1. Don’t be a dick.
  2. If you have to be a dick, be the least amount possible.
  3. Failing that, see 1.
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Cake day: October 21st, 2020

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  • Not to nitpick too much 🙂, but saying “class warfare” is a fringe issue is super fucking dark to me. We’re literally in the process of seeing the final form of class divisions and you say its “fringe.”

    Not only that, but the other fringe issue you reference are either already coopted by Rs (identity politics) or just valid concerns ranging from empathy for fellow humans (trans issues) to the actual existential (climate change).

    The Dems don’t work because they are already purchased by donors, and not actually representative of their constituents. They ran on those fringe ideas and have won popularly nearly every time in those places where identity politics hasn’t completely swallowed everyone’s collective reasoning skills.

    /rant



  • Storytime!

    I was taking a mental health day not too long ago and went to a local diner. My thought was I should try interacting outside my bubble to make me feel better. And it kinda worked…ish. I should’ve read the flags, one of which was him saying my paper was fake news, but alas.

    Started talking to this old dude, apparently had a long historical knowledge of his family, which he stated family history placed their start in the 1700s. Talked about how his family took place in all the wars.

    After an insane detour on how the North actually was at fault for the first shots fired, he pivoted to how Sherman burned down the family plantation. How absolutely terrible that was for his family.

    Then he pivoted to talking about the KKK, and whewwww did that illuminate the absolute dichotomy of history for me. He stated that “they originally formed to protect women that were beat by their husbands.” After I asked about the whole racism bit, he said it wasn’t as bad as people made out.

    At that point I grabbed my check and peaced out. Totally helped me get over my funk by showing just how fucking insane people’s idea of history is.