evilentity

Can't believe Beyoncé's ripping off Lana again with the pivot to country...

lol that the only way Lana gets on the Grammy Awards stage is Taylor Swift dragging her up with her

Sure, for likes given after the upgrade that works. But all the like data from before the upgrade is gone. It seems a little odd that that data can't be ported. @Elle Are you sure a script couldn't be written to restore that data? Not sure why you want me to DM you about it, but it appears they're all completely broken. Spoilers in old posts are broken too. So the formatting of basically every thread in my Early Shows section is trashed now. FYI if/when you fix spoiler tags, there was also a special centered spoiler called spoilerc that is also broken.

That would be really unfortunate. It was nice to be able to see who had liked particular posts. It would be a shame if all that old history was gone now. I'm also really concerned about how the way the source button works now. I did a lot of manual formatting of my posts. The old formatting tags were pretty simple to use. Now it appears to be fairly complicated HTML shit.

Tables appear broken. Also, I don't see staff chat.

So apparently Sean's Police Department is still treating policing like a fucking reality TV show after the mayor just met with activists the other day and agreed to cancel the contract with Live PD. Speaking of K-pop stans, anyone know any?

(rubs eyes) Did Lana actually do something right that I can't immediately find cause to criticize? It's like a fucking dream I'm livin' in.

This is a much better statement. Wish she'd started with this. But in the context of her comments over the last week or so it's still trying to minimize her missteps and deny her belligerence and initial inability to listen. Still too focused on receiving criticism. And I'm not criticizing her for this, everyone's doing it, but the issue of posting pictures of even peaceful protesters is a real one given police use of facial recognition and our history of police and FBI targeting activists. Many privacy advocates would tell you not to do it without significantly degrading image quality or blurring faces.

Damn, smoking even causes racism. Who knew?

I'm really happy to see people more critical of Lana's politics though I'm still more bothered by her not addressing her own personal missteps related to racism than her not addressing the racism of others. The argument that people with large platforms should be using them to raise awareness is well taken, but I'm honestly curious why a consensus seems to be forming around Lana having an obligation to raise awareness about this particular issue. Why not Michael Brown, Philando Castile, Walter Scott, Tamir Rice, Eric Harris, Laquan McDonald, Eric Garner, Trayvon Martin, Sandra Bland, Terence Crutcher, Ahmaud Arbery, Botham Jean, etc. etc. Why not the oppression of Palestinians in Israel? Kids in cages? Drone killings under Obama? Indefinite detainees rotting in Gitmo without a trial?

I'm interested in the intersectionality of some of these questions. Like I'd love for a way to see how many users are lesbian women, how many of the gay men are white vs. POC, etc. etc. Would also be kinda morbidly curious how people view the recent Instagram controversy though that could probably be done in a regular thread poll and I also sorta don't want to know how many of you are terrible people thought that shit was acceptable.

Me three. Dude, I would wear that shit as a badge of honor and put it in my bio if it was over some shit like this.

Parallel universe me is really into yer led anal.

Nah, her hair was longer in 2009. Comparing to photos in the Early Shows section I'd say late 2007 or 2008. A reminder of what this thread is for and what it isn't. From the OP:

Yup yup. There was a whole burst of interviews that had me thinking this way. The Ann Powers thing on thru to the Elton John profile: http://lanaboards.com/index.php?/statuses/user/40-evilentity/?status_id=165098 I still need to talk my wife into watching Rocketman with me some time so I can finish writing up my thoughts on that. In which LanaBoards' mod most given to moral disapprobation defends her here, kinda. In a back-handed complimentary sorta way. I'm gonna have to disagree here on both points. This might be horrible. It might be perfectly justified. We don't know. And until we know more, it's not our business. It's between them. It's personal. But more to the point, unless and until we find out that she has bullshit reasons for dissing her mom, it has no larger significance or real world impact on anyone else the way other bad things she's done arguably do, like say, intending to perform in Israel, making ignorant comments both when she doubled down on that and when she finally cancelled, dating a reality TV cop who has engaged in profiling and is a de facto apologist for the abusive policing practices of the status quo, appropriating indigenous culture, glorifying all manner of questionable shit, treating journalists just doing their jobs like shit often specifically for doing their jobs well, her lying in general, etc. I suspect it's not weird at all...