That’s fair. Unique stays are cool.

You’re right about the popular vote. I keep forgetting that because it’s not been the case previously and for so many other Republican presidents. You say I’m conflating these concepts but imo they are all intermingled by default, especially in the case of who owns trump. I wish I knew what to do. I tried joining a local action group but I don’t really see it being valuable and I don’t agree with all of their approaches even if I thought they could get shit done.

There is a feeling of hopelessness right now and who can blame us? Even if we manage to convince Democrats to move further to the left, and it works, we still have SUCH an uphill battle to fight moving forward. Fascist ideology is popular, obviously. And no I’m far from advocating for doing nothing. I just don’t know what I can realistically do in the short or long term.

I’ve seen stuff like that too. I saw the biggest cockroach of my life in one as well.

Yeah all of that is true. Also in a hotel room if you have a problem you can ask for a new room or for other help. At Airbnbs I have had several issues and then not gotten a response from the host, for hours. Sometimes even happened preventing checkin. Saw some crazy filth and had my car broken into at Airbnbs, been told a parking spot was included then basically told to get over it when that wasn’t true (and this was in a city with very expensive parking). It’s just way too unreliable. I agree, long ago it was a good service but a lot of the reason I liked it then was the price and now that’s not even good.

So mysterious.

Agreed

True. The last time I remember doing that, though, the house rules literally required us to bring our own towels and sheets.

I found that ridiculous.

Most LAMF post ever.

Give them a couple days to acclimate to the new cult rationalizations.

Yep. I gave up on Airbnb years ago. So many memorably bad experiences and they rarely even save you money, and that’s been true a long time.

Why do people keep paying extra when 90% of the appeal used to be saving money?

If only someone had warned everyone that trump is a malignant narcissist moron who wasn’t equipped to run a 7/11.

So we’re supposed to own what we didn’t vote for and only happened because we have a bunch of morons and propagandists plus a horrifically anti-democratic system called the electoral college? Nope, sorry. I don’t own this. Even if I were willing to take some responsibility, which I’m not (I tried to talk sense into countless idiots), it’s way more complicated than “Americans voted for this”. And it’s by a lot.

Just curious. Exactly what would be gained if I thought this was my fault? Would my introspection transfer by osmosis to millions of trump cultists?

Another copy of this fake…?

Dafuq

see. There they are.

See, I tried to start something on purpose and then that happened! It’s these other evil people who are the problem!

It’s both. It’s always been both. Since even 2016 he’s been a mentally deteriorating sociopath.

Yep. The s on the right is lowercase also.

They apparently just made some shit up so they could be mad at me or something. People are strange.

Interesting. So there are exceptions to what I said, but I think OP would’ve mentioned it if that applied here.

Have you asked yourself why you feel this way? Names literally exist to be used. No cultural norm I am aware of prohibits their use, other than it would be weird in limited contexts like if you called your parents by their names. But even that is not universal. A stranger using your name is not disrespectful in the least, so getting mad about that seems like a problem.