The_Adult_Table

Just someone searching to understand what political discourse should sound like at the adult table...

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@japan_nobunaga My American brain says - walk under the bride which would in a way cross it and also make a cross (the symbol) while doing it

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@ConceptualJames Every time I give someone the benefit of the doubt that they have some heterodox thoughts, something like this is said and the realization there is a line to fall into becomes clear again..

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@ConceptualJames @michaelmalice These small absolutely perfect exchanges is what I hope for when I open this app.

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The wind changed, the air grew heavy, and the sky above my neighbor’s house began to pulse with an unholy light. Gary responded by carrying out two chairs and offering me one.

The sky was green-black. The trees had gone silent in the way trees do before they regret things. My instinct, refined by eight hundred years of sensible ancestors, said: walls. Now.

Gary said: "You want lemonade? It's about to get good."

About to get GOOD. The storm was not a threat to Gary. It was programming.

"Should we not go inside?" I asked.

"And miss this? Nah."

So I sat. On a porch. Facing the enemy. The thunder rolled in from the west and Gary rated it. "That one was decent." Lightning split the sky into rivers and Gary said, "There you go," the way one encourages a shy performer.

In my land, a storm is endured. Shutters closed, candles ready, family gathered in the innermost room. Here, the storm is a visiting theater troupe, the porch is front-row seating, and attendance is a point of pride.

The rain hit the street like applause. The wind sent a trash can lid rolling down the block and Gary said, "That's Pete's," with no further commentary.

"You are not afraid?" I asked.

"Of what? It's just weather. If it gets real bad, we'll head in."

Gets REAL bad. So there is a line. Gary knows where it is. Eight generations of porch-sitting have taught his blood the exact difference between a show and a siege. I do not have this knowledge.

I have Gary.

A storm does not ask for an audience. It draws one anyway, and does its finest work.

I have purchased a porch chair. It sits beside Gary's. When the sky turns green now, I do not hide.

I attend.

[NOBUNAGA🇯🇵🏯_夏樹蒼依 @japan_nobunaga]

USA. A Mexican restaurant. We had not yet ordered anything, and the food was already arriving.

Chips. Salsa. Unrequested. Free.

I stopped the waiter. "We have not earned these."

"They just come with the table, man."

They come with the TABLE. In my land, hospitality is a debt. Every gift creates an obligation, weighed carefully, returned in the proper season with interest of feeling. Here, the gift arrives before you have even proven you can pay for dinner.

This is not an appetizer. This is a declaration: we trust you. Eat.

I ate with the gravity the moment deserved. And then — I must report this calmly — the basket emptied, and a new one appeared.

"Did we…?"

"Refill," the waiter said. "It's bottomless."

Bottomless. They have wells of salsa. The supply lines of this nation are beyond anything my ancestors imagined.

My friend warned me. "Don't fill up on chips, dude."

Too late. I had accepted three baskets. Honor demanded each one be finished — an unfinished gift is an insult. By the time my actual food arrived, I was a ruined man.

I was not hungry. I was not comfortable. I had been defeated by a courtesy.

Generosity that arrives before the request cannot be repaid. It can only be survived.

I know the rule now. I have made my peace with the basket. One basket. Two at the most.

Who am I deceiving. There is no number of baskets I would refuse. The trust of a nation is in that salsa, and I intend to honor all of it.

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@Wisdom_HQ Toadstoolz

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@michaelmalice She’s actually alive and is called Maxine Waters.. but she won’t Emmitt till someone calls her out on it

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@RealEmirHan The fact is that this could have been the greatest movie of all time if tom cruise was not the lead… and also it’s the greatest movie of all time because tom cruise is the lead lol

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@EndWokeness @CHSommers They just pissed they lost one of their main contributors

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@michaelmalice Soon corporate media won’t have any contributors left

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@TiffanyFong One on the left is ideal but the makeup signals they are easier to hook up with .. so..

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@JesseKellyDC At what point did you start feeling the sweeping wave of superiority?

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@Timcast Cold civil war

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@Osint613 Ayn Rand character in the flesh

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@wonderofscience Classical liberal

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@rickygervais Idk man I love a pair of bombas

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@samculver @TLGameStatus Same

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@jjverdi I say nothing, facial expressions work just fine

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@michaelmalice How bout sidewalk chalk?

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@CNviolations Pants