"Nobody can control the weather."

[wdlindsy@toad.social]

@Nazani I think also new is a kind of mass delusion being deliberately massaged by most of the Republican party.

[wdlindsy@toad.social]

@Tooden For sure.

[debr@mstdn.social]

@wdlindsy They are desperate.

[tammygentzel@awscommunity.social]

@wdlindsy If God is indeed standing there waiting for them, they are going to get one heck of a surprise.

[dannotdaniel@hellions.cloud]

@wdlindsy MAGA = death

the end

[lolonurse@ohai.social]

@wdlindsy
Wait... you didn't tell me you're Jewish, too!! Did you convert? Or maybe just sympathizing is enough? Or are "we" teaching our supporters how to "do it"?

[lolonurse@ohai.social]

@wdlindsy
Women could do something about this within 1 generation... but at huge risk & sacrifice. It wouldn't be pretty.

[serendip1959@mastodon.social]

@wdlindsy

The threading on Mastodon could be clearer as to what comment is being replued to….

[wdlindsy@toad.social]

@serendip1959 Yes, you're right about that.

[wdlindsy@toad.social]

@lolonurse I agree. And one major blueprint has been there for centuries in Aristophanes' "Lysistrata."

[wdlindsy@toad.social]

@lolonurse I actually didn't know that when you spoke of what your NC friend said to you, she/he was referencing your being Jewish. I thought she was talking about your being a liberal or a Democrat. No, haven't converted to Judaism here. But still standing, as I always have, with the Jewish people against antisemitism.

[wdlindsy@toad.social]

@dannotdaniel Yes.

[wdlindsy@toad.social]

@TammyGentzel Indeed.

[wdlindsy@toad.social]

@DebR So much so.

[lolonurse@ohai.social]

@wdlindsy
I was teasing you. And yes, once you're so comfortable with someone's true, good & sassy self, making 'inside' jokes is always OK (short of bad taste like a death in the family...but then, they wouldn't do that). Crystal is very spiritual & Earth Mother based, and an amazingly kind, genuine human, as are you. Banter sometimes solidifies that. Or not - (sorry, I'm operating on 3 nights of 3 hours sleep... probably time to close mouth. ‍

[wdlindsy@toad.social]

@lolonurse I'm sorry I missed the tease. "They' are throwing around so many lies about who's to blame for what, that I get confused about who's the subject du jour! Humor can be sometimes difficult for me to pick up on on social media, without facial cues.

[lolonurse@ohai.social]

@wdlindsy
Me too! But between my age, my old-hippie-feminist WTF attitude anymore, & the fact that everyone I follow here is at least a liberal, if not progressive/activist/vocal critic of present day shite...
I tend to take a few risks that people will know that I'm either open, snarky, tongue-in-cheek, playful, or just damned pissed off.
But it's always OK to ask/ check, and if you need me to make fewer presumptions, I can do that, too! 🤭

[wdlindsy@toad.social]

@lolonurse I'm honored to be connected to you. You need to change nothing as far as I'm concerned! And as Yom Kippur arrives, I want also to wish you Yom Tov.

P.S. If you haven't seen Benjamin Wittes on Yom Kippur and atonement, you may find his essay worth a read. I like him a lot, both his courage in constantly needling the Russians about Ukraine, and also his wry sense of humor.

If I have Offended You This Year

Wherein I atone—sort of.

(www.dogshirtdaily.com)