I’ve never been, nor had the desire to hear white people wax nostalgic about any portion of the antebellum south, but I feel as though your words transported me to every plantation tour save the one mentioned in this article. Take your star.

These were English, French, Dutch and Spanish colonies and the slave trade was a joint venture between governments and the private sector in England at least...

I’m color blind to greys. I just don’t see em.

but you seem to like sniffing up under his ass otherwise you wouldn’t be here. what stormfront has no more room for you?

Michael Harriot: Secretary of Education 

It also helps if you’re thinking to yourself “How can I somehow spin my cheap shittiness into a sense of moral superiority.”  Just an astonishing idea all around!

Not tipping doesn’t hurt management, it hurts the restaurant workers who depend on tips. How is it that you think this works? How do you think you go to a restaurant, pay the bill, which primarily resounds to the owner, refuse to leave a tip that would go entirely to the worker, and somehow this is supposed to change…

If tipping were abolished completely, then yes, employers would be forced to pay the full amount of their employees’ wages BUT they would also raise the prices to cover that, so that customers would still be paying them. There’s no scenario where customers buy something and don’t have to cover the costs for it.

Thing is, all of that crap will still serve as points offered up ad-nauseam from various talking heads. There is just one less venue to debate and rebut the silly messaging now.

Hey, I’m not super familiar with Discord, but is there a way to obfuscate our e-mail addresses or names? I’m not super-duper anonymous, but I don’t need fuckin’ Tomato or something finding me in there and sending me e-mails.

How about the mistake of buying a series of websites and then somehow through complete incompetence and malice flushed their popularity down the toilet?

Crime. Its their code word for crime. These people are killers and thieves who have economically enthralled the political elite (legislators) in their countries of operation and as a result will never serve the sentence for their crimes.

Didn’t Uber invent a pretty awesome piece of software that lets people hire a cab and see how much it was going to cost and exactly when the driver would arrive? Couldn’t they license it out to all of the worlds taxi companies and make a killing?

While I do appreciate the extension of an offer from someone I really enjoyed reading with, I don’t support Discord as a platform due to their Tencent association.

Also, how fucking weird is it to see stories about the demise of Splinter and Deadspin on CNN?

In all honesty, my thoughts are very mixed on the site, for as much content as this site brought, the last year honestly felt like division for the sake of division in left-wing circles.

I often criticized Splinter articles - too simple, too foreseeable, to much in the usual woke mold. But damn, I miss it already! Godspeed, y’all.

I think it also frames why a lack of regulation is bad. The wealthy can buy and sink anything they don’t like. That has to be changed. I’m not sure how but we better figure it out before we’re only getting what they want us to get.

I poured my heart and soul into driving reader engagement on Splinter. I failed. It is a guilt I will carry for the rest of my life.

Splinter scratched an itch. Vox is pretty good. NYT and the WP are .. fine ... I guess.