sheilzy

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[–] sheilzy 36 points 1 year ago (6 children)

Mckenzie needs to read that Reddit story about the bartender who kicked out a guy with the Third Reich eagle ensign on his shirt despite him quietly minding his own business. I really don't want Substack to "suddenly become a Nazi bar." I'm just a reader, but if I ever start a newsletter I may reconsider my platform. I am on a basic free plan for all Substack channels I read. I've thought about upgrading my subscription to some, but now I will hesitate.

[–] sheilzy 12 points 1 year ago (2 children)

This thread has already mentioned a lot of artists I was already going to mention...and I'll add a semi-recent one for me, Scott Adams. I started reading Dilbert while I was still learning to read and my exposure to it helped me recover from my literacy anxiety (which I sometimes still have to an extent). I've mentioned a bit of my associations of it in previous posts but to recap, my mom worked at another "Baby Bell" company, Nynex, later Bell Atlantic then Verizon, (like Scott who worked at Pacific Bell and Dilbert and friends who worked at an unnamed company implied to be in the telecom sector) I liked the simplistic designs a lot, as well as the introduction of new vocabulary. I soon started making my own comic strips. Scott Adams' views on race, medicine, politics and several other subjects are perplexing. If I could logically follow them, I'd be offended. My dad's high school experience was diminished by segregation apologists during Boston bussing mandates of the 1970s when they would protest at school campuses. The fact that Adams was on board with such a stupid practice in that infamous vlog is upsetting. Then again, Adams is a contrarian so I can't be sure if he sincerely feels that way, especially since he tweeted something afterwards saying "I'm not actually bothered by black people. I am actually just annoyed by white people who advocate for black people" (paraphrase). Maybe it's a true clarification or maybe he's just trying to walk back his statements. He needs help. There's probably something traumatic in his life that made him snap. Off hand, I know his wife filed for divorce from him and his stepson died of an overdose, and he may still be mourning in a strange way. Still, if I see Dilbert merch at a secondhand shop or in the library, I'd gladly take them out. I will not subscribe to his new pay-walled comic, but if his distributors and publishers ever decide to re-sign their contracts with him and start printing new Dilbert books again, I may buy them. Anecdotally print publishers seem to do more vetting than web publishers, so I'd hope that if they ever reunite he'd be in the right headspace. Anyway, great comic, troubled person. Hope the guy gets some help.

[–] sheilzy 3 points 1 year ago

Most of the Bush paintings I've seen are of dogs, lol.

[–] sheilzy 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Sometimes I wonder if he became pedophilic because of his sad life. Between losing family in the Holocaust and losing more family and friends in the Tate/LaBianca murders by the Manson family, he must felt like his life was out of control. But it's easy to control teenaged girls into having sex with you. Or maybe the genocide and murders he experienced had nothing to do with his sins. But it's something I think about occasionally. I've seen only a couple of his movies so far but I notice some themes from his life, like the death of babies or babies being evil, and I feel like it's some personal allegory.

[–] sheilzy 17 points 1 year ago

Don't forget, with all the bad talk about immigrants, his wife, late mother, and late ex-wife are/were all immigrants.

[–] sheilzy 4 points 1 year ago

There was this asshole who wanted to buy my grandparents' house after they both died. He'd text my sister, brother, dad, maybe even my mom. Fortunately not me. It's so insidious because he probably got all the info from my grandfather's obituary. He just needed our names and town and then could look up the phone numbers on those "people search" sites or phone books. The house hadn't even been put on sale yet, and we were not the executors. What kind of sicko reads the obits so they can buy a house? And doesn't even bother to go through a realtor or attend an open house when the time comes. The gall of some people is unbelievable. I'm glad my uncle gave it to one of the first families that formally offered after attending the open house.

[–] sheilzy 7 points 1 year ago (1 children)

For real. I'm really jealous that the courts in Brazil have already banned Bolsanaro from running for office for the next 10 years and Pakistan's parliament ousted Khan for being ungenerous to the Ukraine conflict and then later the police arrested him for bribery. Those are supposedly developing countries but they are doing a better job of controlling their tyrannical despots than we are. Fortunately, like I keep saying, Trump has too much work cut out for him to effectively campaign with so many charges. He's been in the lead, but I don't know if he can stay that way.

[–] sheilzy 20 points 1 year ago

He also only turned the water into wine because his mother nagged him to do it. Two of the people thought to be the most perfect and infallible in Christian tradition are actually fallen people. I think it's pretty noble to abstain from alcohol or other addictions but the way this guy does it is so belittling.

[–] sheilzy 10 points 1 year ago

That was actually Major, their younger dog at the time. Champ was their elderly dog who died a couple years ago. They since got a younger pup, Commander, and he too, has been biting staffers, but I don't know if they revealed which agencies the victims work for. Maybe Commander is copying what his elder brother does, but iirc Major doesn't live in the White House too often nowadays. He might just have the same intuition.

[–] sheilzy 7 points 1 year ago (3 children)

I mean, it still is Twitter. That's the URL that people use to access the site. Tbh I have no idea if Musk actually went through the effort of changing the company name in the business licensing or other company paperwork. Just the logo and header seem to say X. But I agree, I'm getting so annoyed with journalists calling it "the site formerly known as Twitter." so dumb.

[–] sheilzy 4 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Trump may be in the lead now, but he cannot campaign effectively with so many legal problems looming. He's already planning on skipping the first debate this month and instead doing an interview with Tucker Carlson. Although I am unsure how that will be done. Fox News told Tucker to stop doing his Twitter show because he's violating contract by doing such. Also, why would Trump still want to appear on any Tucker Carlson appearance now? While Tucker flirts with him in public, his texts to colleagues said he hated him and was sick of talking to or about him in the Dominion lawsuit evidence. I hope as part of sentencing for his indictments, the judge or jury really throws the book at Trump and tells him he must forfeit the presidential race. I'm not even sure if that's a punishment they can issue, but I hope they can.

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