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Cake day: July 2nd, 2023

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  • This is a huge reach and false equivalency. There is a difference between being a pop culture focus of a moment where you’re mom was compelled to volunteer at his local election office and wear a button versus the maga bullshit that OP describes.

    No. It’s never been to this level, or close for that matter. Not because a candidate didn’t want it, but because society maintained a basic level of decency and civil education that made today’s depths impossible at scale really. Of course a huge focus of the last 50 years for Republicans has been denying access to and attacking public education to help form the undereducated and easily frightened mass that they now use to support trump. And then social media feeds and predatory news algorithms were probably the nail in the coffin to break that once held floor of civility.

    Not on the same scale as trump, but there was an American Nazi party and there’s the kkk. Those are probably your closest analogies in this country.







  • You just risk staying in limbo if not direct/literal effigy IMO… All young males in general have the earned reputation of typically being oblivious of expressed female romantic advances (just search Reddit, you’ll see 300 posts speaking to this per day). On top of that general difficulty, you have the compounding factor of their atypical mental processing.

    So do what you think is right. Hope it works out for you both.


  • The nuerodivergent part suggests you’re going to just need to be direct.

    “I really enjoy our friendship, it’s important to me. I want to make sure we keep that friendship regardless, but I’ve also realized I might be developing more romantic feelings for you that I’d like to explore together - maybe you’ve had thoughts/feelings like that about me before? If not, that’s cool, I just feel better having said it to you so it’s out of my head :) but yeah, I like you and I’d like us to get dinner on an actual date date sometime and see how we both feel. What do you think?”

    Or there’s always Margaret Cho’s technique…