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[Bishop45]

This is who or at least where we are. That much has to be accepted to at least one day turn the page.

A section of the country wants to go back in time and repeal rights and decide again who can be human and who deserves rights. Time only moves in one direction so we’ll get a chance to experience that experiment together.

Love y’all and I hope all y’all are safe

[Tony15]

Funny (not really) thing is, it's those supporters that are risking getting f****d the hardest. The country has largely been a pendulum anyway....we've been here before. Life goes on.

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[oreon]

Lol If there was ever a sign we were in a simulation it would be the Tyson Jake Paul fight. The whole thing was a joke. Tyson did a whole lot of nothing. His legs are cooked and he could barely move. And Jake was clearly not going all out. Well atleast Tyson didnt get hurt, he could have if Jake Paul was serious. And Jake Paul needs to stop this foolishness. Step in the ring with a real boxer and not senior citizens

[Heat_team02]

Pelicans cut this guy I think we should give him a look.

Watch on YouTube

[al bondiga]

Lol If there was ever a sign Always has high cost.we were in a simulation it would be the Tyson Jake Paul fight. The whole thing was a joke. Tyson did a whole lot of nothing. His legs are cooked and he could barely move. And Jake was clearly not going all out. Well atleast Tyson didnt get hurt, he could have if Jake Paul was serious. And Jake Paul needs to stop this foolishness. Step in the ring with a real boxer and not senior citizens

Tyson Did it for the money And most probably so did the other guy ... EGO Always has a high cost.

[dolphinatik]

Being should not have been allowed for that fight if it wasn't going to be competitive. I belive Tyson could have hurt him or at least the other way around. But I agree Paul should fight ac real ranked boxer even a jr up and comer. Fury vs Paul, nganou vs Paul or bust.

[contract]

Being should not have been allowed for that fight if it wasn't going to be competitive. I belive Tyson could have hurt him or at least the other way around. But I agree Paul should fight ac real ranked boxer even a jr up and comer. Fury vs Paul, nganou vs Paul or bust.

Paul can't fight. He'd get killed if he fought a real active boxer that wasn't on the take. I have no idea why people pay to watch these freak shows.

[contract]

So apparently we're going to invade Mexico, Canada, Greenland, and Panama.

No biggie.

I'm surprised that Cuba isn't on the shopping list. That's a lot of beach front property to develop.

[AirP.]

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There’s nothing legally wrong with it lol. There are already systems in place to make sure that a child is not being neglected. What you’re talking about is nickel and diming and auditing the custodial parent out of what I can only guess is spite. It is spoken like someone who has the benefits of not having to do much of the heavy lifting as a parent, but still not wanting to carry more of the burden financially to make up for it. So wanting to make the other parent who already does and is responsible for more jump through hoops.

Spoiler:

As a custodial parent I think the system is horrible. Are there people who try to get join custodial parent status to lower their child support, absolutely but I've seen by far more non-custodial parents using children as a paycheck. I came from a smaller town ~5000, and went to the USAF, both situations I saw father's lives just destroyed by the custodial parent by not doing much as in maintaining minimum standards for the children. It's not a great life to be a father, spending a good portion of their paycheck to child support and really have little to no say in their lives. Although there are some dead-beat dads out there that don't do anything with their children and the mother does it all but there's mothers out there that do as much as they can to not let the fathers see their children.

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What actually needs to happen is the court system needs to more closely monitor situations where the parent requests joint custody in order to avoid or reduce child support, but dumps the kid with some other guardian like a nanny or a female family member whenever the child is supposed to be in their care. In the case of athletes, I can tell you that happens a lot more frequently than whatever it is you’re talking about.

Spoiler:

What? No, that would be way more expensive (you'd need way more workers, there's not enough as it is) and be more invasive into people's lives even more than they are now (I've delt with family services, a lot of them are not good at their jobs). Let me give you an example, I needed to show that I had insurance for my child since I changed companies (which a lot of parents probably do in their lives), it took around 6 months for family services to update my information, why? Luckily the person in family services I had been going to their office every 3-4 weeks (to try to fix this) decided to do me a solid and called in a favor for me to have another family service person "rush" my situation and in 2 minutes it was done

No, I don't think it happens even close to what I'm talking about, just my time in the USAF has shown me that and I was only at a couple of bases and came from a smaller town. There's not that many professional athletes total in the United States compared to the numbers I'd expect to see. The worst of it, I don't know how or if it can be fixed but I do know throwing more money at the problem probably won't fix it.

