Nah, man, Harambe’s fine. He just really likes music.

Hey, poking my head in from Parallel Earth. You guys hear the latest David Bowie album? Dude’s old, but it’s fire. President Clinton used a song from it during her farewell address. I heard they played it for Harambe, too.

He’s also banned now.

That one’s a classic.

Quality post. I really did think I was reading an Onion headline.

And I have to admit, the first time I saw the guy in my neighborhood who bought one driving it around, I pointed and laughed too.

What the heck is going on in Sweden? For the last few years, most of the news coming out of it seems pretty weird.

I worry about the people who need to be told things like this. How did they survive childhood without signs warning them not to breathe water or drink the contents of thermometers?

Something about packing heat, too.

Finally, some quality content!

Yep. I always want to give people the benefit of the doubt, but when they reveal themselves to be actual proud bigots, the likelihood that they’ll bring interesting and engaging conversation to the table drops to zero.

Plus, I don’t want to moderate a community that tolerates that crap. You know the Nazi bar thing? I don’t want to run a Nazi bar.

Dude’s banned now. Once I saw the “NPC” shit (common term from white supremacists) I realized just removing his crap wasn’t going to be enough.

That’s a problem for future CEO John Q. Moneybags. Present CEO John Q. Moneybags just improved this quarter’s financials, and is already planning his golden-parachute retirement before becoming future Mr. Moneybags.

Any idea if those protests are making any difference? Watching Israel become this has been heartbreaking.

Giga(y)chads

I don’t miss Reddit often, but when I do, it’s because a certain duck-obsessed novelty account would have a field day with this.

Just in case people don’t know… Yes, that’s the actual headline. Pretty sure Vox is actively trying to get our attention.

I don’t like this. I really, really don’t like this. On, like, a visceral level.

If it’s personal behavior, there is no line.

Seriously, we need to internalize this: If you support Donald Trump in 2024 at this point, there is no goddamn line. There is nothing too atrocious or puerile or insulting to his own base that he could do or say to lose them at this point. He owns them.

I used to joke that he could literally eat a baby live on stage at one of his rallies and not lose supporters, because he’d insist it was fake news even as the blood dripped down his chin.

It’s not a joke anymore. He really could do it, and far too many of his supporters would believe him over their own lying eyes.

Trump support, at this point, is a mental health crisis in this country.

Sounds like some deeply, deeply internalized self-hatred going on there.

Wow. This is… wow. OK, look… I like the sentiment, the idea that healthy relationships in general should be depicted more often, but can you name the last ten shows or movies you watched that feature healthy depictions of LGBTQ+ relationships? I can, because those depictions are so rare they stand out. I can’t name the last ten shows or movies I watched with straight relationships in them, because that’s literally all of them. Yes, including the ones that also depicted LGBTQ+ relationships.

There needs to be more healthy representation of relationships. But specifically straight ones? Nah… We’re saturated with those enough already.