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 @134318c2 @fb39e5a2 @c4d83080 "Mankind Quarterly" sounds like a magazine about Whiskey, Fedoras, and Rugby (football is too low-class). They'd probably have pictures of shirtless men on the covers, which is TOTALLY STRAIGHT because they said "no homo" while they were publishing the magazine. 
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 @2a70c54d You know, now that you mention it, I did see something similar. Though I think it probably looks more like a harlequin or a jester.

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 Can I say a thing without getting my head bitten off? 

Here goes...

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 @2a70c54d Yep. And I'll do it again. It just gets tiring having to vote for someone you don't like because the alternative is outright fascism. 
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 @134318c2 @889093a5 Mine didn't really bring in too much money at first. Then I managed to train him to say "disrupt" and now I have keep the venture capitalists away otherwise they eat all of the labor value. 
 @134318c2 I mean my cat is kind enough to let me live in her house. She owns the house. I just pay the mortgage, and that's a satisfactory financial relationship for both of us.

Seriously though, as much as we joke about how "cats have staff", I like that they haven't quite been as domesticated to be servile like dogs have. 
 @134318c2 I feel like I should post this on Nextdoor, but honestly I'm not that much of a masochist... 
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 @2a70c54d I mean somehow calling Bill Gates a "great philanthropist" also sounds kinda.... wrong?

But we definitely as a society need to learn to stop looking up to the robber barons that rule our lives. 
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 @2a70c54d I was taken in by my employer's promises to change the world, but they've proven time and again that they don't care about trans people.

So no, literally zero loyalty.