The hell is this?

Beef shawarma, fattoush, pita chips, tomatoes, onions, parsley, humus, garlic, homemade hot sauce, sauteed onions, extra pita chips, tzatziki and tahini.

This thing, by the time they stuff it and wrap it all up, weighs 2 Ibs, and only cost me $14, and sometimes the elderly owner gives me a free grape leaf, or baklava.

just be consistent.

shame any self-described "red-blooded conservative Christian man" who reads playboy. who uses onlyfans. who has a lingerie model calendar on the wall of their shop. who walks around in public with obscenely sexual text on their shirts. who takes their 15 year-old son to Hooters. who discuss women like they're sex props while bashing "trans women" for trying to turn womanhood into a costume. who in any way shows that they think that public sexual degeneracy is A OK so long as it isn't the PC lib kind.

eject them out of your groups. call a spade a spade and a pervert a pervert. don't downplay or, even worse, condone this kind of trash just because the people on the other side's stuff is a newer kind filth.

Unlike AR15s, which are overwhelmingly used to not hurt another human being, ever. 

Step 1: Enter retailer and ask for Sudafed.

Step 2: Give retailer ID and pay for Sudafed.

Are they saying that his network of influence/corruption/blackmail/etc is as extensive as Jeffrey Epstein's network was?

They’re weird with how they talk about race and their strange obsession with ‘DEI’.

They’re weird about how they talk about trans people and focus on genitals.

They’re weird about how they talk about marriage and abortion.

According to Emet, "weird" in that context has some specific Midwestern/Minnesotan overtones, which matches my experience being raised by 2 ppl from Illinois. Specifically, it lands as "this person behaves in an anti-social way; their behavior is mildly to extremely harmful to those around them." This weird isn't the same weird as "Keep Portland Weird," the kind of joyful, harmless, "it would be a strange world if we were all alike," "to each his own," weirdness of the Seattle Naked Bagpiper or Portland's Unipiper (we like bagpipes up here, I guess). This is more like... hmm.

"That guy is weird. He doesn't believe in tipping and I just don't know, he unsettles me."

"That kid is weird. He throws rocks at the neighbor's cat."

So it's specifically saying, "You don't fit in with us, and your behavior is harmful to the social fabric." That is something that the Arbiters Of Normal And Good Social Behavior can't stand, because it's exactly the kind of "weird" they try to leverage against immigrants ("weird food, weird traditions"), queer people ("weird sex, weird relationships") and especially trans people, who to them are weird in the way we look, sound, dress, and want to be spoken of.

Now add on top of that the fact that Republicans have always had a "heartland" brand. They think they own the Midwest. They refer to Democrats as "coastal elites" (which also just means Jewish) and use that as a way of implying or saying that Democrats are disconnected from 'heartland values' and the 'heartland voter.'

With one word, Gov. Walz ripped that sturdy footing out from underneath them and said, "Actually, we think your behavior is bad and harmful. We don't like you here. You don't fit in."

I think you've hit the nail on the head. There is no behavior authoritarians can't recontextualize as justified and righteous if they're doing it. Those in the conservative political machine will eventually talk themselves into the virtues of fascism and mass ethnic deportation and genocide, they will curtail free speech in libraries and restrict the Black Panthers' right to bear arms and attack the corporate pride created by the free market. There is no principle so cherished or idealized they will not cannibalize it in the name of enforcing the status quo, or reverting to what they imagine it once was.

And when they're not yet ready to embrace something they have an endless capacity to deny reality. They're masters of deny, attack, reverse victim and offender. Hell they can even openly acknowledge it to one audience and deny it to another, and the dissonance will be ignored.

But it is all in service of enforcing their place as the privileged normal.

And the thing about saying that someone is fascist or bigoted or close-minded or hateful, with the implication that these things are bad and corrosive to a functioning community, and so people who hold these traits are outside of acceptable norms ... is that norms can be defined to include those awful things. Or that reality can be rejected.

But you can't redefine weird as part of the privileged normal. You can accept being weird as part of your identity, even revel in it, punks and queer folk and goths and nerds have been doing that forever. But the one thing weird can never be is part of the privileged normal.

But it also can't be denied in the sense of rejecting reality! Because calling someone weird is a performative statement, in the philosophy sense that it performs an action. To call someone weird is to describe them as being rejected by normative society, sure, but it is also the act of rejecting them from normative society. Calling someone weird performs the function of making them weird. It defines someone as rejected by declaring their rejection.

So there's no twisting of reality to perform here, there's no turning January 6th into somehow not an attempted coup, nor is there saying that if it was a coup it would be good. And therefore, implicitly, making is so that they have not violated norms by being cool with it.

Calling Republicans weird is rejection from normative society in its purest and most unassailable form. There is no way to not be weird if enough people say you are weird, because that is how weird is defined. And it is what they crave above all else.

So yeah. If you want to stifle conservative bigotry in social spaces you're in, or if you want to try to up the social cost of conservatism enough that they no longer enjoy throwing their weight behind it. Call them weird.

Y'all fucking called them deplorables and they started using it for themselves.

Y'all then spent the last 8 years calling them Nazis, racists, and fascists.

And you really think they care about being called weird?

Like go ahead and call us racists and Nazis but please not weird!! It hurts too much!!