You just want to argue. I don’t. Let’s not.

There’s no reconciling with a narcissistic parent.

Right? I’d even settle for a party that has the most basic desire to fight at this point.

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The kid is all right. Great hair, too.

Dammit! I was so busy all this time worrying about whether an extremely obvious Nazi salute was a Nazi salute, I didn’t even notice all that other stuff that nobody has been talking about at all.

Americans’ superiority complex have always been a goddamn embarrassment. You guys also don’t understand American political subdynamics at all. The obnoxious American exceptionalists you are talking about are the ones who supported (and still support) Trump. Every negative stereotype associated with Americans is embodied by Trump supporters, not Trump opposers.

I don’t really care if the world is mean to us. I support every country boycotting the US. I do not consider myself a patriot and never have. I am a cosmopolitan and don’t think being born on a certain patch of dirt makes anyone special. I just wish people could understand that a lot of their “gotchas” about Americans (“you guys think your country is better than everyone else,” “you guys always talk about 2A”, etc) aren’t really gotchas because the people the shoe fits the snuggest are the ones who LIKE Trump. People who think the US is God’s gift to the world and entitled to stomp all over everyone else voted for Trump because that’s what he believes! They aren’t out here protesting and they’re not going to because they think there’s nothing to protest!

My problem isn’t that rhetoric targeting anti-Trump Americans is mean but that it’s counterproductive. It’s preaching to the choir. A lot of us who voted against him and continue to oppose him are people who think and act more or less just like you but who just happened to be born on this patch of dirt instead of yours. And with a government that doesn’t listen to us at all, we have about as much power over the situation as you do. We should be allies in this fight.

Black Lives Matter was not “far left.” It was mainstream liberal. The Overton window has really gotten completely ridiculous in this country.

No corporations will EVER back anything that is actually far left. Leftism is inherently anathema to them.

Europeans are so smug about this shit. It’s not a personal virtue that all of you can just hop on a train or a bike or whatever and be at your nation’s capital in an hour or two for between zero and fifty euros. Some of us are literally thousands of miles from DC. We are still protesting where we are, but it’s purely symbolic and also no one cares.

What far left protests have ever had corporate backing?

There are.

Trump isn’t threatening to charge people with domestic terrorism for leaving Tesla dealerships alone, is he?

How did they even know?

Would you like a shmoke and a pancake?

Oh no, not the corporations. And here we thought they were ride or die and would always have the backs of the LGBTQ community!

Fuck 'em. Who wants or needs them? Queer people are not an “investment.”

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“Minus the genius and charisma”

You’re describing an Austin Powers villain.

I am all for making the White House less secure at this point.

I am an educator and I regret to inform you that it absolutely 100% does. I routinely encounter calculus students who do not know how to solve for x.

Grade inflation in higher ed is also a serious issue. It was a growing problem when I was in college 15 years ago, and it doesn’t sound like it has gotten better since.

Idk anecdotal but I do math and programming every day and I still feel like I’m getting progressively dumber.