Hey, plenty of people would “slam” him in news articles, the wheels of justice still turn! ^please ^don’t ^riot ^its ^scary /s

Well, “criticizing Israel’s government for committing a genocide” anti semitism is still bad. But “being a fucking Nazi” antisemitism is fine /s

The American flag has become more a symbol of nationalism to me than a symbol of patriotism. It represents everything I hate about my country, and none of the things I love.

Americans gave him an overwhelming win

Not without heavy voter suppression in his favor, and a number of states showing some suspiciously, statistically unlikely results.

I mean honestly, this country has needed a good general strike for a long fucking time, for a lot of reasons.

He isn’t making an incompetent mistake. He’s making a deliberate choice to fuck over California, and by extension the US.

Increase taxes, but only on the poor.

In the article it specifies you to remove pronouns from your email signature. Definitely less fertile ground for malicious compliance, but it’s still doable.

Oh wow, authoritarianism bad? What a hot take /s

Others have addressed some of your other points, but

would you mind inventing a new word either for gender-neutral third-person singular pronoun, or one for what “they” mean to foreign English speakers

We actually have that. Xe / Xem / Xyrs. It isn’t very widely used though, and is generally considered a neo pronoun.

Honestly I don’t really expect it to get mainstream use anytime soon, in part because people are already accused to the singular They / Them / Theirs (except for when a nonbinary person asks to be refered to as such).

Nah, it’s just from Skyrim.

I’m guessing they’re talking about the War on Drugs.

Remember, slavery in the US was never abolished, just obfuscated.

Honestly, I’m expecting them to just try and pin it on someone just to save face.

But any CEO of any health insurance corporation absolutely would.

I mostly just wish people would stop posting pictures of him. I don’t want the wrong person to actually recognize him, and get him caught.

I mean, just because the Internet is down doesn’t mean you can’t go buy another hard drive in a brick and mortar store later.

Yeah, but those empty units are still costing you money, especially if you still have a mortgage on them. You want to fill them before other landlords with the same problem snatch up your potential tenants. And there’s fewer tenants to go around. If someone else drops rent and snatches up all your potential tenants you’re just stuck paying off your own mortgage until you find someone.

And it’s not like you became a landlord to pay off your own mortgage.

I think the abstract nature is one of the strengths. If you ask someone a question about military intervention, their pre-existing views towards military intervention will heavily bias their answer.