I used to for sure. I was raised in the midwest in the 80s and taught to drink milk by the gallon. Once I became an adult I stopped eating so much dairy and felt way better. The USA in the 80s-90s when I grew up was rife with health disinformation and straight up lies to the consumer.

On the other hand, I never saw so much cheese as when I went to Europe and saw the cheese aisles in France and Netherlands. And you can buy entire wheels at Euro farmer markets. Most traditional Dutch food is ham and cheese type dishes. I asked my Dutch friend his favorite food and he said he likes Thai food lmao.

Everyone is bound to eventually hate him, because it is as if he is going through every group in the world and giving them a middle finger one after the other. One day it is Canadians, the next USA farmers, then Greenland, then posting racist memes. Sometimes he sits up all night posting hateful nonsense about people like Rosie O’Donnell or Treveor Noah. It’s exhausting how much of a hater he is.

BUT it is other haters who enabled Trump. It is a deep cultural rot that needs addressing, namely the evil excesses of capitalism and racism.

I feel sometimes like many of them almost acknowledge their weird dichotomies but compartmentalize it. For example, to support ICE to me seems inherently unchristian, because the bible including the new testament constantly talks about treating foreigners well and being peaceful/forgiving/non-materialistic.

But they will excuse voting for Trump by saying “well, he isn’t my preacher!”. To me that is simply moral relativism, so the Christian part is even more odd, how they barely ever display the values the bible says that they are supposed to live by. It is totally superficial and a country-club type arrangement.

The government is a proxy that allows their bigotry to manifest in the real world, while they can still wear a fake smile and say “I’ll pray for you” and in their own mind they are an agent of peace on earth through their prayers. Christianity (USA right-wing varieties) to me is a strange broken mindset, I grew up with reformed Christianity and have had to purge it from my mind as an adult.

Unsurprising. Usually the far-right church infrastructure also buys tickets in bulks to these types of events.

I used to date a woman whose dad was a pastor and his church would get bulk tickets to stuff like Mel Gibson’s Passion of the Christ to give out like candy. It undoubtedly inflated the box office numbers.

Most people don’t label 17 year olds as “children”. The process is something more like baby>toddler>child>pre-teen>teen/adolescence>young adulthood>adulthood.

Since everyone matures at different levels at different times, and maturity itself is subjective, most societies air on the side of caution by legally defining people as minors (not children). They are called this because they are still in a state of cognitive development. The ones who are above average are the exception to the rule.

It makes sense why we do this, because minors are supposed to be ushered into adulthood with gradual increases in freedom, such as being able to drive with a permit or go to school dances by themselves before they are considered a tax-paying citizen.

You are conflating maturity with chronological age. We use chronological age and not maturity as the social metric of “adulthood” so your relativistic claim is just nonsense.

I actually love the “watch free” channels on my TV. It’s full of obscure stuff like 1970s gameshows, This Old House episodes, random old weird direct-to-video movies.