This is Steveer Robbins.

Welcome to the get it done guys, quick and dirty tips to work less and do more.

It's the holidays.

It's a time to be thankful for the abundance we have in life.

A time to reflect on our year.

It's a time to be charitable to help those less fortunate.

It's a time to show friends and family how much we love them,

and of course get into political arguments with them and end up with someone being written

out of the will, and really, who wants that?

Europa, the secret ruler of the Eastern Bloc, masquerading in her secret identity as an employee

at Green Growing Things Plant Store, has a cybernetic teenage son, Thomas. She made him herself, and she's very

proud of his 420 IQ, although like any teenager, he's going through a bit of an angst-ridden

phase at the moment, so he's a little testy. She's dreading her trip home for the holidays.

She'll be surrounded by family, holiday music will be playing, there will be a fire crackling

in the hearth,

and then cousin's snored will almost certainly pipe up. Thomas is such a nice boy. Too bad he's

one of them. Europa's blood will boil. Snorid's blood will boil. No one will have a good time,

and since Thomas has built-in blasters, if he overhears the exchange, things could get serious.

Europe's only hoped for peace is to learn how to have a survivable partisan discussion.

First, let's get clear. In 21st century political discussions, you're not arguing about issues,

you're not arguing about policy, you're arguing about identity. Not identity politics, which is a catchphrase

that people use to get upset and to disregard what other people have to say, but actual emotional,

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