As an Old, I do think the language policing is an issue. I’ve been around long enough that I’m on like round four or five of terminology, and it all just seems a little pointless to me at times. We keep thinking if we just change what we call things, we’ll change how people think about them, and then our terminology…

My understanding is that the young black vote helped turn georgia around. The kind of engagement that black voters matter and Ms. Abrams have been doing in that state isn’t cheap or easy, but it can work. But yeah, the internet progressives do not represent the actual people who vote, who tend to be more conservative…

I think the internet ruined it. And then we white folk jumped on the fact that it had become self righteous and obnoxious af and turned it into “if you are against traitors, you are woke cancel culture.”

I agree with that Carville’s opinions on Dem strategy are about as relevant as the Goo Goo Dolls opinion on how to write a radio hit in 2021, and that middle aged and elderly white men shouldn’t be dictating what language should be used. However, as a middle aged white coastal elite, I am concerned that progressives…

Sure, but we also have 100x the gun violence that the UK has. We are a much more violent country. I’m all for training, deescalation, demilitarization, routing funding to other functions, but we also need to be real about violence in this country. It’s not all coming from the police.

“Yes, maybe the other girl would have sustained a stab.” She easily could have killed the other girl. The cop saw someone trying to kill another person and shot the attacker. He took her life but likely saved the other girl’s life. The whole thing is terrible, but he shows up, they are brawling, he sees a girl try to…

Angel Olsen has been posting pictures of her girlfriend since last summer.

Agree. i think it is hard to have a discussion about cancel culture when the conservatives use the term to mean calling out actual nazis, but there is a toxic element in progressive circles of crucifying people for misspeaking or saying something stupid years ago, and using one insensitive or even racist remark to…

Right??? “You probably won’t end up living on the street selling yourself for the drugs that rapidly destroy your body until you die of an overdose or from heart failure before you are 50" isn’t a strong selling point. The whole reason I never fucked with hard drugs was because I was surrounded by examples of those…

Also where they Americans? And if so why the fuck where they in cancun during a pandemic?

In college, some of my friends got into cocaine, and every single one followed the path of using a little coke to get amped for the weekend to using a lot of coke to get amped for the weekend to “my new weekend hobby is sitting around doing coke and talking nonsense until 4am”.

Another way to spin this is that a third of the users of hard drugs will fall into a hellish spiral of addiction which they will have to fight for years to break free of and will cause untold damage to themselves and others in the process. But cool, you chase that dragon if it makes you feel like a rebel.

The hagiographies of some of these mediocre-ass bands, and Poly Styrene’s estate is out there begging for money.

One thing I’ll say - I knew the bad brains were important, but as a young punk in the late 80s, the only thing in print by them were there later metal albums, which I wasn’t interested in. I only heard their debut in the 2000s when it became more widely available. Same with Germ Free Adolescents. It wasn’t readily…

This is all horrifying. I think what is so particularly horrifying is the viciousness  of the attacks and the randomness. It could literally be anyone at anytime. All I can say is if you see something, say something and do what you can to intervene and keep people safe.

The whole concept of sex/porn addiction is a fabrication invented by conservative christian churches to pathologize desire and let men off the hook for not being able to keep their dicks in their pants.

Haven’t you ever said something offensive that could be used against you?

Shit like this is why I think cancel culture is a thing and sucks. She was a dumbass when she was a teenager and said some awful things. she thus joins the club of every single fucking person on this planet who was an asshole at some point in their development. She just had the misfortune to be an asshole out loud.…

They have, what, 140 million that they need to use towards the mission of educating women, so an “institute” seems a logical choice to retain the charitable purpose of the endowment.

That wasn’t my intent. I wasn’t arguing that this asshole wasn’t a racist piece of shit egged on by trump, or that trumps continuing racism hasn’t contributed bigly to attacks on asians. I’m saying that, in my community, a place where motherfuckers hate trump, there is still a lot of anti-asian violence among folks…