Posted this below as well, but it’s probably just the lawyers getting involved. Legally in California a “gang” is 3 or more members who’s primary goal is to commit crimes, and any crimes committed in affiliation with that gang can have extra sentencing attached to them.

I take strong exception to the author’s lumping HEB in with these “affluent,” exclusionary grocery chains.
HEB’s stores, while certainly clean, well laid out and stocked with a variety of quality merchandise, is hardly exclusive or overpriced. The HEB stores in my city frequently undercut even Wal-Mart’s prices, and…

In this picture, her face reminds me of Scarlett Johansson in “Lost in Translation.”

In the article Carville himself says that those policies you mentioned are popular among voters. Carville said. “Most people agree with us on health care and minimum wage and Roe v. Wade and even on the climate. So why can’t we leverage that?” He doesn’t oppose those things.

“Latinx” has not caused me or the other Latinos in my family to stop voting for Democrats. But the term is obnoxious, grating, and I can definitely see it turning some people off, so much so that they may not even want to hear what you’re saying as soon as “Latinx” leaves your lips.

But it’s totally okay to kill a cat in a park because of, you know, economic anxiety, and because a cat on a leash “violates social norms.”

Yeah, I’m not thrilled. I think a discussion about gentrification of public spaces and who is allowed to do what there is important, but the implication here is that putting a cat on a leash in a park as a sort of instagram pet influencer is a privileged thing to do and it’s just shitty.

It seems like an AWFUL…

What the actual fuck is this article? A murderous asshole of a kid took a cat’s life. Then his (white) family beat the (Asian) owners when they nearly lost it on the little monster. Gentrification doesn’t play into this anywhere. What a weird, pointless and heartless take on a senseless tragedy.

Congrats, this might be the worst take I’ve seen on this story yet.

Welp, I made the mistake of clicking the links and reading more about the story. The kid apparently stomped on the cat and threw her up in the air so hard that she died. Then the other 7 people in the family beat the shit out of the lady until bystanders pulled them off her. 

This seems like a lot of reaching for rationalization. Sometimes people are violent assholes, and they often take it out on defenseless animals. I very much doubt gentrification had anything to do with it.

How are they getting rid of the filibuster with 48 votes?

The problem with that quote is it’s from a commenter, not the author or a legal expert, and it’s completely wrong. First sale doctrine does not protect modified products in the trademark scope, and it specifically protects the copyright holder’s right to create derivative works in the copyright scope. Not only is it a…

Alexi waited too long to apologize for her wildly out of pocket tweets and she waited too long to ‘do the work’ to show she’s contrite.

Prison abolitionist? GTFO with this nonsense. We need to drastically change how we view imprisonment, but this “Woke” notion that prisons have no place in society is a damn farce and the exact reason why most rational people can’t get on board with these idiots.

Yes, she was just 17. I do think there should be space to show change (something the commentariat of this site should probably say even when they don’t like the person). But no, she’s not being cancelled. She lost a management position that was vulnerable for a 27 year old with no management experience in a different…

She was cancelled for her bigotry. Being black is irrelevant being a bigot is. This is 2021, you cant hide behind “teenage” misadventures as an excuse and only apologize when you get caught. She though her skin color and gender was a shield to woke inquisitions she was wrong.

The lesson here is, as always, NEVER TWEET. Honestly who the fuck uses Twitter? And why? There is no satisfactory answer. Twitter is garbage and useless; don’t use it.

Why is it the Dems fault for the crappiness is the bill? ItMsnhard to pass a decent bill ehen it’s obvious a large part of the Republican Party does not care at all. If it weren’t for the GA senate race, McConnel might not have even allowed it be worked in. It’s hard to negotiate with people who fundamentally don’t…