Not remotely a Trump supporter, but I fly the flag next to our “Hate has no home here” sign because my love for country is greater than wanting the MAGA chuds to be able to define these things.

Yep, if you change the flag, you give the MAGA crowd ammunition. And frankly, I think that few non-MAGA people would support this.

I addition to the excellent points you make, changing the flag wouldn’t change the way it is treated. By having a new flag, you’d be giving them something else to co-opt. Additionally, they’d hold on to the current flag as a symbol of their “heritage” and scream even louder about it being taken away. I don’t even want…

This...is a weird take. It was funny to see conservatives become outraged over an op-ed by Macy Gray about changing the flag. But her arguments are not convincing. The flag itself doesn’t have inappropriate connotations, nor would a different flag change any of the systemic problems in this country. MAGAs have tried…

Exactly. Back in the countryside, where I grew up, my mum keeps a really cool house in summer, without any AC, in part because the 2-storey house is surrounded by huge old trees. (Sometimes I even worry that all the shade slows my houseplant propagations’ root growth). The new-ish neighbours meanwhile cut down all the…

So I got a new downstairs neighbor a month or so ago. We live in a kinda secluded 4-plex in a residential neighborhood near a retail strip. My apartment is 2 bedrooms with a garage, and her’s is a studio below my kitchen.

Trees are wonderful—there’s a tradeoff with tree diseases and broken branches taking down powerlines and crashing into houses (we had that problem a bunch of years back)—but I’m in an older neighbourhood, and the mature trees keep things a few degrees cooler here than in the newer neighbourhoods (I discovered this…

Back in Texas my old housemate kept the house at 78 degrees during the day and I remember being uncomfortable. I go outside and the realize it’s not that bad inside because the center of hell is outside. She’d turn the AC down at night and my new climate change attitude is to accept discomfort in exchange for doing…

No one ever knows exactly what’s going on with vaccinations here in Panama, but the word is that second shots are starting soon in my province. Exciting if true!

I will fight by your side, Corporal. Back in my younger days when I lived in various shitty apartments, I vowed that one day, if/when I had a home with a decent HVAC system, I would never be uncomfortable in my own home again. I had an apartment in college in which my roommate and I had to go to bed with all of our…

My AC has been on and off since May. Humidity in Oklahoma is ruthless.

Yep, if they denied communion to every parishioner who supported abortion rights (whether in theory, voting records, or via their or their spouse’s own abortion), their membership would decrease so drastically they couldn’t stay afloat.

He did, he did! It was right after the part about “If you see a beggar, hoard all your vast heaps of gold” and just before “If a bunch of child victims win a suit against you, have the diocese declare bankruptcy so they can pay for their own therapy”.

Mass graves of children and babies seems to be a thing the Catholic Church does, with no explanations for the deaths.

What about Catholics who support the death penalty? Isn’t that the flip side of the same coin? 

Joe should just go to the black church next door, they’ll take care of him.

You can murder and rape the children only after they are born, not before. I’m pretty sure Jesus said that.

While hiding records of indigenous children they killed in Canada.

It’s been 48 years since Roe v. Wade and now they care.

Come on over to The Satanic Temple.