People in Social Media

https://twitter.com/Bazoooks/status/1030599477663604737

Cyberbullying justified & made acceptable by the bully's supposed "marginal" status:

"Sriduangkaew’s reign of terror was made possible by the political culture in the SFF community: since Requires Hate self-identified as an Asian lesbian, she had the backing of 'progressives'"...

Excellent Cathy Young piece:

https://quillette.com/2018/08/18/the-forgotten-story-of-how-punching-up-harmed-the-science-fiction-fantasy-world/

Ooo! SJWs in the sci-fi world? Here's a juicy bit suitable for schadenfreude: Larry Correia explains how a private club's biases affect the Hugo Awards

PSA: How to use an EpiPen video:

https://twitter.com/HollyMattix/status/1029809041957113856

"as we create more and more egalitarian and equal societies with equal opportunity, the differences between individuals become increasingly more and more genetically based."

https://quillette.com/2018/08/09/a-striking-similarity-the-revolutionary-findings-of-twin-studies/

Trump has a good sense of humor -

https://twitter.com/WiredSources/status/1030135292798349313

Christian leaders are cucked -

Christian Leaders Denounce Trump’s Plan to Favor Christian Refugees

https://www.nytimes.com/2017/01/29/us/christian-leaders-denounce-trumps-plan-to-favor-christian-immigrants.html

ID please,

https://twitter.com/OrwellNGoode/status/1030632489361043456

This rapid-fire censorship, two months before an election is no accident. Big tech is betting the Democrats win, and are doing everything in their power to make it happen. After election day, they hope to be rewarded.

https://twitter.com/LibertarianBlue/status/1030598340898156544

Kris Paronto, Army Ranger and member of the CIA security team during the 2012 Benghazi ordeal. Hillary ordered him and his team to keep their mouths shut and go along with the “Muslim video” story. He refused and lost his security clearance. Guess who took it? John Brennan.

https://twitter.com/Bud_Doggin/status/1030674547098378240

I wouldn't have hated Easy Listening so much as a kid if if they'd promised it was was going to get as admirably weird as the rest of adulthood aspired to be (and has, in fact, become).

This isn't just an old man's admiration of legato synth-strings: These people trade melody fragments all the time, after hitting them with hammers so hard that you can't be sure of what you're hearing.

Y'know, back in the day, the good guys would joyously wreak that devastation to their own darling melodies in the time it took brew a cup of coffee.

And we liked it that way.

> Trump has a good
> sense of humor -

You seek to depict him as relatably human.

"Pants legs? One at a time!," you promise, as if there were doubt.

You seek to depict him as relatably human. ~ Crid at August 18, 2018 5:09 PM

I once saw an interview with Donald Trump in which he actually came across as a human being. I won't argue that "relatably human" is his default position, but this interview was interesting. It was about his children and he said he thought he had been a good father, but admitted he had been a lousy husband.

Perhaps it was only through the miracle of editing that a human Trump emerged from the orange-lacquered façade, but I keep hoping that, some day, we'll see flashes of that Donald Trump again.

Good luck with that Conan. Maybe the president thing will mellow him. But honestly given his age expecting him to change and especially expecting that change to be for the better are long odds.

> I keep hoping that, some
> day, we'll see flashes of
> that Donald Trump again

Why?

People are as we find them. I assume you haven't been hoping that other popular personages randomly conform to your presumptions about human perfection.

If you're just in the mood for a rehabilitation project, it's certain that you can find a more promising daydream of personal & socially-consequential growth than Trump.

Good luck with that Conan. Maybe the president thing will mellow him. But honestly given his age expecting him to change and especially expecting that change to be for the better are long odds. ~ Ben at August 19, 2018 5:21 PM

Yeah. I'm not holding my breath.

If you're just in the mood for a rehabilitation project, it's certain that you can find a more promising daydream of personal & socially-consequential growth than Trump. ~ Crid at August 19, 2018 6:21 PM

No rehabilitation project. I was just hoping for the occasional sign of self-awareness from the man elected to be the president of 300 million people. We'll probably see definitive evidence of Bigfoot before that, but one can hope.