Everyone wants to be angry, no one wants to be scared.

Uh, disagree about the universality here! There is a man with a social impediment who hangs out near my work, and as a queer trans woman there are few things as off-putting as his need to tell me whenever he sees me that “your shoes are nice! Those are the same, right? They’re big.” I feel obligated to be nice to him…

I feel like that was the season they realized “wait, maybe some people think these characters are good people? That’s not the message we want to be sending.” So then they burned it all down. Truglio’s corrupt cop (“lot of job history, not so many references”) and Roberts’ violent burnout were particularly good…

Yeah I was a little young for the Warcraft/Warcraft 2 lore to really stick, but by the time I was playing early WoW it seemed pretty clear that the Horde weren’t the baddies. Plus Orcs could be Shamans, thus the nature-loving thing. But it’s been years now since I’ve played that one too. Kinda amazing really that it’s…

“orcs are nature bros who got bamboozled by a necromancer grandpa orc”

Those are some powerful murals. Thank you for sharing them. I would love to see them properly displayed in a museum, where you could sit and meditate on them. I have seen other Diego Rivera murals in that context, and I was glad for the experience. They are fertile grounds for contemplation. But I think I probably…

But I did quit Twitter? I said that two comments above... so confused. Wait, is this just an elaborate game in which you’re playing the scales until you find the note that lets you get the last word in? Like the insult that gets me to finally walk away, proving your moral correctness in this interaction, winning you…

Are you shorting Splinter or something? Because I chose to navigate to this site and engage with its content. If you think the response to mildly disliking something should be to leave, why are you still here trying to chase off the people who are into the content they publish? Take your own advice! You might end up…

Probably! It’s an unhealthy world. But in engaging in this thread I’m supporting something I like, not shitting on something I hate... so I kinda feel okay with my choices in this situation.

Good advice! I got off Twitter in 2017 and I feel my life is better for it. But last I checked Kinja isn’t Twitter? And I read Splinter because I appreciate posts like this. Each one is a little reminder of all the bullshit that I gave up; it’s helpful on the off days I miss my pocket friend simulator.

I guess some of us are just exhausted with jokes in which the structure is some implied inchoate threat and the target is some piece of art that looks neat?

Pretty sure I know one question that’s going to change:

Here’s the thing... those voters are wrong. Their hearts are wrong. Their views are wrong. I don’t get how “shut up, don’t talk about race” fixes that. It seems like playing to those desires actually just lets the shard of hate in their hearts fester, when they need to confront it and extract it if they want to be…

I want single payer because I don’t want my employer-provided health insurance—which is opaque as hell—determining whether or not I should be using the health clinic that specializes in my community.

I wasn’t going to respond, but this is kinda exactly the type of thing that I mean when I say that inexperience with the LGBTQ community leads a person to some bad takes. I came out because the alternative was suicide. Yes, I think being able to live in the closet without killing yourself is a privilege. I think, with…

Definitionally? “Jesus Christ this is so fucking stupid” is a judgment.

I am well aware of this, as are most other people who air their gripings in mixed company. But there is a frustration which comes when you’ve been doing LGBTQ activism for a couple of decades, and yet it’s the voices of the person who’s been out two years that gets privileged in a conversation because they have a…

Yeah, it is judgmental. It’s also often coming from people who made a different choice, to come out younger to light a path for the people still in the closet, who suffered to make space for the people who had the privilege to wait and lie about their identity and gain power in society by doing so.

I think you’re missing an important piece of the subtext here. What he’s saying is “I keep trying to get you to be personal with me and you’re always focused on work,” which probably translates from her perspective into “this coworker keeps trying to be creepy to me, and I keep trying to be nonconfrontational about it…

I think you’re making a key mistake here, that undercuts your otherwise accurate assessment. Trump isn’t defending Pelosi here. What he is doing is defending racism, specifically the right’s understanding of racism. And this is a continuing problem for the Democratic Party.