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PaperclipPerfector  5d ago (text post)   1670 thread views

Friday Fun Thread for November 21, 2025

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Does the goyslop make the human detritus?? These seem like mostly orthogonal issues. Food is food, you need it to eat. Yeah trash people like Oreos, because they are human and almost every human likes Oreos. They're filled with sugar and delicious. When I see a trash person they aren't that way because "they shop at Walmart and buy Oreos", but things like "they have nasty tattoos on their arm and look like they beat their wife" or "they are dressed like a prostitute, and have 4 children with 4 different fathers by the age of 23" or "they have no teeth and are 400 pounds with their gut spilling out of their crop top while they waddle around".

Yeah, maybe I bought a case of Dr Pepper and a pack of Oreos, but I also got fresh veggies and chicken as my main course, while the 400 pound hambeast got 5 cases of Dr Pepper and 8 packs of Oreos. It doesn't matter if they like some of the same things I like, they also lack impulse control and executive function and THAT is what makes them trash. If these people suddenly started shopping at Trader Joe's nothing would change and I'd just feel superior to them for having better financial sense because I'm not overpaying on groceries. Walmart is popular because it's cheap and efficient.

Hitler liked animals. I like animals. I'm not going to change my behavior or preferences just because they have an overlap with people I dislike for different reasons.

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