ah, and today is the day that I delete Jezebel from my feeds. I’m sure you won’t miss me, but man, this take is Not Good.

It is so irresponsible. He is being recalled by republicans who hope that they can have like 5% of the electorate turn out and overnight switch the state red and who knows maybe pick up a federal senate set, but yeah, what did newsom say that one time?

I thought Ron Jeremy was funny in the 90s because he was ugly and hairy and seemed like a likeable schlub, and I never had the sense that anything non-consensual was going on. He was working back in the day when there were like 100 people in porn in the San Fernando Valley and they all knew each other, and the…

The constant oppression olympics in leftist circles is depressing and counterproductive. I also think that using a racial identity as a pejorative is a bad look, even when it the group that holds the majority of power in this country. To me it just replicates the racist framework it is trying to address: those people…

Totally. Also, if people have access to health care and enough food to eat and can buy diapers and formula, they won’t be stealing that shit, or stealing catalytic convertors so they can buy that shit, which means middle class people less and we aren’t having to waste resources on incarceration for those people.

My hot take is....if he wants to tour, so long as he’s announcing his shows and people can make the choice to work with him or pay money to see him, whatever. If he wants to do the broey incel circuit, fine. He’ll never have the career he had before his unacceptable behavior came out. The majority of his fans and…

It had the opposite effect on me - it made me think collecting is lunacy since all of these collectors have to have massive barns for their shit and then end up getting like $500 bucks for stuff they’ve spent a lifetime collecting.

That’s always my thought. Like, huh, you spent hours and hours driving and haggling and maybe you are going to net $400 dollars? How is that at all worth it?

Yeah, I’m thrown off by how everyone seems to be saying , “GREAT! This is fantastic news!” It is not fantastic news. It sucks for her teammates, it sucks for the people who could have gone in her place, and quitting mid-competition is really not something to celebrate. We can be compassionate about the decision, but…

Yeah, this is gross and dumb.

There is a lot of vaccine hesitancy among black people in the U.S., or at least in my region, particularly among black men. For example, the city and county of San Francisco wanted to require all county employees to be vaccinated and a black employee group pushed back saying that the mandate was anti-black, the…

My theory is that since modern-day conservatism has very few actual ideas, it can only be against things, and so it is against vaccination. We are so fucked.

I’m in the SF bay area, and people of color have much lower vax rates than white people here. From what I understand, the populations that are vaccine hesitant are conservatives and Bipoc folks, especially black, latino, and some asian groups.

*Old person whisper* “he’s talking about the JEWS.”

Yeah, I’m in a blue blue state, and around here it is BIPOC folks who aren’t getting vaccinated despite it being super available and various state and county agencies desperately trying to get people to get the shot. It has nothing to do with inaccessibility.

OMG. Until right now I assumed it was “Tow the line” i.e. help carry a load. I did not know it was “toe the line” meaning put your toe right up to the line, as runners do before a race. Mind blown.

You are correct. If he runs, he will get the nomination.

I want to have space where people can have different opinions, but man, when you’re “brave” political opinion is that the legions of armed yahoos who literally stormed the capitol and tried to interfere in an election and murder politicians aren’t the problem and he REAL problem is 300 underemployed heavily tattooed…

Excoriating someone for mouthing the lyrics to a song by a celebrated artist is really something. Like, it’s fine that he recorded it, but repeating those lyrics is way beyond the fucking pale.

If you are fully vaccinated and go to a convention, how are you killing vulnerable people, especially given the guidance from the CDC has been you don’t need to mask up, you don’t need to get tested for COVID if you’ve been around people outside your household etc.?