No kidding. Every time a boomer uses the wrong mouse button and gets something other than the result they wanted, they proceed to go on a rant about how computers are ruining America ...

I don’t have a good handle on that. In 2015 I thought the nation was moving solidly and quickly to the left, but then 2016 happened and now I don’t know.

I’ve had both terrific and terrible experiences with Millennials and Gen Xers. Baby Boomers were mostly terrible, fortunately they’re mostly out of the workplace now.

You’re probably right, the scope of their vision of hatred is most likely beyond my ability to perceive.

One of those core values being the desire to subjugate and/or exterminate all black people by any means necessary and return to the pre-1865 status quo.

I did not change my behavior one iota, except I started CC’ing the HR person on all my correspondence with the guy in question - the useless fucker was already doing the same thing himself, to try to prove what a terrible boss I was - and within three months I had HR’s full support that the guy had to go.

See, 99.9% of the time, as the boss, you need to keep your temper in check, but something like that might be the 0.1% instance where it actually makes sense to go ahead and explode a bit.

We have to remember that Rinaldi is not unusual. This is what we’re up against. I expect to see right-wing sites lauding him as a hero and donations to his campaign fund exploding. This is exactly the kind of behavior that Trump’s base wants to see more of.

Nice recall, Gary Hart is as far back as my direct knowledge of politics goes, but I was never aware of that detail.

Addendum to tactic #3: When upper management instructs middle management to send out the passive aggressive email, so that they don’t catch the ire of the staff in the process.

I think there is a way to be a principled centrist. I was raised conservative, and as I was coming around to realizing I had been indoctrinated, I went through a devoted centrist phase where I was legitimately trying to see both sides. In my case there was still a fair bit of ignorance involved, but I would assert…

Your dialogue was uncomfortably familiar to me, which is what prompted mine. Some people seem to have been born to be difficult.

I was going to say Gary Hart, but I looked it up first, and incredibly it looks like he never took responsibility.

Like all good fascist humpers, they fall into line behind whomever they see as the biggest swaggering dick around (provided this BSD is putatively on their side of the aisle). They’re just dying to be dominated.

I don’t recall that the Democratic Leadership Council, even in its worst fits of centrism, was ever anti-teachers and anti-teachers unions. Rahm most certainly is both of those things. He’s a fascist who should be expelled from the Democratic Party.

Actual conversation with HR:

Rahm Emanuel isn’t even a centrist Democrat, he’s a Rahmist. He has no ideology other than more power for Rahm. If the Dems do actually turn to him, the party is well and truly dead and America is fucked.

“Why do you always have to point out my mistakes?”

Let her have her delusions, she’s irrelevant now. If it keeps her warm at night I’m fine with it.

What the “mainstream right” fails to understand is that these far-right wackos hate them as much or more than they hate us on the left because of their failure to adhere to what they see as ideological purity.