The New York Times Offends & Outrages With Its “Hipster” Agenda
The New York Times has once again pushed past the barrier of decent journalism into a world of reckless myth-making with their latest article celebrating the lifestyles of so-called “hipsters”– semi-employed upper middle class white trash who stay drunk on their parents’ money well into their thirties. The article, entitled “A Bushwick Mansion Where Music Fills the Halls,” is a sweaty, swarmy ball of self-satisfaction that reeks stale and foul. It is an absurd and irresponsible piece of liberal arrogance that only the Times could pull off with an innocent face.
Hipsters are nothing to be proud of and they are certainly nothing for a national media organization to celebrate. They represent indulgence and failure of every kind. From their incessant need to have pre-marital sex or else masturbate themselves numb to their shameless willingness to feed from the trough of hardworking Americans to support their blogs, indie bands or t-shirt companies, these people embody the death of the Puritan ethic. They live like 14-year olds– emotionally stunted, egomaniacal, crying for no reason and then twittering about it. They dress like 14-year olds as well, often in cartoon character clothes that show off unpleasant patches of skin. Were it not for their bruises and awkward facial hair, it would be impossible to tell them apart from actual drunk teenagers.
In Times’ Bushwick Mansion story, we hear about a group of truly unremarkable individuals who contribute nothing to society but so much to their own sense of smugness. They’re all “artists” whether that means abusing an electric guitar or throwing paint against a wall. Is anyone buying it? Of course not… Well, maybe their fellow travelers throw a few token dollars their way. After all, they have an investment in keeping up the charade of the “creative class.” And who knows, if they get the girls (or boys?) drunk enough, they might even get congenital in that basement art studio.
I hate to burst the bubble of your retro Bazooka bubblegum, hipsters, but this is Sarah Palin’s America! Your silly antics won’t get you a pair of overalls and a slice of apple pie in the heartland. Your little tight twinky Lady Gaga t-shirts and lip piercings will get your butt whooped in the Topeka. Your eyeshadow and hair dye would melt if you tried an honest day’s work in a farm or on a factory floor. And you people think you know anything about the heart and soul of human beings just because you signed up for that course at Vassar? Did you even go to class?
Yes, we all know you’re rich kids who went to expensive fancy schools even if you wear second-hand clothes and speak like you’re more stoned than you really are. By the way, was it Sarah Lawrence or Brown, Bard or Wellesley? Was there a night where French literary theory and supermarket wine resulted in a regrettable sexual experience against a dorm room wall? I wonder. And did your parents subtly bribe you not to move back home after graduation because you looked so unpresentable? Did you ever wonder why they were so quick to give you an allowance to “start off on your own” so far from home? No surprise then you ended up in Austin or Bushwick, Oakland or Philadelphia. I know your type. I’ve seen it all before.
I’ll tell you a secret, you little ones who live in that Latino section of Brooklyn, NY called Bushwick: you’re not wanted there. Desegregation didn’t work in the 60s and it doesn’t work now, folks. Did you miss that lesson in history class at prep school? They don’t want to live with us and we don’t want to live with them, get it? And something else: You’re all going to grow up to be bankers or bookstore managers, advertising copywriters or homemakers in the end, whether you like it or not. Don’t kid yourself, no one is changing the world here and I am so crazy sick of you people implying that some crap you’ve dreamed up wrapped in your sweaty bedsheets will mean anything to anyone one hundred years down the road. The world is what it is, it’s not going to change because some brilliant genius twittered a line he heard his senile grandfather mutter or because someone once played in a band that once had a song that became a hit in Reykjavik.
