my opinion of people being assholes publicly has nosedived since its become clear that the result of this becoming normalized is, like, american fascism. we need to bring back shame and humility. you need those things to have a society

Did Vernon have a cousin his age named Bubba that stayed over all the time? None of your damn business.

Me: I’m southern and I was reading Shakespeare by choice in middle school.

Also me: when I was seven, my buddy Vernon’s daddy beheaded a rattlesnake with a shovel on the dirt road between our homes because otherwise he’d’ve wasted a perfectly good shotgun shell.