4271

I started getting those in 2016 for my donations to Roy Cooper and Bernie Sanders
They got so annoying that my only donation in 2020 was to Rhonda Foxx.

They use Roy Cooper here for those insteaed of Harris- I think they go with whoever is the most popular Dem in the state.

These emails are legitimate, but the money tends to go to the most establishment of Dems. Make sure you donate directly to candidate you want instead, never the party (the party gets enough money from excess from ultra-rich candidates like Kathy Manning)

4272

I have seen others do this here, and thank you for the reminder.

I spent so much of my life not having any money to donate, that I just had no idea how bad it really was until… well I did. I have started donating locally as a result instead of these national won’t leave you alone groups. I think I’ll approach it this way though because there are national level things that I would like to support.

4273

Yes, this is a great way to use your platform as a megastar, Ms. Lovato. I’m assuming she never shops for her own groceries, as she’d be significantly triggered walking down the beverage aisle.

4274

In a totally unrelated conversation last night my wife asked me if I thought I would have an Instagram account if I was super famous.

This is a great example of why I hope I wouldn’t.

4275

I’ve read the article, but I’m not exactly clear on Lovato’s criticism.

She’s upset because the yogurt company was offering sugar-free options. And that’s because she thinks that sugar-free food producers are preying on people with eating disorders similar to bulimia? Or because they are preying obese people struggling to diet?

I guess I’m not too read-in on the issue.

4276

It appears that she thinks sugar free foods are part of society’s effort to focus on weight, which is bad for people susceptible to anorexia.

Which might actually be true. But targeting a froyo franchise for having sugar free froyo, and telling them to “be better” is ridiculous.

I’m not sure when people decided that they had a right to never be offended or triggered in life.

4277

I love her suggestion for product categories. “No, you are in the celiac section. The diabetic section is right over there past the OCD and addict end-caps.” I could definitely picture the Far Side cartoon.

4278

I think this is related to the inclination of a lot of people to think that everything needs to revolve around them.

Sometimes, shit just isn’t about you. Just because you have an emotional reaction to something doesn’t mean that reaction is the responsibility of everyone else.

4279

Testify.

One tricky thing is that the line shifts from one generation to the next. As we get older, we need to evolve with the times to a certain extent. But also, teenagers and 20-somethings need to grow the fuck up.

4280

As always, there’s the be-a-dick threshold.

Like, I don’t see putting trigger warnings around depictions or discussions of e.g. sexual violence to be particularly onerous. The BADT is pretty low there, but clearing the bar isn’t hard.

“Don’t market sugar-free offerings because some people are anorexic and it might remind them that weight is a thing that people care about, albeit in less neurotic ways than anorexic people do” is a much higher bar you’re asking other people to work to clear, to cater to the sensitivities of a much smaller population.

Should we ban The Most Interesting Man In The World because there are alcoholics out there? How about hospital scenes on TV because some people get triggered into anxiety/panic attacks being reminded of awful hospital stays (waves)? At some point you need to be responsible for your own feelings and if that means avoiding NFL commercial breaks or skipping hospital-trauma episodes, well, so fuckin’ geht das Leben, ya know?

4281

Is an OCD end-cap just a set of mini Tetris-shaped products which you will be compelled to stop and arrange over and over until it’s perfect?

4282

This sort of thing can literally send me into shock, but yet I don’t expect people to stop doing it and I’m not going to bitch about it.

4283

Bottom line is this is a narcissistic asshole blaming other people for her issues, because heaven forbid she actually just deal with life instead.

4284

And I continue to breathe easy knowing that–although this is clearly an example of stupid shit (though I’m less clear on whether Ms. Lovato is a liberal)-- liberal stupidity continues to be about mostly non-politicos mostly saying ill-considered or stupid things on social media. We haven’t yet attempted to overthrow the government or hold a Nazi rally or elect a venal, idiot billionaire as president or any of the other heinous stupid shit that conservatives get up to.

4285

But I thought both sides?

4286

Ya, I think this is generally the case in life. Try not to be a dick.

But as you say, “selling sugar free food” is way, way below that line.

4287

I mean there could come a time, many many years from now, when society looks back at this period and thinks “can you believe we were so cavalier about sugar-free foods?!” Just like we look at old cartoons and their racist imagery.

But that is not where we are today.

4288

Possibly, but diabetics and the like exist, and will in the future, so I find it unlikely.

4289
4290

Hahaha. I was just coming here to post that.

Like, I get what she was trying to say, but whew. That’s a miss.