The man is a treasure.

In 2005, I went to DragonCon in Atlanta. I was in a bad place mentally, after a bad breakup, a bad move, and taking a bad job. I was feeling really low. My friend at the time asked me to go to DragonCon, an attempt to get me out of my funk.

Anyways, I’m sitting outside one of the entrances to the hotel where the Q&A’s are held. I’m smoking. Burton and Sirtis come out, down the stairs, glace over at me, and then stare for 4 or 5 seconds while walking away. I’m 6’1", and at the time was around 200 lbs., slim for me. I’m a brunette, and had a close cropped beard. and short hair. I don’t know if I looked threatening, or looked like Frakes but that’s always stuck in my mind.

If either of them ever read this, I was the guy sitting to the right with the orange shirt. I didn’t mean any harm.

At the same event, I was on the other side of the hotel, outside, smoking, and David Carradine came out, dressed all in black, and just glanced at me, then kept walking, He was the same height as me.

True. He’s probably the richest mob boss on the planet.

It always amazes me that people who think they’re tough, alpha male, strong willed people fall to their knees immediately when a strong daddy in a suit or uniform shows up.

“Dr. Stein, how do I get on Putin’s payroll? Asking for a comrade.”

Don’t be a Debbie Downer! Let’s just bask in unenshitified communal discourse.

Let me tell you tales of the mythical Geocities…

The majority of his wealth was in the stock price of his company. Same as most billionaires.

The Republican governor, who has sought to reshape his state’s education system by regulating how schools deal with subjects such as race, sexual orientation and gender, threw his support behind 23 school board candidates last month.

Fuck Milton Friedman.

And the fact that you bought the abortion culture war bullshit tells me that you’re unintelligent. Do you actually believe a billionaire whose daughter hypothetically gets pregnant from rape won’t find her an abortion doctor?

Wake the fuck up. The ideology you subscribe to wouldn’t piss on you if you were on fire. Or maybe it would, if you are filthy rich. If so, then shame on you. This isn’t a sport, it’s serious issues that affect millions of people who are not you.

But something tells me you would rather die than admit to yourself, and anyone else, that you are wrong.

Yeah, it actually fucking does. It’s the the name. “Progress.” Move forward. As in giving everyone a share, giving everyone a say, and giving everyone a decent life. You know, the opposite of "Conserve.’ Keeping the Status Quo, never changing, a state of perpetual stasis. The rich stay rich, the poor stay poor. Ad Infinitum.

Those become politicians and billionaire fellators.

Because most intelligent people understand and feel empathy and compassion. And most nerds know what it feels like to be bullied and marginalized.

The problem with American Democrats is they want to fight “Fair.” Something to do with “Principles.” That’s all admirable and noble, and shit, but when your opponent is depending on that to punch you in the back of the head when you turn around, it’s extremely stupid. And they keep making the same mistake, over and over and over. Republican politicians don’t care about fairness, or morals, or ethics, or common decency. They care about winning. And they would throw their own mothers to the wolves to do it, and be proud of it if it meant victory. Kindness is weakness, cruelty is funny, and empathy and compassion is for women and pussies.

When are they going to wake up and realize that Lucy is always, always going to yank the ball before the kick? For those of you too young to get the reference:

https://www.cracked.com/article_37831_good-grief-how-lucy-pulling-the-football-away-from-charlie-brown-became-a-signature-peanuts-gag.html

Uh, fuck Putin. Find a better job, tovarisch.

It’s called the “Anal Extraction” fallacy.

Wrong.

To play Devil’s Advocate, communism looks good on paper. The problem is human beings are involved. There will always be narcissistic, greedy, and psychopathic individuals who will abuse the will of the people to take control. There has never been a truly successful communistic system of government. Well, maybe Jeebus and the Apostles, but even Judas sold out for the silver.

Contrarian semantics aren’t clever.

The desire to make everyone’s life better by progressing appropriate legislation.

In regards to American politics, not individuals, they’re correct. The American “Progressive” party is majority Reagan Republicans. You have outliers like Bernie. Well, only Bernie.

Why you gotta label me, bro?