as far as i can tell, it's a freeware mobile app called "Lonely Girl". but please, anyone who knows more, infodump on me. i can't find any gameplay, and i don't have an android/iOS device even if i wanted to install it.
i was gonna extend this to a swatting analogy until i remembered that receiving uninvited/anonymous pizza deliveries is actually a real form of harassment.
the anime has more stereotypical fetishes. (slightly) less piss, more gigantic boobs. i did enjoy the art style (it's got the whole neon color palette thing going on, almost like Steven Universe of all things) but tbh if you disliked the manga i don't think you'd like the anime either.
you used the shit butter (fixed). Elgin-style butter sticks (a.k.a. "east coast butter") are half as hard to slice through and you can slice them twice as precisely. it's just a better way to package butter and i will die on that hill.
well maybe i won't die for them but i will at least pay $2 extra for them whenever i'm on the west coast.
"nothing matters" is the tool i use when it's the weekend and i'm struggling to enjoy it because i'm busy worrying about my job come Monday. but then i walk anyone else through the logic and they tell me it's depressing and that i shouldn't tell anyone else what i just told them. so, cheers to the enlightened few 🥂
People forget that Trump was an “anti-establishment” candidate
do they? every time Trump doesn't show up to a presidential debate, i'm reminded; every time a state tries to kick him off the primary, i'm reminded. i'm saddened, because the Democrats gave us their most establishment candidate, but i'm reminded, that Trump still has a very rocky relationship with that establishment.
what you say is entirely consistent. it's a strong belief in democracy as a process with no bounds/constraints, as an ultimate good in and of itself. and it's sort of my point: in the "civil war" frame, Democrats are super unlikely to instigate violence. your neighbors will vote away all the things you value, out of religious beliefs you disagree with or merely out of spite, but that's okay, so long as they do so democratically.
i meet enough democrats (little d) who say they wouldn't comply with a draft, even if enacted democratically. my thoughts are that there's at least a few things similar to that: decisions where your own interests shouldn't be subservient to the will of an abstract majority. the surprise with abortion for me is that for my whole life, that was de-facto such an example. it wasn't treated as a thing that had been decided democratically, just as a thing which was. then some people far away said "abortion should be decided democratically", and the number of people around me saying "actually no it shouldn't" was way smaller (i.e. zero) than the number of people who say that about things like the draft. i still don't know how to square that, but to answer your "what were your expectations towards the Democrats here" question, well, you asking that is the answer to why i think "civil war" talk is so beyond the pale.
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