This! Yes this, my Christian readers, is something that the New York Times finds interesting enough to write about! Who reads this garbage and thinks, “Wow, that’s wonderful!”? Hey I once lived in a crappy section of Clarksville and there were ethnics there and the lady I lived with had cats and fancied herself a portrait painter and she had cats! We used to watch Home Improvement together and argue about Ross Perot. I thought about becoming a poet and a youth counselor back then. One time we had a party and someone stole our refrigerator! Right out the back door and into an El Camino parked on the lawn! Why don’t you write about me and my amazing life New York Times! It would be far more fascinating than a bunch of herpes-suffering cigarette-smokers who aspire to get published on the Awl or play at Antone’s in Austin!
http://www.nytimes.com/2010/07/18/realestate/18habi.html
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9:18 pm
//This! Yes this, my Christian readers, is something that the New York Times finds interesting enough to write about!//
I’d say the same about this site, but hell, I’m not going to delude myself into thinking that this isn’t an interesting site full of bat-shit insane wackos who make the KKK look subtle.
//Who reads this garbage and thinks, “Wow, that’s wonderful!”?//
I WILL say the same about this site, however. You’re bitching about an uninteresting article. Who cares that you find this uninteresting or that you hate it? Hell, you could’ve spiced this up and say that the magazine has a homogay agenda, since you lot tend to cling to that word like a child’s inner tube at sea. You didn’t even bother with trying to hide SOME form of bull behind this. This just amounts to one long twitter post. I can sum this entire article up in one: “WTF? NY Times bothered posting an article about Hipsters? Why?”
//Hey I once lived in a crappy section of Clarksville and there were ethnics there and the lady I lived with had cats and fancied herself a portrait painter and she had cats! //
A lady with cats had cats? DO TELL! Seriously, did that add ANYTHING to the topic at hand? You REALLY had nothing to work with? You couldn’t add ANY BS to this article to at least take SOME attention away from what amounts to (as said before) a tweet?
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9:25 pm
Thanks for the quick literary analysis but you truly missed the message of this article. I find the NY TImes is encouraging children today to be shiftless and uninspired. Doesn’t that worry you? And yes, cats are problematic.
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9:32 pm
Cats are NOT problematic unless they’re living in an unsavory environment or with unsavory people! Your little “article” on cats was full of misinformation and lies and I took it apart piece by piece.
Sorry, but you’ve only had contact with TWO cats in your life, whereas I’ve been volunteering at the MSPCA for three years now and have had contact with literally thousands of cats from all walks of life, I interned at a veterinarian’s office, I worked at Animal Control, I’m a Vet. Tech student entering my third year, I have two cats of my own and I’m fostering a kitten and her mother.
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Do you think EVERYTHING is for children? Have you NEVER heard of a demographic? If you haven’t, here’s a simplified definition: a demographic is some sort of work, be it a game, movie, book, or newspaper or some other media outlet, that is aimed at a specific audience. This is why there are shows like Spongebob Squarepants or Ben 10 that are meant for kids and shows like Two and a Half Men which are aimed at an adult audience. Comic books and whatnot are aimed at both kids and older audiences, and then there’s the New York Times, a magazine meant for adults and older audiences as well.
You’re problem is you can’t figure out just WHAT the audience is though. You think games with bloodshed and carnage are meant for children, while shows about old ladies are meant for gay people. Here’s a hint: it’s pretty much a dead giveaway as to who the product is meant for just by looking at the cover and doing a google search about it. How many children are seriously going to read the Times?
As for your cat comment, just suck it.
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12:45 am
Hi, could you please temper your foul language? It is inappropriate. And your statement that, “a demographic is some sort of work” is incorrect. It is not a “work” but a group or subgroup of people. Does that definition have any relevance to my article? I fail to see it, but thank you for reading and sharing your concerns. God bless.
