Having thoughts for “Illegals” is where I was going, but sure. Every adult please flip one specific person off every chance you get.

Fuck yes.

She is owning her actions. She’s neither seeking glory nor hiding. Her name would have disappeared within a week if she hadn’t been fired for this. Her anger is not hers alone, but having a name makes the story a story - specificity is the soul of narrative.

Changing the standard of consequences for obscenity based on the target is absolutely ass kissing. Ass kissing is a big part of a lot of jobs, that’s the way it is, it’s part of my job as well, but you don’t get fired for shit like this, you get chewed out.

...and there’s a difference between that and obscenity. If Akima LLC wants to fire her for being openly and publicly rude to their employer, they can say exactly that rather than hiding behind an inconsistently applied obscenity clause.

I hope so. I am, exactly like her, a real American and I love her. Let this become the new typical.

...and Reality Winner.

That has nothing to do with obscenity. If Akima LLC wants to enforce ass-kissing as a condition of employment, they can put it on the HR material.

Also long term strategic thinking and you have to be careful of what you say, especially if you have a hardcore DM (“That was a joke!” “You said it in character. The Archmage didn’t find it funny. You are now an ocelot. Permanently.”).

I love Lady Dynamite so much, and the only thing better than getting more Lady Dynamite is for Maria Bamford to make more Lady Dynamite in a way that doesn’t kill her, because I love her.

You’d still need to subtract the accidental deaths, domestic shootings, and suicides that were facilitated by gun ownership before you break even.

Amherst, MA and SL, UT, represent! That’s got to be a small club we’re in. You talk about the food in New York, but did you ever get over to Bub’s BBQ in Sunderland or Cafe Trang in SLC?

You and RickFromAccounting are both right.

Mike gets to call her Elle, now and forever.

Well, that’s an interesting rabbit hole, and I have no idea whether you were trying to agree or disagree with me. “Technically a word of purchase, unless explained.” - the fuck? I have no idea.

No, the strict sense remains legal. Son does not refer to genes, and never has.

That’s something between Frank and Mia, it’s nothing between Frank and Ronan.

(it’s a cute joke, but) I am the son of the parents who raised me, despite not being biologically related to my father. He knew from the beginning and made the decision to treat me no different from his biological children, such that when the truth came out in my mid-twenties it was a total surprise. I have no…

He’s not the one making that call, though - he’s still the employee. If he demurred, I guarantee those law/political/journalism jobs would go to another privileged white man, probably a middle-aged cynic interested in writing a gossip column or leapfrogging to a lobbyist job.

Well, we still have username/comment synergy.