jtelson

Cancel culture isn't actually real btw - no person actually gets canceled for anything that wouldn't have negatively impacted their live 20, 30, or even 50 years ago. Celebrities actually have it easier than ever before ... inanimate objects are, however, fair game it would seem. Perfect targets for cowards and reprobates everywhere. It's why satanic sneakers are so hard to find.

@jozsef  Yeah, that's crap. Celebrities today are significantly less likely to have their careers ruined for expressing an opinion the studios think will cost them money than at any point in time in the past - they may have to find a new job but no one is getting blacklisted anymore. You've bought into the myth of cancel culture - it's not a real thing, it's just people whining about being called out for being pieces of shit.

I despair at this point of ever figuring out what you're responding to here but I'm sorry that nothing I wrote struck you as compelling.  I don't care about Gwen Stefani's career over anyone else's but I find the term cultural appropriation infuriating. I can't gauge whether or not you're being hostile but I have to hope it's not directed at me. I prefer that you not make my point that divide and conquer is going wonderfully well.

There's no denying that.

There has to be a moral there someplace. (If we're going to be practical, it's peanut butter they really would die for, so to speak, but I sense that's missing the point somehow.)

He's an interesting character. By that, I don't mean appealing. He's certainly on the autism spectrum but I suspect his real problem is that all his money has caused his ego to swell until it swallowed him up completely. (burp) Thus has he earned the sought after honorific, Asshole.

The mental effort I have to expend in order to comprehend some of your more enigmatic posts only to end up failing, as in this case, serves to keep me humble. I'm really grateful for that. I don't imagine that me being more insufferable would please anybody.

We both know that these ideas are abstract to the point incomprehensibility and irrelevance to the group you're addressing. Easier to simply flush them down any available toilet and move on to more cheerful undertakings.

@jozsef Maybe ... probably ... almost certainly true but I can't so here we are.

I keep hoping to wake up and discover that the insane world I'm living in was only a terrible dream. If you dig a bit deeper and discover even more lies and propaganda, it really doesn't help all that much. The truth will set you free, but free to do what? I guess all we can ever do is seize opportunities to make a small difference for someone here and there. Very tiny steps, like grains of sand on a vast beach. Even so, still worth doing.