The Galactic Janitor

@dnkboston Agreed. 😃

@dnkboston There are a lot of terms which come up since the last 15 years that, frankly, I don't hear because I've lived abroad since 2010 and I would only see on social media in English. So yeah, I have to look them up.

And since I only use social media sporadically, I don't get exposed to it all that often.

@dnkboston I actually just wanted to thank you for teaching me the acronym AAPI of which I was previously unaware. I had to look it up. I didn't know there was an acronym for it and now...I do! Thank you.

@heathen_cat @evacide

Agreed. It was always aspirational - no disagreement there. But people visiting the US from abroad in the 1980s and 1990s would never have thought to themselves: "They might detain me for something that I wrote that disparages Ronald Reagan, George H. W. Bush, or Bill Clinton, so I better hide that." You can add Ford and Carter to that list as well. Hell, even George W. Bush wouldn't have done that.

That just wasn't a concern.

@evacide There was a time, growing up, that the USA was called "The Land of the Free"....

What is happening now is so ludicrously insane that words fail me.