Conversely, it’s hard to care about literature when you don’t have empathy. Especially “serious” literature, as opposed to sci-fi or fantasy that seems to be easier to connect with for rightwingers (though it may often require reading a dystopian work as inspirational instead of as a warning). I read that many of the important people in silicon valley are into sci-fi …

While there’s some truth to that, Merz is definitely part of the party’s right wing. There are quite a few regional CDU politicians who happily govern in coalitions with the Greens.

They divorced in 2008, about 15 years after Debian was named. That’s a pretty long relationship by today’s standards, IMO.

If your names are Debbie and Ian, it might just work!

You DON’T own useless junk? Only thing that’s stopping me somewhat is that I don’t really have anywhere to put it.

Even if they are, a lot of people “get the ick” about gay men when they have to deal with them close and personally, not even bisexual women are exempt from this.

As a German, yeah apparently we are. Starting to hate my country.

They’re just a regular conservative party, the pivot to being bloodthirsty racist fuckbags is somewhat recent. Angela Merkel was in this party as well and she was pretty open to immigration and specifically hates the current party chief.

Your sister sounds awful. What’s your question, though?

I’d like to point out that I’m european, not american - this is the opposite of calling each other hypocrites.

It’s not like most european countries are in a good position to justifiably point fingers here …

Aren’t you pretty much born trans? We have a rather poor understanding of why people are transgender, but AFAIK what we do know points to it being already determined at birth.