TimmyDeanSausage

I’m telling you that didn’t happen. I didn’t know a single gay person growing up. That’s part of why I was so confused when puberty came around and things were different for me. Also, I had a bunch of adults around me making it clear that being gay was the worst thing you could be. Those are the adults that damaged me the most. My family is like yours. They thought there were no gay people, they’re all homophobic. That didn’t stop me from existing, it just made it harder for me as a child. You’ve never met or known an actual gay person, have you?

I’m gay and I wasn’t groomed into it. In fact, my early childhood is marked by a lot of confusion trying to grapple with parts of my identity while adults like you said horrendous things about gay people around me. I tried everything I could to not be gay, to please my very religious parents, and that caused more harm than any of the beatings my “Christian” father gave me over the years. I’m sure you’re too interested in hanging onto your ignorant and hateful views to try to expand your understanding of anything though.

For me, it’s living in a failed country, suffering through the daily consequences of decades of neoliberalism (aka soft imperialism), followed by fascism. It’s having to argue for basic civil rights with most of the people in my life only to have a whole other group of people argue that their actions brought fascism now to avoid worse fascism later. Wow, what a brilliant plan. Let’s hear more about how accelerating our problems is going to fix them. We could’ve had 4 more years of neoliberalism and continued to let the progressive caucus grow. But sure, death and destruction is better… Somehow…

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Neoliberalism paved the way for our current situation, yes. But sometimes you have to take a loss to keep fighting long term. We’ve taken a lot of losses over the past 55 years and, unfortunately, that led to a lot of people like you saying “fuck it, I’m throwing the grenade. They need to learn the hard way.” Well, sometimes you lob a grenade and it blows up in everyone’s faces. Maybe we’ll miraculously recover from this, but the death toll will already be paid, and that blood is partially on your hands. Because of your lack of strategic foresight.

Do your critiques of her matter in the face of outright fascism? She was the non-fascist option. Now we’re stuck with a dictator for who knows how long. But y’all really taught those congressional dem’s a lesson! That’ll surely make all of our lives better!

Ok. Did I say I want to move to a “mad max 15” kind of world? No. I’m just ready for the American empire to move past it’s imperialism phase. It would be nice to live in a nation that consistently cooperates with the rest of the world in our species shared goal of making life better for all of us. It would also be nice to not live as a wage slave in this shitty empire. There are many paths we could take towards that world that don’t involve total anarchy or venture capitalist “libertarian” experimentation on the general public.

They’ll be an uneasy ally for the next 20 to 30 years while we burn through the oil we’re stealing from Venezuela. When the cost of mining/ importing lithium becomes more expensive than stealing it from Canada, we’ll start bombing them. Hopefully the empire falls before that happens.

The worst kind.

I’m really not sure what you’re trying to say…

Allegedly.

Don’t worry everyone! The US is definitely not invading Venezuela for their oil reserves. We definitely learned from the latest couple of times we did that. We’re just holding onto their oil tankers for totally… helpful… reasons…

It’s more complicated than that. There’s massive gerrymandering, voter suppression, and straight up fraud. I won’t say the popular vote was stolen, because the investigation is ongoing, but there’s credible mounting evidence, unlike Trump’s claims following the 2020 election. Then, ultimately, the electoral college picks for us. We’re not governed for the people, by the people. The majority of Americans have to deal with this, while living in an end-stage-capitalist cage, and we get to read constant insults from ignorant people around the world who can’t see fascism for the cancer it is. It’s on the rise everywhere. Probably in your country as well. Are you responsible for the rise of fascism in your country, or is it the morons actually voting for it?

Lol. Yeah. I don’t like the sensation of things be attached to my face and I move a lot in my sleep, so I wake up with the mask stretched across my face in uncomfortable ways.

Nope. I travel for work quite a bit, stay in a lot of hotels. The bathroom door is a shitty sliding door far more often than a regular door. It’s one of the many things I hate about hotels now. All the little leds on the various detectors that light the room and flash all night is the thing that really gets me though. I keep a roll of gaff tape in my travel kit so I can tape all the lights, the shitty curtains, and whatever else I have to tape to make it dark enough to sleep in.

Mazda’s are often overlooked. They’re very reliable and nice to drive. As a hobbyist/sometimes-professional mechanic, I’ve seen plenty with 300k+ miles on em and I’ve thoroughly enjoyed the three Mazdas I’ve owned.

You can also get a used toyota and use aftermarket parts for repairs. Timken, Aisen, Denso, and NGK (among others) are all OEM suppliers, so you can buy the exact same parts from them for less.

I get that that’s still not great but, damn, that sounds nice.

The covid era credits make my marketplace plan actually affordable. I’m glad democrats are putting up a fight to keep them.

It’s all about what you value. Healthcare and food for the poorest citizens? That’s waste. Private jets, overpriced office furniture and 5 star meals everyday? All necessary when what we value is transferring as much wealth as possible from the peasant class to the robber baron class.

Thing is, I’m a white guy and I know how these motherfuckers talk when they think they are in a safe space.

Same! I have the added pleasure of being a big, bearded, “straight-passing” gay man. I get to have really fun moments were the Republicans around me say despicable things about gays, I tell them I’m actually gay, then they trip all over themselves to explain how they’re actually totally cool with the gays. I call them out for being racist when that happens too. Making them uncomfortable by calmly shining light on their own words is one of my favorite group activities.