Local Corner Witch

almost every nominee “suspends their campaign” rather than drops out. NO, the media is not deliberately misleading you by using the phrase “dropped out” because the two things ARE equivalent. if they leave out the bit about still gathering delegates, then yes, they are misleading you, but the point still stands–bernie is not running for president anymore.

he is still gathering delegates so that he can push the DNC platform to the left at the democratic convention, not to continue his bid for presidency.

bernie is trying his best to redeem the democratic party and to reform it as much as he can before the november election so that young people vote for biden.

i can guarantee bernie hates biden as much as we do. he does not like him. he obviously agrees that he would be a better candidate than biden.

but he also recognizes there is no path forward where that is possible so he is going to spend the next 6 months begging democrats to become a party young people can support and begging young people to still support the democratic party.

because he recognizes trump is dismantling the american government before our eyes and not in the fun revolution way but in the scary fascist way. and he doesn’t want us to succumb to that.

I’m not telling you how to relate to parents who were shitty/abusive to you, obviously, but given a relatively healthy relationship or the ATTEMPT to build one as adults, you’ve genuinely got to let your older relatives talk to you in their own way about the things they’re interested in. Yes, sometimes it is painfully boring, yes, sometimes they do it in a slow or round-about manner or tell you way too much, but sometimes it’s boring listening to a twelve year old talk about fortnite. I still do it, because people, adult or child, need and want people to talk to about their interests. 

My dad is into the cringiest possible anime. I am halfway to dissociation every time he spends 30-60 minutes walking me through the entire plot of an anime, one episode at a time. One time we had an eight hour car ride and that was the ENTIRE trip and by the end I wanted to DIE. But I still let him do it! Because he needs someone to talk to his passions about, and I care about him and know that being that person for him makes him happy and improves our relationship. Because of that, we spent the SECOND eight hour car ride talking about the history of unions, something I spent 27 years not even knowing my father had an interest in! 

  ……. (　•́  ‸•̀｀) hewwo….? is anybodwy hewre…?

*BANG*