What does homelessness have to do with anything? Gentrification isn’t specifically about homelessness, I don’t see anyone else mentioning it before now… where did you pull that from?

Gentrification seems to mean the rapid renovation of an area to appeal to a wealthier crowd, which this could easily cover.

employees calling out

Why would the employee have to look up a publicly listed number to call their employers to call out? That’s something a private line could easily take care of.

Why even have a phone number if it is useless?

Really? Are reservations the only use for a phone?

A publicly shared phone number for the restaurant? Pretty much. It has limited uses for checking hours and holidays and such, but the primary use is going to be checking availability to eat at the restaurant. If that’s not something you can get over the phone, 99% of the reason to have a public facing phone number is negated.

Some millennial have been playing WoW for over twenty years at this point.

In what world isn’t Canada fighting back?

Which isn’t to say they shouldn’t, but they are pushing back to all the shit Trump is throwing at them. Just because they’re not launching missiles doesn’t mean they’re not fighting back.

It’s pessimism when you use it as an excuse to do nothing about it.

Nearly 90 million voters sat home on election day. That’s more than either candidate. Disenfranchisement plays a part, but it’s more about the complete apathy the American voting population exhibits that’s the problem. If even half those people showed up on election day (much less during primaries) the entire country would look completely different. That is a significantly bigger factor than either party shitting the bed.

That being said… Democrats, for the most part, are playing it way too safe. Their leadership is too neo-liberal and too dependent on the status quo to want to shake things up too much, because their main tentpoles (which eerily match the Republicans) revolve around stagnation and a lack of real societal progress. They bandy about social progress with racial, gender, and sexuality policy reforms, but only when it’s already well past the point that it’d be possible to enact them. Where it would make them look weak if they didn’t do something, and they get quick and easy points by doing the least possible to improve peoples lives.

There’s a ton of reps in the Democratic party that want change, and want to see things move forward at a faster pace… but they’re constantly pushed to the sidelines by the old guard that has a stranglehold on their leadership. Used as scapegoats when they want to distance themselves from more progressive elements, and fodder when they want to push another milquetoast reform that ultimately changes nothing. The problem is they’re hampered by a two-party system. They can either jump ship to a third party, and end up primaried or relegated to pointlessness, or continue on as near-impotent figures that only get soundbites on twitter or facebook.

And that’s only on the American “left”. The more moderate elements on the right are too scared to speak up lest they feel the ire of the Trump cabal, and end up toeing the line. Even if they feel they’re on the wrong side of history.

So there’s plenty of blame to go around, it’s no one thing or another. The biggest problem, though, being an American populace who refuses to band together and listen to each other, and work for each other instead of just themselves.

That’s not what you said, though, you were just proud to… not have a specific kind of image in a thumbnail. Which, at best is just virtue signaling.

The point isn’t the thumbnail, the point is literally every other action he has taken up to this point. The thumbnail in a vacuum is just a picture.

So you do your best not to inform people about nazis among them?

No, the underneath of the day after tomorrow (night), as opposed to the above (morning, or day).

Your track record of not hating people for their opinions is muddy at best.

Hmm, I dunno, that sounds like something a drugged up hippie might do with their marijuanas.

I’m disappointed that the article writers decided to reframe it as Anika being “upset” instead of her actual words. Especially since she’s also investing in a sequel in the same statement.

So… there was a possible way you could understand something in panel 4…

He owns a car company, why would he glorify what he sees as competition?

Free Waterfall IV?

No cap

Speaking as a perpetual wallflower who has never been to a rave in my life, I found it understandable. Admittedly I’ve heard the term “molly” in reference to ecstasy, but you see as guy wide-eyed staring at someone who looks incredibly uncomfortable about it. Seems pretty obvious that’s the “molly bear” that uses “prolonged eye contact” to make “uh-ohs” so uncomfortable that they either leave or at least don’t come to another one.

Well, if it’s using the term in the same way as the first couple panels, it’s a big hairy gay man.

I feel we should simplify that even further by saying undermorrow.