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Congrats on your surplus privilege! But I have some bad news for you...

Pretty sure that's designed to harass queer people.

On the plus side - spoked wheels - it's clearly easily defeated with a stick.

Not a lot of locally grown fruit and veggies in season for the next 6 months up here in the snowing latitudes.

Oh how we've lost touch with our food :(

Root vegetables and winter squash are available all winter. Carrots will store for a year. Butternut and similar squashes almost as long. Beets, onions, cabbage... Potatoes less so but still 6-9 months or longer. Right at this moment I'm eating some very fresh blackberries that freeze perfectly along with some pears that I picked over a month ago and which will last probably until January. Later today I'm going to make a nice stew using some canned tomatoes, frozen garlic scapes and a bunch of other random things none of which were harvested recently.

Cole crops will grow pretty well even in weather well below freezing - e.g. kale, turnips, cabbage, etc. A good frost cover (remay/agribon/old blanket) will help greatly.

I know! Let's blame EVERYBODY. That way nobody is left out and we can just admit we ALL fucked up so next time we can constructively work together to NOT fuck up instead of slinging mud at each other for the next four years.

This is complicated and it's hard to summarize, but here's what I think we all should do:

1. Support small farms by shopping at farmer's markets and/or buying direct. I know it's not always easy to pay the (sometimes) higher cost but know that your money is going to families and fair wages, not corporations. Small farms often do depend on illegal workers but the more you buy from them the better the chance they'll be able to cover their absence or even get them on visas. And - pro tip - there are ways to reduce the costs**
2. Wherever possible, plant your own gardens. Do this collectively to maximize yield for any one individual's effort. Take over unused urban spaces and or find or found community gardens if you don't have space.
3. Let the leopards feast

** 1. Buying direct means a shorter supply chain and thus much fresher produce which is nutritionally denser and lasts longer 2. Buy only what's in season and what farms have more of - they will usually discount 3. Make friends with farms and/or volunteer some time and you will be blessed with free veggies 4. Go right at the end of market and ask for anything vendors want to get rid of - there are almost always things that won't keep and which they'll sell for much less or even give away.

Ya know, this "guy" goes by the name Roger and wears a suit and tie - why I bet he uses the "mens" bathroom... but how do we even know he's "male"? No seriously, how do we know he's not secretly just using the "mens" to try to assault/molest/peep on other alleged "men"?

I mean, if he's defining "male" then what follows, clearly, are inspections. He should not be exempt from them but, if he truly has nothing to hide, should be willing to be first in line.

wHaT ArE yOu HiDiNg "Roger"?

Is the idiot in the room with you now?

Found the fascist.

A plane ticket. Others have suggested he's bored and I concur. IMO, he needs to be intellectually challenged while simultaneously having his fears assuaged. Fear, I believe, is a key driver in pushing people toward fascist ideologies. Most likely he fears not being loved.

Traveling to countries with very different cultures can be both stimulating and reassuring, especially if it involves some significant challenge - a physical one like climbing a significant peak or somewhere that's just super hard to get to. You can demonstrate that you love and care for him by going with him. Just the two of you.

Trump even has his own Baby Goebbels.

It should be set at 18%, 20%, and 25% with no option for tipping less.

You are, in essence, giving corporations a 18-25% discount on wages.

"Is there any evidence of this? A single picture even?"

Have you considered using a search engine? Do you need help with that?

Does Mike Johnson have a johnson? How do we even know?

Let the inspections begin (edit: with "him")

"I mean clearly, it's a concentration RANCH, FFS"

This is going to get complicated. The only way to be sure that, for example, Nancy Mace is actually the "she" "she" says "she" is is to check. And if we do that, to be fair, we gotta check everyone which means were going to discover that so many allegedly "male" members (heh) of congress do not, in fact, have any balls. WHAT THEN NANCY?? WHAT THEN???

Oh yes I hear it all the time. From people posting online.

For your convenience, Be sure to carry your papers with you at all times, "citizen".

I laugh every time I see some very very brave internet poster urging you to "shoot them".

Yes yes we get it. You are very badass. Uh huh.

You seem confused. My suggestion is to not try to find the answers you seek in this venue. You should go socialize and interact with actual people in person. In that way you can find acceptance and belonging and a safe way to discuss these things.

I really don't imagine this type of interaction is good for your mental health. That's true for most of us, but you show all the signs of taking it far too seriously for your own good. I sincerely hope you find what you are looking for.

It's not a zero sum game. It's not like you "win" the election across the board and get everything you could possibly want. And even if you did get a blue wave you STILL don't get everything you want. Incredibly, it's a big country with lots of different people with different ideas of how it should run. It's a simple fact that among Dems most are not that progressive. Our political system is really a bunch of compromises where nobody gets everything they want but, ideally we all get something. What I've observed among many folks such as yourself is that you think you should get everything instantly. My speculation is that people who think like this are dealing with a shorter time scale because they are younger. That's in no way a bad thing but it does mean you haven't seen the tremendous change that's happened or 4 or 5 decades. To me, things have improved dramatically and of the many things that stand out is the fact that I don't have to worry about being beaten, raped, or murdered for being queer. I can be openly trans. I can even marry my lover.

I'm not saying I don't want to see a viable third party or more truly progressive candidates. But this is a long game where slow incremental progress is assured even if on a much shorter time scale it seems nothing has happened. From my perspective while we still have a long way to go, we've made a lot of progress.