I’m not the OP and in the abstract I have a very positive opinion of Kotaku being politically conscious, but as someone who, personally, really struggles with ignoring politics because of the anxiety it gives me, it does give me a lot of grief. And yes, I’ve tried other places. I just love Kotaku, the layout, the tone…

I don’t care for entertaining the idea that Disney World would or could move somewhere else even as a hypothetical, but they’d be providing the exact same economic benefits to a bunch of other people in that case. Under capitalism, it’s lateral ethics.

Rationally, I know you’re right. I think my issue is that so many big houses in my area tend to be McMansions that the aesthetic was drilled into my head as the definition of luxury housing. They aren’t, of course, it’s just that looking at them I can’t help but get a pang of melancholy because for the first two…

I’ve always been poor as dirt so as a child grew up in wonder and amazement of what people call “McMansions”. I’m actually starting to wonder if I should start getting angry at people who deride them, because I simply can’t imagine being in a position where I can judge a big fancy house as being inferior to another…

If some places don’t have bicycle lanes I guess the people there will just have to stop cycling until it gets done, then.

So should we have metal studs lining the sidewalk?

You’re wrong. Truth is an absolute defense against slander. All she had to do was show everyone the Goddamn texts. If that somehow weren’t enough, the penalty for recording a conversation without the other party’s permission for the first time in Florida is only a thousand dollar fine, so if she picked the juciest…

You must be responding to the wrong person, because I was pointing out everything she did was completely pointless if the goal was RPing his child rape fantasies for the sake of providing evidence in court.

She could have released it to news outlets. There’s clearly more than enough that it would have tanked his career and kept him from getting more targets, and then the hubbub would have one hundred percent for sure made it certain he was investigated more closely too. But it’s also weird that she kept actively playing…

And yet, as the article notes, all that she gathered apparently didn’t have any effect whatsoever on if he was convicted.

“I went along with his elaborate child rape fantasies for several years, and didn’t do anything when he straight-up told me he procured child prostitutes, because I was totally going to turn it all over to the police. Eventually.”

The reference to the One Drop Rule was sarcasm in response to the idea that someone who’s half-white counts as white, pointing to a demonstration of that being historically untrue. 

I know it’s polite to assume good faith, but you simply have to be willfully ignoring that half-Black people are effectively treated by society as Black unless they pass, and even if they do that can always come out. You worded “I guess half-Black counts as more Black than white somehow” like it’s an obviously bad…

I moved within the last year. At my last house, my room was almost literally carpeted with empty plastic bottles. Thanks to OCD and a bug problem, I had plenty of extra motivation to get food and the like out as soon as I’d finished eating, but anything that wouldn’t get gross or attract insects was far more often…

On the other hand, if the font is the only real difference, some might argue it’s anal to care.

Because half-Black people are famously granted the same treatment as both parents. The one drop rule means that if you have even one white ancestor, you count as white!

Uh, yes? Sorry, but you do realize there are Jewish people in Florida, right? And queer people? And people of every race?

I don’t know what part of “the problem is the character’s name” is so fucking hard to understand. Did you read the article at all? Seriously, did you? Because I have no idea how you would have walked away with the impression that something about the character’s personality or behavior was problematic. Is it that you…

You can be racist to white people in China and Taiwan because they’re the powerless minority there. It’s not that hard to understand. Christians suffering in some parts of the world doesn’t mean Western Christianity’s victimization complex is valid.

You think other people are predictable for calling you a bootlicker, but perhaps what’s predictable is you licking boots. I don’t get called a bootlicker all that often. Maybe the problem is you.