That greying horseshit and constant boomer bashing were a couple of reasons I’m not all that sorry Splinter’s gone. Too bad there’s no particularly frank political writing like this anywhere though. 

My earliest memory of him is when he repeatedly bullied Chelsea Clinton - who was 12 or 13 at the time - by referring to her as the White House dog. More than once. 

How does that system even work? I’ve been in and out of the grays repeatedly on Kotaku with seemingly no rhyme or reason.

I know this has been going around but just in case you want it, here is an invite to the Discord server (read: AOL-style chatroom haha) with a bunch of Kinja people in it. https://discord.gg/yTEzC2j (yes I know I am copy pasting, future asshole who’s going to mention it)

Oh I am aware of that, still was a shitty way to handle, thankfully Deadspin created a stink(probably after seeing the quiet secretive execution of their sister site). And don’t be so disrespectful to vampires or vultures etc... as just about anything has redeeming qualities when sat next to Venture…

They killed it without any warning or send-off on purpose, to show that they not only didn’t respect or value Splinter, but that they had open contempt for its content and its staff.

The commenting system sucks.  The users, and the environment that cultivated those users is what’s made the sites what they were.

It was a deliberate decision b/c Spanfeller and Great Hill Partners serve the needs of the capitalist class. They are taking a financial loss on this particular group of sites to shut down a voice which could inspire others to ultimately organize towards their doom.

Towards the end it got a little too far left at times, and I’m 99% sure about a third of the comments were by trolls (mostly masquerading as liberals). But it was a good way to get the new succinctly. CNN is such a cluster I have trouble trying to figure out what might actually be important news and what’s just crap.

Shutting down the only dedicated politics website in your portfolio right before the 2020 election, one of the most consequential of our lifetime, kicks into high gear. Essentially shutting down the second-most highly trafficked website in your portfolio because one out of every twenty five posts rankles you. I’m not…

I don’t think I have given up (not saying that you said that I was). Rather, I am sad about the state of this country. So much is wrong. SO much anger and, frankly, stupidity. Despite that, I still want it to be a better place. I think that is where my sadness comes from. You might be apathetic now but I trust that…

Well fuck I just moved my pathetically small retirement fund to 3/4 stock cause I was tired of it sitting there stagnant while everyone else was making a bunch of money. Now I guess it’s pathetically smaller. I don’t wanna look. Fuck this shit. I’m gonna start dealin’ tina. 

“80% of my job is also bullshit.”

WILD SPECULATION:  After midterms (regardless of result), Trump fires Sessions, Trump nominates Lindsey Graham to replace Sessions, Haley fills Graham’s now vacant Senate seat (they’re both from SC), Ivanka named UN ambassador, I spontaneously combust.

She probably got tired over the last few weeks of all the other ambassadors constantly laughing at her while mockingly saying “Don’t feel bad Nikki, we’re laughing WITH you out of love and respect.”

Their entire appeal is to white, mostly male, Christian grievance and resentment. If you don’t stoke the resentment of white Christians, if you don’t explain to them constantly how they’re the real victims and how the mistreatment of them is dooming America, you can’t be a successful Republican because there is…

Official photo release from Kavanaugh’s office of his new team of clerks:

Yeah, I think the big lesson of 2018 is that when Hillary called half of Trump’s followers “deplorables” she underestimated quite a bit.

And he’s 76. That’s what pure evil will do to your face.

used to be hangovers/comedowns were the worst part of me day..... now i see them as a welcome relieve