After many millennium of simply discarding random thoughts, people of all ages now, for some reason, put them out in the world for all to see. Its boredom posted succinctly.
I guess its like a drug and experimenting when you’re young, you’ve got to try it all and sometimes you have a bad trip? Once you’re older, it seems to be just a desperate attempt to cling onto youth and a lack of aging with grace.
I’m a real fan of John Dingell too, especially as a Michigander…just for the record.
Offense is personal. Was the photo posted to annoy you specifically? If not, then you can’t claim offense, though you can rightly claim to dislike the photo.
When you need a “teem” to tweet you have already lost the game.
Yes, offense is personal, and Downriver was personally offended. Who are you? The Offense Police? Offense is also a feeling, and it is inappropriate to tell someone else what they can and cannot feel. Sheeeeeesh! You must be a really fun person.
Edited to add: the picture offends me too, just because it is completely hideous, regardless of who it depicts. It is so tasteless and ugly that I wish I could blot it out from my screen.
I’m glad that TPM has never used young/hip slang in headlines, for instance, to attract viewers, always staying dignified.
– or horrifically ugly pictures either.
Actually, it’s been since forever that old white conservatives have been trying to appeal to the kids by mimicking the lingo or the styles— I still have an old psycedellic ‘Nixon’s The One’ poster.
I believe you mean “good job, Alana,” since she’s the author of this piece…
Offense police? No, I’m merely commenting on what appears to be the misuse of the word “offend”, as I don’t believe that TPM published the photo with the express intention of causing DownriverDem discomfort. If that was the case, I’ll apologize, as I can’t really speak for the motivations of the TPM staff, nor do I know what relation, if any, they may have with DownriverDem.
I’ll say it again - offense is the word used to describe what you feel when someone attacks you personally; it’s not the word you use to simply describe something that you simply don’t like.
For example, I am offended by your comment. You don’t know me, and I believe that your attack on me was unwarranted. DownriverDem ought to be able to defend himself without you, a total stranger, attacking me on his behalf.
On the other hand, I didn’t like the photo. But I have no right to claim that it offends me.
No, I meant Josh because Josh had and I had been exchanging comments about Slice, but I you are right Alana wrote a nice piece. I am impressed.
Well, at the risk of making this bigger than it should be, but since you are parsing this word to death, here are some synonyms:
synonyms: annoyance, anger, resentment, indignation, irritation, exasperation, wrath, displeasure, hard/bad/ill feelings, disgruntlement, pique, vexation, animosity, antipathy
I think your particular definition is a little tight. I think most people can feel offended by things said or done that were not aimed at them personally. At any rate, correcting someone who states that they feel offended, makes the corrector seem as though he/she has elected him/herself to an undeserved position.
“…our better solutions…”
Instead of spending so much time, money, and energy trying to convince people to accept their “solutions”, which nobody apparently wants, why don’t they simply enact the solutions people are asking for?
Like a higher minimum wage, like infrastructure improvements, like ending subsidies for polluters, like enacting background checks for gun purchases, like stabilizing Social Security by making the wealthy pay into it too, like getting government out of the OB/GYN business, like getting government out of the war business, like getting government out of the religion business, like letting people vote, become citizens, make a living while working, like … ?
40 yearold to me is a kid. I’m 65. If I wanted to know what the meaning of “bae” is I’d do a google search.
bae…before anyone else?
bae… babe?
or it apparently is Danish for poop
Why can’t certain so called grown ups act their age?
You said it!
If only we had a Congress that understood the difference between an investment and an expense. I guess I can still dream…