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artappraiser — Thu, 04 Apr 2019 17:29:36 +0000

In reply to Seems like they're serious.

Seems like they're serious.

PeraclesPlease — Thu, 04 Apr 2019 13:22:22 +0000

In reply to Yeah, saw it - tried showing

Seems like they're serious.

https://www.google.com/amp/s/m.eonline.com/amp/news/1028872/inside-snoop...

Yeah, saw it - tried showing

PeraclesPlease — Thu, 04 Apr 2019 08:11:40 +0000

In reply to Time for a positivity break.

Yeah, saw it - tried showing it to the rest of the family, I'm the only one truly moved... guess I have too much time.

Then what the heck, I'll

artappraiser — Thu, 04 Apr 2019 08:09:25 +0000

In reply to Time for a positivity break.

Then what the heck, I'll throw in a guilt break. Believe it or not, found re-tweeted on the feed of the coach Steve Kerr of the Golden State Warriors (don't ask how I got there, I dunno!), turns out he's not all cutthroat partisan all the time:

"Life is stunningly short and it is eggshell fragile.
Most people are having a really tough time.
They are almost always in more pain than you think they are.
Don't be a jerk."#WednesdayWisdom https://t.co/uLiJKiSpsi
— John Pavlovitz (@johnpavlovitz) April 3, 2019

Time for a positivity break.

artappraiser — Thu, 04 Apr 2019 08:01:28 +0000

In reply to On American social cohesion

Time for a positivity break. I.E.: anything is possible. Watch this Martha & Snoop inter-generational (I looked it up, she's not a boomer, but a war baby-77 yrs. old! and he's GenX-48) interracial, major cross-cultural and personality clash mashup as they don't just respect but adore each other while appropriating romantic tropes to the max, have fun doing it and make big capitalist bucks at the same time:

This is the best video I’ve ever seen oh my g— pic.twitter.com/xe4qOzhEnW
— Brett S. Vergara (@BrettSVergara) March 30, 2019

I remember a woman taking

PeraclesPlease — Thu, 04 Apr 2019 07:05:58 +0000

In reply to It's not about that at all.

I remember a woman taking food to the homeless at the train station, claiming the city doesn't care about them. I noted there's a homeless shelter a block away, but it's much more exciting to hang out at the train station all day. The police are pretty even-keeled about it - keep problems from happening, keep the homeless a bit clustered off so not a social problem, but largely let them do their thing as well... Respect.

It's not about that at all.

ocean-kat — Thu, 04 Apr 2019 06:15:29 +0000

In reply to So much of American politics

It's not about that at all. Homeless shelters are problematic. I lived next to a homeless shelter. It was a homeless shelter for men. For a couple of years I could pretty much ignore it but when a women with three kids moved in with me there were problems that we couldn't ignore. The oldest daughter was 13 and well developed with large breasts. The men hanging around the shelter, and there were always men hanging around, would harass her with sexual comments and cat calls. How ever well developed physically she was still just a 13 year old girl who was not prepared to deal with this. No women should have to but for this child it was very scary.

Homelessness is a problem that's difficult to solve. Any attempt to find a solution involves trade offs. Every economic group on the negative side of those trade offs will attempt to protect themselves from those negative side effects. Even "regular people" will try. Lower middle class people will have more power to avoid the negative impacts than poor people. Upper middle class people more than the lower middle class and the very rich more than the lesser rich.

It has nothing to do with oppositional politics or wanting to annoy this or that elite group or this or that identity group. Try to put a homeless shelter in a neighborhood populated by regular folks and the regular people will get into a "slapfight" too. There are problems and we have to face them realistically and discuss them rationally if we're going to come up with plans to deal with the homeless. This comment/analysis doesn't do that.

So much of American politics

artappraiser — Thu, 04 Apr 2019 05:20:08 +0000

In reply to On American social cohesion

So much of American politics is oppositional. It's about who you want to screw over or piss off.

And since elites have much more time and money for politics, it ends up being this hollow stupid elite slapfight where regular people are just used as pawns. I hate it.
— Noah Smith (@Noahpinion) April 4, 2019

I don't know where to plop

artappraiser — Tue, 02 Apr 2019 23:40:31 +0000

In reply to and those who continue it:

I didn't know where to plop this but I could not pass it up. Doesn't the following strongly suggest that George lives with a sociopath?

Thread https://t.co/ENQ26ElAE7
— George Conway (@gtconway3d) April 2, 2019

and those who continue it:

artappraiser — Tue, 02 Apr 2019 18:46:54 +0000

In reply to Still, a reminder abouut some

and those who continue it:

his goal is not to fix the system, but to exacerbate turmoil for political gain.