Bishop Carroll Catholic High School asked Tran to return his valedictorian medal and recognition after he gave the unapproved speech at graduation Sunday.

Ah, so you’re just heartless and/or conservative, got it.

Thank you friend, I needed to hear that tonight.

and it took them months to find someone to cut and bale.

but apparently this new generation doesn’t want to do hard work (and they pay well)

The irony of calling out kids for not wanting to do the work you don’t want to do either is pretty amusing.

Some people just aren’t cut out for back breaking work (myself included). I did construction for a few summers in high school, and that was enough to tell me how important studying is, because I didn’t want to wreck my body for someone else’s dime.

he exposed that under a determined enough man with enough popular support behind him

Well good news, he’s not actually that popular. I’m baffled that he’s still got an aggregate 47% approval rating, but even faux news’ poll has him down to 44% and he was only above 50% in poling for less than a 2 weeks after he came into office.

And that’s all before the most recent news about the medicare/medicaid slashing. And ahead of the coming wave of layoffs due to the economy slowing down. The policies he’s trying to enact are going to (slowly) erode what support he still has as his base realizes just how fucked they are.

Having seen this for the first time, that was my first thought for an improved punchline.

You mean aside from attacks on trans people, immigrants, citizens who they suspect are immigrants, starting to make a list of autistic people (probably to put us in camps later), wrecking the economy, taking away entitlements to give to his rich cronies, and emboldening white supremacists and neonazis with his audible nazi dog whistles and general behavior?

Yeah, he’s a good boy, but he doesn’t like lap time like she did. I love him all the same, but there’s still that void (haha 🥲 ) where she used to sit.

Thank you friend, have a great night.

This was my void I lost a couple years ago, still hurts since I had her for almost 20 years

And here’s my new little Odin

I don’t even like anal, but I’d take it over the day to day at this point…

How exactly does blaming your neighbors create meaningful change?

I don’t know, short of trying to show people the errors of their ways in tacitly supporting a fascist. But what other options do we have? Lie to them and say “it’s totally not your fault that trump was elected, even though you chose not to put forth the bare minimum effort to stop him”? I get that electoral politics isn’t enough (and we all need to be out in the streets doing what we can to resist), but I’m tired of pretending that the third of the country that’s checked out of politics isn’t also responsible for the people that get elected while they chose to abdicate their responsibility as a member of the voting public.

If this was your neighbors dog is shitting in your yard and not cleaning it up, would you blame the neighbor for their choice (leaving shit in your yard you have to deal with because they couldn’t be bothered to pick it up) and try to help them see the error of their ways, or would you ignore the shit entirely and hope they do better next time?

I don’t care whether you think it’s right or wrong, I am asking how it actually helps improve the system.

Turning your question around, how does ignoring the culpability of nonvoters in election outcomes improve the system? Do you think we’ll see an improvement in turnout if we ignore that republicans only win through voter suppression and don’t point out that encouraging not voting is one of their preferred strategies?

Increased participation is one of the best ways we can get out of this hole, and I’m really tired of people supposedly in my side constantly getting own goals with this kind of rhetoric.

That’s oligarchy apologetics bullshit to keep us from changing the system.

Or, you know, I’m being realistic about how things work in the real world. Or do you think that letting the fascists win is going to change the system for the better?

Whether or not you think its ‘oligarchy apologetics bullshit’, 2/3 of voting the population either explicitly or tacitly supported this shit. So yeah, I’m going to blame the majority for the outcome of a majority vote. Ignoring that fact is just going to make getting any meaningful change that much harder, and its hilarious to watch people justify their inaction in the face of the result of their choice.

Republicans have long lied about people not showing up to immigration hearings, and now they’re doing their best to give people a fantastic reason to not show up.

Tell your friend to gitgud

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That’s because 1/3 of voters tacitly support this shit by not voting.

Wow, Mozilla is giving Google a run for their money for killing products

That’s always nice.

Thankfully it doesn’t matter to me anymore because I ended up buying her forever home for her. And a pine box is a much better place for her than my home lol.

And hey, you may get extra lucky. That day may last for years until they finally understand what you’ve been telling them this whole time.

My mother thought she was going to move in with me when I got a house for close to a decade against better attempts to disabuse her of that notion. It was only after I bought one and moved in with my wife/partner that she realized just how wrong she was.

Yep, and sometimes you’re just not cut out for the needs of your kid.

That’s unfortunately where I am. I love my kid, but fuck if they don’t make me want to run out for a pack of smokes and a gallon of milk some days (jk mostly)