scoobdog

It really sounds like your fantasies are about her giving you access to a world you're not a part of. Obviously, it's not just money: there are elements of academia, counter culture, and gender identity. She Is your way into a place where you belong.

What kind of romantic fantasies?

Nah that was probably an earlier report I picked up. They're saying hesrt-related issue now.

That's... not really news. Bob Odenkirk having seizure is news.

Just like you looked away when you where pretending to care about the "hopeless" white homeless people about the Greyhounds station in San Diego?

Context is everything, isn't it? Obviously, we here in the SoCal have a love hate relationship with latinos that practically predates the United States itself. White people periodically like to crack down on "The Mexicans" because they're ever-present, but what is always white washed is that men and women of latino (really Spanish / Native) descent have been a part of the local economy and social hierarchy for as long as the colonizers were roaming this part in the name of the Spanish King. It leads to a duality: we have migrant workers working the fields of the Central Valley the same as others have since the days of the land grants, yet white people are quick to label these people as illegal immigrants unworthy of being in the United States. It leads to the conclusion that a lot of our idea of illegal immigration stems from a class divide: we not so much want to rid the country of undocumented workers as use immigration as a pretext to perpetuate a class divide and keep a traditional part of our communities as underclass.

Probably, yeah.

Don’t just “boy howdy” it, my dude. You don’t have a low EQ like Nabs. You get when other people are upset, and you clearly take it to heart when you get criticism about being racially insensitive. Like it or not, being empathetic means understanding shitty people without necessarily sympathizing or condoning their behavior. That fuckface with the Trump sign is doing something objectively racist and bigoted, but he has reasons for being that way that mirror other racist bigots.

Want to guess why Sponged blocked you?

I can see why that might be the case but I think maybe we haven’t properly expressed things too. I don’t think he’s wrong for sounding the warning; I just would like more insight in to what he’s warning. To put it another way, I don’t really need him to tell me he lives in conservative country out that his neighbors are all shitty people; what I would like to know is why they’re that way. I’d like to know why they cling to racist attitudes or they loathe conservatism. That kind of insight is important in figuring out what we have a country where people we thought were reasonable voted for a monster than tried to overthrow the government to keep him in power. If all he’s doing is ringing the bell ‘till it cracks, it stops being a warning and turns into a compulsion.

Of course not. No one is suggesting that we don't have a crisis on our hands.

I used the right term. A self-fulfilling prophecy is when you make a prediction and use specifics that make that prediction almost certainly to come to pass. But, regardless, we're still going back to your pervasive and relentless pessimism. I'm not sure what sympathy you hope to garner by being so relentless negative, but the fact you are so consistently pessimistic and so impossible to talk to in an non pessimistic framework is why you get treated like you're mentally ill.

This right here: It's called a self-fulfilling prophecy. You have no idea what's going to happen, nor do you know if Tucker Carlson even has a part in it. He's just a convenient prop to point out the futility of it. That's all you ever do: point out what is wrong and insinuate how hopeless it is.

But you're not "just pointing at things that are happening," dude. You're adding commentary about how hopeless the situation is. Maybe you dont intend it that way, but you're definitely expressing it.

And then there's this douchebag.

You definitely have PTSD.

I think I see your problem. Not that I'm one of those guys that thinks the media is lying to us, I'm not. It's just that it seems pretty clear to me that you've got PTSD from reading the news and it's warped your perception of reality.

Then you need to channel that crush into a relationship that is more sustainable. Going for broke, as it were, only works when there is the potential for one outcome, no matter the improbability, being a good one. In your case, maybe the improbable outcome is a mentorship or a friendship. Nothing you've suggested so far is ostensibly romantic; they're closer to admiration than attraction.

I don't think you need to wonder about that. Anyway you look at it, you're putting her career in serious jeopardy by attempting to pursue a relationship. No matter the feelings that may or may not be there, the only way being with her can possibly end is in acrimony at best or tragedy at worst. And, I'm only saying that from a completely objective standpoint, not because I have a vested interest in you not finding love: the situation you're both in now is not conducive to planting the seed (figuratively) of a healthy, sustainable relationship because the cost versus reward for being in that relationship is not equal to both of you - you stand to benefit more than you would lose compared to her standing to lose more than she might benefit - in part because there are plenty of other women (or men, since we don't know what her orientation is) who won't ask her to either violate her oath as a medical practitioner to be in that relationship or cause her to give up her role as care giver.

No, because you don't need any more excuses to be lazy.

Jenergy. Yeah, that's it.

A new Puff for a new world.

¡Haces el trabajo de Padre Nuestro!