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Do the rightwingers not realize that a huge amount of millennials and Gen Z folks are surviging this housing market by living together? Five or more people of voting age in a large suburban home isn’t that uncommon now. Taking your household’s ballots to drop off is not sinister vote manipulation. For that matter neither is offering to take them in for your friends or neighbors. Six or seven ballots in hand does not make someone a mule. It’s like they can’t imagine anything other than atomized single family existence, and beyond its bounds are only the criminal activities of illegals and subhumans, all targets for insult and fantasies of violence.

Yelling back of course doesn’t work. Spray bottles can work but it’s a hassle to aim and unpleasant for him. But my method is pure communication without contact. I mimic the nonverbal communication of an annoyed cat, who will vertically thump their tail against whatever they’re laying on. When my boy won’t stop yelling I raise my hand (or sometimes leg if i’m laying in bed) and thump it against a chair cushion or mattress. The point isn’t to make a threatening gesture or huge startling racket, but to remind him of the way his mom or sister would warn him to knock it off. And it fucking works!!!

found the prettiest columbine growing on the property