It is hard not to imagine a conspiracy here when poor mental health care and lack of support systems after a major trauma is probably enough of an explanation. But wtf that’s sad.
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No way to know if this is the case, but if, like a significant number of LEOs, these guys were right-wing law-and-order types, being abandoned and savaged by the folks they support could be exceedingly hard to bear. Just a thought.
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Really asshole? You thought this was a good idea?
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Yeah, but it’s also the casual ignorance and outrigth cowardice. I was sitting at our small-town City Council meeting last night. After the meeting the Mayor started talking about “the Covid situation.” He caught it, and another Council member caught it–both after having been vaccinated. It was “thank god for the vaccine.” But not “everyone needs to get a shot.” Also talk about hospitals getting to capacity, and how “the infusion” (which he claims saved his life) wasn’t available everywhere, and is in limited numbers. And then he talked about how we “certainly aren’t going to tell businesses how to run” or have mask mandates, but everyone should mask up “before this thing really gets out of hand.”
“Before this thing really gets out of hand?” WTF is wrong with you, you pig-ignorant, dumb-as-a-jar-of-gefilte-fish slobbering moron? Our numbers are as bad as last summer during the height of it all. It is out of hand. Right now. smh
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Shit, that sucks. It sounds like dealing with a couple of my narcissistic family members. Clearly telling someone your boundaries and the consequences for not respecting those != bullying. They have all the necessary information and can make their decisions.
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Reconnaissance?
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I wonder if they get their forfeited guns back, too? They might hurt themselves.
The previously dismissed felony charges and pardon won’t hurt McCloskey’s campaign for US Senate to replace retiring Roy Blunt.
That’s right–US Senate. Imagine. that… Actually–don’t. Ugh.
However, you can never count out any Republican running statewide in Missouri, especially one who just showed both BLM-loving protestors and gun grabbing liberals who’s boss (not them).
Meanwhile, Kevin Strickland waits for Gov Parson to have time for a signature giving him his life back.
Justice in Missouri is both politically and racially biased. Who knew?
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I struggle with this… I think that since the 70s, we’ve moved far away from the idea that the government played a necessary role in helping people achieve a good quality of life. As such, corporations have been allowed to run amok and fuck up a lot of aspects of our collective well-being. Even the current corporate democrats are more willing to argue that government has an important roll to play, so I think that’s a positive step. But they are still to reliant on private-public partnerships to get shit done. I’d prefer much more coming from entirely public initiatives that are far more accountable to us and greater control over corporations. I don’t know if we’ll get that from the centrists.
TLDR: I think we are getting closer to having a democratic party that is more willing to spend money on the public good, but probably not close enough…
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I doubt we will. To me, these days, the very concept of a Democratic centrist means someone who pays lip service to the idea of a central government that helps The People, while getting rich off of various corporate teats.
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The establishment democrats are more about who kisses whose ass or whatever than any policy positions. The establishment positions are almost always squishy and subject to “pivot”. It’s this lack of firm positions and focus on personalities that I think puts them dangerously close to the republicans IMO.
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For me, the canary in this particular coal mine was Galbraith’s “New Industrial State”. An economy driven by mass market goods that meet only the imaginary needs of citizens continuously under the influence of advertisers has got to be something that skews the very perception of well-being in ways that leave government’s quality of life roles less obviously relevant to the even slightly affluent.
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Super disappointing. Fullbright has made games with wonderful, inclusive stories and finding out that Steve Gaynor is a garbage person is just…FUUUUUCK!!!
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My wife wants a new car.
from the article:
Although Gaynor is no longer a creative lead on Open Roads , he is still working on the game as a writer. He currently has no day-to-day collaboration with the rest of the Fullbright team. Instead, Annapurna Interactive is operating as a mediator between the studio developers and Gaynor
egads. that doesn’t seem like it helps anything at all.
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Yeah, it seems like a terrible “solution”. I feel bad for the remaining team that has to suffer through this
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Apologies if this is not news, as I suspect it is not for many here…
Well darned if that wasn’t staring us in the face.
The Guardian has another article reviewing Joan Smith’s book where it comes in for modest criticism for being a little short on historical context and for failing to address the contribution of social inequality to the problem of domestic violence.
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You’re right, that it’s not news to some of us, but this is a good reminder that truths like this have to be shared regularly so that those who didn’t already know, will finally know…like you just did.
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Follow up: he had a minor heart attack but he’s on the mend.
Thank goodness. The world needs this man.
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