Let's put it this way: I'm a very smart person, and I can't give a specific definition for Deplorable. I can't even think of easy examples. The first thing that comes to mind is Jews in the Holocaust. It's so complex that to most people it really just means bad. It failed because nobody fucking knows what it means.

If the news people are more online than the trans people, surely this means the news people lost, right?

You should make yourself financially bulletproof first, and have some investments. You'll have to do real work, which might not be something you're used to doing. Don't delude yourself that it'll be easy, your current job is undoubtedly easier than teaching.

But that said, yes you should, if it's not stupid for you to do it. You can't help change the system by helping capitalists, the best thing a leftist can do is either join a union or become a teacher. Pick a job to make money, or to help society. The middle ground exists purely to make losers feel better about existing inside capitalism.

Is Matt ever coming back? Did we ever find out what happened to him? Is he, like, paralyzed from the neck down? If your job is just bullshitting with your friends to begin with, why would anybody need to take a full year off? I assume he's been out of the hospital for several months at least, right?

He's essentially the straight man, and unfortunately most of the guests he's brought on for the past year were also straight man types. Chapo was better with 2 dedicated goofball slots, but without Matt that's a very hard thing to get.

Gotta be Mike Pence, right?

You really need to get professional help, if that situation got you actively suicidal. Don't wait for another episode, at that point you won't want to reach out. That is a major overreaction to someone being a major asshole towards you. There will always be people who are shitty to you, but you can't give them that sort of power over you. You still control how you react to them.

You should stop worrying about OT, for one. Jobs take as long as they take, next time your boss chews you out, just say "Oh okay, so you would prefer I just go home after 8 hours, even if there are a couple things left to do?". Not as a gotcha, just a legitimate question. Just don't care about whether you work 8 hours or 8.5, and do whichever he says he wants you to do. Find out which side he prefers, and do that.

This reads to me like an admission that, since we apparently know for sure of God's wrath, there is literally no purpose to punishing crimes. I mean, surely a murderer wouldn't dream of doing it a second time, when they logically know for sure that their afterlife would then be upgraded from regular Hell up to Double Hell, which as we all know is a misnomer of a name due to it being easily 50x worse than regular Hell. Therefore, recidivism is a myth and we would just be overcomplicating the person's actual punishment. So it's actually barbaric to punish literally any crime.

Thankfully, there are no other buildings in NYC within range of a nuclear bomb

Now I'm no world leader who has just been accused of genocide by a good chunk of the entire world, so maybe I'm out of my depth on this one, but personally, if it were me, I would start out with denying the accusations, followed by explaining exactly how what my country is doing differs from genocide. What I would definitely not do is simply try to exert my severe lack of power over other world leaders who are asking extremely reasonable questions and drawing a straight line from those to conclusions of genocide.

Based on his reported actions, I believe we have no other choice than to conclude that Netanyahu is extremely suicidal and is hoping for it all to be over soon.

Nobody who talks about economics like that person has even passed econ 101/102. I know this because I can explain why they're wrong using only what I learned in econ 101/102. Though to be fair, nobody who actually understood econ 101/102 would support capitalism at all.