or the acute inability to avoid focusing on the real problems we already have by engaging in nonsense.

I had just about given up hope, too.

I think one good thing about it is that anything dogmatic eventually inevitably eats its' own tail if allowed to go on long enough… groups split into sub-groups and war with each other, then split into even more sub-groups etc. until the whole thing becomes untenable.

Thin people are inconvenient right now.

The only thing positive I'm taking from this article is some relief in that the vast majority of commenters here are able to recognize utter bullshit when they see it.

Well said.

They're blowing it!

I feel like this really authoritarian/PC side of the left just seems bigger and more louder than it is because they're very much into being online.

'Kim & Jessie' is definitely close to the zenith.

No More Robin Thick.

It has to be severely not okay for a while, then when there's enough people in your grouping, there can be a campaign to make it okay again.

(Grandpa shaming).

It's always seemed like a bad idea to me to attempt to have art approved by committee. You end up with some really shitty, boring art. It may not offend anyone, but that's because it doesn't fucking do anything to anyone.

(sprays Cheetohs at you)

Well-defined muscles are like fairies… if you believe in them enough, they'll just show up one morning.

That's a worthwhile policy in almost any situation.

You really are jumping into this nonsense with both feet, huh AVclub?

It's probably far from over.

They pushed it too far, I guess.

I tend to frame my love of DM in 'The Alan Wilder Years'…
I can't say with much certainty how vital he was to the songwriting, but he obviously added something essential to the chemistry and sound.