Stephenson
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What was inappropriate? The fact that I had actual backing compared to your crap? I’ll give you the demographic definition, but you can still figure the definition out anyway from what I said. As for it’s relevance, it’s COMPLETELY related to the article you twit. You say that the New York Times is doing something horrible to children; to wit I ask, WHAT child is reading the New York Times? The New York Times isn’t aimed at children, that’s not their (and read this part carefully and slowly and loudly if need be) DEMOGRAPHIC. They don’t make their articles and stories for children, they make them for ADULTS since ADULTS are their DEMOGRAPHIC. Whatever kid is reading the Time isn’t going to give one lick about it because it’s got nothing but adults doing nothing interesting in their minds or a bunch of words. Why this rant? Because of this:
//I find the NY TImes is encouraging children today to be shiftless and uninspired.//
If you don’t know what something is for, do not complain about it. How can the Times be encouraging children if children aren’t their key demographic. This ONE line shows that you’ve got nothing to back your claims up because you don’t bother with (and I pointed this out) RESEARCH! You and your buddies just make wild claims, say you’re working for jesus, when the reality is every Christian would be appalled. You’re nothing but a bunch of Zealots and false, self-proclaimed Prophets. You’ll condemn every man and woman to hell who doesn’t agree with your ways, and yet you judge things without having the slightest idea about them. If you can’t figure out that an adult product is meant for adults, then you can’t call yourselves ANYTHING but stupid.
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1:18 am
I would define a child as anyone under 30 and by writing articles promoting the hipster lifestyle it’s legitimizing it to parents, which discourages them from stepping in and knocking some sense into those kids. Childhood as a concept ha expanded over the years, many authors and journalists have explored that, including in the NY Times. As a corallory to my theory, I would also say that these 20 somethings are still acting like they’re 14 years old and thus are children in symbolic ways. That was an undercurrent of my article in case you missed it (it was a tad subtle).
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Also many actual teens read the New York Times. I read Newspapers as a child. I guess you didn’t?
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//I would define a child as anyone under 30 and by writing articles promoting the hipster lifestyle it’s legitimizing it to parents, which discourages them from stepping in and knocking some sense into those kids.//
Really? Your line of thinking is that 30 year olds can’t think for themselves? Even if you mistyped and meant 20, you REALLY think a LEGAL ADULT can’t think for them self? Are you much different? You apparently need Jesus in your life to tell you right from wrong, you completely lack the ability to do so unless he’s in your life.
//Childhood as a concept ha expanded over the years, many authors and journalists have explored that, including in the NY Times. As a corallory to my theory, I would also say that these 20 somethings are still acting like they’re 14 years old and thus are children in symbolic ways. That was an undercurrent of my article in case you missed it (it was a tad subtle).//
You’re half right, Childhood as a concept HAS changed around the years, but it stops by the time you hit 15 in just about everyone’s book. At 15, there are a number of places that allow you to hold a job and drive a car, and if not 15, then I know for a fact 16. Yes, there are teenagers who act completely immature, but I can name god knows how many adults off the top of my head (who are easily over 30) that are childish and immature. Do you think they should be sheltered and not taught how to live life on their own?
//Also many actual teens read the New York Times. I read Newspapers as a child. I guess you didn’t?//
The Sunday Funnies don’t count as reading a newspaper, and if you’re talking about when you were a teenager, then LOOK AT THAT! You’re part of their demographic! You’re part of their audience! It’s assumed at that point that you can THINK FOR YOURSELF and know what advice to take and to stay away from! Or do you think that once you hit 20/30 that people are just magically imbued with the intelligence to live life on their own or that they magically know how to think for themselves?
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4:59 pm
You arrogance is really starting to crawl up my craw. I don’t know you and frankly I don’t like you. The sooner you’re put out to grass on this website, the better.
Furthermore, who in the world are you to tell me that “children” as a concept are no older than 15? Haven’t you ever heard an older person call someone “Sonny” or “Child”. That is the idea I am using here and for some odd reason you don’t seem to understand that. Are you here simply to annoy me? Your inane rambling and liberal stupidity are just too vast to be believed. Are you liberals really this dumb that you lack basic 3rd grade reading comprehension skills? You are a fool, some sort of imbecile if you are for real. I am so sick of your antics, they really push past the boundaries of decency, young man.
Yes, I read newspapers when I was young. Irregardless, my point remains that the New York Times encourages PEOPLE UNDER 30 to engage in a reckless, pointless lifestyle. Why does this offend you so personally? You seem deranged and honestly you can’t write a decent sentence. Are you suffering from envy? Do you secretly wish you could write? I truly am scratching around to figure out what your mental problem is, You make no sense and I do not appreciate you hate.
