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January LC Thread : Survivor White House Edition

View Poll Results: Who will NOT survive the month of January?

Matthew Whitaker

9 24.32%

Kjrstyn Njielessen

7 18.92%

Sarah Huckabee Sanders

4 10.81%

Steve Mnuchin

4 10.81%

Wilbur Ross

2 5.41%

Stephen Miller

0 0%

Rod Rosenstein

3 8.11%

Roger Stone*

3 8.11%

Donald Trump Jr*

2 5.41%

Write-in

3 8.11%

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01-04-2019 , 02:37 PM

#151

All-In Flynn

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Blogger refuses her kid's request to stop blogging about her.

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Promising not to write about her anymore would mean shutting down a vital part of myself, which isn’t necessarily good for me or her. So my plan is to chart a middle course, where together we negotiate the boundaries of the stories I write and the images I include. This will entail hard conversations and compromises. But I prefer the hard work of charting the middle course to giving up altogether — an impulse that comes, in part, from the cultural pressure for mothers to be endlessly self-sacrificing on behalf of their children. As a mother, I’m not supposed to do anything that upsets my children or that makes them uncomfortable, certainly not for something as culturally devalued as my own creative labor.

Have to blog about my kid's puberty because patriarchy. It is a sacred and onerous duty I do not accept lightly.

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Surely, there’s a way to cut the pie so that I can write about motherhood in a way that takes into account my daughter’s feelings and respects her boundaries. But if I simply cordoned off motherhood as a forbidden subject for my writing, we would never know.

WE WOULD JUST NEVER KNOW

The absolute peak:

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Amputating parts of my experience feels as abusive to our relationship as writing about her without any consideration for her feelings and privacy.

I'd say the kid should sue for emancipation or something, but apparently the blogger is also a lawyer, so I dunno.

01-04-2019 , 02:43 PM

#152

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As a mother, I’m not supposed to do anything that upsets my children or that makes them uncomfortable

As a mother, I’m not supposed to do anything that upsets my children or that makes them uncomfortable

As a mother, I’m not supposed to do anything that upsets my children or that makes them uncomfortable

As a mother, I’m not supposed to do anything that upsets my children or that makes them uncomfortable

As a mother, I’m not supposed to do anything that upsets my children or that makes them uncomfortable

As a mother, I’m not supposed to do anything that upsets my children or that makes them uncomfortable

As a mother, I’m not supposed to do anything that upsets my children or that makes them uncomfortable

01-04-2019 , 02:47 PM

#153

All-In Flynn

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cERtaInLy NOt fOr aNYtHiNg As cULtURaLlY dEvaLuED aS mY OwN cREaTiVE LAbOr

01-04-2019 , 02:56 PM

#154

microbet

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Just noting here that what I post about my kids (like my daughter's libcom article) is done with their permission.

01-04-2019 , 02:59 PM

#155

suzzer99

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In before a 7 page derail about whether Micro's kids' can truly consent to his posting about them.

01-04-2019 , 03:34 PM

#156

kerowo

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Narrator: She can't.

01-04-2019 , 03:41 PM

#157

goofyballer

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Pontevedra, a city of 80k in Galicia in Spain, started a policy of pedestrianization 20 years ago (removing parking and car access from most of the city center) and it seems to be working out pretty awesome

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By restricting traffic and eliminating physical barriers, the city council has redesigned Pontevedra from the sight line of a child. Doing so, Mosquera believes, helps the city address everybody’s needs, especially the disadvantaged. “Where there are children, there are healthy adults,” Mosquera said. The policy, which has been expanding for almost two decades now, has had many impacts on the community. One of the most tangible: The once-languishing historic city center has become a friendlier space for kids and their caretakers.

This trend is reflected in the demographics of Pontevedra. The city has attracted young families from throughout Spain’s northwest region to settle in the city, even as Spain overall grapples with low birth rates. In the last decade, Pontevedra has experienced the most growth compared to other major cities in the region of Galicia. The newly revitalized, now pedestrian-focused town grew from 73,871 neighbors in 1998 to 82,671 in 2017, according to the Statistics Institute of Galicia.

“Here you don’t have to hold your child’s hand all the time. In any other city that would only happen inside a mall,” said Willy García, father of three-year-old Mauro, standing at the pedestrian “Children’s Fountain” square, once an intersection with 25,000 cars passing daily.

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It has happened that these policies ended up paying off at the ballot box, too. In a town that votes conservative in the general elections, Mosquera’s leftist-nationalist political coalition, BNG, has been ruling ever since the pedestrianization program began in 1999. Its urban model has been awarded a number of prizes, including the UN-Habitat Dubai International prize in 2014 and the 2015 Center for Active Design award, among others.

01-04-2019 , 03:49 PM

#158

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Quote:

Originally Posted by suzzer99

In before a 7 page derail about whether Micro's kids' can truly consent to his posting about them.

Quote:

Originally Posted by kerowo

Narrator: She can't.

Not sure if serious. She's 19. I hardly mention my other daughter who is 16 and not publishing articles in anarcho-communist magazines or attending riots in Paris.

01-04-2019 , 03:57 PM

#159

suzzer99

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Do you still support her? My essay...

