scoobdog

Yeah, it means she's outrunning you instead of you outrunning her.

HBD, Pooh....

And, the winner of backhand compliment of the day goes to ....

Ghosty, don’t kill the gorilla, love her.

You outran her, Ghosty.

Fiiiya

Well, I just wanted to match that cool, man of distinction vibe you exude.

Kind of rolls off the tongue. i Bet yooou wood love that, caat fukka.

Nice.

Oh you didn’t need his help ruining that joke. It ruined itself.

I'd let her eat my face any day.

I can always welcome more cats.

Never joke about giving Packard your cat. She'll be doomed to a lifetime of second hand smoke and frequent trips in the cat stroller around the slums of Atlantic City.

I hate when people say that.

Several I believe, if you include the expanded multiverse timelines.

Fancy

Don’t forget to wash it down with Jäger.

You’re right. It was fucking.

Well, a lot of people are jerks in general.

Me neither.

Not if he has the power of clairvoyance.

Sort of… They blame easily identified dysfunction, but that blame manifests as bigotry. For instance, the concept of the “welfare queen” is an easily identified anomaly in society that has negligible impact on those who depend on social safety nets yet presents a glaring example of society’s failure to function. People blame their circumstances on failures unrelated to and beyond their control, and use blatantly racist, bigoted, misogynistic, and ableist stereotypes totems of those failures.

I think I've mentioned it before since this topic repeats itself periodically, but it probably bears repeating. In an ideal world, people would be naturally inquisitive and invested in their governance. There are plenty of inequalities that are built into the system, and not all of them are related to concerted efforts to marginalize or discriminate against a class of people. A lot of the time, people are disenfranchised simply because the architecture of the local free market system hasn't adapted in real time. Living in a society is fundamentally about adapting as challenges arise, something we all rarely do. Therein lies the problem: most people don't have the natural inquisitiveness (a euphemism for intelligence in this instance) or the time to properly investigate their own circumstances. Now, I'm not suggesting you aren't doing that - I'm merely pointing out that the root cause of out hyperpolarized social state is the inability to grasp the basic mechanics of our communities like the local economy, social hierarchy (in a sense of social roles, not in a sense of authority), resource allotment, and infrastructure. Complicated as that might sound, the simplest expression is that when we don't understand what we need to survive in our homes, we tend to blame society as a whole rather than identify the local dysfunction., This is why previously rational people support tin-pot dictators, express stridently xenophobic attitudes and openly berate people with disabilities. It's also why government is the first thing we blame when there is a breakdown. The short, but less palatable, answer is that government isn't to blame for people being shitty. The long answer is it can't correct for a populace that doesn't do the work to investigate their own circumstances and, instead, channels frustration into ideological totems. What you're experiencing is people who are making you a target of their own failures, whether it be intellectual or just temporal, to be aware of their personal responsibilities.