Look in the sky! It’s the h4x0rz signal!
♫dunuhnuhnuh dunuhnuhnuh Fat Man.♫

My argument isn’t at all about who is running. It is the process itself that makes any reasonable person a little sick to their stomach by the time it’s all over. 

He’d lose a lot of his flavor...

Could it be that both Trump and Clinton will be EXILED TO THE LAND OF FICTION for their crime of RUNNING LONG-ASS CAMPAIGNS THAT ARE DEEPLY DEMORALIZING to the american peoples?

Or is running a campaign already a lot like being exiled to the land of fiction? Will they be able to tell the difference?

Thank you.

“Be kind, because everyone is fighting some kind of battle.”
You can’t know what people are going through. Also, a lot of the things that are supposedly normal, and definitely common, are pretty damn fucked up. Ever notice that?

I don’t know what trauma someone has to suffer

Yep. Exactly. Shit happens to people, and they don’t always come out the other end of it completely whole. It can happen to anyone.

Use your words, sunshine. We’re grown people, here.

Hah. The worst experience i had on NY transit was on the way to Coney Island. A man stared, leered, gestured, and then I think followed me off the train possibly? It was a long time ago. I started picking my nose flagrantly so we could both be horrified/entertained.

Similar thing happened to me in my town except it…

Just because someone seems weird to you, does not always mean that you are the sane one--or a better person.

I would be super thrilled if on clicking through to your commenting history, I found they were *all* 80s sitcom lyrics. (not clicking through for fear of being disappointed).

I’ve responded to this several times upthread. Please do have a look. And maybe consider approaching with 10% less internet anger. People *are* mistaken sometimes, or are maybe approaching a question from a slightly different angle from you.

many others have pointed this out. check out my reply upstream.

Thank you. I think you and the rest are right about that. It might’ve been better to say something like “be kind, because everyone you meet is fighting some kind of battle.” Though I might’ve been hippie-shamed. ;)

On one hand I really wish we could get to the point where we actually enjoyed and embraced all…

“Be kind, for everyone you meet is fighting some kind of battle.” Meme, but true I think.

Yes! This. Exactly.

I’m sorry that happened to him. What did they do to make fun of him? How did it affect him? I am curious about his experience as I don’t exactly know what it’d be like for the person in the story with the doll, who probably has taken some guff at some point or another.

Interesting. It’s outside the norm so I think most people would share this with a friend.

Hmm. You may be right--I’m still chewing this over--but I do think the context matters. I don’t see there being any shame in having an illness of any kind, so there’s no accompanying judgment.

However, I know that my feeling about this is not typical, and that the meaning of the label beyond what I assign it still…

I was with you in the first sentence (particularly “I chose to”). Goes downhill from there. I feel differently about it than you because I have had a different set of experiences and perhaps value different things.