[FRIAM] tolerance of intolerance

[glen]

Yeah, after I sent my joke about holding Diogenes in high esteem, I couldn't help but wonder whether anyone realized I was making a joke... Even if someone reads what I write, I'm akin with Eric, I have zero idea what's going on in others' heads. So I guess my jokes are really just for me, anyway.

On fleeing a 2nd Trump Admin, I completely agree. I have some friends who, despite their seemingly wealthy status (like ... wealth, not income) are going to flee the US for far more mundane reasons: to avoid paying taxes. This same couple flies across the earth at least twice per year just to sight-see ... for no productive reason other than their own wanton self-indulgence. So ... like ... *we* - all of us - built the US infrastructure that facilitated their accumulation of a hoard. They used/use that infrastructure to fly around the planet doing nothing but seeing the sights - and maybe spending some money, but they're notoriously cheap, they haggle over the price of a cup of coffee or a street taco. Now they intend to gather all their marbles and leave the game ... running  to some impoverished country where they can live like King & Queen.

IDK. Call me old-fashioned ... or gods forbid "patriotic". But I feel like I owe it to my fellow citizens to contribute as much as I can, until I can't. (And I keep advocating for human euthanasia for when I finally can't.)

On 9/30/24 11:26, steve smith wrote:
> BTW if my intro sounded sarcastic, the sarcasm was directed at myself, not at Glen or his submission... I truly do get a strong hit of occult or arcane, more likely the latter which I want to suss out, but (as my sarcasm indicates) I know I often lose the plot (the scent) to stay en-metaphor...
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> On 9/30/24 12:20 PM, steve smith wrote:
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>> As my peers all seek to flee TrumpAMurrica if he slips-slides-slimes his way back into office I am thinking it is my "civic duty" to stay put and "fight the good fight" even if it is to be fodder for his cannons (or deportment Trebuchets?) or inertial/viscous mass to slow down (stuck to the bottom of) the tread of his JackBoots (with inserts to help with the bone spurs)...   I missed my chance in 1974 to expatriate myself and as tempting as it sounds now, I also find pleasure in being the gum in his gears if it comes to that.   Or maybe after the Dems manage to squeeze him back into the BrylCream tube he squirted out of I can be the fodder/gum for *their* worst instincts?
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