I am sorry if I flew off the handle before and I don’t mean to do it but I have to let out steam sometimes particularly when you people needle me. Sometimes I wonder if that’s all you want, just to get me upset. I will stand firm by my principles. Trust God my friends.
“Know this first of all, that in the last days mockers will come with their mocking, following their own lusts.” –2 Peter 3:3.
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1:16 pm
Hi there,
As a resident of Bushwick who is often characterized as a “hipster,” I feel compelled to join the fray only to say:
- A lot of us have jobs, some of which are pretty darned important. Even more important than low mowing.
- Roddy Doyle has it right. He’s also a lot more generous in spirit than I can be. I just want to tell this Stephenson fellow that he’s an ignorant, narrow-minded douche; RD shows me that there is another way.
- “Irregardless” isn’t a word, and you don’t have to be an elitist to know that. I learned it at a public school, specifically a public middle school.
- Desegregation didn’t work? Wow. I’d love to learn more about that. What would have worked?
- Similarly, I’d love to know about Stephenson’s expertise in Indian and Chinese culture and education. Having worked as an educational consultant in both of those countries, I have come to different conclusions.
- Isn’t there a definitional contradiction in criticizing 20-somethings who live like children while defining people under 30 as children?
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1:54 am
>”You’re problem is…”
>You’re
stop trying to sound all intelligent
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11:59 am
This website is hilarious, only complete assholes would take anything written (poorly) on this site seriously.
Spoiler: Most of the stories are about stupid people in made up or extremely exaggerated situations.
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9:22 pm
“They live like 14-year olds– emotionally stunted, egomaniacal, crying for no reason and then twittering about it.”
That’s your opinion of 14-year-olds? Do the parents of the boys who attend your camp realize that you view their children as whiny little bitches?
“but this is Sarah Palin’s America!”
Uh…no it’s not…
“Was there a night where French literary theory and supermarket wine resulted in a regrettable sexual experience against a dorm room wall? I wonder.”
Yes, of course you wonder about it, because you can’t get your mind off of potential sex against walls, whether they be in dorm rooms, bathrooms, or dark alleys.
“They don’t want to live with us and we don’t want to live with them, get it?”
Uh, I have no problem living with Latinos. Only racist assholes like you would not want to live with people of other colors.
“Hey I once lived in a crappy section of Clarksville and there were ethnics there”
Oh no…not ETHNICS!!!
“Why don’t you write about me and my amazing life New York Times! It would be far more fascinating than a bunch of herpes-suffering cigarette-smokers who aspire to get published on the Awl or play at Antone’s in Austin!”
I fail to see what’s so fascinating about your life.
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12:48 am
I think you underestimate the power of Sarah Palin and how deeply Americans feel about her. She has 2 million people signed up to her Face Book page and her twitters and posts about political issues normally get between 10 and 20 thousand replies. You will truly see her reach in 2012.
http://www.facebook.com/sarahpalin
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1:35 am
Oh noez, she’s got 2 million Facebook buddies. She’s got 2 million friend whores all over her book :\ Just about ANY presidential candidate for any year can have a facebook or MySpace page with several million friends. Doesn’t mean anything. It just means that those people are on a friend’s list. You seriously have no idea how the internet works, do you? Anyone can make a MySpace or a FaceBook page and given the same amount of time, will garner as many ‘friends’ as Palin, moreso if their name is out there. A friend of mine despised Bill Clinton, but she got a picture taken with him on her cellphone. Doesn’t make much sense? Well, just imagine about 2 million people with similar logic in their head on Facebook.
Not only that, didn’t your buddy Abe damn her for leaving her ‘throne’ in Alaska and damned the place because of algae was heading their way? Isn’t your entire group in total agreement with literally everything that goes on? Hell, I think the only reason you fired shat was because the FBI got involved and you were all too chicken-shit to admit that you all agree with him.
