In this order:

1. Tell other adults you trust about the situation. Your wife. Her parents if possible. More than one other person.

2. Explain to her in very clear terms that you can’t have that kind of relationship. It’s not about what anybody feels, it’s about what is possible.

3. At the FIRST sign of any type of revenge seeking behavior, that’s when you consider the authorities and rely on backup from the adults you spoke to.

She very well might listen to you, process the rejection for what it is, and move on. Or she might flip out and cause you a mess. If she handles it well, she’s learned something and you’ve treated a growing human with respect. If she doesn’t, your ass is covered.

I couldn’t give a single shit what any Starbucks executive thinks about any decisions anyone else makes.

Fucking DO IT ALREADY THEN

This is a very big claim for you to not fucking back up even slightly.

please no

All of those things you mentioned were right wing power grabs.

Taking the high road was letting that shit become mainstream.

I remember how this worked in Sweden where I live

Yeah, things don’t work that way everywhere.

We tried being nice in America. It got us here.

You just go back to enjoying your ivory tower. We have actual problems here and your high road is not the solution.

Here’s the thing.

The last 10 years have proven that organized online hostility is VERY EFFECTIVE at dictating public opinion.

That’s how we got the new fascist movements. Trump and the like. Because right wing hostility and bigotry went not only unchecked institutionally but unchallenged socially.

No solution has emerged for that from an institutional level.

So yeah, my socialist ass is fighting back. I’ll be damned if I’m going to spend the rest of my life under these fucking wastes of flesh and their bullshit antiquated opinions. I’m done taking it and I’m done tolerating it. Fuck every last republican and homophobe and transphobe and complicit liberal. All of them. And wouldn’t you know it, little by little they’re backing down when we stand up to them like the cowards they are.

Yes, I am deliberately far more hostile online, because it WORKS. And clearly nobody with institutional control cares enough to try anything else.

Parents need to do their fucking jobs and keep their shithead kids out of my business.

The nation of origin is completely meaningless when it comes to software distributed over the internet.

Well I say Mark Zuckerberg is over.

I think an alarming number of Gen Z internet folks find it funny to skew the results of anonymous surveys.

Why, you didn’t even post this!

I mean aside from the glass eye, he seems relatively healthy.

Base battery is too small, ugly as sin, too much touchscreen.

It better be damn cheap.

So go

God no. Nothing of him should be left in existence when he’s gone. Blasted to atoms.

I think it’s a bullshit rule, myself.

But it is a clearly-stated rule.

The real question is how many accounts you want to throw at it, because if you ask me, in for a penny in for a pound.

And it is morally correct to harass elon.

Upon death of the HUMAN artist, and with no transferability.

You gain nothing by refusing to try.