April 1994. I was thirteen, at a sleepover with friends, playing Starfox on the SNES when my friend’s older brother told us he’d connected the home computer to the phone line.

No Prodigy or AOL, this was something different- more raw and BBS-ey. We started messing around and figured out how to join a local chat room- I have no idea now what they were called back then. There were maybe fifteen people in there, all with William-Gibson-ass usernames.

We were eating pizza and Sour Patch Kids, just fucking around, typing and watching the others. Then someone in the chat said, “Hey, turn on MTV. Kurt Cobain’s dead.” We flipped on the TV and sure enough, there was Kurt Loder breaking the news.

Very vivid 1994 moment.

I mean, yeah- they all did an excellent job of reinforcing the fascists’ understanding of how little a threat the US “left” is.

This is correct.

Absolutely, yay this particular death. Some deaths are righteous.

Fuck his friends and family.

With a cassette drive, baybeeee

I lived there for six-ish years- from 1998 until 2004.

When Americans re-elected GWB, I realized “this place is RAPIDLY becoming a shithole that’s only going to get worse.” I got the hell out as soon as I was able, and every single day since, I’ve been more relieved I left when I did.

How does it feel to intentionally make a dishonest false equivalence that you, I, and everyone reading knows is bullshit? I’d feel weird about it, even if I didn’t have a ton of self-respect.

Not at all “just like.” You don’t have to wade through 90% of literary fiction or Hollywood films in order to find a handful of titles that don’t sexualize children or are otherwise fucking gross.

“Rock over London, Rock on Chicago”

I can’t possibly be doing the jerkoff gesture harder than I’m doing it right now.

I ABSOLUTELY know who this snowflake voted for.

Pom Poko is literally the only one that didn’t put me to sleep in the first act.

Teaching us how to handle incels for 80 years. RIP.

Surely that doesn’t describe any other political figures

I don’t think anyone should be living their lives in fear of being killed by zestiness

We called it that in the 80s in rural Canada.

What could they possibly need to do? Osama Bin Laden illustrated very effectively that all you need to do is give Americans a little bloody nose- the US will happily spend the next 30 years trying to stop the bleeding by stabbing itself in the heart.

Nah. Can almost guarantee I would have been on your side when I was your age.

Counterpoint: call out bigotry or fuck off

If you’re applying for a job in my department and your social media has a whiff of Jordan Peterson your CV is going in the garbage.