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Funny how that is only a thing when they’re running a “practically a Republican” ‘Democrat’ and not when someone who’s actually a leftist starts getting some approval.

It might help to know that Mark Twain was satirically using that word to juxtapose its offensive nature with Jim being the ONLY good adult in the book. It wasn’t simply “a product of it’s time” or anything like that.

I’m not saying to belt it out loud and proud while reading the book, but at the very least Mark Twain was being deliberate on his usage of it and it wasn’t to be malicious and was in fact to highlight the humanity of Jim in the face of his oppression. Some will say that Twain fumbled on his execution by making Jim a characature of stereotypes, but, at least it was just mindless racism, for what that’s worth.

ETA: To actually answer your question though “n-word” gives all the context you need, no need to say the word, it’s history is strong enough to be fully conveyed by “n-word” in almost all contexts when being spoken by a white person especially.

Agreed & my problem with “least bad candidate” or “blue no matter who” is that someone like Trump is the inevitable outcome when that’s the only thing they’re running on. Many of us have been voting “the lessor of two evils” for our entire adult lives and all its done is continue allow the right to get even more batshit insane and then the Dems follow right behind, just being less crazy and happily taking advantage of minorities for votes (but, look at how they actually treat Trans people when it matters, all of a sudden it “doesn’t poll well” to continue treating them as people).

They just expect to get votes because “we’re less shitty than the other candidate!” as if that’s the only thing that matters as they continue to give in to Republican whims at the slightest sign that actual work will need to be done to oppose them (can’t be too obstinate, ya know, you might offend the fascist voters you’re trying to court!)

They had weeks of forewarning for Rowe vs Wade being overturned due to the leak and had NO PLAN at all to oppose them when the news dropped other than “give us some money so we can continue to do absolutely fucking nothing to fix this”, no unified message, nothing’. Say what you will about Republicans, but the second women and black people started being treated like people under the law, they started thinking to the future and were determined to make sure they could roll that back no matter how long it took.

ETA: I’m not saying don’t vote or both sides are exactly the same. They’re not at all the same. One is clearly better than the other, but the one that’s ‘better’ won’t actually fight to keep you having rights and will only fight back just the minimum amount to keep donations rolling in from individuals while actively trying to court the rich and corporations for their donations instead and I really hate the lack of good options we have.

To make it worse, it’ll quickly get figured out and people will be calling in “oh my God! he’s trying to kill me”, get transferred to a person and be like “so, it’s 3pm in a Saturday and my neighbors are playing their music too loud!”

Con Air … why? No clue, I would have thought I’d go with Lord of War, but Con Air immediately popped into my head when I read the question, so ¯⁠\⁠_⁠(⁠ツ⁠)⁠_⁠/⁠¯

‘Nuke it’ or ‘microwave it’

I despise the ones where it’s basically like “get on the bus, we’re having mandatory fun!” and then you get going and it won’t finish until 2 hours past your quitting time, but it’s totally cool, because it’s a good time!

OTOH, I’m not at all interested in sports and I’ve had a good time going to a baseball game and once a company took me to an arcade which was a lot of fun. Alcohol provided by the company.

For me, as long as quitting time stays quitting time, I’m more or less happy even if I don’t actually like the event, but if you keep me away from my family, I’m unhappy and I can’t imagine how pissed the people who pick up their kids from work/school/etc… must have been.

Yeah, nothing says “I just don’t like that scent” quite like “I ain’t no bitch”

Especially when they put the price as free and then say make me an offer!

At least put $1 so I don’t have to see your bullshit at all if I filter correctly.

I called Comcast and it was horrible

human, operator, GET HUMAN, person, technician, for fucks sake! Bomb? Give me a fucking human!

Nope, nothin, mashing 0 on the keypad also did nothing.

I don’t like marijuana at all for myself (tried it twice with different methods of delivery) and found it to be extremely unpleasant.

I don’t see why that should affect other people’s ability to choose for themselves to enjoy it or not though. Why should they go through rehab just for enjoying something that’s not negatively affecting them?

If I’ve had pineapples personally negatively impact my life, should I get to say you can’t have any?