I second this notion that Bowser is sexy as hell

Like everyone else said, assholes will be assholes. What you will get more of is sexual harassment and people assuming you are flirting with them.

Yep. That one.

Amtrak does the train equivalent of a cruise liner, where you spend about half a month on a sleeper car travelling all over America. It’s cheaper than an actual cruise line, and more importantly I think trains are cool.

Edit: forgot about the unlimited money. I guess I would pay to replace all the rails in north america first so I have a smooth ride the whole time.

The career path for a Democrat is

1. Get into national politics
2. Don’t offend the corpos so you can build connections with them for Step 4
3. Don’t rock the boat so you keep your political connections for Step 4
4. When its time to retire, join a lobbying firm and use your political and corporate connections for a nice cushy paycheck.

Which is why they hate any democrat that rocks the boat: they’re endangering their retirement.

Technically they prefer to poop in clean-smelling litterboxes, like cats, so predators won’t be able to find them. But they also tend to stop giving a shit about that at some point once they realize their human will clean up after them anyway.

At least they don’t pee on each other to establish dominance lol

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Sounds like a coward who isn’t willing to be furry on main

Caps lock is an option

When I was a kid, one of my friends wanted to start a minceraft server, so he got his mom to pay some dude to host their server. His mom was shocked when the first autopayment was taken out of their account, accused him of stealing their money, and immediately closed that bank account.

Girl. Read your comment again. Please. It reads like a grandma in the nursing home ranting about how all the kids these days are all premarital hand-holding and being publicly indecent.

Look, I’m poly. I’m in a monogamous relationship, but just because I’m not currenly performing poly-ness doesn’t mean I don’t think and see the world like a poly person. My wife-to-be isn’t poly and I’m not gonna push her. I’m sorry that your friends seem to have pushed you, and I can sympathize since so many poly people seem to use it as a crutch for being a bad partner, but you don’t get to be a dick about it.

Back when I used to live in the rust belt, I had a lesbian coworker who was a big trump supporter as well as a born-again Christian who thinks that gay and trans people are all going to hell. She only does couple stuff with her wife (how she got a wife I will never know) behind closed doors because she doesn’t want to “indoctrinate the children”. That’s our real enemy, if you can call it that: gay people oppressing themselves and dragging each other down with them.

I was a daycare teacher for a while. You know what I do when a kid throws a temper tantrum? I leave them alone until they calm down, and then I treat them like the tantrum didn’t happen. Sometimes they want to tell me what made them upset after, and we can fix it. Sometimes they just need it out of their system. I’m of the opinion that adults are just toddlers with manners. Let the tantrum happen, don’t judge them for it, move tf on.

I’m gonna ignore all of this and talk to you directly as an autistic to an autistic. There are so many times I asked a friend of mine “Hey, I forgot mutual friend X’s gender, what were their pronouns again” but what they heard was “Oh no the trans-genders and the pronouns are so confusing, they should stick with what on their birth certificate” and then I wake up the next day with no friends because that friend told all their friends I was being a transphobe.

Now, let’s think about this from their perspective. If you saw a friend of yours being a bigot to another one of your friends, would you still hang out with them? I wouldn’t. If I heard one of my friends was homophobic or transphobic or racist or any other kind of bigot, I would instantly block and shun them. I do not want bigots of any kind around me or my friends. There is a reason that cults practice shunning, and that is because it fucking works.

Continuing this, lets say our hypothetical ex-friend had been accused of being transphobic to one of your trans friends. What would they need to do to be either forgiven or absolved of guilt? Even if they were in fact transphobic, they can admit they are wrong. And if the accusation was wrong, what proof would you need? What sort of behavior would you need to see from them to forgive them?

I am positive that you as an elder queer have had many, many, many experiences where someone you thought you could trust turned out to be a homophobe. It really hurts. After a while, you start only seeing the worst in people.

As an autistic, it was really rough learning what would come across as a microaggression. Can’t ask to be reminded of the pronouns, because it might be interpreted as passive-aggressive transphobic whinging about pronouns. When I do fuck up, I can’t give the big apology that I think misgendering someone deserves because my autistic RBF will make it come across as sarcastic. You just have to quickly correct yourself and move on without drawing attention to it. It feels like blowing a red light and hitting someone because I was just plopped behind the wheel of a car without being taught how to drive.

Your tantrum here was very cathartic for me, because it really is fucking terrible trying navigate a world full of traumatized people. I don’t like accidentally triggering people. I want people to feel safe around me! But if I had thought I’d seen a person doing a microaggression, and then I saw them throwing a tantrum about how them getting shunned was because everyone else is a pee pee piss piss boy and this is why the cishets hate us, I would be inclined to think they were at least regressive, if not one of the republican gays who think that we need to chop off everything past the B in LGBTQ+.

Just to be clear, I don’t think you’re transphobic. I have experienced the same sort of things as you. It’s rough restraining myself from flailing around in response to being accused of stuff. It is humiliating to prostrate myself and beg forgiveness of things I know I did not do. But we live in a fucking society full of bigots and people traumatized by those fucking bigots, and these are the rituals that keep our corner of society even a little bit sane.

Did something happen on the alien site last week?

He’s been fighting his entire career for specifically universal healthcare. The other democrats are terrified of him.

My understanding is that the reason they’re terrified of him is that he’s not playing the same game as the rest of them. The career track for a Democrat on the national level goes something like this:

1. Have rich parents to fund your first campaign, or a politician dad with a recognizable last name.
2. Get funding for future campaigns through corporate lobbyists.
3. Be a fence-sitter so you never have to pass actual legislation and risk offending your corporate backers
4. When you get tired of politics, retire and become a lobbyist.

Bernie is doing none of that. He is as grassroots as grassroots gets. His campaigns are crowdfunded. People vote for him because he has repeatedly proven that he is honest and has integrity. If he ever gets his way, they can be sure their corporate backers will run for the Republicans as fast as they can, and then they won’t be able to have that cushy retirement as a lobbyist! In contrast, Bernie is only beholden to the voters who he represents, so his game is all about performing honesty and integrity constantly for the rest of his life. He doesn’t get to retire. He’s going to die on Capitol Hill.

Chiitan no!

No one wants to be a flasher in a nudist colony

I’m stealing this for the future

Amogus