[cw: anti-semitism, mass shooting] I wrote a furious screed on Facebook about the latest and then sent it to my cousin who voted for Trump, let's see what happens

I was planning on having an easy and restful day off without starting any shit but the world decided against that for me

bless my dad -- I'm still furious with him over many, many things, and we're still trying to figure our relationship out, but he's still reliably great on certain things and this is one of them

me: I just picked a fight with [cousin], just a fair warning

him: Ok, thanks for the warning.

for context, our entire extended family is notoriously REALLY FUCKING DRAMATIC and for all he knows this could lead to us being dramatically cut off from that branch

I did that when the synagogue near my house was threatened twice with bombs. Picking fights is useful in times like this.

Basically I'm in your corner

I was pretty gentle with her when I first found out but now it's time for the verbal bitch-slap. People are dead because your dumb ass and a few hundred thousand other dumbasses forgot a damn poem

honestly it seems like a pretty decent strategy for coping

even if you're going to throw away your own empathy and humanity (and literally her reasons were "hating Hillary" and "none of that stuff affects me," I swear to actual God)

you never forget the poem

wow those reasons are

y e a h

“none of that stuff affects me” how can you expect it not to eventually

Fully support your rant man, sounds like there are some things she needs to hear

fuck yes, rant away