Bacle

You feel like some weight has been lifted?

Bacle, I'm sorry I have insulted you in the past. In the future, I'll try my best not to. I still believe you are wrong on a great deal of things, but will keep the insults out of it.

I seem to recall you saying you worked with Bernie's 2016 campaign in some capacity, I can't remember if you said you were volunteering, phone-banking or door-knocking, but you seem to align with me ideologically more than I thought. Were you just supporting the candidate you thought had a better chance against Trump (as I did) or did you genuinely align with him on a lot of the issues? Also what do you think of Tim Walz who was endorsed by Sanders and a lot of the labor movement?

If you truly want to insult a Leftist, call them a Vong; even the most hard core leftist won't be able to shrug off being compared to the Yuuzhan Vong, despite having a shit load in common with them.

Why are you banned now!?

Fuck it, I'm done for a while.

Hey bro this is Michael Howze I forgot my old login stuff. How's it going for you? I kind of lost my mind for awhile but I'm back

Well, something went fucky with my Twitter and it's locked me out all of a sudden, and the authentication stuff keeps thinking I'm a robot, so I cannot log back in.

Guess that's it for Twitter for me, if the new X system won't seem to accept I'm not a robot.

The ignore funciton is so nice for dealing with trolls.

I am so fucking tired of every time I think I've found a fun place to hang out with people I think are friendly, only to come to learn they are only friendly if you stick to their preferred narratives and don't dispute things they take as dogma in their echochambers.

This place is still better than most, in that regard, at least.

All the people who acted like the Red Wave was assured, and belittled people for not being optimistic about it, pushed and sold false hope.

Having been to both American and German weddings in the last month, I can safely say that German weddings have better food options, doing buffet style instead of 'plated' meals, a much more relaxed ceremonial atmosphere, and a much more fun schedule for making a day of it.

Off to Germany for a week or so for a wedding.

Some times it feels like all I've gotten from the GOP since I started voting R is false hope and every GOP candidate across the nation asking me for donations.

Fuck, sometimes I wish I hadn't taken the blinders off.

At least then I wouldn't have lost most of the social circle I had before I decided to support Trump/the GOP, in exchange for internet 'friends' who seem to not want to hear anything from outside their echochambers, or hear how their not as in touch with the masses as they like to think they are.

Internet kudos from a fickle circle of 'friends' doesn't do much to fill the hole that appeared when the IRL people I'd been friends with for decades decide to ghost you, and the local GOP is so stupid they run a Klan family member for the governor seat.

The nuclear fiefdom thing is something that should scare the pants off everyone...Which is why I think Ron Paul was the only "thought leader" that ever had the guts to actually bring it up in public.

It's nice to see someone else recognize that possiblity.

That great feeling when you realize you can just put the shills on Ignore, and just engage with those worth engaging with.

Bacle I understand and agree with your recommendations and considerations regarding methane emissions, however I would suggest next time saying "supplement with seaweed" instead of "feed seaweed" and using studies regarding effects of seaweed on bovine health and quality for support if you can.
It is as you said regarding them listening so I fear that if you don't take things in such steps you will again be effectively ignored or shutdown, and many will continue to not handle these issues sensibly until they are in the midst of the figurative fire as opposed to slowly boiling like frogs.
I recommend appealing to and handling such matters as economics and similar core conservative issues in synergy or initially rather than separately so that you will make headway and in a timely fashion gain the needed support.

My last living grandparent passed away an hour ago.

He'd been in hospice after a stroke a week or so ago, so we knew this was coming.

Doesn't make it any easier, though; he was a great man who was active and alert longer than most people in his age group.

So it seems the NFL changed the date of the Broncos/Chief game to today, a few days back, and I never saw the news even via Facebook or Twitter and don't keep up with local news that much.

So I completely missed the game, which I still thought was tomorrow. Really annoyed about this, and annoyed by the response I got of 'how did you not know already, everyone was blasting it' from my father. Doesn't help that missing this game might endanger our season tickets, due to some of the policies the team put on season tickets a few years back. If you don't go enough, they have the right to simply yank your season tickets and give them to the next name on the waiting list.

This is what I get for not watching the local news much, and mostly getting news from social media.

It's disturbing to see how many people on the Right keep defending Nick Feuntes, and ignore his white supremacist rhetoric, when platforms rightly ban him from their platform for being a poisonous grifter. Just got blocked by on Twitter by someone for daring to point out the Feuntes is a legit white supremacist and grifter.