ooo i wasn't planning on drinking tonight. that sounds good

That's a great suggestion, I've made them before. Friggen delicious, and great at their job!

That's a good start, but it would be even better to think of some 'woke' themed twist on it that makes it into a Blue Wave. I'm drawing a blank on what that twist would be, but I'm sure someone who's better at cocktails and/or wordplay than me could think of something really good. My first thought was replacing white rum with a diverse mix of rum tones, but that would kind mess up the blue colour.

Yep... and the only way we de-normalize it is to quit passively allowing it.

The ‘white moderate’

I have almost reached the regrettable conclusion that the Negro's great stumbling block in his stride toward freedom is not the White Citizen's Counciler or the Ku Klux Klanner, but the white moderate, who is more devoted to "order" than to justice; who prefers a negative peace which is the absence of tension to a positive peace which is the presence of justice; who constantly says: "I agree with you in the goal you seek, but I cannot agree with your methods of direct action"; who paternalistically believes he can set the timetable for another man's freedom; who lives by a mythical concept of time and who constantly advises the Negro to wait for a "more convenient season."

Shallow understanding from people of good will is more frustrating than absolute misunderstanding from people of ill will. Lukewarm acceptance is much more bewildering than outright rejection.

—Dr. Martin Luther King Jr

Can't afford moving out of it?

That is a much more difficult situation...

If you want to go to a church on Christmas, you should go to a legitimately Christian church. Regardless of whether you want to go to church on Christmas, you should avoid Christofascist churches. Christofascism is antithetical to Christianity.

a small edible (or giant bongrip) beforehand should do the trick

Yeah, super healthy to go hang out with people who want people like you bashished from society because of who you want to love 🙄

How "healthy" it is to attend holiday gatherings with your family depends entirely on your family's chud ratio.

Not conservative, not "republican": MAGA.

My MAGA relatives are some of the worst human beings I've met. Hateful, loud, dumb bigots that seem unable to act like a decent human being for more than a few minutes at a time. I've heard the shit they've let slip out and they meant (and mean) every word.

They're not welcome in my home and I am sure as shit am not wasting my time on them.

Yes, healthy members of society spend time with their pedophile supporting extending family. Right.

Our families invite process is fairly simple. If you can't last family time during holiday without talking politics, you aren't invited. I think that's a fairly healthy ask. I think only one person was excluded from family planning/gathering due to it, but thankfully the feeling was mutual because they couldn't isolate their political side from their actual personality and as such didn't want to be in an environment where they couldn't talk politics anyway.

That's not healthy. That's enabling.

Most of my family are Alberta separatists so political in my case

Those people are largely those same descriptors you said too though lol

Fair. Politics can get real messy without ever reaching the the things you listed.

I have my hills to die on like free effective mass transportation in every city & I'm extremely anti car centric infrastructure but I'm not calling anyone fucking removed (despite me calling myself a removed) over that let alone going no contact. I went no contact because she's an abusive narcissistic pathological liar.

Just deserts and just desserts!

sadly theyll probably never do that because they like the money they get from their friends in the files