Posted by LeftyGreenMario

Oh yes, let's be nice to the party that hates trans people, hates gay people, hates poor people, denies global warming, cuts taxes for the rich, attacks Planned Parenthood, tries gutting healthcare, appoints king oil to the EPA, triggers a shutdown that ends up with the Joshua Tree Park getting heavily vandalized, has lobbyists that don't do anything about our guns, promotes anti-vaxxers (and kids get measles as a result), enables conspiracy theorists like Alex Jones and sandy hook truthers, enables Nazis, etc.

I mean, this is a thread on 2018 as a year moving on to 2019. It's completely fair game to have politics here, as 2018 was a big year for politics and also included record shootings, record average heat, the mid-terms. And luckily, you have that luxury to ignore or complain about politics, but in the other hand, some people can't ignore politics and have to deal with things medical expenses wrought upon because of our terrible health care. Anyhow, I brought up politics where it's relevant, not in the middle of Super Mario Odyssey discussion.

Frankly I'd rather talk politics than talk about my own personal life because who cares about personal lives? At least discussing about politics merits a response compared to me having a boyfriend for the first time or losing one of my budgerigars or me getting the biggest urchin I've ever seen.

IMO, sometimes, this just feels all trivial to me when we have kids locked up in the borders and we have prisoners who suffer under heat waves, we have kids getting shot at schools, we have survivors and relatives getting death threats over conspiracy theorists related to the shootings, we have measles outbreaks, and so on.