Here’s a few questions for you. And you don’t have to answer, just something to consider; What does the everyday white person in this day and age have to do with any of that? Why are you letting a hateful rhetoric control your life? When is the last time you had a discussion with someone not on the internet?

I don’t run and would still never advise wool

Trump’s 1st term was pretty much Reagan 2.0. If he’s going to stay with that theme, this term will be Bush (Sr.) 2.0

Nixon actually had the highest GDP growth with 3.5%. Second was Reagan at 3.48%

People who leave their shopping carts in the middle of the aisle and then walk away.

People who leave their shopping carts in random spots in the parking lot.

People that drive 20 under the speed limit in the left lane.

If everything is capitalism, then nothing is capitalism

I wasn’t asking for advertisement, but thanks haha

It’s all good. I figure it’s an uncomfortable question

I was thinking more that the kid is a spider monkey while at least one hand is full with other issues. Such as another child, a grocery kart, etc…

Thanks for the comment. My wife and I have agreed to start having kids in a few months, and I’ve just had a lot of things swirling around in my head. I’m excited and anxious at the same time and what I would do in certain situations. But I love random moments where you can be helpful and not threatening. Due to the time period I grew up in, that post 1950s belief that you have was not trained into me.

For example, I’m a 36-year-old white guy. I got my wife (who is awesome) and my 3 dogs. There’s this one little girl that my dogs absolutely love, and she loves them too. There were small interactions with other kids around (I had to yell at the older kid because they threw shit at my door. If you need clarification on my logic, I’m happy to explain it), but she immediately locked on trying to figure my dogs out. I don’t her I had no problem during the summer if she came and helped me with the dogs in the morning and evening, I was going to pay her $10 each time she helped, but I needed to meet her parents and talk to them about it first

I didn’t hear from the kid for a while, and eventually, I unintenially bumped into her dad. Long story short, he told me to stay away from his daughter.

I was disappointed but also understood where he was coming from. However, I also believe it takes a village to raise a child, and I’m trying to consider which direction I feel I would go…

IMO, you mistook small talk for conversation. There’s a time for small talk and there’s a time for conversation. It’s kind of awkward when we as people get motivated enough to talk to other people, but can’t read the signs when the small talk or the conversation have hit a stopping point.

Another opinion of mine I that you introduced yourself as more senior than them in your trade. Now it’s up to them to want to continue the dialog. Just keep doing your thing your way, besides giving the new people a chance to choose to talk to you. If they do, then find ways to share your wisdom through conversation. If they choose to not talk to you, then trust your coworkers give them the wisdom.

Don’t waste too much mental energy on it because ultimately, if your work is good, it doesn’t matter your attitude towards new people as long as you’re not going out of your way to alienate them

The irony is that this a repost. Not trying to be rude or anything. It’s just ironic

I’ve certainly been called worse haha

It’s just fake internet points. If people have a negative opinion about me, then that’s their mental energy to waste, but thanks for the support

Fair enough. You make a good point, and again, you are a very intelligent person. At no point were my intentions to insult that

I appreciate your concern, but it’s not like that. I hate when I get that adrenaline spike because it immediately makes me feel like garbage. I get sudden hypoglycemia, and immediately need to eat something, and (since I just learned I have Polycythemia) my whole body gets gross and sweaty and red and overheated.

It’s just not a good time for me. I have a justification in my head of why I can go off like that, but it’s mine

Had to search your reference. I hate Always Sunny

Been called a lot of things. Poison to society is a new one. So what exactly makes me poison?

Probably. And the biggest thing that convinces me to stand down is that they’re random strangers and don’t deserve my psychotic wrath. And me and the other people can thank my wife. She is the only one that can say something to bring me back to reality, but I don’t know what will happen if she’s not around

Weird thing is that I perceived that my statement was related to pedanticism. I’ll agree I’m not a pedantic in a traditional sense, but road rules and environment can potentially be pedantic because there are certain rules that need to be followed to ensure proper road etiquette. I.e. following distance, mental condition, speeding, lane discipline, and courtesy to other drivers

And I’m not questioning your intelligence, but pedanticism is a difficult word today. It means “the qualities of a pedant”

A pedant is a person obsessed with small details