s a lot of “purity testing” we do that I don’t see on the other side. If liberals did a better job of accepting imperfect allies, we certainly would’ve won 2016. Maybe even won 2004.

Take some time off of Twitter and Reddit, it's good for your health

My grandparents slept in different rooms for years. My grandfather would have to get up stupid early for work, and didn't want to wake my grandmother up.

Going from one bathroom to two was a game changer for my wife and I

I don't understand the hate for him. He seems like such a nice guy.

In some defense of the beat up clunkers, my family used to have a '92 Buick century. When my sister and I got our licenses that because essentially our car until we got our own since my parents had 3 (and later became my sister's after I got my own car and she went off to college.)

When I was about 18/19, I got t-boned at low speed by some dumbass coming out of a gas station. Traffic was moving slow, I was well in front of him when he pulled out, and he smashed in the rear passenger side door.

It's a small miracle that insurance didn't total the car since it was nearly 20 years old and couldn't have been worth too much but they didn't. My dad decided he'd rather just pocket the money instead of fixing the door (it opened and closed, locked, windows rolled up and down, etc. just had a giant dent) so we kept that car around for another probably 5 or 6 years until it finally crapped out on my sister.

When I got my license, I had a 1995 Geo Prizm that I affectionately called Dumpy. The paint was peeling on it, and I ended up removing the front quarter panel after a deer jumped into it (deer was walking on the side of a country road, I slowed down to 20mph, got over to the other side of the road, and it decided to jump headfirst into the side light as soon I got parallel to it). Still 100% reliable for years, and it was a manual, so no one tried to steal it, even when I managed to leave the key in the door in a city for 2 hours.

Some cars aren't worth fixing. Dumpy was $1200 in 2010. Why would I spend $500 repairing the bumper, and $2-5k repainting it?

At some point in a car’s life you ask yourself “is this worth getting fixed?”. The answer is often no for minor cosmetic damage and they tend to mount up.

Well, that done sound like a decent reason.

Same with athletes like Novak Djokovic

That guy is a VERY bad example after his behaviour during the COVID19 pandemy.

Djokovic has definitely made statements that makes people's dislike for him justified.

Amazing at his sport, crap human being.

In Britain, supporting the underdog is a national past time.

Some view it as unsporting or even just plain boring to support people and teams so successful that you just expect they will win. This shouldn't be confused with hating them, it's just wanting to see an unexpected victory which can make a sports event feel more special.

It does however bring some schadenfreude when you see what are called "glory supporters" (people that only support a team/sportsman because they are already established reliable winners) have to eat a loss.

I myself stopped watching Formula 1 because a McLaren one two with Hamilton taking the pole was almost so guaranteed that it became extremely boring. I don't hate McLaren or Hamilton in the slightest, I just prefer competitive sports.

And be friends with Trump.