Are you willing to do what is necessary to stand up for the downtrodden? Or does your plan end at pitying and then forgiving the fascist Christians?

To be Democrats.

We disagree on many things even within denominations, but we are all trying to follow the same God.

… might actually lead to the change we wish to see.

I think the problem is that the difference in interpretations of what it means to follow the same God leads to diametrically opposed concepts of what change you wish to see. Some Christians want to kill, imprison, or subjugate people who aren’t white Christian men. How can you meet that with anything less than animosity?

Someday, that old planter will become a fountain.

This is a good idea even if you don’t think they will do it. When they don’t do it, you can negotiate money back from the purchase to cover the cost of hiring a junk removal team. Then you can pocket the cash and do it yourself or you can pay someone else to do it.

Have you considered that the people “appeasing” Trump are actually on his side pretending not to be? Not that “both sides same” bullshit, but that conservatives have been really good at pretending to not be.

This is funny whether it’s a pet or an actual boss.

Ok, I like coffee, and I like cotton candy, and this is cute, so I almost hate to criticize it.

But isn’t the cup just going to get all sticky? The bigger the cup, the quicker it will cool, and the more coffee you’ll need to fill it. You’ll only get a few “raindrops” of sugar before the steam stops coming off the cup. That’s barely any sugar, especially for a large cup. What do you do with the rest of the cloud? Are you supposed to smoosh the rest into your cup? Because that seems like too much sugar. Or do you share the cloud with people at your table?

I think this concept would be better actualized as part of a dessert. Maybe like a hot peach cobbler or a sticky toffee pudding. Something that stays steaming for a minute, and you want to wait for it to cool, and it won’t need sugar but the little drops of sweetness won’t make it too sweet.

I haven’t been there. So how could we possibly know?

It’s not free. It’s paid for by taxpayers at much higher rates. Rehabilitation is actually cheaper in the long run, but then you don’t get the labor.

You won’t be able to debunk it. Logic does not apply to faith. It’s like dividing by zero. Faith is the substance of things hoped for, the evidence of things unseen. Trying to apply logic to matters of faith is a fools errand.

I mean, Trump went to UPenn.

Are you thinking of Penn State, or was there a pedo at UPenn, too?

Three Republicans voted “No.” Thom Tillis, Susan Collins, and Rand Paul. All 47 Dems voted no, and the rest of the GOP voted yes.

Really? I think I sunk 100 hours into BOTW. I would also go with TOTK all things being equal, but I never felt like BOTW was a tech demo.

Ohio, Maryland, New York, New Jersey, and now Delaware. Wherever you are in PA, you can drive to legally buy recreational marijuana. You can get a medical card by paying a fee. There are no barriers keeping marijuana away from people who want it, it just means the money isn’t being spent in Pennsylvania. No tax revenue, no jobs, none of the commerce. It’s like speedbumps on the highway.

It’s two of the animated shows, X-Men 97 and Friendly Neighborhood Spider-Man.

I use ostensibly a lot lately. Seems like an appropriate word for our times.

That’s the level of copium I’ve been mainlining since his heel turn. Like I didn’t want McCormick in the primary, and I definitely didn’t want fucking Oz, but this is pretty bad.

There are two types of people, those who will respect your pronouns, and those who won’t. The people that will respect your pronouns will support you and be glad you said something. This category of people does not want to make you feel bad about yourself.

This is where it gets dicey, though. Well-meaning people can take it too far, make too much of a spectacle of something that should be very simple. They don’t want to embarass you or exacerbate a socially awkward conversation, but by being too enthusiastic to be an ally, they can make it much worse.

The people who won’t respect you are pieces of shit humans, and it would be easy to just write them off entirely. The problem is they might be coworkers or managers or clients or vendors. They might be in-laws or neighbors or friends of friends or distant relations. They might hate you. They might be violent towards you. And there are more of them now, and they have a lot of power right now.

So sharing your pronouns is a risk. It’s always a risk. And that’s another thing well-meaning allies can miss about the situation.

The best thing for all of it is honest communication and a bit of empathy. Understand that most people do support you, they just don’t always know how to best achieve that. Understand that the people who misgender you aren’t necessarily doing it on purpose, but the ones that are should be flagged as a potential problem.

I wish there was a better answer that worked in all situations. Sometimes you have to take a leap of faith, and sometimes that leap will be met with hostility.

But every time you do, you are creating the pathways for future generations. It’s hard because nobody does it, and exposure is the best source of empathy. Take pride in being your authentic self, and stand up for you and for everyone like you who has or will faced the same decision. But also, don’t be ashamed if you choose to remain silent. It’s a scary world, and you don’t owe anyone the chance to hurt you.