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[–] [email protected] 215 points 3 months ago (7 children)
[–] [email protected] 37 points 3 months ago (4 children)
[–] xmunk 49 points 3 months ago (11 children)

If you're pan you've got to be either cast iron or stainless steel. We don't have any averages in the pan community. We're all superb.

[–] [email protected] 18 points 3 months ago

I'd be cast iron, I'm heavy enough

[–] [email protected] 15 points 3 months ago

Carbon steel, baby.

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[–] [email protected] 12 points 3 months ago

You can be whatever you want. This bitch isn't the boss of you!

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[–] [email protected] 28 points 3 months ago

or be weak or gay, but not both!

[–] [email protected] 18 points 3 months ago (1 children)

The lgbt can't be harmed if the gays are armed

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[–] [email protected] 157 points 3 months ago (2 children)

"Stay fucking hard."

I CANT TAKE THESE MIXED SIGNALS

[–] [email protected] 81 points 3 months ago

“In America, you can be anything you want. So don’t be weak and gay. Stay fucking hard,” Gomez instructs viewers in the video, delivering one of the most unintentionally homoerotic lines of the 21st century so far.

Great writing.

[–] xmunk 32 points 3 months ago (1 children)

I am also deeply confused... this hateful message is coming from someone in paisley leggings.

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[–] [email protected] 82 points 3 months ago (3 children)

What's the current over/under on her being outed in the next six months with an underage cheerleader, and having to apologize deeply to her family and constituents while continuing on her mission to destroy our country?

[–] [email protected] 32 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago) (2 children)

The ones who piss and moan the loudest are often times themselves the biggest offenders, I.e projection, after all

[–] [email protected] 30 points 3 months ago (1 children)

piss and moan the loudest

It’s not nice to kink shame.

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[–] [email protected] 20 points 3 months ago

Always a confession. So I'm at 85%

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[–] [email protected] 71 points 3 months ago (1 children)

Are we at the "anyone who doesn't vote for me is gay" stage?

[–] [email protected] 30 points 3 months ago (3 children)

Time is cyclical. Welcome to the 90's.

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[–] Imgonnatrythis 63 points 3 months ago (7 children)

I have no doubt whatsoever this woman eats pussy like an absolute carnivore.

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[–] [email protected] 61 points 3 months ago (3 children)

In America, you can be anything you want. So don’t be weak and gay.

So, you can't be anything you want? It's incredible that she doesn't hear the irony.

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[–] [email protected] 55 points 3 months ago (3 children)
[–] [email protected] 27 points 3 months ago (1 children)

I'm flexible and trans, does that work too?

[–] [email protected] 24 points 3 months ago

You flirting with me?

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[–] [email protected] 46 points 3 months ago (2 children)

The one wearing a bulletproof vest telling others not to be weak. She's not strong enough to stop bullets on her own?

I wonder what her secret girlfriend has to say about that.

[–] [email protected] 22 points 3 months ago (5 children)

To be fair, that’s a weighted vest that a lot of (mostly ~~Crossfitters~~ functional fitness types (I don’t want to get sued)) wear to make their workouts harder.

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[–] [email protected] 12 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago) (1 children)

For women, wearing a weight vest actually legitimately helps reduce bone loss in the hips. Statistically marked improvements for women tested vs control group.

Source - Snow CM, et al. Long-term exercise using weighted vests prevents hip bone loss in postmenopausal women. J Gerontol A Biol Sci Med Sci 55(9); M489-491, 2000

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[–] [email protected] 42 points 3 months ago (3 children)

"In America, you can be anything you want, so don't be weak and gay."

... What if I want to be those things?

Why doesn't she choose not to be fucking stupid and not an asshole?

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[–] [email protected] 38 points 3 months ago

Oh I refuse to be weak and gay. I insist on being strong and gay

[–] [email protected] 38 points 3 months ago (4 children)

I know plenty of gay people that would beat the piss out of this bitch.

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[–] [email protected] 34 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago) (1 children)

I am not sure how anyone can be “weak” when they constantly face so much discrimination, bullying and harassment and choose to spread a message that is essentially love is love. That’s heroic, not weak. You know who else persisted with a message of love under duress and hardship? Jesus.

Edit to say that I agree with the other commenters about being Strong and Gay 💪🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️

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[–] [email protected] 32 points 3 months ago (5 children)

What's with all the conservatives wearing soft armor with no plates in them? Fashion?

[–] [email protected] 17 points 3 months ago (1 children)

They're cosplaying as strong people, but really they're just stupid.

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[–] [email protected] 28 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago) (1 children)

I feel like "Republican" is its own derogatory category now.

"Don't be a Republican, care about your neighbor" or "Don't be a Republican, check the facts" feel like completely reasonable things to say because Republicans have basically stereotyped themselves.

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[–] [email protected] 27 points 3 months ago (2 children)

“In America, you can be anything you want. So don’t be weak and gay."

So in the US I can be anything I want... except if I want to be weak and gay.

Any other exceptions I should know off?

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[–] [email protected] 26 points 3 months ago (1 children)

This is the same shithead who burned some books w/ a flame thrower a few months back.

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[–] [email protected] 26 points 3 months ago

be strong and trans*

we're progressive now, smh.

[–] [email protected] 25 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago) (1 children)

She is so hard that she needs a bulletproof vest protecting her from the hard society she enjoys so much

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[–] [email protected] 22 points 3 months ago

I'm sorry, all I heard was Gay Hard Fucking.

[–] [email protected] 22 points 3 months ago

Be strong and gay? Weak and straight? Moderately fit and bisexual? What exactly is she asking of her constituents?

[–] [email protected] 22 points 3 months ago (1 children)

She clearly isn't aware of the sexuality makeup found in the average gym.

[–] [email protected] 34 points 3 months ago (1 children)

She's a republican, she isn't aware of much of anything...

[–] [email protected] 15 points 3 months ago

If you take into account past republican behavior, it’s quite probable that she’s either bi or a closeted homosexual, and is simply projecting her shame onto other people so she doesn’t have to acknowledge her tingly bits every time she sees another woman.

[–] [email protected] 17 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago) (1 children)

The march towards making idiocracy a documentary is ahead of schedule I see.

[–] [email protected] 19 points 3 months ago (2 children)

This is more straight up fascism.

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[–] [email protected] 17 points 3 months ago (1 children)

So be strong and gay? Be a power bottom, is that what you're saying?

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