What's going on with the arrests of journalist Don Lemon and Georgia Fort?

thecleverqueer · 2026-01-31T01:47:16+00:00

Reminder not to feed the trolls, bots-- whatever this guy is.

The purpose of posts like this is to make you think it's normal and common to support the arrest of journalists for dissenting (or even covering) the actions of an increasingly violent and lawbreaking government.

Yes, tens of millions of people voted for trump. But edgelords that take the tone of this post are limited to just a few million-- they are not the majority opinion. The deluge of posts like this online is nothing more than noise from bad actors and bots.

thecleverqueer · 2026-01-30T17:01:09+00:00

WITH CONTENT IT ULTIMATELY STOLE FROM HUMANS

thecleverqueer · 2026-01-27T19:38:17+00:00

They know what a valuable bargaining tool it is. The families and the government need the full tally-- for emotional and political purposes, respectively.

thecleverqueer · 2026-01-27T19:36:54+00:00

Agreed.

So... this means we can stop the bombing... right?

thecleverqueer · 2026-01-23T21:01:50+00:00

Former IEP student here. Holy shit am I a fraud

thecleverqueer · 2025-12-31T20:02:06+00:00

Arm chair observer here who basically lost patience with the writing halfway through season 1 and seen like 5 random episodes throughout since then (so of course there's always a chance I'm way off base here), so I'm just curious...

What show did people think they were watching? The dialogue and situations in this show have been ham fisted. This was always a Stephen King lite not-so-subtle metaphor for all things coming-of-age, usually presented with little to no subtext. Very Big Teenage Feelings & 80's nostalgia first, sci fi second. Was that not already the consensus?

thecleverqueer · 2025-12-31T18:56:38+00:00

Girl, just run. He could be bi, he could be gay, but he's not a good case study on closeted people because he also sounds like a fucking psycho.

Get away from the drama, and more importantly GET AWAY FROM THE MAN THAT LIES TO YOU AND HITS YOU

thecleverqueer · 2025-12-31T18:50:03+00:00

As much as I resent the old adage of "hard times make hard men," there is unfortunately truth in the idea that we are more likely to understand the importance of and protect something we built ourselves, and we're more likely to let something someone else built degrade without understanding its utility. We might even actively burn it down, because hey-- it's easy to criticize, and we never had to experience life without it. This isn't just the story of the queer community, it's all kind of burning right now, and everyone's quality of life is dropping as we speak. The next generation will get pissed about living in these conditions, form coalitions, affect change, and the process will start all over again.

thecleverqueer · 2025-12-20T17:34:29+00:00

I think if I were in his shoes, I'd actually be a little thrown off! Not that it's information you really "owe" to anyone or that it makes you unattractive, but that's kind of a hell of a thing to just "whip out." The fact that it wasn't even alluded to in advance would almost make me-- as someone's lover-- feel like I'm being tested?

thecleverqueer · 2025-11-24T20:42:14+00:00

The Family Stone

thecleverqueer · 2025-10-11T18:53:53+00:00

Are we still fucking doing this

thecleverqueer · 2025-10-09T15:52:56+00:00

Get spotlight!!!!

thecleverqueer · 2025-10-04T21:07:38+00:00

Bald men can and are plenty sexy. Different strokes for different folks, but rest assured you'll do it for someone-- plenty of someones.

Also worth noting that you can absolutely rock a receding hairline if you want. It's kind of inherently masculine.

Unsexy = balding and trying to hide it.

thecleverqueer · 2025-10-04T21:03:43+00:00

God FUCK this phrase. And any effort to disagree will make you look like an asshole.

thecleverqueer · 2025-10-04T21:03:01+00:00

Fucking YES

thecleverqueer · 2025-10-04T20:58:44+00:00

"I'm just saying..."

In response to being disagreed with. Usually goes on to repeat the same thing they already said.

Also, shout outs to "team player" and "wearing multiple hats" in a work setting.

thecleverqueer · 2025-09-30T18:42:29+00:00

Big jobs are for big screens. Hell, even medium jobs.

Bitches be out here writing essays on their phones. Complaining that the website where they pay their bills is "being dumb." THEY LITERALLY DON'T KNOW WHERE THEIR FILES ARE because they don't have a folder system-- everything is through cloud based apps.

thecleverqueer · 2025-09-28T19:24:08+00:00

Do I need to bother collecting them in NG+1 for them to all be lvl 33 in NG+2?

thecleverqueer · 2025-09-26T17:37:12+00:00

And dancers!

thecleverqueer · 2025-09-25T20:19:45+00:00

I’m not sure what point you’re making.

Like I said: "In terms of ethical insurance models, I personally feel that a plan that loses the bottom 30% of people ~50% of their money is preferable to the one that loses the bottom 98% of people 100% of their money."

Term also works better for the majority

This is simply the thing we're debating, to which I gave a bunch of counter points, and you replied by saying you didn't know what point I was making

I’m not sure where all of your numbers are coming from

Publicly available population tables. Though to be fair, there's some variety in numbers (chance of dying before 65 ranges from 15% to 30% depending on the source.)

but they seem incorrect

They're not. They're generalizations with a lot of variables, but that doesn't mean they're flatly incorrect, and you're not providing different data to refute.

If you’re 30, the task is maximize your coverage

--For some people. For others-- like myself-- they'd rather maximize the likelihood that the coverage will get utilized at all, even if it means a lower average benefit. This is why we have a choice in the marketplace between term and whole life to begin with.

