WesternInfidels

Nah mate. "Bone walker," innit.

You'll call me a curmudgeon for sure, but:

1. "75" is kind of a shit high score, with the scale going to 100 and all.

2. Demonstration of that point: LG is #2 with a score of 74, in spite of the fact that the terrible track record of their big-dollar linear-compressor fridges has made national news.

3. We might also note that the span of scores here is really small; it's just 8 points on a scale of 100. How meaningful is all this?

4. CR's reports like these are based on CR subscriber surveys. So they're about consumer experience and sentiment for things bought brand new and generally things bought recently. I wouldn't expect such a report to say much about lifespan or repair-ability.

I've been a CR subscriber forever. I keep thinking I should cancel, though, because I'm not prosperous enough to live the way their target audience apparently lives.

You see conservatives are infinitely more tolerant of opinions they disagree with than the left is. I support deportations of illegal immigrants their is no way u can possibly say that without getting called a Nazi or fascist by a decent percent of the population who will go to extreme measures to fuck it life up.

Our actual right-wing government is out there offcially arresting journalists, beating bystanders, observers, and protestors, even killing some of them. They're terrorizing people they disagree with.

The rest of us correctly recognize this as "fascist." An act of free speech with no threat or consequences attached.

You're observing this situation and declaring that "conservatives are infinitely more tolerant of opinions they disagree with than the left." Because the infinitely tolerant right is normalizing summary executions as official policy, and because the intolerant left is capable of reading a dictionary.

This is the traditional conservative two-tiered system of intolerance. A deliberate conflation to allow the bullies to paint themselves as victims whenever that's convenient. "He called me a Nazi, just because I want his neighbors to be brutalized. He's the intolerant one."

85% of Americans support deportation of illegal immigrants charged with a violent crime. And 55% support deportation of all illegal immigrants.

This just isn't germane to what ICE is doing on the ground today, because

1. They're not focusing on the criminally charged or even the undocumented, they're kidnapping just anyone, documented or otherwise, they think they can get away with shipping overseas.

2. They're not operating in places that host lots of undocumented, they're instead terrorizing states that have the smallest "problems" with the undocumented. States that voted against the president in the 2024 election.

3. They're not following any kind of legal process, so there is no evidence that they're doing any of the stuff they claim to be doing.

It's not incoherent to support immigration enforcement and also be appalled by what ICE is doing. Indeed, if one values the rule of law, this is the position one must take. Because it would be incoherent to assert that on the one hand, due process doesn't matter, but on the other hand, borders and citizenship do.

At the movies with my GF. And, for the first time, her family.

The lights come down. The film is underway. There's a commotion at the other end of our row. GF's sister has retrieved something from her bag. There are whispers. Something crinkly is passed down the row, one person at a time, to the left. Eventually, GF hands me a bundle the size of a football. It's aluminum foil on the outside. Wax paper inside, loosely wrapping up ... something. "What is this?" I ask, panicking.

"Pumpkin roll?" she says. Indignant eye-roll tone. As if she meant to say "Uh, helLO, it's a PUMPkin roll, OBVIOUSLY." She's suddenly realized that I'm some kind of bumpkin what ain't never been to no big-suburb movie theater like this before. Where entire family-size bake-sale pastries are always surreptitiously circulating in the dark.

We've been married 20 years now. When she's mixed-up by some momentary contextual confusion, I am still likely to tease her by 'explaining:' "PUMPkin roll?"

I don't remember if I ate any of it.