Re: We are all Slave now.
 

We have this. It's the coop or condo board and it's made up of the same type of asshole.

TM

Re: We are all Slave now.
 

Only assholes commute by car into NYC. I'm not sure I know *anyone* who does this.

Delivery is absolutely vital. That doesn't mean you don't go out to dinner. But if you or your spouse works late, you're not trying to go out to dinner, homie. Don't come at me with your temporary NYC ways. I can spot a visitor from a mile away from the goofy look on your face.

TM

Re: We are all Slave now.
 

That was the best thing about that show. Whatever agent unleashed Mary-Louise Parker's constant smarmy, sideways glance, stupid fucking grin on the world needs to be destroyed.

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Re: We are all Slave now.
 

I say this to anyone that listens: No one lives in more than 2,000 square feet of space (and that's the absolute most). No one. All the rest of the space is there to show off or to avoid parenting. "Oh the kids? They're down in the built-out basement with their friends. We never go down there. They're probably not taking every fucking opioid they can get their hands on."

TM

Re: We are all Slave now.
 

Your absolute best work. And I formulated that opinion solely from you naming someone, "Khaki."

TM

Re: Michelle Wolf
 

Agreed.

Also, the "Flint still doesn't have clean water" is brilliant. It's true, it's irrefutable, and it lights up everyone in the damn room - those who have done squat, those who have not covered it, those who don't want to talk about.

Ultimate response from now on to just about anyone in government or media complaining about anything.

Re: We are all Slave now.
 

Looks like you found a decent mix. I also hate the small, manufactured suburban "towns" you talk about, but that's neither here nor there.

I'm sure your neighbors are nice people. But they all have the same experience. I like going to different neighborhoods to see friends. I'm not saying people in suburbs are dicks because they're in the suburbs. Cities have waaaay more than our fair share of dicks. I just like that there is so much diversity (color, thought, experience--all kinds of diversity). If I had to talk about lawns or cars or barbecue grills or outdoor fucking pizza ovens or power washers or any of that suburban shit, I'd blow my brains out.

Do your neighbors do the pop in? I don't know how that's not the leading cause of violent murder.

TM

Re: We are all Slave now.
 

I missed Khaki. Yes, brilliant.

Re: We are all Slave now.
 

This is the only time I sympathize with the gun nuts.

Re: We are all Slave now.
 

This is the fundamental issue I'm going to have if we move in to the city at some point. I'd say no one person really lives in more than 1,000, but for any two people it's not the same 1,000 (e.g., one of us occupies the library, one the workshop, etc.). But you live in more than 2000 for a while and boy do you end up with stuff.

Re: We are all Slave now.
 

Bullshit you can. I don't wear my Barney Greengrass or Find Brooklyn t-shirts until I get back to Michigan.

Re: We are all Slave now.
 

Yes and no. And this may just be my experience, but the parents of kids on suburban teams say shit like, "Well, if they really want their kids to be good, they should pay the extra to have them on a good travel team." Explaining how travel teams have taken something that everyone used to be able to do and have fun with, and monetizing it to give rich kids yet another advantage doesn't fucking compute. I've also heard "This is one of the city teams where the kids are all from bad neighborhoods," talking about fucking 9 year olds. This shit is constant. My ex-wife and I spend all of our time talking to just each other at games because the parents are so awful. So, that's saying something (although, we're pretty good friends, so maybe it's not.)

It's the isolation that's the problem. It's a manufactured, sheltered experience in which stereotypes and bad experiences one person had with a black person that one time become gospel and shared and re-shared until there is no tolerance for people who look different at all. These are the people who carve the black people they know out of what black people are allowed to be in their minds because they're different somehow. How someone feels comfortable enough with me to talk about how awful the neighborhood is they had to drive through to get to a tournament is beyond me. I look at them like they're fucking crazy, but they don't get it.

To be fair, there are people who do this in the city too, but they're mostly rich assholes who are going to look down on people no matter where the fuck they are (and always have).* In cities, we isolate ourselves with buildings people don't belong in, or schools in districts drawn up specifically to exclude, etc. There is no avoiding it. It just feels like the norm in the suburbs (at least the ones I'm familiar with) is a level of segregation by race and by socio-economic class. And I hate it. At least kids can just be kids at the playground and parents tend to be open to talking to other, different, parents there. The subway is the great equalizer. And we can all bond over our collective hate for tourists.

TM

*See: https://www.hbo.com/documentaries/class-divide, about Avenues, which they put in my neighborhood (the same one I grew up in), which just turns my stomach. (And the amazing little girl they spend some time on form the projects down the street from Avenues was rejected after the making of this documentary, I think.)

Re: We are all Slave now.
 

Not trying to be difficult because I agree with you. But the worst policy decisions we made arehemming in poor and minority people in throw away neighborhoods and then basing every single policy we have instituted from then on on shaming them, punishing them, over-policing them, and depriving them of resources. Building freeways around their neighborhoods to accommodate white flight (and so the people in them can be completely avoided so we can pretend they don't exist) is just part of that problem.

TM

Re: We are all Slave now.
 

Kanye is canceled.

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Re: We are all Slave now.
 

Dry and slow?

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