What did you do with my RWHN?

[Nephew Twiddleton]

Dude now thinks I'm making assumptions that his views on the death penalty have changed. More misinterpretation.

I'm pledging at this point. Guy's either off his nut, trolling, plain old stupid, or some combination of the three. In any case, it's impossible to have any meaningful communication with him.

[Anna Mae Bollocks]

He's going to fit in Austin like a turd in a punchbowl. 

[Left]

He's going to fit in Austin like a turd in a punchbowl. 

Why did they want to have an anti-drug conference in Austin, of all places...

[AFK]

He's going to fit in Austin like a turd in a punchbowl. 

Why did they want to have an anti-drug conference in Austin, of all places...

Why not?  It's as good a place as any.

[Left]

He's going to fit in Austin like a turd in a punchbowl. 

Why did they want to have an anti-drug conference in Austin, of all places...

Why not?  It's as good a place as any.

The last time I went through, there was a place called "Stoned windshield repair."

[Anna Mae Bollocks]

Was that down the street from Juanita's? I think I remember it.

[Left]

I dunno, I think that was when I was going to the protest in El Paso with the commies.

[AFK]

All I know is that lunch at Uncle Julio's was amazing.  Best fajitas ever!

[Left]

Yeah, we do food well here, generally.

[Anna Mae Bollocks]

Yeah, we do food well here, generally.

WE'RE #9!!!!!!!

[Mesozoic Mister Nigel]

It's different when the New York Times does it, though; THAT'S journalism. It's sensationalism when Rolling Stone does it.

Right?

Also note the date.

Oh yeah, I did. Probably pundits hadn't had time to work up a good foundless outrage yet, at the time. They needed to sit on it some, to come up with some reason why him being young, cute, and white is offensive to accurately portray.

[AFK]

Doesn't need to be portrayed at all.

[Cainad (dec.)]

Doesn't need to be portrayed at all.

I disagree entirely.

Letting people believe that the bombers were vague, scary, foreign-looking terrorists allows assumptions to be reinforced. Stupid, alienating, Other-ing assumptions. And people absolutely did assume that the bombers were swarthy Muslim-looking men, even after learning that they were from Chechnya, because what American even knows what a Chechnyan looks like. I sure as shit wouldn't have known off the top of my head.

Attaching the real, human face to the incident is critical to reminding people that monsters aren't The Other. They look like the rest of us, and they can even look good to the rest of us.

It's the 21st fucking century. We don't need to rely on modern bogeymen to replace the monsters, changelings, and other inhuman excuses to try and distance ourselves from those who commit evil. Make us stare it in the goddamn face and come to terms with something for once in our miserable crawl on this muddy rock.

[The Johnny]

Doesn't need to be portrayed at all.

I disagree entirely.

Letting people believe that the bombers were vague, scary, foreign-looking terrorists allows assumptions to be reinforced. Stupid, alienating, Other-ing assumptions. And people absolutely did assume that the bombers were swarthy Muslim-looking men, even after learning that they were from Chechnya, because what American even knows what a Chechnyan looks like. I sure as shit wouldn't have known off the top of my head.

Attaching the real, human face to the incident is critical to reminding people that monsters aren't The Other. They look like the rest of us, and they can even look good to the rest of us.

It's the 21st fucking century. We don't need to rely on modern bogeymen to replace the monsters, changelings, and other inhuman excuses to try and distance ourselves from those who commit evil. Make us stare it in the goddamn face and come to terms with something for once in our miserable crawl on this muddy rock.

No Cainad, we need to go ostrich style, hide our heads under the sand and pretend that it was a muslim lone-wolf sociopathic monster that was not at all played by different groups of people for their own interests.

I mean, such assholes by not letting me keep my preconceived prejudices about a person that must be scape-goated to oblivion so that it's surrounding context of creation and influence can be ignored because it insists on shitty systemic situations that happen over and over again and denounces that some things are not handled as it should.

[Suu]

My political stance is very Maine.

Of course it is my location.

No. Your political stance is New Hampshire.

No, that would be my girlfriend.  I am very Moderate Maine.

Oh, that would explain the sudden loss of cool points, then. You're dating a racist, gun-toting, lake-house owning Freestater. Makes sense. People like her make me glad that MA stopped charging sales tax on liquor, because now I don't have to drive 2 hours to contribute to an economy driven by libertarian pieces of shit. I'll just give it to the commies instead.