Nonsense.

Oops, you’re right. My apologies to his family.

It’s pronounced Igor.

That’s simply unacceptable. I have a copy, but that’s still unacceptable that you can’t stream a film that amazing anywhere legally.

I think this is a Ship of Theseus thing here that we’re going to argue about because at what point is it just UNIX-like and not UNIX?

UNIX-like is definitely a descriptor currently used for Linux.

Even the Wikipedia entry starts that way.

So is Linux. So I guess the light blue is all other UNIX variants?

I sort of have the opposite issue. My mother, who has always been very welcoming to my gay friends and my brother’s gay friends (the best men at our weddings were both gay and she seemed to be cool with them the entire time) has given me little subtle signals over the years that she doesn’t like it that my daughter is queer.

And recently she told me that if my daughter just goes into the closet she’s never been in and “obeys the rules” she will be fine. That was before the election. Today she found out that we’re taking advantage of my dual citizenship and emigrating to the UK. She’s really pissed off about it. She’s said some incredibly stupid and offensive things in the emails we had back and forth, not just about living in the UK, but about the U.S.:

I know several lesbians, including [HOUSEMATE’S DAUGHTER]. None are thinking of moving out of the US at this point. We are having Thanksgiving here with some of [HOUSEMATE’S DAUGHTER]'s gay and lesbian friends. [MY DAUGHTER] is welcome to come. They are all successful people with good jobs and doing well. None are scared of Trump because of their sexual orientation. (They may well be scared for other reasons.)

I think it is too early to emigrate before seeing what will happen. By the time anyone gets around to going after gay people, after the 11 million migrants, [MY DAUGHTER] will probably be 18.

Transgender minors are in trouble. But before gay people are, watch for laws repealing gay marriage. That’s when to get scared, maybe. But herding millions into conversion therapy would be quite a job.

This was my favorite part though:

Also, Europe and the UK are having problems with antisemitism (not to mention anti-gay bias.). How will you prepare [MY DAUGHTER] for that? And yourself? And what if England turns fascist, like other European countries?

Like… mom, we’ve been dealing with antisemitism here in Indiana my whole fucking life. The temple got firebombed when I was a kid, remember? Remember Charlottesville and the “Jews will not replace us” chants? All the times antisemitic literature got distributed around town and no one got caught doing it? Fuck, you remember Benjamin Smith who came into town looking for Jews but settled for a poor Korean student?

And what if England turns fascist? Where do you think you’re living? What do you think just happened?

having serious discussion on the topic

Despite the red box and the arrow you still seem to be confused as to where you are. I’m not sure what else can be done to explain the concept of memes and a meme community to you, so have fun taking everyone’s joking around very seriously, as you should.

Remember: having fun is for fools.

You still seem confused, so hopefully this will help you out. I used an arrow and a red box since things seem difficult for you to understand.

Soapbox?

This is a meme community.

I have absolutely no idea what you’re talking about. The only change is going to be turning the U.S. into a literal Christian country at the end of January when the fascist dictator takes over.

Why are you making this about me? I didn’t write the Constitution and I’m not Donald Trump either.

Once again, you seem to have a lot of trouble with the difference between “supposed to be” and “is.”

I have no idea what you’re talking about. It wasn’t supposed to be because the founder’s writings and the Constitution says so. Not to mention the never-repealed Barbary treaties which make it explicit that the United States is in no way a Christian country.

You don’t seem to understand the difference between “supposed to be” and “is.”

Because it is not what it is supposed to be.

They like to point out the religious language in the Declaration of Independence as if it’s a legal document, which it is not.

More flavorful.

It is 100% gluten so that the gluten-intolerant can suffer like our savior.

Islam seems to be going pretty strong these days, I’m afraid.

Well then they’re just assholes.

Oh well that’s probably true. But I already get a ton. I don’t respond though. In fact, that number was a rarity in that it’s the second time they used it.