Yeah, sorry about that. I work for an insurance company, but not for much longer. (Not that I ever made that worse for you, I am/was in collections.)

Hey, congrats!

That had to have been a huge relief, finally getting the transplant you needed.

I’m seething, but that isn’t all that useful, I need to find a more productive way to be.

Hopefully we will get there. But we have to build before we can break down.

If that victory is won, and I do believe it can be, then we can rebuild better than before.

With climate change and everything else we face, can we realistically pull through? Fuck if I know, but this is literally the fight of our lives and futures. We have to unite, no matter how angry we are at various leftist factions.

Me? I assumed women would unify for their right to bodily autonomy. Since they didn’t I don’t dismiss them but hope to bring them into the fold, because they’re needed and do not want to live as Handmaids, for one example.

Okay, fair. But we need to be allies in this. I don’t know where to start either but I want us to pull out of it somehow.

Help build us up, please, and not tear us down. I apologize for discounting you. We can only move forward if we unify, and the left is goddamned bad at that.

There’s no useful discussion to be had from you. You’re just looking for a fight.

I’m tired of reddit refugees coming here and bringing that attitude.

I’m an American who has never had that bravado, has always voted against this bullshit, and even online we get spat upon when we are the ones who will somehow have to overcome the largest military on the planet.

Fucking hell, try being, I dunno, useful or supportive. If we fail here, you’ll face the consequences. That’s the sad reality.

The Christian Science Monitor is amazing, and from it’s name you’d never expect it.

My grandmother was a Christian Scientist. I respect her but it’s a baffling cultish offshot.

Its basis, though, was in radiacal feminism in the late 1800s. I used to read the Christian Science Monitor when we would visit her when I was a kid.

A large part of why I defaulted to atheism is from the fact that my Dad’s parents were never openly religious, my Dad is a Buddhist, my mom was nominally Christian, her mom we already discussed, and her Dad was a Congregationalist Minister and organ player.

I figured none of them could be right and it was better to try to be a good person without those structures.

Grandma and I never saw eye to eye, unfortunately.

Shit like this fuels the deep state nonsense.

This isn’t a secret Supreme Court, it’s just something public that you didn’t know about before.

They’re just public administrators. It’s how government works.

That’s why it’s fun, at least to me.

You snap out of the conversation and go over the permutations. It’s funnier that way.

Thank you.

Like “choose to be happy” isn’t a magical mantra but something you need to work on in order to change the way you reflexively think.

“Be yourself” is essential advice for people trying to have a mask on 24/7.

And I’ve mostly given up replying to such threads because they’re usually an excuse to wallow and complain that they’ve tried everything.

I don’t have a magic potion that makes things better overnight, but I do have techniques that I have found valuable in improving my own mental health, but by bit, over several years.

So I think I have a good one, actually.

That’s what they said.

That’s it, really, an inclusive update on an old stupid joke.

I suspect I’m still the only one to find it funny.

One of my favorite singer-songwriters, Dan Bern, wrote many of the songs for that movie. Just an extra reason for me to love it.

The Heritage Foundation wants control of the government. They will wait out Trump, letting him take the blame for most of Project 2025.

And they’ve infiltrated the Democratic Party too. They’re our very own HYDRA, and every one of their operatives will have to go.

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My dad was in Vietnam and one of his squad mates had a pen pal who was in college back in North Carolina. My mom was that pen pals roommate, and they started writing to each other.

Loophole!

That got a genuine laugh out of me.

I’m hurt that you have no Atari.

No, wait, I’m hurt that you said some are older than you and you have nothing from before I was 14 or so.

No, wait, I’m hurt because I’m old and my joints ache.

Nah, he knows the postal service can now just be shut down, Constitution be damned. He did his job and burned down his competition.

Fair point.

He charged people to do it.

He was a professional terrorist.