packraticus
Patrick Salvant
packraticus

Created this account purely to rave about how cool the chess posts are, amazing detail!

I’m a straight woman of color and my dad sexually abused me. Let me spell out to you what incest meant to me. I can remember only a very few moments of my childhood ever being happy. There are no childhood photos of me smiling. I spent much of my childhood in my bed, under a blanket, crying. I was completely

Keep vomiting it out until I’m blue in the face:

she spent 7 years in prison you absolute genius

And this farce is what we allowed to happen by “not being inspired” by our candidate, or going “Bernie or bust,” or believing there’s no way in hell Trump would ever win, that there aren’t that many people gullible enough to vote him in.

To the best of my knowledge, by all accounts Ford knew who Kavanaugh was prior to her assault. She was not drunk or drugged, so her memory on that night was clear.  She didn’t have to piece together a description of an unknown attacker like Thompson-Cannino did with the aid of shoddy police work to come to the wrong

Yeah. First of all, he should have never been nominated for this spot. There were like a handful of other emotionally and personally bland people who’d have sailed through.

Let’s lay the actual assault and harassment allegations to the side for a second.

He’s the poster child for toxic, white, christian, rich men everywhere. He checks all the boxes:

I’m sick and fucking tired of perfect being the enemy of good.

It also made split-screen annoyingly circuitous:

I don’t believe every person who voted for him is a monster.

Let’s just get the obvious stuff out of the way and acknowledge that multi-billion-dollar companies don’t have fundamental values outside of doing what best benefits their shareholders.

Counterpoint- he’s a walking anal fissure and moral cesspool that deserves all the scorn he gets.

In a restaurant full of people, he chose to publicly shame and threaten some people who spoke Spanish, and could have actually ruined their lives if he had followed through with calling ICE. And when this video came out, it became clear that he had done this type of stuff before. He isn’t a victim, and this sentiment

Apparently I wasn’t black because I listened to Guns N Roses.

“I think you can be pro-black with a white person on your arm.”

I saw Prince prototype his Piano & A Microphone show at his home in Paisley Park. It was a small audience, maybe 400 people standing around. Just us, Prince, a microphone, and the biggest damn purple piano you’ve ever seen.

Holy shit, this was special. I was a ball boy back when Andre was at American University. I remember him so fondly. I spent half the game on the phone with my father - an alum and season ticket holder for almost 40 years - both of geeking us, so proud.

Chrome OS is the future. They just implemented native linux containers. Imagine linux that’s actually pleasant to use in a casual way.