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not that it's any comfort - but there are plenty of YouTube videos of trump sign vandals as well. Some of those sign maintainers are in protected mode as well. However one slices it, it's Hlhorrible behavior on both sides.

Side note, I see tideland locked out the Tesla stock thread - due to political shenanigans.
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I think I can understand taking some care to avoid forming an intimate connection with a person whose fundamental values and fundamental actions are going to cancel and undermine and defile yours. (Yes, perhaps, I'm showing my age by thinking going on a date has much to do with forming an intimate connection.)

I'm all for more occasions in general for people to meet and talk and work toward civil discussion and mutual understanding. But it doesn't seem unreasonable to me if someone wants to draw a line at 'date'.

The harder and more tragic situations might be the ones where you've been with someone for years or decades with compatible values and then one person takes a giant zig.

Where I lived 30 years ago, there was a weekly radio folk music show, and once a year the host might devote a whole show to Civil War songs. A lot of those have very hauntingly beautiful melodies. Some also have very haunting images that will not leave you, a brother or a son lowering his rifle and recognizing the combatant he'd just felled across the ravine.

When I read quotes from influencers of today filled with some gleeful excitement at setting a new civil war in motion, I wonder if part of the problem is not enough Civil War songs getting enough airplay lately.

People being a little selective about whom to associate most intimately with doesn't feel like my biggest worry in the current grand scheme of things.

 

That's what mods do.

That too.

That raises the kindergarten head count to - what?
six?

I made it a point to stay out of that cesspool as the election drew closer in case things go 'turbo' that next day, since I will be on my county arbitration board validating absentee ballots.
(I've been non-affiliated since P42)
Frankly there's going to be thirty points (or more) of daylight between the candidates in the closest race, so I'm not worried about another subpoena, but I've discovered that I actually LIKE not going down there these days.

So....
One out.
Two in.

......and may GOD have mercy on their souls!