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Yes.

I interpreted the tone as more exasperated than offended. But that’s the danger of tone in written language: just as someone can read the article and interpret its tone as offended, someone could (and did) read your comment and interpret its tone as offended. You say that that interpretation is incorrect. It’s just as…

So you yourself were not offended by the coverage of the ad but merely commenting your disagreement with the article’s position. This indicates that commenting on something—even to disagree—does not require or necessarily imply a position of offense. From that we can conclude that neither the article itself nor…

I like his little “they could have made more money pulling over the speeders who were passing me” comment. Yeah, maybe they could have but you were endangering yourself and others which was a more pressing concern. Traffic court should have increased his fine just because he’s a moron.

Why would I try to replicate a Krispy Kreme when I could go to Jolly Pirate and get superior donuts immediately and with no effort?

I was Dipper for Halloween last year.

Hot Krispy Kremes are fine but they have a shelf-life of like 45 seconds. After that they revert to their natural state: sickly sweet air that leaves a weird film in your mouth.

Oh, you absolutely have to open something for Christmas, but that just means the the gift card goes in a box. If someone says they want X for Christmas, getting them anything not-X is a dick move.

An animatronic Trump blathering some twaddle about “the achievements of the American spirit” is not the way to remember and learn from his election.

I did not know there was a second verse. Thank you, kind stranger.

I agree that the fandom is far from united but I’d like to think that there are some promising signs. That Confederate flag suiter got banned from Anthrocon. Two the Ranting Gryphon isn’t getting a platform anywhere as far as I’m aware.

It is deeply confusing. The furry fandom is very white (80-90%) but also very LGBT+ so the existence of Nazis in the fandom seems particularly contradictory.

That’s a bit like saying that the “alt-right” isn’t new. There have always been Nazi furs but not this many, who are comfortable being this open.

...except for the most recent season, which is 2/3 hot liquid garbage...

So then you go after the guy with the van. And then you go after the thing after that. Kicking the kids out of the store is step 1. Yes, you have to continue on to step 2 and to step 3 and so on, but you have to start with step 1.

I’m aware that the sentiment has been expressed before; that’s why I think it’s worth interrogating.

This is a strange attitude to take. “The proposed law doesn’t fix all issues forever so let’s not even bother”?

I think it’s important to have realistic expectations for the impact of this law (assuming it passes, which... well...). You are right that this law will only serve to protect a subset of domestic violence victims and that it does nothing to address concurrent issues that lead to gun violence. It’s particularly…

It doesn’t say when he uploaded the photos or in what context. He could have uploaded them while they were still together and forgot after they broke up. He could have unknowingly uploaded them with a bunch of other files when backing up his computer.