A socialist - not an ex-socialist, not an accused socialist, an up front 'yes, I'm a socialist, and this is the socialist group I came up with, and these are the socialist-inflected policies I plan to enact' - just cracked a million votes in New York City.

But of course there's a (huge, apprently!) segment of people who find it extremely rude to talk about yourself *unless* directly asked to, so I worry that when I'm trying to foster a connection I just end up coming off as a boor. Is this a thing for anyone else? How do you navigate it?

Like I have a really hard time asking people questions about themselves. It feels intrusive to me, like I'm interrogating them. Instead I share things about myself to try and open the door for them to reciprocate without directly asking them to share something they may not be comfortable with.

THANK YOU we've been sitting in silence watching this game for 20 minutes.

Speaking as someone who used to spend time in their chats, SO much of US contemporary fascism is a function of men assuming that the way adulthood worked was, you got a job and in exchange you got a woman to be your mom plus your sex toy.

They are ENRAGED that they have a job but no sex mommy.