Sorry, this went way off topic, move it to the off-topic area if you want (continue down there if you want to)..

The average child support payment is like $500 lol. I look at some of these single mothers and pity them and especially their kids. Because if $500 was all that was being used on a kid, social services would be even more backlogged. Idk if you’re married or a parent, but that isn’t even a quarter of the costs, and you can ask actual involved fathers and they’d say the same . Like I said, this is all spoken like spiteful non-custodial parents who want to nickel and dime and audit the custodial parent despite their, relatively speaking, lack of responsibility for the child. The types who swear they are being kept away from their kid but don’t know who their kids teachers are, their allergies, stay in a bachelor pad and live their life like it’s just them while the custodial parent adjusts her whole life every day to accommodate being a parent.

So no, I don’t think I have more to say on the topic. The evidence speaks for itself I think. And don’t think I’m changing your mind and you certainly wouldn’t change mine, so we can move on.

Evidence? I am custodial parent, at one time dated single women with children (I ended up marrying a single mother) and have had a number of buddies in the USAF went through those situations and your evidence is looking around and say, got it, I know what's going on. Do understand that the custodial parent is supposed to be supporting the child also? The calculation is pretty easy if you don't have complicated taxes.

Your 500 number is funny since my current wife got 450 a month in child support when she was out on her own barely getting by. Maybe the cost of living is dramatically different here in the Midwest then it is where you are. I do know my profession is vastly underpaid here vs people on the coasts and they just cite cost of living.

It's pretty cut and dry for most parents, you can either decide between parents on the child support cost or go through the courts where both parties have to bring their tax returns for the last few years, add up the total amount of money for both parents and then adjust it based on who makes the most. If one of the parents doesn't have any income, they get measured like a minimum wage workers even if they make no income.

[SerialChiller]

I don't know if anyone here has played or heard of a game called Holdfast Nations At War? But I found this on their discord and had to post it

[Tim_Hardawayy]

This is who or at least where we are. That much has to be accepted to at least one day turn the page.

A section of the country wants to go back in time and repeal rights and decide again who can be human and who deserves rights. Time only moves in one direction so we’ll get a chance to experience that experiment together.

Love y’all and I hope all y’all are safe

Bish I think you're a great poster, but massively misunderstanding what it is people want and taking a very uncharitable position here. That said I know politics is a touchy subject so I'll leave it at that.

[contract]

Don't believe your eyes and ears.

[Shewasfly]

I think certain ppl are always going to downplay what are real threats to Black and Latino people and women because they themselves don't have to worry about it. It at least lets you know who are true "allies" though.

[marson]

Chiefs going for the 3peat, I'd like to see history in my lifetime.

[dolphinatik]

It was so satisfying watchful the bills lose to the Cheifs. They refused to let the tush push dictate the game.

[contract]

Chiefs going for the 3peat, I'd like to see history in my lifetime.

I have a feeling the Eagles are going to take this one. I don't think the Chiefs will be able to stop Barkley.

[Tony15]

^I ain't betting against the Chiefs....but my head is definitely telling me that the Eagles are gonna take it. They're just physically superior in the trenches and at the skill positions. How close the game is should depend on how well Jalen is passing & whether PHI stays true to their identity.

[Tony15]

It was so satisfying watchful the bills lose to the Cheifs. They refused to let the tush push dictate the game.

I'm a sad Dolphin fan, so yeah **** the Bills but I do at least feel for Josh a little. Gotta be a tough pill to swallow knowing that despite pretty much overhauling how you run your offense as far as not turning the ball over (BUF had an anomoly year in that regard)....it still didn't matter against KC. They got Mahomes & BUF doesn't lol.

[spectrec130]

There was a time where was neutral towards the Chiefs but with Mahomes and his dancing around with late slides, flopping and crying for calls (getting them) has made it impossible to root for Kansas City for me. Not a fan of Philly but hope Saquon runs roughshod over 'em and cross fingers that Jaylen Carter and the Eagles DL rocks Princess Kermit ala TB Superbowl!

[oreon]

So everything from now on is DEI fault. It's the black, brown, disabled, women's fault. When gas price and groceries goes up because of tarriffs, just remember its DEI. Gotta stick it to the pesky Canadians who have done I dunno what to the US ?