Pretty sure the Trumper threats of violence got to her.

She knows what neo-nazi, domestic terrorists are capable of.

Well hell, joyous day. First they get rid of the CIA cutout USAID, then the damn penny and now the trash.

These broken clock Republicans accidentally do good.

Who knew that was possible?

Damn, sorry to hear that. As much as my racist family pisses me off, thankfully they haven’t descended into full blown MAGA psychosis.

Yea, there’d be no point in making contact. It’ll just encourage them to blindside you and leave you dumbfounded with the sheer disconnect from reality.

You’re funny for a guy who thinks he can read minds over the internet.

You’ve confused my charity for a lack of purpose.

Just don’t get in the way and you’ll be fine.

I was going for equanimity but fuck it, we need to kill them all.

The continued high rate at which evangelical pastors are caught out as CPs and this Epstein/Trump thing makes it pretty damn clear that Conservative Americans don’t think pedophilia matters.

And we truly need to do something about that.

I tend to think of “code switching” as tailoring my communication method, but I’m definitely on the spectrum so that has to be taken with a grain of salt.

As I mentioned, I’m from Cajun Louisiana(and made a concerted effort to not sound it thanks in no small part to the Catholic nuns I had as teachers) but I went to grad school in Ohio and it used to startle my housemates when I would speak to my father on the phone. I used to fall into an exaggerated Cajun kind of accent as a way to have fun and in the late 80s/early 90s that wasn’t an accent widely known or heard by Ohioans.

To my mind the difference between sitting with coworkers and friends and family and cod switching would mean crossing some kind of barrier, race/class/ethnicity to the local paradigm.

A kid growing up very Cajun/poor but then going to college and becoming a politician who “speaks well” to their constituents but “Cajun” to his family is code switching.

I have to catch myself because I tend to mimic the speaking styles of people if I’m talking to them for extended periods of time and I don’t want them to think I’m making fun of them. It’s just a technique to be relatable. Otherwise, I’d just sit there quietly.

Where are you getting your news?

We’ve had measles outbreaks for a while now.

Languages and accents/vernacular.

I was pointing this out to my father and youngest brother when this Louisiana politicians ad came on and he sounded like he was from the bayou!

I said something to the effect “I bet he doesn’t sound like that at his fund-raising dinners”.

And of course they lost there shit and of course my racist father almost immediately says “blacks do it”!

Sigh. Somebody tell me when it’ll be ok to hurt these kinds of people.

YES!

For about 4 hours. And then we’re good and truly fucked.lol

At least the parts of Europe that rely on it for warmth and to moderate the polar cold.

Upside, if you drive more diesel trucks there won’t be an polar cold! One problem solved. Whew!