I am a son, brother, and uncle.

Desirous of following the teachings of Christ.

Someone devoid of ambition to whom things come easy, yet never permits, or even entertains, a respite from struggling.

An Individualist, skeptical of tribalism, that tries to engage in it with eyes open.

An American through to my bones, even at times I would prefer not to be (especially when I would prefer not to be).

Determined to be an aid and helping hand to my niece, whom I helped raise.

A scatterbrained person with a ridiculous and unwieldy store of knowledge who can't seem to stop accruing.

I am nitpicky and yet sloppy.

I always come up evenly split on left-brain, right-brain tests.

I'm left handed.

I've grown far too fat.

Mostly kind and polite in demeanor, violent and confrontational in thought, seldom expressed and never consummated in deed.

An excellent test-taker, a conscientious worker, and a lazy person.

A seemingly, endlessly optimistic misanthrope, against my judgment in both assignations.

A hoarder, an organizer, and an artist.

I'm hoping his mugshots, if they occur, will bring some reckoning. I believe every President in my lifetime (I was born during the Reagan tenure) has committed impeachable offenses, most that were never fully adjudicated thanks to the fact that Presidents really have been above the law. A lot of historians believe Ford pardoning Nixon was essential to bringing a divided nation with a cratering trust in Government back from the brink. I could not disagree more. I think the foundation for any rebirth of citizenship rests upon accountability being demonstrated. Without it we will never grow up, being children and hiding behind our leaders, letting them shield us from our responsibilities of self-governance.

@vl4d_l3nin: Elliot Page is a child on hormone blockers? He was descriminated against legally or in some other way?

Oh wait, your next sentence explains it.

"It all comes down to how trans people self identify, and how much the wider society is willing to go along with it."

Precisely what should society do about all those trans people self-identifying?

Boy, do I feel silly, this wasn't a surreptitious way of condemning the existence of a transexual human, at all. The mods should feel proud of themselves.

Religion also encompasses a worldview, and that also often has nothing to do with politics. If a zookeeper converts from Protestantism to Islam it might make some people uncomfortable and someone might have something to say about it, but that doesn't make it political.

Discomfort with changing norms is only political if there is some subject around which compromise and dispute over our governance is at issue or could potentially arise. If there is no decision to be made, then there is no politics. Is someone proposing something? The mere existence of Transsexuals' is only political if you think something should be done about their existence. Do you want to ban Trans people? That would be political. It would be hateful, but political.

You do realize what you're implying, right?

You say his tribe ignores the other tribe (as if everyone doesn't have problems) and that's why people inflicted Trump on the country.

I agree Trump isn't the primary source of the divisiveness, the divisiveness sadly has been a largely bottom-up movement. Some people wanted Trump to be a horrible weapon against the changes, as long as he was their weapon to wield. Some sort of message to those they think are to blame for their problems. You seem to know instinctively, even if you wouldn't say it out loud that he didn't belong anywhere near the levers of power; yet they used this mentally broken man, who frankly needs serious care. They've failed in their responsibilities as citizens and now want to hold it against others, but you obviously know where the blame lies. Your last sentence is everything Trump had to offer you, the only thing he ever had to offer anyone: beautiful, terrible projection.

Gen 1: Only played Pong from that era, so...Pong

Gen 2: Tempest

Gen 3: Ninja Gaiden II: Dark Sword of Chaos

Gen 4: Super Metroid

Gen 5: Age of Empires II

Gen 6: Metroid Prime

Gen 7: Bayonetta

Gen 8: Red Dead Redemption II

I acknowledged it exists, as have others. I've listened to it, as have others. You lack basic comprehension skills. The President told some of his supporters to vote twice. He told them to vote by absentee, and again in person if there was no record of them having voted YET. That vote might very well still be in the mail, it doesn't have to arrive till 3 days after the election in the state he was speaking in. You do not get to vote twice just because the polling place doesn't yet have a record of your absentee vote, that is ILLEGAL.

You are an intellectually dishonest person who ignores what you don't want to hear. You are projecting with your TDS BS.

My retort is the English language. I speculated about nothing. You have comprehension issues if you cannot clearly hear the President tell some people to vote twice.

The only word I used subjectively is the word "flagrantly", the meaning of the sentence it appears in would not be changed appreciably without that word. It was used to emphasize how ridiculous it would be on that day in the voting booth if he did not include the words "and if not".