Good post.

Pop history in general is problematic because academic rigor is swept aside in an effort to tell a fun story. I’m still reeling over how the San Francisco Unified School District used Curbed articles and half-read Wikipedia entries and consulted zero historians in their Stalinist efforts to rename schools. I’m saying…

The abuse she and others have described at his hands is horrific, but Marilyn Manson being an abusive piece of shit is the least surprising thing I’ve heard in months. HE NAMED HIMSELF AFTER CHARLES MANSON. His whole vibe is “fuck no.”

True, but there is also a thriving white supremacy scene in Russia and many of the former soviet states as they channel the humiliation of realizing they are no longer formidable world powers into racism. Kinda like the right is doing in the U.S.

And as I said above, black women make up 3% of cali’s population, and latino’s make up 40% and have never had a senate seat. This wasn’t about devaluing black women, it was about giving political power to another underrepresented group.

I think it was during Bush’s presidency when I realized she did not represent my values. I would love to see her out of office and replaced by a more progressive politician, regardless of their identity.

Especially given that black women make up about 3% of the Californian population and Latinos make up about 40% of the state’s population.

Also, what does Be Best even mean? Be the Best would make sense, or Be Kind, but Be Best is grammatically challenged.

I dunno, I hear the same thing from people at lefty protests that the people committing violence are infiltrators. There is some evidence that undercover police were starting shit in oakland during BLM protests, and there is certainly a contingent of black block protesters who aren’t really connected with anything…

But in terms of people who identify as being part of Antifa, it’s not a lot of people, right? It seems like maybe several hundred in the Bay Area judging from who shows up at protests identifying as such.

I think about the endless protests at city council meetings any time new housing was planned in my area, and how that reluctance to build housing to keep up with the population has helped drive this catastrophe.

Not the same at all, but I was thinking about how telling my grade school child that she can’t go outside because some invisible thing might kill her or her loved ones has got to be seriously messing with her. Any time I am feeling antsy and bored and reckless I look at what is happening at hospitals and stop my…

The past four years have made it really clear that the republicans and conservatives in general don’t have any values beyond being in power, and they assume their supporters are so dumb they won’t notice how often they contradict themselves.

Serious question - my impression of Antifa is that a, it is more an ideology than organization and b, it’s numbers are relatively small, maybe in Proud Boy territory (anywhere to several hundred to several thousand).  It has become this conservative bugagoo even though it isn’t actually that huge a deal. Same with…

Re the link to the Daily Beast post about how Trump shakes down his supporters. I get about seventy bajillion emails a day from the Democrats and they use many of the same methods. It’s fucking gross.

Which begs the question why Marriott was supporting them in the first place.

I mean, I wish Romney represented the Republican party so that I could still actively do all I could to keep them from having a governing majority but not fear our nation would devolve into white supremacist facism if they got power. What I really want to happen is for the Republicans to go away, the Democrats to…

I’m in general for most punk reunions. If people like it, and they enjoy it, great. X is still good live and their new album is pretty good. Jawbreaker were fantastic during their reunions shows. I’m looking forward to seeing the circle jerks tour. the footage of FLAG! was awesome. But fuck if I am going to see the…

They’ll all be fucking fine. They are jumping ship because Trump no longer is an asset. The second Ossof was called, they were done with him. If they controlled the senate, they would have been down with these capitol storming shenanigans. Some of them are already blaming antifa (how did  a group of maybe 1,000…

I don’t consider pointing out abuse or harassment to be “cancelling.” To me cancel culture is about forming these ingroup/outgroup online dynamics where you are calling people out for not being 100% ideologically pure, with the goal of increasing your ingroup status by othering someone else. And catastrophizing…