And I suspect your kid is a miracle as well.

I definitely agree. It’s f@cked in so many many ways.

Until then it was NRPI (no real person involved).

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You’re a saint. I went way beyond a smidge just observing the interactions. A smoking smidge of a skosh past frustrated.

Just a smidge??

Yes. Yes, I will definitely remember this. I will pin it to my wall and read it every morning until whatever this nightmare is comes to an end.

But remember that most of Trump's people aren't deep thinkers. They want you to think they are, but they're mostly just tap dancing as fast as they can while raiding the treasury and inflicting their cruelty on others. They're living in fear of all this ending soon - and rightly so./18

If their defense is that they aren’t sophisticated enough to notice the messaging in their headlines, then I’m wondering what they think the NYT is supposed to be. Even pulp rags understand the importance of headlines.

Yup.

I’m doing exactly the same thing.

And what they refuse to consider is that getting everyone to call our current state fascist would be more likely to make people give up in despair than fight harder.

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I didn’t realize it was that bad. Thank you for the work you do. Seriously. Deep respect.

Expressing outrage at fascism while also wanting people who disagree with them to shut up isn’t quite the flex they think it is.

Exactly!