Super, super cranky. I had been doing so well at walking away from stupid political squabbles on Reddit lately, but I've let no less than five different people have it today. They all deserved it, in my humble opinion, accusing democrats of being "childish" about the Wall for example, but... I don't like being in that state of mind one bit, not after all the things my shouty, bitchy temper has ruined for me in the past few years.

I just want these ambulatory logical fallacies to no longer be a factor in my life. I want to live in a country that's not being actively gaslit every fucking day. I just want to be able to read the subreddit for my own fucking city without feeling like I have to trudge through a canal of type-A blame-the-poor libertarian poop six feet deep, one that wasn't there when I arrived in 2011.

And it's hard, it's just hard to believe any state of real civility exists here anymore. When the other side's made it quite clear that their principles are only there for keeping _you_ in check, why the fuck NOT just let it all fly? Why the fuck be the one who always has to expend the effort to be civil? Why not just let the beast off the leash? Why not walk right up to the conservatives who are suddenly all "come now, why can you not be reasonable" and show them just how badly they've already ruined that possibility?

Because it's fucking exhausting, that's why. Yet-- maybe not morally, but just in pure tactical terms-- grinning unrepentantly and shoving them into traffic is actually starting to sound like the _most_ reasonable option. And those of you who remember what a compulsive devil's advocate for conservatives I was ~2005 know what I must have gone through in order to be saying that.

It's still a lot of fun to tear into them. I won't lie. But you can only wake up in a cage at the Woodland Park zoo, still woozy from the tranq darts, maw still caked in Trumpiste blood, so many times before you start wondering if there's a better way everyone could have been spending their time. -___-