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Jesus, someone get me a snark towel

I think there is a news angle in covering the safe places where this sort of garbage is allowed to fester and multiply, but I think it's a dangerous precedent for major media outlets to actively pursue the individuals participating in it, (unless those individuals are already public figures.)

Too much. The online posting history of a Reddit shitposter is not newsworthy, especially given the cesspool that subreddit already is (along with Twitter, 4chan and wherever else the Alt-Right gets their lol's). What's newsworthy is that the President of the United States tweeted a meme of himself assaulting the

I've supported CNN for most of Trump's war on the Media, but it has been profoundly stupid for them to put this much effort into investigating the origins of a Reddit shitpost, and the comment in the original article where they claim to "reserve the right" to reveal HAS' identity was extremely problematic.

How about two out of three?

He's up there with Cernovich and that Prison Planet douche.

How does InfoWars make money? Surely it's not from ad revenue?

It's almost like media creators sometimes execute their intentions poorly and even problematically. A single scene depicting suicide as awful at the end of 13 hours depicting suicide as something that will make you the subject of every conversation at your school for weeks is a poor and problematic execution if your

…after 13 hours of depicting the suicide as a resounding success story for revenge fantasies.

Secondary lesson of this show: Kids don't know what a boombox is, but they love Joy Division.
Primary lesson: Suicide is a great way to get revenge on the haters.

I think everyone is overthinking the impact a single scene will have at the end of a 13 hour tribute to suicidal revenge fantasies.

Given that the very premise of the show is that the main character's 13-hour suicide-note-as-scavenger-hunt succeeds in wreaking emotional havoc and regret on everyone she blames for her inability to go on living, I would say this show utterly fails to avoid glamorizing suicide.

Totally agree, so it's kind of a glaring distraction in an otherwise great show that didn't need that sort of thing. The same conclusion could have happened with out the connection to Jane's past.

I feel like another season would betray the resolution. The idea is that these women are all in it together now, but the strength of the show was in their conflict.

This was a really well executed finale that covered up the fundamental silliness of the final reveal. The only thing that was not completely predictable about the identity of Jane's rapist was that I thought this was too good a show to have such a weak twist. But maybe the book wasn't very good.

Can we please stop raging over benign statements like this? All he's saying is voice your opposition to his actions, not his existence. Trump is going to need progressive people in his ear.

"Why, for example, was Bailey born for the first time in 1950s Michigan, if good dogs are continually reborn?"

I love making fun of snowflakes. Then I go back to my Reddit community that bans dissent and laud a guy who can't watch SNL without going on a Twitter tirade.

I always kind of wished Bon Iver would have just rerecorded the "Woods" sample with the new words from this song. Throws me out of sync a little when they sing the different words over each other.