At least a furrowed brow.

And he also is overwhelmed by needing to do things in life but not knowing where to start.

You’re a human and you need someone to validate you. I can’t do that from a keyboard, but I can offer an internet hug.

I’m not claiming otherwise.

I hope in the coming years you have some luck turning around the people in your peer groups also. (Assuming they are still republicans)

The only reason I voted for him was because we’re on the brink of WW3 and I thought he was truly the last hope of getting the wars settled. I’m scared, and I’m sorry, but shit is crazy right now. Trump at least has some relations with Russia and North Korea, that could potentially cool the pot. Feel free to tell me why I’m wrong, I’m open to discussion.

Not going to tell you that you’re wrong, only that it’s funny that this is where we’ve landed when it feels like the world is at 1939.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Appeasement

Something something doomed to repeat it…

Fucking oil companies are literally going to willfully kill us all in the name of profit if Trump doesn’t beat them to it.

There’s a lot of good advice here. I have a son not too different in age than you. Your post made me want to give you a long hug. I’m sure you have many things about you that are assets and you haven’t had anyone in your life to help you find them.

As others have said, you sound smarter than you think you are, and your writing is good!

Small steps, and celebrate the small victories. Make one little thing better about yourself or your life every day. No matter how small. And be proud of yourself when you’ve done so.

Go take the good advice from others, but here’s a Dad Hug™.

Yes yes I don’t think that’s relevant to the bit I responded to.

The right wants nothing more than to accelerate the process, so I can’t see how that connects.

If you constantly tell someone they are at fault for something because they are of a certain race, if you constantly deny them any of their achievements and say is because of privilege

I see Trump voters and people who want an excuse for their behavior saying this has happened. I’ve not actually seen it happening beyond the odd anecdotal outlier. I’ve seen people choose to interpret things like white privilege and systemic racism as if that’s what’s being said, but it always seems very clear to me that it’s not what is being said, it’s how they react to folks suggesting they be more mindful of how they interact with others or less dismissive of the ongoing impacts of historical injustices.

Signed, a white guy, who doesn’t deny all the awful things perpetrated by other white guys in the US, nor feel personally responsible for those awful things, nor feel blamed for those awful things, despite also having struggles, no money in the bank, and plenty of my own personal challenges.

It’s hard for me to have a lot of sympathy for the folks willing to fuck shit up for all of us (including themselves) because they aren’t willing to stop and actually consider what is being said instead of what they think is being said, or because being mindful of how they interact with the people around them is somehow just too much courtesy to ask for.

And psst - fixing a lot of those things would help white folks too!

Can you point out the bully in the comic you replied to? Or in OP?

Here’s the thing though. There’s a very good (IMO) argument that says they should have a point. It should be that picking produce complies with minimum wage and social security tax regulations, and that employers who ignore those things to peddle the jobs to those who are most vulnerable and feel most strongly compelled to work for absolute slave-wages are heavily prosecuted, regardless of who they actually hire for the work.

Harvestinmg crops should be paid at a rate such that documented citizens do also want those jobs, not at a rate that guarantees only the most desperate among us will do the work.

(And it should be easier to come in legally for such work etc etc)

I don’t know why in all our fighting about immigration that more of our anger (and legislative action) isn’t directed at these employers.

But also, after liberals went absolutely apeshit over Bernie sitting down with Rogan, I can see why Harris was hesitant.

She did literally every other thing she could to court Republicans in the past two months and didn’t care that it pissed off a chunk of her base, why stop there? (OTOH it won her zero R votes, so there’s that. I’m sure they won’t try THAT tactic again. /s)

All he’s saying is Rogan is very good at serving his own interests. I think that is self evident.

If she was campaigning based on how the world should work instead of how the world works then she wasn’t playing by the rules of the game, and that’s her fault, no one else’s. It’s like complaining about the EC after an election. The EC is part of the game. Part of the mechanics, part of the rules. If you know it’s there going into the game, you ought to be playing a very different game than someone who doesn’t know it exists.

(The EC should be removed, to be clear, but you don’t run a presidential election pretending it’s not there, and you don’t run a presidential election you want to win without expecting to sell voters on yourself by some metric other than not being your opponent.)

And yes, since it seems you have to say this as part of every such comment now, I voted for her. But she and her campaign are absolutely not blameless in this outcome.

Lots of people who think “hot take” as a preface really just means

Side note - did the definition of “hot take” change in recent years? I thought it used to mean “this is my first reaction without taking the time to look deeply” then suddenly it became “here’s my unpopular opinion.”

Was I ever right? Or was it always used like it is today?

I had the same reaction. Enshittification came for Windows more than a decade ago, WTH are they thinking with this meme?

Not me, Sir, I voted for her despite all my complaints.

If they’d lost in 2020 the Trump nightmare would be ending in a couple months instead of beginning anew.