Isn’t @OtherMichael human and vulnerable to his inner dialogue that might not always be positive, and maybe this is just his way of feeling better?
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Can you explain like I’m five?
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Does Mission of Burma need our validation, too?
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Moving on from “save” to “Shave” to “BurmaShave” to “Mission of Burma” ?
You know, the band?
That was founded by 2/3 of the members of The Space Negros?
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Have y’all never heard THIS, either?
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Can you rent a Tesla and then nap for the 2 hours?
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Do you think there are any Teslas in Iowa? Let alone rentable ones? Can you even rent a Tesla anywhere besides the coasts?
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I don’t know if you can rent a Tesla in Des Moines (probably not), but did you know that - contrary to popular opinion in NYC and LA - the region between the coasts is not a wasteland populated by troglodytes?
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Might you have a citation? My proof is mostly in Ohio and Texas, is that enough?
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Can I cite myself? As someone who has lived on both coasts as well as 5 midwestern states (and who can see the Pacific from his bedroom)?
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Have you not sent me far enough down the YouTube rabbit hole of music? Didn’t I find relics of my own there, and aren’t I now pleasantly sad enough reminiscing on loves long gone by?
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Do you have any thoughts on Ohio?
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Ayh oh, way to go , Ohio?
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I lived in Cleveland very briefly in the late 70s. If was my first job after college, and involved wading in vats of PCBs and rappelling down sheer drops into effluent flows, so what’s not to like?
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It seems not related to this? https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kiki's_Delivery_Service
But maybe inspired? Wouldn’t probably the kid and me love it?
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Having driven from Des Moines to Iowa City tonight with time to think about it, does it make sense I’m mostly annoyed with the sense of fear I get from the middle of the country?
I literally have been at two terrorist attacks in the US, one of which caused two towers a mile and a half from me to shudder to the ground, if anyone should be afraid of Muslims it should be me, right? But I’m not, because I live with them, share space, subway cars, see kind Muslims and Jews and Puerto Ricans all day long. Meanwhile, someone who lives in a 95% white town needs more guns for self protection? I saw a shirt tonight that said “stay calm and carry a gun,” but who’s calmer, the one too afraid to be without a pistol or the person who trusts people enough to not fear them?
I see entire states think Donald Trump is an answer, that fewer and prejudice and sending people away is a good response to people instead of listening and empathising, why wouldn’t I get annoyed at their laziness, their ideal of returning to a time when not everyone was treated with equal rights? It’s their fear of The Other and Change I get annoyed by, and if they bothered to change that wouldn’t it seem like they could bring more to the grown up table?
I’ve watched Don the Con for sixteen years up close and personal and they think he’s telling the truth? Why wouldn’t I see them gullible rubes?
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The eventual river of fire such things produced?
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Would it help you to know that all but one of the counties you drove through voted strongly for Obama in 2012? Or that my experience in Iowa was that the people of all backgrounds were fundamentally decent, something I wouldn’t necessarily say for other places I’ve lived?
Do you have reason to think that Iowa will go for Trump?
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