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8:44 am
Lol you know that around 100 000 of them are from Canada or any other countries for the matters
and half of the rest actually are democrats who actually despites sarah palin ??? and the rest doesnt give a fuck about her ?
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If Sarah Palin has 100,000 fans in Canada that’s great, but considering that the vast number of Palin supporters are not even on the internet then I think she is much farther ahead than you think. Even her simplest twitters make national news. Can you say that about any other potential 2012 candidate? She is a force to be reckoned with and you people will truly be suprised when she exceeds our expectations.
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12:13 pm
“Even her simplest twitters make national news. ”
bahahahahhaha. I love your inability to separate “idolization” from pure mockery. Do you not realize that the only reason her tweets make the news is due to her unmatched ability to make the most ignorant comments ever known to American politics?
Hence why she has so many followers.
And by the way, there is a reason why “ethnics” dont want to live with you. Just so you know I am latino, and in my country of birth there is no separation of church and state, like there is in America. People in my country of birth, including our government, openly and honestly worship god…. So we are basically a healthy, honest, working version of the country you wish America was. Its too bad you choose to classify us only as ethnics that you don’t want to live with or near, since we are everything you wish you could be. And for the record, I am 100% for separation of church and state in AMERICA, because otherwise we’d have ignorant lunatics like you running this country. Thank GOD!
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3:51 am
I do think you are right about this. Palin is a force to be reckoned with, despite her utter stupidity and general lack of knowledge about policy, history, economics or national politics. Lots of folks will vote for her, especially social conservatives. She offers simple solutions to complex problems. Of course, those solutions are untenable, but at least they’re easy to understand. She’s a bit like the boy running for high school class president who offers free lunch for everyone vs. the girl who outlines a fiscal policy that will help reduce the cost of lunch, based on a sliding scale of need. The boy wins because, well, free lunch would be neato. You ‘betcha!
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5:52 pm
I don’t think that Sarah Palin would ever want free lunch for anyone… That would be communism!
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4:56 pm
http://www.facebook.com/barackobama he has 18 million, liberals win?
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4:17 am
May I ask how many of those replies are from people who are against or neutral to Sarah Palin?
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12:52 am
Is this website a parody? I can’t tell.
If not, I would suggest that you stop obsessing over other peoples’ lives and focus a little more on your own.
As for the “feeding at the trough” bit…where does YOUR money come from? I, like many people, have a job, and I can spend money on what I wish. If someone’s parents choose to support them, that is their decision. However, I would bet more readers of this website rely on government handouts than these so-called hipsters.
Just because you think your moral sense is superior to others’ doesn’t make it so. Actually, I think it makes it LESS likely.
If so, great job! Really spot on.
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1:08 am
I believe in hard work and I believe that hard work, innovation, faith and freedom have America what it is today. In our early years as a country we grew quickly because of the guts and gumption of our inhabitants. In the early 20th Century, we invented so much of the machinery of the Industrial Revolution because our men were brilliant and tireless. We had faith and patriotism that drove us throw two world wars and the Cold War. American genius and faith has led to our greatest technical feats but we have slowed down. In Asia, they are copying our computers. The Chinese and Indians now turn our better equipped students because those kids are poor and they WANT TO LEARN! Our children today have forsaken the great values of this country to live wild, indulgent lives, wasting their time chating on phones and hitchhiking around, playing in bands and telling people they’re “artists”. What do you think this country will become in 20 years if this keeps up? We are on the decline my friend and I am sorry to see it happen but we need to save this country. We need a wakeup call. We need to know this type of slacker society only harms us. We need Jesus Christ reaffirmed in our lives. And that’s happening. Slowly people are returning to their churches, they’ve stopped drinking Obama’s cool aid and they are welcoming Jesus into their hearts. Are you brave enough to do the same?
“Wherefore I perceive that there is nothing better, than that a man should rejoice in his own works; for that is his portion: for who shall bring him to see what shall be after him?” –Ecclesiastes 3:22.
