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TexasBushwhacker

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5. My best friend is a Republican

Reply to TexasBushwhacker (Original post)

Fri Feb 20, 2026, 01:24 AM

21 hrs ago

He's Republican because his parents are. But he's also pro-choice.

Anyway, it's just where I draw a line in the sand. No one who thinks I shouldn't have bodily autonomy is going to share my bed. No way, now how.

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Mansplained on a dating app [View all] TexasBushwhacker 21 hrs ago OP

Well, that proves the point of your profile, doesn't it LearnedHand 21 hrs ago #1

My nutty right-wing mother started saying it in the '90s:"Liberals are the intolerant ones!" betsuni 21 hrs ago #2

I'm intolerant of walking talking breathing pieces of sh*t who breathe through their mouths BWdem4life 20 hrs ago #8

There is no "halfway" about right and wrong. Permanut 21 hrs ago #3

camera on shoulder, showing hand brushing off dandruff... JHB 21 hrs ago #4

My best friend is a Republican TexasBushwhacker 21 hrs ago #5

Republicans also have their dating preferences. Norrrm 20 hrs ago #6

Anyone who doesn't say Democratic Party SocialDemocrat61 20 hrs ago #7

I can think of two appropriate responses to that. Straw Man 20 hrs ago #9

The second would be best cynical_idealist 9 hrs ago #15

Agreed. Straw Man 7 hrs ago #16

There's a different brain in every head. BurnDoubt 19 hrs ago #10

Trumpets sre, by definition, Pedophile-philes Seinan Sensei 19 hrs ago #11

Meet them halfway? I don't want to meet them at all. Demobrat 18 hrs ago #12

Yes, if they are at the bottom of a hole TexasBushwhacker 12 hrs ago #14

Quite a meltdown BaronChocula 18 hrs ago #13