Auto-ban? I post here all the time. Substantively. That’s a severe mistake to make for me posting my opinion. That’s horseshit. Banning me for criticizing you, mildly, is absurd behavior. I’m not a bloody troll, and the number of trolls constantly harassing me proves that.

Another article I’m still grey. I’ll clear my cookies in a bit but I who knows. 

Trump saying he felt “unwelcome” was delicious because that is precisely the point, which he didn’t seem to grasp. 

I write, myself, and this is less a fluff piece than an angry tweet in article form. People keep making this argument, but there’s no lack of fluff pieces on this site and something like this right after a bunch of people take a buyout...does it really not bother you at all? It’s like circling the gutter. 

Well I hope so. Despite my criticism of this article I have nothing against the author and like some of his longer pieces, so I’d be glad to be wrong. 

Any reason you can think of? Maybe I’m wrong and it had nothing to do with the comment, but it’s kind of odd I was out to make that comment and then suddenly in the greys after it. It’s hard not to expect there’s a correlation. 

I don’t know about “deadly serious”. There’s snark in most articles. That’s fine. But this? This is just giving a bunch of attention to an asshole who likes attention. It feels too childish. Coming so soon after the buyout and a bunch of good writers having to walk it just...it strikes me as fundamentally wrong.

Fuck off troll. 

Given that he pushed me back into the greys for my comment, I’m not so sure I “dig it”. It’s one thing to disagree with what I wrote. It’s another to try and force criticism away. I can see your argument, though I’m not sure the news blog is the proper place for that, and Splinter was set up to be more newsy than…

Wow, so apparently I’m now back in the greys? I wrote this and suddenly I’m punished for it? What bullshit fucking cowardice is that? I’ve been out of the greys on Splinter for ages.

That speaks more ill of you than it does of me. 

So obviously you’re just a worthless troll, as numerous others have stated, but you realize the Democrats have been losing, and a big part of it is spineless centrists who won’t speak out against gerrymandering or voter suppression or other potentially controversial issues, which let’s Republicans cheat without…

You do realize the polling data shows the complete opposite of your assumption, right? Voters support more liberal healthcare policies, a majority of them, including a plurality to a majority of GOP voters depending on how the question is worded. 

This is a hilariously bad take, completely ignorant of data, voting trends, and realpolitik. I mean, this couldn’t be more self-righteously ignorant if you tried. Progressives hurt your feelings, well grow the fuck up and use data and evidence to inform your opinions not your hurt feelings. Bloody hell. 

...is this really worth a story? Chait is an asshat who only occasionally writes a decent piece, and is pretty much “gatekeeping white centrist” to the T, but this isn’t news and it’s barely gossip.

It was still around then, and to my knowledge it’s still around now. It’s actually a pretty predatory store, stores going under basically get shipped all the shit they can’t sell in healthy stores, so it’s a constant mess. But last time I checked their basic inventory isn’t even that far from what I dealt with a…

Yup same thing. Our displays and their location was all planned by corporate, who’d never set food in our store or mall. 

Ah let me rephrase that. Store managers were chill. Anything above that was insanely corporate. I mean they’d send us pictures of the displays then wanted in the store and if we didn’t follow it there was hell to pay. No matter if it didn’t suit our store or mall or anything like that. They eventually shut down my…

So I did about a year at Spencers, which obviously wants to give a vibe of being cool and rebellious (despite being super corporate in reality) and the one time that actually seemed true was all the store managers seemed pretty chill as long as we didn’t say anything bad in front of customers. 

That’s terrifying. I assume most people have had at least some retail experience, and being able to relax and talk shit when customers aren’t around is a seriously necessary psychological crutch. Human beings are just not designed to stand at a cash register and not socialize for hours at a time. It causes stress and…