Agreed. At first I didn’t want to watch any of the videos, as I get a horrible cringe from situations like this. But once I did decide to watch, and saw their frankness and bravery (full well knowing millions of people around the world would be watching them relive graphic details of abuse), I felt a civic duty to…

Messi and Rinaldo routinely shit on teams in the CL where they come across the best of the more competitive leagues, so no, I don’t think their Ballon D’or awards are just because they dominate smaller Spanish teams. By the way, “smaller Spanish teams” have done pretty well in the Europa League in recent years, so…

Agreed. I hate the argument that “others survived, other’s rose above the shit, and so should you”. I fucking hate it and it’s applied to so many scenarios, and it absolves the shit system and the shit people that perpetuate the shit system, and it victim blames the people who want and need to be regocnised for their…

Thanks for making me google “Jewish Ghetto Police” and learn something new today. 

Yup, there has been a LOT of wishful thinking for a long time now...people living in denial about how fucked up their country is.

1) I agree with you that it’s better to call Miller a White Supremacist and not a Nazi - least of all to prevent the conversations that need to be had being derailed by technicalities, but also because the technical distinctions are important.

I’m no muso, but I own a shitty guitar and like to learn basic chords and entertain myself. Even I can see the repetitive pleasing patterns in a wide range of simple music - no one disputes certain songs sound the same, but I agree with you - certain patterns are obvious and repetetive, and some even innate. I know I…

Yup, I’m with you on this. The “calendar year” stat is utterly meaningless.

Same - I didn’t even realise there was a social aspect to it.

Agree, I’m a designer/amateur artist - I literally have none of the issues described in this article. I use Pinterest, as you said, to make collections of inspiration and ideas. I don’t even know how they are getting Pinterest links when googling - I google image search all the time at work for placeholder artwork,…

Yup, when pros are sponsored to sell products to the public - and they accept the fact and use their image as currency, they are role models whether they like it or not. They are marketed at youths and the wider public as aspirational figureheads....

Ha, I’m just appreciative you looked past how many typos were in my last post. See you around.

Yes, I do get why the public show of forgiveness in the context of police brutality and murder makes you uncomfortable. It’s a small show of decency and compassion on the side of the victims - alwasy has to be the victims to just deal with it - against the weight of the hugely unjust and inhuman system that is propped…

Cheers for the reply. I would love to get into the semantics of your love analogy -just out of the love for debate- but it’s a tangent that I don’t have the time for.

Many people believe actual forgiveness involves the person you’re forgiving. Also your analogy about loving someone but not saying it is weird to me. That’s bordering on dysfunctional IMO. I’m struggling to come up with a scenario where you wouldn’t either tell the person you loved them, or fell out of love because…

“It is a dumb system” - I’m happy for you you’ve overcome it and are enjoying it, but I’m the more casual type gamer who gets to play a few rounds of multiplayer about 3 nights a week, and hearing people slag it off, and seeing the star card system in gameplay video, is so far my biggest barrier to buying the game. It…

Wow, the more I hear about the system in this game, the more I’m glad I didn’t buy it. I’m a Battlefield player who has loved (until BF1, where I thought they tried to get a bit too “clever”) DICE’s implementation of progression. I refuse to buy Battlefront 2 for several reasons but the main one being that the whole…

Exactly. Because of Heather and others actually reporting on this game - as opposed to merely hyping it - I decided NOT to buy it.

I think trying to make sure that him quitting is the main WaPo motivation for the whole “operation” - it sets up the WaPo as purely partisan...that’s the way I saw it.

They were trying to set up the paper to push false stories - and get them to say they were doing it to take Moore down -then they’d reveal the entrapment later to discredit not only the media but also sexual assault/harassment victims.