Originally there was, a bunch of trolls spammed Jez and Gawker with gore pics and that was the original impetus for the grey / ungrey system. The recent mass re-greying was like you said though.

No, not the latest purge, I’m talking about the reason they went to a tiered comment system in the first place. There didn’t used to be approved black and gray unapproved comments. Everyone just posted like they do on every other website. But trolls started flooding the comments with hate speech, pictures of mutilated…

On a separate gun-related issue, this made me tear up on the eve of the first anniversary of the Parkland shooting :

Most liberal or progressive states are still red as fuck at the county level. Oregon is famous for once you leave Portland, nothing but conservative country hicks the rest of the state. WA and CO are the same. Even California, you get into the rural areas (of which it has a lot) and it’s all Trump country.
My partner…

All states do. The single biggest problem that America has is that it’s full of rural areas packed to the rafters with delusional deplorable Trumpist garbage.

Right? I live in Washington and all I can think of when I hear shit like that is, “well now you know how a LOT of people have felt in the history of this fucking country.” Dude I don’t like a lot of laws but I follow them. I don’t let it ruin my life or my day or my feelings.

Having laws forced upon you is literally how laws work. Unless you are a king. Are these guys kings? Oh.

I get it that the GOP is a hive of *actual* anti-Semitism - these days the GOP never met a racist attitude it didn’t like - but my problem is that when Engel takes Omar out to the hallway to chastise her for being a misbehaving student over all the wrong things, we as Jews look fuckin’ bad and like we can’t even…

“It’s difficult to have laws forced upon you,” said many of the folks he’s arrested. Maybe he should just let them go in the future.

“It’s difficult to have laws forced upon you.”

Cool. Move somewhere else? This is a country of laws, the people of the state of Washington voted, democratically, to have these new laws, and it is YOUR job, as an employee of the state, to enforce THOSE laws.

Why is this so difficult? I left SC to get away from shit like…

THIS. That this war criminal is now serving in yet another administration, when he ought to be doing hard time for war crimes and institutionalized perjury, is a snapshot of American foreign policy towards Latin America that was been a driver for the immigration crisis since the 70s. It might be only one voice, but...…

It is absolutely insane that only a freshman congressperson would go after him on this. 

Elliot Abrams is one of biggest monsters that walks free on this Earth.  We are an evil nation to make him part of our government.   Thank you Rep. Omar for this.   She’s braver than anyone else in Congress.  

Someone needs to ask all his coworkers how they’re dealing with the newly revealed information that every single one of them has, for all intents and purposes, been touching his dick regularly over the past decade.

Ya know, three weeks ago, I was thinking that Elizabeth Warren was just too old, but I’m changing my opinion. I’ve always adored her, partly because she’s so good with numbers, partly because she used to live in my neighborhood when she was teaching at Harvard, and partly because she beat the pants off that underwear…

Because all men are convinced their penis is amazing and needs to be shared to be fully appreciated.

Shortly after my dad died, somebody posted a photo to reddit that I had shared on facebook about the incredibly heartwarming gesture his favorite restaurant had made for him upon learning he had passed away. They used my caption and everything, pretending that my dad dead was theirs. It quickly garnered thousands of…

This spawned two pretty entertaining SRD threads and now has actual articles written on it? Wow. The popcorn gods have blessed us.

Well, Sam Clemens wrote his characters based on the people around him. He wouldn’t spend an eon, in fact, he’d politely let you know: “I’ve already written about them, why write about them again?” 45's employees are so two dimensional they fit within the broad definitions of most of his antagonists. So pick a…

I got pulled over for expired tags, and when it turned out some bastard had cut off my sticker down to the year that matched the color of the current sticker (slick), and I had current registration papers, he hit me with running a red and illegal lane change. He was determined to get that guap.