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Time continues!
Dec. 16th, 2015 11:59 pmAnd I'm older.
Also, looks like I'm getting another chicken.
Current events are so weird. There's that Childhood's End show on TV and it reminds me of how when I read the book ages ago, I thought how incredibly optimistic the writer had been in thinking we'd be in a much better place even before the aliens showed up to fix things. And since then it's often seemed like we're not so much moving slower than expected but actually backward. But then there's other things where there seems to be so much progress - I'm stunned that somehow we got from "it's progressive to not ask if people are gay before letting them into the military" all the way to "trans people are okay I guess" already. I'm a little worried that this is going to be a wobble thing and there'll be backlash, but it seems like most people just don't care enough when it comes down to it to cause a backlash - it's just become normal.
I really hope the Republican party grits their teeth and refuses to nominate Trump so he'll have to run third-party and split the vote. After everything they've done, they could redeem themselves a little by throwing themselves on this grenade.
Also, looks like I'm getting another chicken.
Current events are so weird. There's that Childhood's End show on TV and it reminds me of how when I read the book ages ago, I thought how incredibly optimistic the writer had been in thinking we'd be in a much better place even before the aliens showed up to fix things. And since then it's often seemed like we're not so much moving slower than expected but actually backward. But then there's other things where there seems to be so much progress - I'm stunned that somehow we got from "it's progressive to not ask if people are gay before letting them into the military" all the way to "trans people are okay I guess" already. I'm a little worried that this is going to be a wobble thing and there'll be backlash, but it seems like most people just don't care enough when it comes down to it to cause a backlash - it's just become normal.
I really hope the Republican party grits their teeth and refuses to nominate Trump so he'll have to run third-party and split the vote. After everything they've done, they could redeem themselves a little by throwing themselves on this grenade.
