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It’s just amazing how blatantly awful people have gotten even in small talk. Like, someone I met at a party last night, who assumed I’d fled ‘communist’ California—a notion/conversation I batted away by saying actually I’m a Hollywood liberal—and who, when someone else was asking about local organizations I support, snarked ‘I hope you weren’t counting on USAID.’

I’m talking about homeless youth and he’s scoring points on depriving the whole world’s most vulnerable people of basic necessities.