Elena Delle Donne

fox/tucker really do mainline a lot of uhhh not great and explicitly violent ideals into tens of millions of peoples' homes in a near daily basis. an uncle in ohio used to be a republican because he worked in a city dominated by a few crooked unions, but now he's a republican because he believes in the race war

abundantly true, absolutely correct. heavily armed, overpaid, an autonomous gang.

i'm not yet on board with the "community security force" thing. that feels too much like it could devolve into jim crow south lynch mob stuff. we have had that before and it wasn't great. i don't have a better idea though. police are the armed mob now. the sf police are basically on strike, which triggered the recent recall of their DA

right on, this is all i was trying to parse out. i wasn't sincerely "SOURCE??! OP?!!!"-ing you. you're exactly right that we're all simmering in this particular violence and it feels like someone keeps turning the heat up. i can't not think about it. i live in a neighborhood with gang violence, the shooters and the victims know each other, the cycle continues as it has for 50 years. it doesn't bother me. i do wonder whether i'll be in a mass shooting. i live in a city full of soft targets; it feels like a matter of time. mass shootings like this — an angry person, a man most likely, killing indiscriminately – is a symptom of grievances and social isolation and, i don't know, modern misery? you could really project anything onto this that you want to. (this is the royal "you," not you personally.) i have guesses and feelings about the roots but they're just that. i agree that the media is doing it wrong by mixing up the school shooting with, like, a particularly ambitious drive by. both are bad but not the same kind of violence. addressing this is gonna take work on a lot of different fronts. we can't censor where these people gather and thrive online (it's hard to do, anything effective would be authoritarian); we can't rely on anyone to turn them in (they downplay the threat, like nancy lanza, or straight up don't know, like sue klebold) and we don't have any idea what a "mental health" response looks like — republicans like to say "mental health" as a dodge but will never tell you what it means/what should happen if someone is identified as a probable mass shooter. it would be good to expand red flag laws nationwide, i think, but that's no simple or singly effective thing — and depending on who enforces it or how, it could even be a step back. i would think the "responsible gun owners" would feel good about a chance to self-regulate their community (this is how many of them talk, so i want them to walk it). i'm also not mad at looking at adjusting gun restrictions to at least address lethality. the "assault weapons ban" is sloppy legislation but ends up accidentally taking on this issue, which is that it is simply harder to kill people with a handgun than a rifle firing 762. the san bernadino shooters notably choose ARs because of their lethality. chipping away at the edges with magazine capacity restrictions and waiting periods and person to person sales on the most dangerous rifles, could help. i'm willing to experiment. the stuff about the dead uvalde kids being completely unidentifiable because rifle rounds turned them into salsa still haunts me. after all this... i know handguns do most of the shooting and the killing in this country, including suicides, but i don't have any idea where to start there.

Hmmmm

what's your sauce on this one op. i feel like this contradicts most numbers/trends on violent crime in the last 30ish years. i understand why people feel like everything is worse and more violent because for most people violence is wall to wall on the cult news network of their choice. but with the exception of the past 3ish years there hasn't been a marked national rise in crime, to my knowledge

fight @Dark_Knightin ohio. he will meet up at any friendly's parking lot

the blue and purple ones, back when they were running three as part of DEWMOCRACY, were interesting. voltage won. real mountain dew heads know

end to end or side by side?

this is a wild ass comment for a pusha t video

that wyclef video 😂

the local high school kids buy all of them but i'll do it once in a while. tip: crush hot cheetos, crumble on top of a baked dip of some kind, or mac and cheese.

the partial real answer here is that pepsico has a gigantic snack portfolio. they're a snack company more than a soda company. they own cheetos and thousands of other products. everything in the grocery store has been undergoing mega consolidation in the past decade or so, and this is no exception. the other answer is that brand and category marketing managers are lazy, and the internet and culture move so quickly and are so fragmented, that only strong legacy brands really have the penetration and recognition to work from the jump. it is really expensive to build a brand now. it takes too long and costs too much and has too high a chance of failure, so most marketing people opt not to do it and lean on something established.

wtf?!

this is gonna be beautiful

straight up! this is my story too. becoming a "professional creative" exposed me to lots of people who do cool shit and are people i'd actually want to be friends with

my closest longtime painting partner is one of the most solid people i've ever known, a talented writer, will fight someone with you, held it down when we went through a gnarly case together, and is gay as hell. shoutout to him and all the queer people i know, every month

😎🚲

such a perfect microcosm of the united states — this small town that spends 40% of its budget on police who wouldn't face an 18 year old as he turned kids into salsa, police who then, presumably, killed children who ran to them when they finally entered. we'll never know the full story.

definitely real, mm hmm

i'm going full black pill tinfoil hat on this. greg abbott is in on it too. here's what a disaster declaration does, among other things:

"we'll try!"

i would GENTLY run your finger around the rim tape too — might pick up something you can't see as well.