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.

It’s funny, in the comic I initially hated Sam’s suit and thought it needed a redesign to make it sleeker, but it grew on me.

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.

Oh sure, we can go back further, especially if we get into literature. The whole “Soviet Invasion” genre in the 60s and 70s tended to be quite critical of suburban living and how it made Americans “soft.” 50 and 60s Counterculture prose and poetry where similarly fond of ranting against the sanitized reality of…

Not sure if I watched the same show, but in the one I saw, going back was impossible because her “husband” was dead and her children never existed. The point of Vision having bought the lot to build on was that, had he lived, they were going to get the suburban life.

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…