(07-19-2019, 12:23 PM)G.Irish Wrote: I just feel deeply sad that there are a number of people who I'm friends with who simply don't care that this man is making this country more dangerous to live in for people like me.
I thought about this on my commute home yesterday and I'm glad you said it out loud. It must feel really alienating.
This line from Boondock Saints also came to mind: We must always fear evil men. But there is another kind of evil that we must fear the most, and that is the indifference of good men.
I've spent a lot of time thinking about where I want to raise my kid and what I've come up with is America isn't it. Everyone just seems so much angrier and hostile than they used to be, even in hippie stoner places like Seattle. I'm 100% serious when I say I'm working hard to expatriate before my kid starts kindergarten. The grass is always greener... yada yada yada... but I've done a lot of deep thinking about what's important to us that answer is elsewhere.... and yes, probably in a place with a population smaller than Texas.
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"Here, at last, is the cure for texting while driving. The millions of deaths which occur every year due to the iPhone’s ability to stream the Kim K/Ray-J video in 4G could all be avoided, every last one of them, if the government issued everyone a Seventies 911 and made sure they always left the house five minutes later than they’d wanted to. It would help if it could be made to rain as well. Full attention on the road. Guaranteed." -Jack Baruth
"Here, at last, is the cure for texting while driving. The millions of deaths which occur every year due to the iPhone’s ability to stream the Kim K/Ray-J video in 4G could all be avoided, every last one of them, if the government issued everyone a Seventies 911 and made sure they always left the house five minutes later than they’d wanted to. It would help if it could be made to rain as well. Full attention on the road. Guaranteed." -Jack Baruth