Yeaaaaah. Raised in NC and honestly I feel like it should be considered socially acceptable to smack anyone flying confederate flags until they learn to knock it off. Or squirt-bottle train them like a damn cat or something.

Just...NO *squirt*. Bad *squirt*.

Yeah, I think like...the optics of suspending someone who actively researches and posts about authoritarianism needs a better response than "we don't owe the public an explanation", you know?

That just feels...well, kinda blatantly authoritarian? 😬

You make a very compelling argument here...🤔

I think from my own POV as a trans woman and parent to another trans woman, it just...doesn't matter why people clinging to hateful beliefs are doing so.

No matter why they're doing it, when people say they want us removed from society we really have to take that at face value, you know?

Hugs. Getting haunted by memories like this is like...it sucks, but at the same time letting it go feels worse?

I just try to remind myself the past is unchangable and I can't linger over what-ifs, you know? Tho that's easier said than done, ofc.

Amusing thought: standard Breloom and Laken Breloom getting married! Laken Breloom lifts the veil for the kiss, but is immediately interrupted by disaster. (Maybe the disaster is like some Fighting Type guests of the other Breloom breaking out into a brawl at the buffet table? Something silly~)

Phrasing it like this just instantly bypasses the usual "but masks don't really work" line that I've noticed people like to use if all you say is "I don't want to get sick".

I'm sure I'll run into someone bullheaded enough to argue with me anyway at some point, but it hasn't happened yet~

Yup. Turns out every demographic can have thoroughly rotten husks of discarded humanity. May the future treat him the way he has chosen to treat others~

Honestly I love how all of us have personalized solutions to the various things we have trouble with. Autism is such an individual thing that there are very few solutions that work for all of us. 😅

Honestly, I think that might just be the autism? Not to defend the Elongated Muskrat, but I(also autistic) can't really tell a genuine smile from a fake one either.

'swhy I have to constantly run Behavioral Analytics in the back of my head in order to "read" people. 🤷‍♀️

Honestly your whole look here is just picture-perfect "winning at life." Stunning~