This response doesn’t make any sense in context to what I said. I literally don’t know what you’re trying to say.

Let’s pump the brakes and consider what it means to expect and demand the first and only black president to be responsible for saving us from every single thing.

It’s Babby’s First Hand-drawn Lettering. It’s one of the easiest (IMO) forms of lettering to get a working grip on and doubly so since Pinterest had allowed it to take hold over Every Single Craft.

Same. This is my lifelong career and this stuff is dumb and exaggerated as fuck.

Comic Sans wank is old and tired. It’s not that bad, people, you’ve just been conditioned to participate in internet circlejerk about it the same way it’s convinced you that Nickelback is Literally Satan. I mean, they’re not great. But they’re really not worthy of all this hate-hype.

It’s actually not necessary. You’ve reasoned that it is because it is convenient to your parenting and because spanking is so normalized that it has become an unthinking and unquestioning mainstay of raising children. Spanking, empirically speaking, is not for the benefit of your child. It is either ineffectual at…

You’re 100% right, of course. None of this makes what he did illegal, even if I think it ought to be.

Barring your gross oversimplification of what I said, let’s say for a moment you’re right. Kids understand “a lot more”, whatever that means. If that were the case, you would be able to have a rational conversation with them discussing the full context and nuance of their actions, they would understand and knock it…

It’s not as though there is a mountain of evidence that has grown over decades that has indicated that spanking is a largely damaging act toward children. No, it must be “white suburban yuppie moms” who are very well-known to abuse perfectly good science, what with their antivaxx movements and cold-pressed juices.

I’m convinced the only reason it’s so ardently defended is because it’s a tradition. With such damning evidence mounted against spanking, there’s really no excuse to continue doing it except “my parents did it to me”, which obviously is flimsy. It’s hard to let go of something that seems so normalized to the…

It boggles the mind how badly fully grown adults with complete sentience and control over a situation want to physically hit a completely dependent child who doesn’t even have fully developed neurocognitive skills to even begin to understand why it’s happening.

It is, tho.

The evidence for spanking is overwhelmingly negative at this point in time. Saying that you were spanked and “turned out fine” is a gross oversimplification and carves out a niche where you are a magical exception to it all and you’re not. You can’t travel to a parallel universe where you weren’t spanked in order to…

Thank you for clarifying. If you’ve spent so much time explaining yourself, I think it’s fair to consider that your original post was not clear, you did not express your ideas well, and you’ve been using very strong, very generalized language that was easily confused. I understand where you’re coming from now.

I purposely replied to someone who wasn’t you because you declared that you were ignoring anyone trying to defend the concept and I didn’t want to upset you further since you brought your own experience into play and I’m not really interested in stepping on that. So I’m assuming based on what you said that you’re not…

I feel like there needs to be a wider distinction between rape fantasies and...well, this. Consenting non-consent is probably closer to what your average person gets off to (that is to say, the non-consent is illusory and they decide what happens to them/by whom in their fantasy) and the appeal has more to do with…

He’s a known variable. Mike Pence is an immense pile of shit, but he’s the immense pile of shit we know. He’s on the extreme end of establishment Republicanism, sure, but we wouldn’t need to deal with nuclear war on top of the standard ‘crush oppressed people’ agenda.

I agree with loudly rejecting the banishment of the rights of oppressed people and I agree that it’s abhorrent to pull funding for healthcare, but you’re not describing them or their motivations through a lens of truth — you’re doing it through the lens of your own progressivism. I wholeheartedly believe they’re wrong…

I wish I could go back in time and pre-emptively write “Yes, I know how the presidential line of succession works and I am fully aware of who the Vice President Elect is” just to eliminate 2/3rds of my inbox right now.

I’m not saying we should give people a pass and never criticize their choices. I’m saying that maybe we ought to take a good, hard look at our rhetoric about ‘lesser evils’ so we can actually accurately talk about the greater ones when they come along without having a population that’s started to tune out the…