Yeah I can think of plenty of crossings just within 100 miles of me that I’d hate to have to cross on foot to take my kid to school every day but if I had to do it, it would be worth it for their development, self esteem, and best shot at success - as long as I could do it safely. Good dad.

So it could be no snorkel or one with a valve. Either way, plausible enough. Kids are tough.

I mean, it’s possible he’s gripping a pipe/snorkel of some kind in his hand protruding through the top of the bag itself.

He’d just have to grip it tight and hold it above water as he wades through. Perhaps it’s just deep enough that there’s not a reasonable way for him to hold the kid completely out of the water, but it’s easy enough for him to hold him up just enough that water doesn’t come in over the top of the bag itself.

With the amount of air in the bag to be “full” and relatively pressurized, he’d reliably have several minutes before any issues. It’s not like it’s suctioned around the kid’s face. There’s several minutes of air in there. More than enough time to ford a river with width measured in yards.

He only has the power to do that for the executive branch. He can’t compel citizens or corporations to follow along - not with the law anyway. He is getting away with it because the people whose pockets he’s lining are happy to play along as long as number goes up. That’s all they care about.

General and social anxiety are correlated with some types of autism. Doesn’t mean everyone on the spectrum has anxiety nor that everyone who experiences these types of anxiety is on the spectrum. But it is a data point. String enough of them together and you just might stumble your way into a diagnosis. Or that’s how I did anyway.

This is not a “no politics” community. You might have confused it with one of the many communities that have a “no politics” rule.

I really don’t know how you made that mistake to be honest.

https://www.vox.com/the-goods/2019/12/16/21003560/salvation-army-anti-lgbtq-controversies-donations

I don’t know anything about you! Are YOU taking money from Hamas?!

(You can say whatever you want. Doesn’t mean anyone has to like it.)

Please enlighten me, what does “Tard” mean?

Dancing on the grave of tyrants is absolutely moral.

Doesn’t count when the person who died was a fascist who actively worked to make the lives of marginalized folks even worse.

Growing up in the southern US — just about every old person I know says “want in one hand, shit in the other. See which fills up faster” so this is just a slight variation on that phrase.

It’s a stage name. His real name is Will Flanary and Glaucomflecken is a medical term:

Glaucomflecken are small, gray-white spots that form on the front layer of the eye’s natural lens. They are the physical scars left behind when the eye has suffered a sudden, severe spike in internal pressure, typically due to an episode of acute angle-closure glaucoma.

“We don’t all rape kids. We just don’t care if the people we vote for do, as long as they’re hurting the right people”.

Hmmm can’t imagine why we lump you all together. 🤦

Sorry, I must be one of the 40% of Americans that don’t give a shit why you’re trying to take the wind out of the sails of the movement, just that you are.

Oh yeah let’s just give up on justice for child sex abuse victims because it’s “not a winning strategy.” Thanks for the excellent advice bud.

Was*

I can almost guarantee that a good chunk of them don’t know the difference between erratic and eccentric. “Yeah he can be a little strange sometimes, so what?”

Hmm why are you all of a sudden being suspicious by default instead of assuming he’s just a really nice guy? 🤔

Race wouldn’t matter. Except for all the racists. My skin is white. When I’m around only others who share that trait, many of them show their true colors thinking they’re in good company. They just fucking tell on themselves.

Or some of them will make comments like yours.