It’s always that people don’t vote. Support without votes is empty wind.

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Why yes, yes I would be.

They missed ordering two and then saying “these are papas burritos”

Our culture phrases damn near everything in metaphors of war. The war on drugs. The battle of the bands. Bob lost his battle with cancer. It’s absolutely pervasive, to the point it’s almost as invisible as the air.

Rule number one: the kids are alright.

One might even say long-expected.

Well, there is a market in people who think their city has gone to hell all because of… those people. They’ll eat this shit up.

The best time was 100 years ago. The second-best time is now.

Regulatory capture.

Vertical Integration.

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I love my cigar, too, but I take it out of my mouth once in a while.

Hey I’ve seen this movie before… https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/IBM_and_the_Holocaust

He’s the silver medalist in olympic mixed doubles air pistol shooting.

He’s a memeable badass because he doesn’t wear a faceful of steampunk-looking accessories on his face while shooting like all the other competitors do.

Trump seems to just riff on his weak understanding of the last thing he heard. Maybe they were afraid of a weird rant about bulbasaur extinguishing clean coal.

You sound like a guy who knows which part of a warplane to reinforce.

If it isn’t hard, do it! I sure wouldn’t know how.

There isn’t near the kind of cultural narrative about stepfathers that there is about stepmothers, especially in media for kids. Kids absorb ideas from the fairy tales they see and hear. Stepmoms have to deal with tropes from “Cinderella” to “My Stepmom is An Alien”. Kids will then carry those notions, amorphous and unexamined, into their new relationship. Kids usually don’t have the capacity to recognize those kind of prejudices in themselves. So now the new stepmom has to deal with the kid’s indignance at a fictional character. But aside from the Dursleys in Harry Potter, I’m hard pressed to recall a wicked stepfather.

Then there’s the puritanical thread, and I’m a dude so I don’t even know what else is lurking in our culture that wants to take a piece out of a stepmom for being the second lady in the family.

Not to reduce what a genuinely good dad has to do, step or otherwise. But if a dad manages to use words to explain something calmly, that’s enough to get kudos from strangers on the street. I don’t think the ladies have the benefit of the same uncomplicated expectations, so they need specialized guidance.

What exactly are you looking for in advice? How to deal with the ex and their branch? How to deal with specific behaviors from the kids? You’ll probably do better to search at the level of those topics than the role of stepdad in general.

I’d suggest going for “How to talk so that kids will listen and listen so kids will talk” series. To be a good step-parent, you need to be a good parent.