Vent thread

@Jarkes  
Nice

@BadgingBadger  
But, alas, it’s a certainty that the suffering of those people will, in time, be drowned out by political ranting and rambling.  
It’s kind of depressing.

@BadgingBadger  
Unfortunately, it’s true. The meme culture will just trivialize it as well.

Also, it feels like it happens almost routinely. Every month has to have a terrorist attack like as if ISIS has some fucked up quota.

OK, the Politics Thread is locked for 24 hours because of a bunch a-holes arguing like children.
 
You guys suck.

@HJSDGCE  
Hey! At least it’s not being locked forever.

@NotYourAverageLurker  
She wasn’t even part of the confederacy…..The mental illness is real.

@NotYourAverageLurker  
They are overreaching…this will be the beginning of the end of identity politics…..i hope

@Shirani  
One can hope - but I’m not holding my breath.

@NotYourAverageLurker  
When they *say all the white history has to go, they mean all of it.
 
_{*no one has actually said this, probably hopefully}

I always thought the statue of Joan of Arc was there to celebrate the strong French heritage of New Orleans.

@NotYourAverageLurker  
We will finish what the Jacobins started
 
@Shirani  
Identity Politics can’t be ended unless all oppression is ended  
And needless to say, oppression hasn’t ended

@NotYourAverageLurker
 
 
Last time I saw that statue there were 3 of them…then again I was incredibly drunk having just left Harrah’s Casino over on Canal.
 
Looked very pretty, and a little hazy…

@Zincy  
Well sounds like you had fun

@Commune
 
 
If you can get past the fact everything smells like piss, everyone’s drunk, and everything’s wet (see first statement) then New Orleans is loads of fun.

@Zincy  
But they have gumbo.

@HJSDGCE
 
And jambalaya, and the pure bliss that is crawfish etouffee. And po’boys the size of your head, and crawfish boils, and rabbit stew…
 
Some of the best food I’ve ever eaten.

@Zincy  
And the cajun spice mix?

@Zincy  
Damn, you got to eat rabbit?
 
Envy.

@NotYourAverageLurker
 
Many mixes.
 
 
@PonyPon
 
 
It’s odd. It’s sweeter than you’d expect it to be, with a slight gamey undertaste.
 

 
 
I also ate salsa made from Carolina Reapers and ghost peppers. Thankfully I was very drunk.

@NotYourAverageLurker  
Wow, how dumb is that? I mean, here in France, we have the FN who pretty much appropriated Joan of Arc as a French nationalist symbol (because of the whole “kick the English out” thing she ran on during the Hundred Years War) and every First of May they gather at the bottom of her statue in Paris, while the left celebrates International Workers Day a few blocks away. And yet, even those who resent this nationalist appropriation of a piece of French history the most would never ask that this statue be torn down.
 
As for the statues of Philippe Pétain and streets named after him, the last one of each has been removed and renamed two and four years ago respectively, amidst general indifference in both cases (which is pretty much poetic justice, considering Pétain let the Nazis tear and smelt down so many statues during the war).  
Oh, and I heard the city of New York was about to remove a plaque bearing his name that was there since 1931 (when Pétain was still just the hero of Verdun, and not a Nazi puppet yet). About time, if you ask me (and I don’t think any French will disagree, except of course Marine Le Pen and her cronies).

Why did I not have the foresight to reinstall World of Warcraft between the time I had to reinstall Windows on my SSHD and when my dad switched from Xfinity to DirecTV/HughesNet? Damn my constantly changing moods!

@LeoNero  
Well, this happened in May so it probably has more to do with the French election. Don’t know why someone wrote a story about it yesterday.

@HJSDGCE  
Are you really surpised though?