my sentiment exactly. but there are so many security cameras all over the place, there's a certain risk involved. I have an asshole just across the street who hasn't taken down his Lee Zeldin posters and it's a perpetual temptation. plus there's a good chance that a Lee Zeldin asshole in this neighborhood would also have a gun.
I have a policy I've tried to observe since 2015, which is not to probe very deeply into the politics of the people around here with whom I get along very well but who, I suspect, are supporters of TFF and his ilk. I've done pretty well with it, but the other day, this guy I frequently run into (who's a sweet guy, has obviously hard life and, most important of all, adores my dogs), who said hello and immediately went into a bullshit rap about "these fucking Progressives." I cut him off and said we should agree not to have this conversation because I am certainly one of the people he hates. so we laughed and settled down a bit, but BOTH of us had that little nagging thing going on about trying to find out HOW MUCH of an asshole the other guy was.
this was NO FUN. but, at the same time, it was a LITTLE BIT FUN.
I ended up by saying that he might as well consider me a commie for his purposes (for his purposes, I am) and he should just deal with THAT. and if he couldn't, that was also cool.
what surprised me about the upshot of the "conversation" was how much less I regretted the whole thing than I assumed I would.
I have a LOT of friends. shedding a few of them is something I can live with, if I must.
it was also very clear how "spotty" (this is being very kind) his information was. I betcha nobody reading this is very surprised...the "upstairs neighbor" I have sometimes bitched about in the past was somehow not aware about the DeSantis anti-knowledge campaign and considers me brainwashed. but he also rejects the Frankfurt School and the famous (and, from my point of view, intellectually essential) Tavistock Centre because they represent "social engineering." this is all LaRouche.
it seems to me that the largest part of parenting could easily be dismissed as "social engineering," right?
On the other side of the street there are those signs that say we love everyone no matter where they are from, who they love, etc.. Tolerance, you know. The old crank knows he is outnumbered and tolerated.
Maybe they could be "lost" one night...
my sentiment exactly. but there are so many security cameras all over the place, there's a certain risk involved. I have an asshole just across the street who hasn't taken down his Lee Zeldin posters and it's a perpetual temptation. plus there's a good chance that a Lee Zeldin asshole in this neighborhood would also have a gun.
I have a policy I've tried to observe since 2015, which is not to probe very deeply into the politics of the people around here with whom I get along very well but who, I suspect, are supporters of TFF and his ilk. I've done pretty well with it, but the other day, this guy I frequently run into (who's a sweet guy, has obviously hard life and, most important of all, adores my dogs), who said hello and immediately went into a bullshit rap about "these fucking Progressives." I cut him off and said we should agree not to have this conversation because I am certainly one of the people he hates. so we laughed and settled down a bit, but BOTH of us had that little nagging thing going on about trying to find out HOW MUCH of an asshole the other guy was.
this was NO FUN. but, at the same time, it was a LITTLE BIT FUN.
I ended up by saying that he might as well consider me a commie for his purposes (for his purposes, I am) and he should just deal with THAT. and if he couldn't, that was also cool.
what surprised me about the upshot of the "conversation" was how much less I regretted the whole thing than I assumed I would.
I have a LOT of friends. shedding a few of them is something I can live with, if I must.
it was also very clear how "spotty" (this is being very kind) his information was. I betcha nobody reading this is very surprised...the "upstairs neighbor" I have sometimes bitched about in the past was somehow not aware about the DeSantis anti-knowledge campaign and considers me brainwashed. but he also rejects the Frankfurt School and the famous (and, from my point of view, intellectually essential) Tavistock Centre because they represent "social engineering." this is all LaRouche.
it seems to me that the largest part of parenting could easily be dismissed as "social engineering," right?
so much bullshit, so little time.
That last sentence.
On the other side of the street there are those signs that say we love everyone no matter where they are from, who they love, etc.. Tolerance, you know. The old crank knows he is outnumbered and tolerated.