01-04-2019 , 04:06 PM

#160

kerowo

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Quote:

Originally Posted by microbet

Not sure if serious. She's 19. I hardly mention my other daughter who is 16 and not publishing articles in anarcho-communist magazines or attending riots in Paris.

Narrator: He wasn't.

01-04-2019 , 04:21 PM

#161

suzzer99

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Unspoken implied threats to withhold college tuition is a form of violence.

01-04-2019 , 04:37 PM

#162

Louis Cyphre

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I don't get the smartphone hate. What's wrong with having a computer and the internet available whenever you want or need it?

01-04-2019 , 04:52 PM

#163

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I have as many unscientific opinions that there's no conclusive evidence for as the next guy, and "smartphones are bad for your mental and emotional health as well as damaging your recall" is the only one I'd be legitimately shocked if it turned out to be wrong.

01-04-2019 , 04:56 PM

#164

microbet

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There are benefits to smart phone and cell phones generally, but it was definitely nice back in the day to be unreachable when you were out and for no one to expect you to get back to them in 2 minutes.

01-04-2019 , 05:13 PM

#165

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Quote:

Originally Posted by All-In Flynn

You can replace it with "sitting on your couch with a Mac Pro + surfing the web all day at work" and get the same result. Trust me.

01-04-2019 , 05:50 PM

#166

suzzer99

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Fascinating. How many hardliners in the US are drooling about being able to erase history this effectively?

Our tour guide in China - who was probably 30 in 2004 told us "You know more than I do, so please don't ask about Tiananmen Square". He also told us Chinese kids are told to finish their meals because people are starving in America.

01-04-2019 , 05:57 PM

#167

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Quote:

Originally Posted by suzzer99

You can replace it with "sitting on your couch with a Mac Pro + surfing the web all day at work" and get the same result. Trust me.

I'm sure. But now everyone can do that, and so many of them do.

01-04-2019 , 06:04 PM

#168

suzzer99

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And now for some deeply satisfying news.

01-04-2019 , 06:14 PM

#169

dth123451

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I sure hope nobody does anything terrible like punch Gavin McNazi in the face and post it in this thread

01-04-2019 , 06:48 PM

#170

goofyballer

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For those who remember the grand days of Ethics In Videogame Journalism:

A minor league Overwatch team added a girl to their roster, the internet loses their **** and comes up with all kinds of conspiracy theories about how it must be a dude pretending to be a girl because it's not actually possible that a girl could be that good at the game, she quits within a week

(preface if you're like "what the **** is any of this": Overwatch is a video game, there's a league where professional teams of players compete at it)

01-04-2019 , 07:00 PM

#171

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Noteworthy from the entertainment world: John Legend continues to be one of America's greatest treasures, as he was the only notable person in the entertainment industry willing to speak out against R. Kelly in a documentary that just debuted about him called Surviving R. Kelly:

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Executive producer dream hampton says she reached out to multiple stars when she was making the series, to no avail. “I asked Jay-Z, I asked Mary J. Blige, I asked Lil Kim, Erykah Badu, Dave Chappelle…” she told the website Shadow and Act. “I mean, most people just don’t want to touch it. I remember Ahmir [“Questlove” Thompson] was like, ‘I would do anything for you but I can’t do this.’ It’s not because they support him, it’s because it’s so messy and muddy. It’s that turning away that has allowed this to go on.”

https://twitter.com/johnlegend/statu...29180442247168

01-04-2019 , 07:24 PM

#172

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Quote:

Originally Posted by Louis Cyphre

I don't get the smartphone hate. What's wrong with having a computer and the internet available whenever you want or need it?

It doesn't fit comfortably in my pocket.

01-04-2019 , 07:31 PM

#173

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Originally Posted by goofyballer

I know most people other than us don’t care about this. But video game culture is straight incel culture. I follow multiple female streamers on twitter that just can’t put up with it anymore. To the point where making money isn’t worth dealing with the thousands and thousands of incels constantly berrating them slinging vitriol and sexist comments and sending them dick pics and all kinds of other insane ****.

Adding to the fact that twitch just unbanned a male streamer that beat his girl live on stream, and the female streamers feel that twitch doesn’t listen to them at all when they report violent threats from users against them.

I don’t have an idea on how to fix it. But it’s a much larger issue than anyone cares to think about. I can’t imagine what Starcraft professional scarlet goes through. Or the girl that was on rebels(?) I believe in the league of legends league for a while.

01-04-2019 , 07:37 PM

#174

dth123451

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Who the **** are these people? Jesus like 5% of people or less aren't absolutely horrible.

01-04-2019 , 07:38 PM

#175

goofyballer

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Quote:

Originally Posted by Slighted

Adding to the fact that twitch just unbanned a male streamer that beat his girl live on stream

What in the ****????? Link?

Quote:

Originally Posted by Slighted

I can’t imagine what Starcraft professional scarlet goes through.

(context for others: Scarlett is a trans Starcraft 2 player from Canada and one of the best non-Korean players in the world)

I think it's better now, I remember when I first started watching SC2 any match she played in was full of edgelords making transphobic comments in Twitch chat. I think she just stuck around long enough that people got bored of it and mostly think she's cool now. It probably helps that she's quiet and doesn't really talk about stuff besides Starcraft. Which is awful, of course, it's not like "shut up and ignore the abuse for long enough and it will eventually go away" is some kind of strategy for success.

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