Ghost_MH

He probably saw someone on OANN or Twitter say that the only reason there are so many positive tests is because Trump is doing such a great job getting people tested. There is no reason to believe he knows any better.

The Ubisoft story was pretty much missed around these parts song with all the other craziness. Maybe we don't need a sexual predatory thread, but an all around abuse thread might be warranted seeing how often this stuff seems to be happening.

Someone should organize a gun event like this one where it looks like a right wing event, but then everyone pulls out a bunch of Black Lives Matter signs like half an hour in.

The story had all the makings of the butt chugging story that was going around a number of years back. I'm sure it was started as a joke on Twitter or Tik Tok or something that somebody didn't recognize as a joke.

Anyone want Apple? She's moving out soon.

I do believe official Chief Wahoo merchandise is still sold locally, though. Some poor soul from Cleveland will have to confirm.

No arguments there.

The #1 rule of the NFL and NBA first round. Take the best player on the board. They didn't need him, but it wouldn't be the first time they drafted a QB as Brady's replacement.

Fuck the Bills, Jets, or Cardinals. The Patriots had the chance to take him. He was a godsend of a replacement for an aging Brady that just fell into their hands, but nope.

This is a black QB problem. There were what? The Pats and Browns interested in Newton and that's it? The NFL is run by racists that don't think black QBs have much to offer outside of athleticism, so if there's any questions about their health their value drops like a rock. Black quarterbacks are expected to be fast and mobile, strong and powerful. They aren't supposed to be smart or good in the pocket.

This a good start. This team's name and Chief Wahoo are the 1a and 1b of racist sports bullshit.

Yup. The message people are going to, if they haven't already started to, parrot over the next few months is that this was a once in a millennium event and that nobody could have done anything to make things better.

Fixed that for you.

He's and anyone else is free to visit my island. I might not be around chasing after my kids, but my gates are open with the following Dodo Code: 953V4

In all fairness, when Trump is no longer president in 2028 this will be the stuff people will write books about.

This is my bigger problem. Pair this with his latching onto America First at the same time is just a bit too much to ignore. Anything coming out of the campaign is mostly fine in a vacuum.

Yup. Speak up and you get labeled as not a team player or being disruptive. On the whiter shoe, it's sticking up for your team or being a leader. I have a hard time staying shut or getting walked on, so my employment history is mired by 2-3 year stints at companies when I get to the point where I can't deal with the casual racism or I get fired for not playing the game well enough. I'm really bad at doing that calculus you're talking about here. Working in Boston and in a very white tech industry is fun. I can't imagine how much worse it must be for minority women in the same boat.

I've totally gotten the "are they yours" when some white folks meet my kids with the assumption that there are multiple baby mamas/dads in play.

The people that live in Boston proper are incredibly white outside of the traditionally redlined districts. The people that can afford to commute in are usually very white and more middle/upper class. I was paying some $280 a month just to commute in on the train and that's cheaper than monthly parking. Parking in the city can easily run the cost of rent in some parts of the country. A huge number of jobs, especially white collar, especially STEM, are just off limits to those that can't afford the commute. When I first started working in Boston, it was rough. Luckily, I was still living with my parents at the time so that made things easier until I developed a large enough network to be able to make it on my own.

2002 is about when I started commuting into Boston for work. As someone who grew up in Lawrence, I was hit with it pretty quickly. I'm the well spoken brown kid from Lawrence who should be very happy to make as much for "someone from Lawrence" even if it's not as much as the white folks with less experience than me. Oh, but I was assured it had nothing to do with race. I've had white colleagues take an entire month long vacation to the middle of nowhere in Tibet with no email access to no batted eyes. Then when I take off two weeks because my wife has a miscarriage while still answering email and jumping in a few calls here and there, I'm not a team player for taking so much time off in one go. Yeah, Boston is wildly racist, but it does a really good job of hiding the old racists that run the place from all the people just visiting.

Yup. The issue with Boston isn't the average person commuting into it or all the college students. That's why it's easy to hide from simple tourists or the kids coming in for school. It's the old wealthy racists living in those brownstones in Back Bay that own everything and have Red Sox season tickets while being upset at how brown the team is these days and who can't name a Celtics player since Bird. That means it ends up hitting athletes coming into town, anyone actually looking it trying to live in the city, or even people just working in town.

I believe I do. I'll check when I get on later today.

Insurance companies should just not cover the costs of care for folks that refuse to wear masks and contract COVID-19.

Yeah, but that would probably look better without text. I actually do like California's flag. Most state flags are awful, though. Massachusetts desperately needs a new flag.

I'm sure they'll get some sort of bailout to protect them from crashing mortgage as millions are evicted and there aren't enough people to buy up all the newly foreclosed homes.