I like your pose in the window there. It’s very “howdy, neighbor”

Yeah, making Jack and Kim get permission to not be called John and Kimberly is actually encouraging–there are some people at least who aren’t using the law solely to harass trans kids.

Tbh, this is probably the malicious compliance I was hoping would happen

Yeah, that had me raising my eyebrows too

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OK, I’ll bite. It’s got a “wish I could go back to the good old days” message that is immediately suspect because they good old days were only good for certain people. Blaming poor fat people for other people being hungry is just more of the obvious divide-and-conquer that has lead to the absolute destruction of the welfare state, and reminds me that “welfare queens” are black-coded even though loads of white people are on assistance, but they think they deserve it, unlike "those other kinds of people. Then there’s complaining about taxes. This whiffs of libertarianism to me, given the overall tenor of the song. In conclusion, in my opinion this song sucks and its analysis sucks. It blames all the wrong people for the very real problems of today.

I think it’s the inauthenticity of it that annoys me the most. A guy would refer to himself as a gentleman, not a sir. That’s just stupid. What are you, a baronet or something?

how I feel about bitch really depends on how it’s used, so I’d be fine with not adding it. But I’m not gonna fight if people want to add it either.

I have no idea what the correct answer is, but Pence thinks it’s him and that’s very funny to me.

I like this idea

Sounds good to me!

As always, your art is an inspiration

This is vicious slander against our many glorious emotes.

I’m gonna need more context. Old age is something that happens to everyone if they’re lucky enough to survive long enough. You’ll get broad agreement on this site that the elderly should be provided for to give them a safe and dignified old age, and crucially, still be integrated into society, not isolated so they’re dying of loneliness.

This does not mean that it’s wrong to say that way too many of America’s politicians are way too old to hold the jobs they have.

So I’m gonna need to know if you’re pissed because someone said Nancy Pelosi is out to lunch and should retire, because I’m gonna stand by that statement. I’d even argue that keeping her in her position is elder abuse.

On the other hand, if you’re pissed because someone said something shitty like the elderly are useless because they don’t contribute to society or something, then I’m totally with you.

So what’s the context?

Yeah, when I read that old post and contrasted my feelings then with my feelings now, I was like, “I’m not sure this is healthy” 😬 But like you say, maybe there isn’t a right way.
I’m sorry to hear you’ve got long covid. That must be scary, since there’s no way to predict what outcomes to expect.

It’s a level of accomplishment to which I can only aspire

Yeah, the reason why I worded it like that is that the old trope of “the disappearing indian” still gets used these days to be like “well that was bad, but they’re all gone now, so whatcha gonna do???” As if there aren’t indigenous people still living here, and tribes that reparations could be made to. So I’m careful to not give the impression that I’m in agreement with that.

But you do have a valid point. The US put A LOT of effort to genociding as many Native Americans as they could, and sadly they were very successful in killing an astounding number of people.