J. Neal

Me. Leftish, Gen-X, Vaguely southern, Neurodivergent, Sober, Chotic Good, Player of infinite games, enjoying every sandwich.

[J. Neal @vlvtelvis]

@AliceFromQueens Obama writes notes in the margins of books he reads in cursive.

[J. Neal @vlvtelvis]

@reesetheone1 He was too far left in all the places Jimmy Carter was too far left. He tired to keep his actions as president in line with the teachings of his faith. He couldn't say that his views on immigration were informed by his faith without abortion being brought up in response.

[J. Neal @vlvtelvis]

@reesetheone1 Biden won't make it to 2028.

[J. Neal @vlvtelvis]

@steady_drumbeat Shitposts aren't to be taken seriously.

He didn't use his real name.

Reddit culture is a continuation of Something awful, /. Fark and usenet before that. The expectation that everyone is themselves didn't start until Facebook.

[J. Neal @vlvtelvis]

@lionel_trolling I thought his tattoo was a punk rock logo of some kind. Not The Misfits but off that era.

[J. Neal @vlvtelvis]

@thoughtcrmboss @mattyglesias The funny part is people being so naïve they don't see this for what it is.

[J. Neal @vlvtelvis]

@ArmandoNDK Given your speeding tickets, can your call for not running over cyclists for sport not be conflicted in any way?

[J. Neal @vlvtelvis]

@WalshFreedom I care about committee chairmanships. A Freshman Senator from Maine won't be chair of crap.

[J. Neal @vlvtelvis]

@cakeboss26 @fawfulfan I'd have guessed it was the logo for an 80s punk band.

70s British punks used Nazi iconography to piss off their parents who lived through the blitz. 80 US hardcore bands used a similar aesthetic but were careful not to use actual Nazi symbols.

[J. Neal @vlvtelvis]

@fawfulfan My guess is that he knew what it is and kept it anyway because not all the guys he got it with made it back.

It's a really bad tattoo. People only keep bad tats if they mean something. A buddy of mine kept his jailhouse tat as a reminder that he didn't want to go back.

[J. Neal @vlvtelvis]

@Alex_Roarty @NRCC @christa_dutton Left of center voters changes their registration to independent way more than centrists change theirs.

[J. Neal @vlvtelvis]

@Carbon_ized @smod4real @DavidAFrench That happens in private.

[J. Neal @vlvtelvis]

@scarylawyerguy Reading her Wikipedia, I don't see how she was qualified. She ran unopposed for the Main legislature twice and then resigned.

[J. Neal @vlvtelvis]

@davidclowery "Dry Humping the Cash Cow" was the name of it.

[J. Neal @vlvtelvis]

@davidclowery Did you ever hear the Alice Donut live album? It was their first time playing CBGBs and they vastly overestimated their popularity on the east coast. Only eight people showed up so they copied the crowd noise and stage interactions from a Kiss live album.

[J. Neal @vlvtelvis]

@_AmandaKerri @RadioFreeTom Calling PTSD and moral injury a "myth" is the cause of so much intergenerational trauma.

Planter has openly talked about dealing with it in therapy.

[J. Neal @vlvtelvis]

@FuriosaNAFO @RadioFreeTom He joined when he was 18. All teenage boys are jerks to some degree.

[J. Neal @vlvtelvis]

@RadioFreeTom You'd prefer "diagnosably mentally ill?"

My WWII vet grandfather took his own life when I was a teenager. It's impossible to say how much the war contributed but it sure as shit didn't help.

[Freddy🇩🇪 @FreddyLA7]

We found a German village in the mountains of North Georgia lol

I feel right at home😍

[J. Neal @vlvtelvis]

@DavidAFrench People are messy. Messy doesn't mean criminal, but it might mean having done some things that -- there but for the grace go I -- could have ended up that way.

Most troubled cousins and crazy uncles don't stay that way. People are more than the sum of their past actions.