"what is the purpose of this" thank you for articulating the worry that gnaws at my soul every time i do a blog. Seriously though in response to your question: I totally get why people react this way. There's a lot at stake right now! But I think a) it would be disingenuous of me—and a total disservice to you—to suppress what I feel abou…
"what is the purpose of this" thank you for articulating the worry that gnaws at my soul every time i do a blog. Seriously though in response to your question: I totally get why people react this way. There's a lot at stake right now! But I think a) it would be disingenuous of me—and a total disservice to you—to suppress what I feel about Joe Biden and the Democrats, and b) elections are actually a really important time to keep holding politicians' feet to the fire precisely *because* there is so much at stake. I got more into that here (sorry if you're not a subscriber, it's paywalled): https://discourseblog.substack.com/p/the-system-is-back
Very fair point, Jack, I just wanted to articulate the lizard-brain fear many of us have of repeating election night 2016 again. I'm a furloughed worker so am putting pause on subscriptions, but I appreciate having the opportunity to chime in anyway.
Fair enough, if it's a free post. I'm not sure how you'd tell once you're subscribed.
Then again, every comment board/forum I've ever ever seen has either been drowned in white nationalists or bad-faith libs unless they either charge for post privileges or moderate ruthlessly. Usually requires both. Dunno how Kinja managed to dodge that bullet.
Anyway, it's your place, engage with this person however you think is right, I'm just so tired of these arguments where the Libs create a mess and then scream at the left when they don't come running to clean it up. It's been 20 years and I've yet to see a single person come around. They still hate Nader, even though they now love W.
At least they usually got clowned on and ratioed to hell by the rest of the people.
Substack isn't there yet, we need like 100 leftist commentors, funnier and meaner and smarter than I am, for every 'sara' to make these people not dominate.
Seriously, half the responses to articles here are centrists demanding an explanation of "Why Did You Even Write That?", or these Swann's Way length 'well I'm a GOOD liberal and I really Believe Women and think Black Lives Matter..." and then close it out with "And thats why I'm voting Biden and you should to"
A sizeable number of the comments on any of these articles are by people who hold literally nothing in common with the writers, aren't supporting their work, and are only here hatereading and posting because a grandkid who won't speak to them linked the article in a facebook thread they're stalking.
I am sharing every article I can to try and lure more people here for that reason.
I am a fan of Defector making commenting a certain paid tier. Hopefully it will result in Golden Era Deadspin comments and not "Look at these 2007 comments" from Barstool morons during Deadspin's last few months.
"what is the purpose of this" thank you for articulating the worry that gnaws at my soul every time i do a blog. Seriously though in response to your question: I totally get why people react this way. There's a lot at stake right now! But I think a) it would be disingenuous of me—and a total disservice to you—to suppress what I feel about Joe Biden and the Democrats, and b) elections are actually a really important time to keep holding politicians' feet to the fire precisely *because* there is so much at stake. I got more into that here (sorry if you're not a subscriber, it's paywalled): https://discourseblog.substack.com/p/the-system-is-back
Very fair point, Jack, I just wanted to articulate the lizard-brain fear many of us have of repeating election night 2016 again. I'm a furloughed worker so am putting pause on subscriptions, but I appreciate having the opportunity to chime in anyway.
thanks so much for supporting us in any way you can!
Jack, why is a 'Substack-egg' allowed to post at all if they haven't paid you guys for the privilege?!
our community is large and varied, and i think it's fair that everyone gets a chance to chime in on free posts
Fair enough, if it's a free post. I'm not sure how you'd tell once you're subscribed.
Then again, every comment board/forum I've ever ever seen has either been drowned in white nationalists or bad-faith libs unless they either charge for post privileges or moderate ruthlessly. Usually requires both. Dunno how Kinja managed to dodge that bullet.
Anyway, it's your place, engage with this person however you think is right, I'm just so tired of these arguments where the Libs create a mess and then scream at the left when they don't come running to clean it up. It's been 20 years and I've yet to see a single person come around. They still hate Nader, even though they now love W.
"Dunno how Kinja managed to dodge that bullet." idk, a lot of Splinter's commenters were pretty right of the content.
At least they usually got clowned on and ratioed to hell by the rest of the people.
Substack isn't there yet, we need like 100 leftist commentors, funnier and meaner and smarter than I am, for every 'sara' to make these people not dominate.
Seriously, half the responses to articles here are centrists demanding an explanation of "Why Did You Even Write That?", or these Swann's Way length 'well I'm a GOOD liberal and I really Believe Women and think Black Lives Matter..." and then close it out with "And thats why I'm voting Biden and you should to"
A sizeable number of the comments on any of these articles are by people who hold literally nothing in common with the writers, aren't supporting their work, and are only here hatereading and posting because a grandkid who won't speak to them linked the article in a facebook thread they're stalking.
I am sharing every article I can to try and lure more people here for that reason.
I am a fan of Defector making commenting a certain paid tier. Hopefully it will result in Golden Era Deadspin comments and not "Look at these 2007 comments" from Barstool morons during Deadspin's last few months.