EleventhHour

If you’re claiming to know my intentions and thoughts better than I, myself, do, then I suggest you open a psychic hotline.

Otherwise, perhaps acknowledge that, perhaps, you might just be wrong.

I wasn’t dismissing or even criticizing them— I think you misunderstood my comment.

Maybe, maybe not.

It’s irrelevant because that’s not what happened.

I get what you’re saying, but I find comparisons like this - although founded in fairness- to be ultimately unhelpful because they draw consideration away from what did happen: bullying and otherism. This isn’t about what might have been, it’s about what happened. And we can say how it would have been unacceptable under this or that circumstance, but that, I feel, detracts from us all uniting behind saying that THIS, under THESE circumstances was wrong.

I’m not trying to criticize you at all, your intentions are good here. I just don’t think that we should lose focus of criticizing the bullies for the reason why they were bullying in the first place. They were bullying this kid because he is different. Because he is an other. If he wasn’t, they probably would not have, or they would not have attacked his otherness.

Are you a panda?

It IS spelled that way

The inventor of the GIF pronounces it with a soft G

Geoffrey

Giraffe

Gymnasium

There are plenty of examples of that pronunciation

Oxford comma

Aww ❤️

Edit: I met Pete once. He’s a sweetheart, and I would have dated him if he were into guys. He’s so nice.

Those people love their make-believe

Kinzinger lost his job because he was one of the very few Republicans who sat in the Jan 6 Committee and actually did his fucking job. And he did it honestly and well. For that, he got maligned by Trump and the rest of his party and voted out of office.

But, through all of it, he did his job and spoke out against the corruption he faced. The man was an honorable public servant and served his district, state, and country.

I strongly suggest you look into him and even watch some of his interviews.

I like this guy. I’ve liked him for a long time. He’s one of the very few Republicans who, as a leftie, I can look across the aisle and see not an opponent but a fellow American with some differing opinions but who is still a patriot. I see a person who puts country over party.

But I also see a man who is, now, without a party. His version of the Republican Party no longer exists.

Edit: my point in this, I should have gone on to say, is that he, and other classical Republicans like him, should form a new party. This country needs more parties. Like a further-left Progressive party. With ranked choice voting in every state, this could become normalized.

Currently, we have the Libertarian and Green parties, but they’re… weird. If we had 3rd parties that were, well, not weird, politics in this country would be a lot healthier.

I hate him so much

“I believe”