stickyprimer

I understand and am very burned out about it all myself. But I will never have the audacity to complain out loud that anyone is ruining my escapism as long as people out there are suffering with no chance of escape. We’re bombing the fuck out of 80 million people right now.

I’m on great terms with my wife and make my own fucking breakfast. These things may in fact be related.

I’ll be in my bunk.

No! Only my! one! thing! /s

Demonstrably not.

That can be the theme of the next No Kings protest. I bet we crack 10 million people for that.

Is there some customary period for it to stay up after someone is fired?

My wife is overly careful, like this. It goes to weird extremes at times. She will say things like “is there the possibility that you would be physically capable of leaving work early to pick up a package for me?” She’s trying very very hard to be clear that she’s interrogating what’s possible, not making a direct request or demand. This is where the “physically capable” thing comes in.

My reaction is always the same: “Dear, you can ask me to do stuff - just ask.”

Isn’t it almost universal that as long as resources are plentiful, organisms drift toward larger sizes?

Sanctions against the U.S. will, of course, not happen.

It would be more productive for the rest of the world to reduce its dependence on the US. This dependence takes a variety of forms and degrees but it’s this very dependence which makes sanctions impractical. It’s this very dependence which emboldens jackasses like Trump.

So just divest. Disentangle. If we could get there then there might actually be something we could do about a problem like Trump.

As things stand, it takes forever and a day to gather the will to merely speak out.

The big question is what, if anything, can or will they do about it.

Who would know better than you? I hope they start listening.