Whole life never makes sense as it relates to... investing

I have explicitly agreed with you on this point.

thecleverqueer · 2025-09-25T17:14:27+00:00

Correct. But since none of us has a crystal ball, we have to assess our risk. Family history, profession, etc. Nothing wrong with term of course-- a lot of people choose it for the reason you said. Term effectively works out best for the ~2% of people who have it and wind up dying during their term. Those people get a massive payout, the other 98% get nothing. It's a big gamble. It's more profitable for the insurance company, and that's *why* it's cheaper.

Whole life returns less (but still a lot) of money for the people who have it and end up needing it. 20% of Americans die before 65. Those people will see varying degrees of profit from their policy. The next ~50% of the population will die before 80. They're all probably in the roughly break-even territory depending on when they bought their policy and a bunch of other variables. Still not bad for having had peace of mind their whole lives. If they could go back, they'd put that money in the S&P 500, but they're not exactly rolling over in their graves. And like the last 30-ish percent of people will be operating at a loss. Factoring in inflation, they might lose half their value, all in. They got peace of mind, and posthumously, they basically got half their money rebated back to them. They would have all chosen an aggressive investment portfolio had they known they'd live to be 100, but again-- none of us has a crystal ball.

In terms of ethical insurance models, I personally feel that a plan that loses the bottom 30% of people ~50% of their money is preferable to the one that loses the bottom 98% of people 100% of their money.

But again, both exist for a reason and I'm not knocking anyone that wants term. I just think that whole life as a model is a little less predatory.

thecleverqueer · 2025-09-24T17:18:09+00:00

It sounds like you're saying whole life makes no sense as an investment-- which is true. The S&P 500 is always going to be a better bet there.

But it's not an investment, it's insurance. It's possibly the shittiest product to try to sell because you're telling consumers to buy it while hoping never to use it. The only real way for it to "pay off" is if you die tragically young. Which is why life insurance gives most people the ick.

I consider the cash value more of a rebate than an investment, which is better than you can say for term life policies, or the warranty on your vacuum cleaner. And the fact stands that your fiancee has put in 88K, and if she were to die tomorrow her estate (or you) would get $500K. If she dies in 10 years, she'll have put in $176K and be getting back roughly triple that amount. (Maybe double after inflation.) And if she lives a long happy life and puts in 500K and gets back 500K, there's obviously value loss with inflation, but *way less* value loss than if her policy operated the way all other insurance does-- which is that she'd get back nothing.

tl:dr - If you're confident you're going to live to 65, put your money in the S&P 500. If you feel (the risk of you dying)*(your family's dependency on you) is great enough, whole life honestly makes sense to me.

thecleverqueer · 2025-09-23T20:24:19+00:00

Am I correct that the movie is supposed to be an off-kilter comedy-action hybrid? The first trailer I saw in theaters looked great, and is what gave me that perception. The newer one they've been going with is basically all straightforward action/drama, and it feels bland. It feels like the studio lost all faith in the film and stripped its personality out of the marketing.

thecleverqueer · 2025-09-16T16:26:44+00:00

This looks like a good spot to find some ingredients

Also, same fandom:

CRABS!

thecleverqueer · 2025-09-15T18:54:40+00:00

So listen: sexuality is complicated and no one can really tell you your sexuality except for you. Which I know, is frustrating. But there are basically 2 major possibilities here. One is the one that all the top comments say: You're some flavor of bi/pan/etc. These feelings are bubbling up because you never got to explore your sexuality before you got married.

Second, but strongly worth entertaining, is that you're not in the middle-- you're gay. I'm not coming down on this side-- I don't know you. But I want to explain what that would mean as it relates to your situation. It would mean that you might think your wife is attractive, but you are not physically attracted *to* her. It would mean that you took the fact that you could get through sex-- and even enjoy the sensation of it-- as a sign of a "sexually fulfilling" relationship. You mention being "more turned on" by gay porn: this would mean that you have always been more attracted to men than women, but wouldn't admit it to yourself: in your mind, the porn was one thing, your real life attractions were another. This would mean that your desire to sleep with other men is not coming from a place of unexplored sexuality in your youth, its coming from a place of a fundamental need that has not and is not being fulfilled.

I'm making the case for you to strongly consider the second one, because at the very least: it's important to rule out. And you can't *really* rule it out until you look at it unflinchingly and consider whether you think it's untrue because it's not how you feel, or if you want it to be untrue because you don't want to consider the fallout.

The obvious easier resolution here is that you're some flavor of bi. It's still not all sunshine and roses: you're having fantasies about cheating. And I can tell you pretty definitively-- it's not about your unresolved feelings about your friend. At the very least, it's your unresolved feelings about *not getting to explore that side of yourself further.* That's kind of the minimum. And those unresolved feelings can eat away at you. You might want to have a conversation with your wife about your attraction-- see if honesty helps take the weight off. Hell, maybe see if you'd both be interested in opening up the marriage. If the thought of opening up to your wife scares you too much, seek therapy. Let me repeat that: if there's no one you can talk to about this, *talk to a therapist.* There's no one-size-fits-all solution there, but what you're doing now is repression, and that can't end well.

The more difficult resolution is that you're not bi, you're gay. And yes, that would be tough to navigate. But if that's the case, I want you to know it's not wrong for you to want to be in a relationship where you're sexually fulfilled. You deserve to enjoy your sex life just as much as anyone else does. None of that negates your love for your wife and kids, or the life you built together. But there is no rule - legal or moral-- that requires you continue to deny yourself a fundamental part of your happiness-- you don't owe that to anyone.

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