Only if it means we can bring back the Stetson too

I'd argue this is the third tenet of the evergreen "life, liberty, and 'the pursuit of happiness'"

A constant revolving door of hermitude, trying to build a social circle, then finding out that for all of their "you can be yourself, you don't need to mask around me", turns out I do have to mask around them; and then I leave again.

at least if you live here lol

Pff. Not for the crackers, it's straight up Wonka's Factory for those mfs. They couldn't handle 1/1000th of the fascism the people they elect inflict on the section 8's; and that's where the lash-out is coming from. Because it's coming for them now too.

Jay Leno from how much of a toady for the corporates he's been over his career

I will never forgive him for screwing O'Brien, lib though the latter may be. (It's principle for me-- I never found Leno funny; and at least Conan can get a couple snorts out of me.)

EDIT: NO WAIT JON STEWART

What helps me is considering we are all hardly one step above wild animals.

"Satan represents man as just another animal, sometimes better, more often worse than those that walk on all-fours, who, because of his “divine spiritual and intellectual development,” has become the most vicious animal of all".

That is goddamned deplorable, omf-- you'd think the people making the fuckin pills and injections our culture practically runs on would at least be getting paid for it.

What drove you to the left other than compassion for your fellow human?

If I'm honest? My utter hatred and bone-deep contempt for white Amerika. The only compassion or empathy I still nurture is for those the Settler empire oppresses; and even that has become contingent on whether they stand against the Settler, or have cooned out and placed themselves back under His thumb. I hate living in this country, I hate being both literally and metaphorically surrounded by the tacit, oppressive philosophy and habitus of Whiteness, I hate having to pretend I don't just to be able to clear next month's rent in a shitty apartment I got redlined into, I hate being condescended to like I just have to accept that shit isn't going to change in this country in my lifetime.

If I don't make it out, if I don't find somewhere to go where I'm not getting profiled by some cracker because I didn't hide the texture of my hair from them, I'm going to live under the yoke of crackers, likely for the rest of my life. My nephews and nieces, since ain't no way I'm giving this slave state more grist for its crushing wheels, they will likely live under that yoke too. And I fucking hate it.

When I say "I'm only out here for my folk" I honest-to-God mean it.

Liberals don't be demons for 5 minutes challenge:

When someone tells you who they are, you believe them.

They have told us they are monsters.

people I love have abstracted and dismissed a genocide as an "election issue".

I've just taken to asking them what they'd have done with me during the COINTELPRO purges of the Civil Rights Movement lately. Playing into the "if you ever wondered what you'd have been doing during Jim Crow, the Holocaust, or the Civil Rights Movement, it's this you feckless spineless wannabe-white piece of shit"

My hate for Amerikans is pure and will burn blue when ignited

hhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh

That is a gorgeous bass