K-Lo wrote:
She's been my son's friend since pre-school. A sweet and funny person. The trash talk isn't so amusing when you know the object of it.

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devilsadvocate wrote:
One thing that I find really obnoxious about modern culture is the ever increasing age at which we make people responsible for their actions. Alexander the Great conquered half the western world starting age 16 and died at all of 33, but now we can't hold people in their 20s responsible for publicly making jackasses of themselves and riling up criminal elements? And we have to accept that 35 is the new age that we start holding people responsible for things they say and do? Really? How about this - unless you're a legit child (and I mean 5 years old, not 16 or 18 or whatever), if you do incredibly stupid things in public you're going to face some sort of culpability. Maybe not physically tarred and feathered, as was done in the "good old days", but the online equivalence thereof, which includes people on forums like this one laughing at you. And years from now when people Google your name they will see your idiocy on display, so you may not want that. If you don't like then then mind your own business.

Gotta agree. Had to stop reading "Into the Wild" because the author kept referring to this 20 something man as a "boy". In his case Darwin took care of the problem, but people held up an obvious psychotic break as a "spiritual journey". At least this girl's mistake didn't end in capital punishment.

devilsadvocate wrote:
One thing that I find really obnoxious about modern culture is the ever increasing age at which we make people responsible for their actions. Alexander the Great conquered half the western world starting age 16 and died at all of 33, but now we can't hold people in their 20s responsible for publicly making jackasses of themselves and riling up criminal elements? And we have to accept that 35 is the new age that we start holding people responsible for things they say and do? Really? How about this - unless you're a legit child (and I mean 5 years old, not 16 or 18 or whatever), if you do incredibly stupid things in public you're going to face some sort of culpability. Maybe not physically tarred and feathered, as was done in the "good old days", but the online equivalence thereof, which includes people on forums like this one laughing at you. And years from now when people Google your name they will see your idiocy on display, so you may not want that. If you don't like then then mind your own business.

JGJDNYCJC wrote:
I'll chalk this all up to youthful indiscretion. Maturity is a slow process. I would argue you don't truly hit your stride until you're past the age of 35.

K-Lo wrote:
She's been my son's friend since pre-school. A sweet and funny person. The trash talk isn't so amusing when you know the object of it.

K-Lo wrote:
She's been my son's friend since pre-school. A sweet and funny person. The trash talk isn't so amusing when you know the object of it.

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K-Lo wrote:
She's been my son's friend since pre-school. A sweet and funny person. The trash talk isn't so amusing when you know the object of it.

Perhaps. But, you have to admit that she has invited much of the scorn and ridicule by her public actions and statements. She is 100% the epitome of what so many of us find irritating and annoying about this generation of "millennials": the self-centered, tone-deaf obliviousness that can only be espoused by a truly self-absorbed person that perceives himself as special and unique, and endowed with a gift that they must share with the rest of the world.

K-Lo wrote:
She's been my son's friend since pre-school. A sweet and funny person. The trash talk isn't so amusing when you know the object of it.

K-Lo wrote:
She's been my son's friend since pre-school. A sweet and funny person. The trash talk isn't so funny when you know the object of it.

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Voyeur wrote:

Caricature is the word. She is an almost flawless self-parody of what she's protesting. In fact, given the well-deserved scorn and ridicule she's attracted here, it wouldn't surprise me if for a second act she glibly insists that parody was her intention all along - and that we her tormentors have merely been participants in some sort of living interdisciplinary art installation or some other insufferably trite hipster pretentiousness.

I think you summed this up better than I did.

Voyeur wrote:

Caricature is the word. She is an almost flawless self-parody of what she's protesting. In fact, given the well-deserved scorn and ridicule she's attracted here, it wouldn't surprise me if for a second act she glibly insists that parody was her intention all along - and that we her tormentors have merely been participants in some sort of living interdisciplinary art installation or some other insufferably trite hipster pretentiousness.

justsomeperson wrote:
The "go have brunch somewhere else" person lists 'Brunch Parties' as an interest.

"Devyn Manibo is a full time diva and East Coast based interdisciplinary artist working primarily in multi-media installation with a basis in diasporic affect, kinship, queer narratives of home and trauma through a postcolonial/neocolonial lens. She creates and collaborates as a means of cultivating space for resistance, survival, and love for and by her communities. She believes in femme supremacy, and has a love for extravagance and the illusion of lavish. She can usually be found race raging, shade bending, and averting your settler colonialist gaze with a resting glare of displeasure.

Also, please read this Anti-oppression Link Round-up, especially if you're white. If you don't, you're gonna need to leave."

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"Devyn Manibo is a full time diva and East Coast based interdisciplinary artist working primarily in multi-media installation with a basis in diasporic affect, kinship, queer narratives of home and trauma through a postcolonial/neocolonial lens. She creates and collaborates as a means of cultivating space for resistance, survival, and love for and by her communities. She believes in femme supremacy, and has a love for extravagance and the illusion of lavish. She can usually be found race raging, shade bending, and averting your settler colonialist gaze with a resting glare of displeasure.

Also, please read this Anti-oppression Link Round-up, especially if you're white. If you don't, you're gonna need to leave."

It's like she's a walking hipster liberal arts stereotype, nay, caricature. What a whole lot of crock of her own volition.

Her protesting gentrification is thus the ultimate irony. It's so ironic right now I'm turning rusty brown.

justsomeperson wrote:


"Devyn Manibo is a full time diva and East Coast based interdisciplinary artist working primarily in multi-media installation with a basis in diasporic affect, kinship, queer narratives of home and trauma through a postcolonial/neocolonial lens. She creates and collaborates as a means of cultivating space for resistance, survival, and love for and by her communities. She believes in femme supremacy, and has a love for extravagance and the illusion of lavish. She can usually be found race raging, shade bending, and averting your settler colonialist gaze with a resting glare of displeasure.

Also, please read this Anti-oppression Link Round-up, especially if you're white. If you don't, you're gonna need to leave."

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hero69 wrote:
30 days of solitary confinement would likely make the vandal see the error of his/her ways

There?s more wrong with what you typed than there is with tagging a building. Arson doesn?t even warrant your masochistic dream punishment.

No, I don't think he goes far enough, add tattooing "vandal" to the "taggers" forehead and we are getting there. Tagging is pure narcissism plus pure destruction of property. It's a message that says to the property owner "fuck you, you can't anything nice, I'll bring you down to my level of shit existence". FYI, spray paint soaks into raw stucco and can't be removed even by solvents and powerwashing.

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hero69 wrote:
30 days of solitary confinement would likely make the vandal see the error of his/her ways

There?s more wrong with what you typed than there is with tagging a building. Arson doesn?t even warrant your masochistic dream punishment.

hero69 wrote:
30 days of solitary confinement would likely make the vandal see the error of his/her ways

BobNesta wrote:
why the f*ck is anyone giving this idiot attention. she's a day late and a lot of dollars short. i wonder when her family colonized/settled JC... Does Terrence McDonald pull his writing topics directly from JClist?

BobNesta wrote:
why the f*ck is anyone giving this idiot attention. she's a day late and a lot of dollars short. i wonder when her family colonized/settled JC... Does Terrence McDonald pull his writing topics directly from JClist?

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ricky241 wrote:
Not sure which group is behind this or if its a bunch of irresponsible kids...but this is not a good way to deal with something one may not like.

http://www.nj.com/jjournal-news/index ... he_wall.html#incart_river

Already discussed in the 'Anti-gentrification activist' thread

JGJDNYCJC wrote:
http://www.nj.com/hudson/index.ssf/20 ... _downtown_jersey_cit.html

And came the graffiti to The Charles.