I couldn’t stand SRD. The cringe there was suffocating. One idiot was whining about /r/drama being a doxxing paradise, others were circlejerking about how the sub leans slightly right but is really moderate. And as you note OP, they all fuckin whine about Daddy, altright, and idiots who can’t get laid.
Lmao imagine being so humorless that not only do you not understand certain types of humor, but you actively seek and destroy humor elsewhere that you don't understand. src
I read this book when it called itself The Devil's Highway, and while it was still a boring slog of heavy-handed political moralizing about the plight of the Mexican immigrant, at least an actual Mexican wrote it.
Fuck. I had to read that book for a "Social & Ethical Implications of Engineering" class Freshman year. The Professor was an old white lady who looked ready to cry every time we discussed the readings.
Her character Lydia, 32, is middle-class, college-educated wife and mother who owns a bookshop in the resort city of Acapulco and survives a bloody massacre at a family quinceañera. With her journalist husband and other family members killed, the bookish protagonist and her 8-year-old son make a desperate run for the U.S. border, partly on the freight train La Bestia. Critics have mocked the narrative ploy as implausible for anyone of Lydia’s class stature, who can usually buy airline or bus tickets.
The most interesting part about this to me was how inorganic the book promotion was. Something like a dozen prominent people promoted the book without having read it, from Oprah to Stephen King. Twitter, Instagram, news programs. This is why the best seller list is meaningless.
I'm reminded of that Mitchell and Webb bit where the publisher is explaining to Dawkins that his book sold because the publisher had enough influence to get it closest to the checkout register, and not because people gave a shit about what was in it.
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1 BussyShillBot 2020-01-27
I couldn’t stand SRD. The cringe there was suffocating. One idiot was whining about /r/drama being a doxxing paradise, others were circlejerking about how the sub leans slightly right but is really moderate. And as you note OP, they all fuckin whine about Daddy, altright, and idiots who can’t get laid.
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1 SnapshillBot 2020-01-27
Lmao imagine being so humorless that not only do you not understand certain types of humor, but you actively seek and destroy humor elsewhere that you don't understand. src
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1 Imaniguh 2020-01-27
Silly Foids
1 clubby789 2020-01-27
If you’re writing about anything you haven’t personally experienced you deserve to be cancelled sweaty, fictioncels btfo
1 Outdated_CPU_1 2020-01-27
It never even began for Tolkien.
1 600_lbs_of_sin 2020-01-27
bitch he wrote non-fiction
1 [deleted] 2020-01-27
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1 Aboba5 2020-01-27
Reminds me of when RITA SKEETER writes those MEAN LIES about HARRY POTTER and is CAUGHT and #CANCELLED by the BRAVE HERMIONE
1 HoBoLoBro 2020-01-27
what did she mean by this?
1 Ferocetis 2020-01-27
That's it. Finally a comment that might make me end it.
1 Aboba5 2020-01-27
Do it faggot
1 tHeSiD 2020-01-27
>tfw I can't write anything about the (((elves))) cuz I ain't one
1 THOT-AUDITOR 2020-01-27
I read this book when it called itself The Devil's Highway, and while it was still a boring slog of heavy-handed political moralizing about the plight of the Mexican immigrant, at least an actual Mexican wrote it.
1 Aboba5 2020-01-27
Fuck. I had to read that book for a "Social & Ethical Implications of Engineering" class Freshman year. The Professor was an old white lady who looked ready to cry every time we discussed the readings.
1 THOT-AUDITOR 2020-01-27
Ah, it was the Freshman Book the year after me. Our unfortunate asses had to read Obama's memoir instead.
1 boyoyoyoyong 2020-01-27
Screw laws and national boundaries let them in
1 ironicshitpostr 2020-01-27
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1 Corporal-Hicks 2020-01-27
the book couldve been one sentence
1 slugulon 2020-01-27
Yeah nah
1 TheLordHighExecu 2020-01-27
1 THOT-AUDITOR 2020-01-27
lmao this is what wine mayos think the latinos scurrying over the border are
1 diggity_md 2020-01-27
It's why they empathize with them, poor campesinos are icky
1 pepperouchau 2020-01-27
Ok ampposter
1 TayloTayloBookito 2020-01-27
I’m a What now
1 tHeSiD 2020-01-27
A googal shill
1 newcomer_ts 2020-01-27
Luckily, all approved /r/drama users are functioning autists.
1 wm20123 2020-01-27
The most interesting part about this to me was how inorganic the book promotion was. Something like a dozen prominent people promoted the book without having read it, from Oprah to Stephen King. Twitter, Instagram, news programs. This is why the best seller list is meaningless.
I'm reminded of that Mitchell and Webb bit where the publisher is explaining to Dawkins that his book sold because the publisher had enough influence to get it closest to the checkout register, and not because people gave a shit about what was in it.
1 DangerNut 2020-01-27
Didn't a Mormon cat lady write "Fifty Shades of Grey"?
I refuse to believe anyone that wrote that hilarious book as even look at a naked body...