Adderbox76

100% think it’s a lost cause. I don’t think it’s going away. I don’t personally think it’s ableist and never did.

I don't think it's ever going fully away. But it is still important to call it out when we see it.

Throwing your hat in with Trump is absolutely toxic worldwide, and yet MAGA just doesn't fucking get it.

I know, right?!

Burn me at the stake for thinking that even in the pits of hell, there are some little moments of good, even if fleeting.

This morning, the guy in front of me at the Tim Horton's drive-thru paid for my coffee. Don't know him. Never met him. Never exchanged three words. He just decided to do it. I just sometimes randomly decide to do it as well. Made me feel good so I did it for the person behind me. I don't know how long that chain lasted, but hey...it doesn't matter.

The world might be shit, but that was a nice start to my day, and a nice start to the day of the person behind me. If I was "Mr. Realist" above me there, the response would be, "well fuck...what's the point? Sure, but the coffee's just going to get cold sooner or later..."

Screw me if I want to take some simple pleasure where I can, I guess.

Flirting is chatting with more intense eye contact

For me, "like", "love", and "in love" are not separate emotions. They're the same emotion resonating at different frequencies, for lack of a better metaphor.

"Like" and "Love" are largely hormonal as far as I can tell.

• You get along with someone and you want to hang out together, the chemicals in your brain say "hey...this person gets me and I'm happy being around them. I LIKE them."

• You get along with someone, and you want to hang out together, and you're sexually attracted to them. The chemicals and hormones say "Hey...I really really want to be alone with the person and tell them everything and share my intimate self with them. I LOVE them."

"IN LOVE" is the one that takes work. Because "IN LOVE" happens long after you've started in that relationship. You know their goods. You know their bads. You know what makes them tick and what annoys them. You know what they do that annoys you, and yet you STILL have gotten so addicted to having them as a part of your life that you wouldn't have it any other way. It's like the old saying "Yes, we fight. But there's noone else I would rather fight with."

They are all one and the same emotion, and where it lands with any one particular person depends on the individual circumstances.

Haven't checked today since I woke up and went to work. But the post is 14 hours old, which means when it was posted I was happily watching some Red Letter Media on Freetube last night. So working fine for me (then at least). Will check when I'm home.

The fastest way to tell if something is the right thing to do is to ask whether or not Orange Julius Caesar opposes it.

Trump thinks literally everyone is supposed to be subordinate to the U.S. because 'murica.

I say Mexico drone strikes the source of it's gang's weapons supply; namely the gun manufacturers in the United States.

I'm the king of the pessimists. But I like to take five seconds when there's actually good news instead of constantly being the "well actually" guy. Then I return to my regularly scheduled "realism".

Not in denial about anything at all. It's just a miserable life to never take pleasure in the little wins.

Edited to add - I don't know if you know your literary history. But the irony in accusing someone called "Hemingway's Shotgun" of having rose-tinted glasses is absolutely delicious.

Fair enough. But the world being what it is, can't we just celebrate a win for a few precious minutes before we shit all over it?

MAGA is pretty much entirely a cult of personality. Take out the Jim Jones, and they tend to go back into hiding. That's the only hopeful part of all of this is that when Trump finally dies (by any means necessary), I'd bet everything that MAGA goes with him. Or at least as a political force. Hillibillies are still gonna hillbilly, but without Trump to embolden them, they'll go back to ranting about 'libs after finishing up fucking their cousins and nothing more.

I feel like even though there were probably instances of it before this, the "Yippee-ki-yay, Mr. Falcon" is kind of the OG, because it's the first one I remember to become well-known on this new thing called "the internet".