They're supposed to have different tastes? I've tried several different kinds of rum and vodka along with a Buddy of mine buying some Crown Royal Black to share with me at my 21st and I couldn't tell the difference between any of them. I could tell the difference between a few of the different beers I've tried but none of them tasted anything like they were described to me.

Coffee and tea both do it, but both depend on how strong they're brewed and are generally easier to push through than any alcohol I've ever tried. Espresso though is vile no matter what. Salad generally is fine though depending on the vegetables used certain ones are more powerful than others. Like lettuce on its own has this weird finish to it and that's the extent of the unpleasantness.

As for alcohol I've had a few different kinds of rum, whisky, vodka, a few different wines, and basically I can't tell the difference between anything that isn't the wine. It's like once it hits a certain proof all I can taste is the alcohol part.

I'll see about giving that a shot then.

I've tried wines like that before. I apparently have that gene where you super taste bitter and it just tasted like flat LaCroix mixed with paint thinner.

I probably won't be able to tolerate it then sadly. I'm super sensitive to bitter flavors that's seemingly why alcohol is always so unpleasant to me. I've tried so many drinks that even friends who barely drink at all say they can hardly taste the alcohol that all tasted just vile to me. Thanks though!

Wait... That's not a normal lesbian thing?

Huh, TIL there's a term for this. It took me until I was 26 to figure out I was nonbinary because I didn't know it was a thing you could be. I knew about trans people, but I only knew of the binary MtF or FtM. I knew being a boy felt wrong at like 8, but no matter how I thought about it I didn't feel like a girl either. So I just chalked it up to disliking the things I was expected to be as a guy and that was that. Until I was talking about that experience with my partner.

Now I kinda want to try soju. I have yet to meet a drink with any appreciable amount of alcohol in it that doesn't taste like paint thinner smells to me. The only way I've ever been able to "not taste the alcohol" is if there's barely any in the drink.

Do you know what "distinction without difference" means? It's when you present two things as being entirely different when they function the same way. By treating what ICE is going right now as some new "distinct" thing and ignoring how it's part of a broader issue you make it easier to ignore the whole issue.

Say we win and ICE vanished tomorrow. What is there to stop Red States from just weaponizing the regular old carceral system to effectively continue the same policy? How do you fight against it when you were so bent on saying "No, this is different," and everyone just shrugs because "Oh they're getting due process now. What more do you want? They're criminals,"

You don't have to say that this is some new horror we've never seen before to stress how bad what ICE is doing is. You're actively working against yourself when you make ICE out to be some extraordinary aberration and not the natural progression of American policing.

The fuck do you mean am I for real? Yes let's compare this group of people getting arrested by "law enforcement officers" because "trust me bro, they're criminals and need to be deported," with this group of people being arrested by law enforcement officers because "trust me bro, they're criminals and need to go to prison," shall we?

One group gets no trial, the other gets pressured into pleading guilty regardless of whether they actually did the thing they were arrested for, gets as little as 5 minutes with their public defender depending on the location, and can still end up losing everything even if they're acquitted because of how long they were held for. Oh yeah, that's due process alright.

Of course ICE is the battle we need to fight right now, but let's not fucking pretend that this is some fresh horror we've never seen before. They just feel like they can get away with being more bold with it because "they're illegals" where they don't feel that way with poor people yet. They still feel the need to pretend we get due process.

A huge chunk of the American carceral system is people in jail awaiting trial. According to the Prison Policy Institute 70% of the population of city and county jails are pretrial detentions. They can't afford bail so they are stuck in jail without ever being convicted of anything.

Not only is it real, I saw a video that his team cut together of the moment like it was a damn Play of the Game highlight of him "owning" the Republicans. Words cannot express the depths of my hatred for Democratic leadership at this moment. This bill is going to be one of if not the most catastrophic pieces of legislation ever passed and THIS is all their so-called "resistance" amounts to?

I hate them and their strategy of "Do nothing, give the Republicans enough rope to hang themselves, then make it the responsibility of the voters to get rid of them so they don't have to promise anything or stand for anything." They gave 'em though rope alright, except they're not hanging themselves, they're diving off a cliff and the rope is tied around our waists too.