dream_weasel

When they go low, kick them directly in the fucking teeth.

Would ne better if it were not newsom, but stop playing chess with fascist assholes and start aiming for the nuts works for me. Whatever vile underhanded shit fascism cultists want to do, do it to them twice. Be ruthless. Make the only answer a law that prevents it from happening again on either side. No wiggle room, no honor, just knock a bully on his ass and don’t let him up. Otherwise we will walk the high road right to uncontested authoritarianism.

I’m not being obtuse about it.

If you want to be supercilious about not consuming poison (specifically alcohol here) which can be responsibly consumed to some limited personal / social benefit, it is on the same footing as fast food.

“I don’t ingest poison“ from somebody with a BMI of 50 is hypocritical yum yucking and isn’t a good look.

Edit:

Wait. Let’s do this the honest way instead.

OPs comment rubs me the wrong way because after my second kid was born I went through some shit and had a period of alcohol dependence. That was and is not always easy to manage if you don’t have an interest in abstinence. It’s easy to judge people for ingesting poison, which is objectively true, but it is off-putting to get a lesson on the virtues of health from people who can’t put down the controller, or the sandwich, or the vape.

Yeah I read too much into it and knee jerked. OP is phrased in a way that is sneakily general and impersonal using passive voice which may or may not have been intentional, but it read as high and mighty to me and that is irksome when I can remember a period of every day battles with the stuff.

Alcohol yes. Less the older I get.

I’ve got an appreciation for bourbon and wine, so tasting those is pretty enjoyable. I also like a cold beer every now and then if I’m running the grill and it’s particularly hot, just not IPAs: I’m not that basic.

Tobacco no. I have tried it, but both my parents are smokers and I don’t like the smell.

I’m a millennial.

No fast food then either huh? Good on you.

I’m more concerned with the partials on the scale. 3 legs, maybe slime, and 0.25 house?

I was first in line.

Bro, that’s a regular old house.

The only new information in all of this is that apparently that hideous ghoul is like 20 years younger than I thought.

And he was this big!

Except that guardians also kinda sucks. They are, along with ant man, the low point of the avengers movies. If it wasn’t for ratchet and drax, they’ve just got nothing to offer IMO.

On the other hand, someone who doesn’t have the background and has a good head on their shoulders is just the right kind of person to be a figurehead instead of a driver. The idea SHOULD be that they surround themselves with a competent cabinet and advisors to offload the requirement for deep personal expertise. For someone who isn’t an expert, that should make them more inclined to ask for help. Of course… current tv personality excluded.