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Your computers cough cough make me laugh you barely Invented anything
and for your computer most of your piece comes from China or Japan
Industrial revolution at that Time you Only created weapon of amss destruction and thats it you are a war Monger country you didnt invented anything innovative to help the world instead you invented anything to destroy it
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4:52 pm
During the Industrial Revolution (late 1800s to early 1900s), the US created great railroads and canal, roadways and skyscrapers. Our factories turned out new machinery, steam engines, shoes, and everything in between. Weapons of mass destruction? You’re thinking of Czechslovakia my friend or something else. You are not qualified to speak on history if you cannot formulate the simplest reference.
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5:05 pm
congratualtion you were great 200-100 years ago… not really relevant now is it really?
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“Our factories turned out new machinery, steam engines, shoes, and everything in between.”
Basic steam engines have been around for thousands of years. True, practical steam engines have only been around for a few hundred, but even then, the first was invented by an Englishman. A huge number of inventions can also be attributed to Scotland. Apparently they produce fantastic engineers.
“Weapons of mass destruction? You’re thinking of Czechslovakia my friend or something else.”
I reckon’ he was thinking of the A-bomb. The Manhattan Project developed the first Atomic bombs and was led by America.
“You are not qualified to speak on history if you cannot formulate the simplest reference.”
You are not qualified, period.
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5:13 pm
Sure the Scots did produce a few things. Wasn’t Edison a Scot? I believe he moved to Canada. But all of this talk is irrelevant to the history lesson I am giving you here, and that’s that American Innovation has always triumphed!
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5:32 pm
AMerican always triumph
Canal (*if you talks about aqueduc) is roman everyone know that
railraod is … OH MY germany Source : http://inventors.about.com/library/inventors/blrailroad.htm
skyyscraper ( we talk about tower here and Tall building is OH egyptian http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Skyscraper
shoes existed way before
steam engines too (actually europe become industrial age before USA don’t ask why I don’t know)
Edison was Indeed american But Tesla actually created electricity
Alexander Graham bell is canadian (the Phone)
USA didnt even have their own “original meal”
Hot dog is from Germany hamburger as well (yet people still mix hamburg in colorado with Hamburg in germany) French fries is from Belgium pizza from greece
at least My province in quebec we Invented something and we have distinctive meal that you never seen anywhere (Poutine beaver’s tail Maple syrup)
we Might not be so present in war because we prefer peace over war but we actually are mostly productive
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5:33 pm
Triumphed over what?
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5:45 pm
“Sure the Scots did produce a few things.”
Oh, yes. Just a few things like the flush toilet, the bycicle, the telephone, the television, the blast furnace, the cloud chamber, and mother-fucking logs. Let’s not foget the discovery of Penicillin, insulin, the cure for tuberculosis, the noble gases, the concept of latent heat, the theory of electromagnetism and the Kelvin scale of temperature.
Oh, and they were the first to clone a mammal.
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9:39 am
“We had faith and patriotism that drove us throw two world wars and the Cold War.”
Throw? Okay then, Mr. Journalist…
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1:13 am
he said “obama’s cool aid.” haha
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4:27 am
I am not so certain if this is not a parody as well. Apparently we are not alone. http://www.cracked.com/funny-2203-christ-wire/
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4:34 am
Yes, everyone at Christwire is aware of the pointless little piece on that website. Here’s a great analysis of what’s behind their agenda.
http://stephensonbillings.wordpress.com/2010/08/02/251/
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1:51 am
You do realize that this article was posted in the Real Estate section of the paper where it may be fitting for a story about young adults living in a particular neighborhood to be. Yes, the article is light on substantial material but I really wasn’t getting the sense the writer was looking for a front page story above the fold. I would guess that she was targeting people who are interested in the changing of neighborhood demographics or just looking for new places to live.
You hammer at the article for being a poor piece of journalism but it is you who have written a horrible critique of an unimportant article that is filled with your own prejudices and bias. Line after line you make unsubstantiated assumptions about their financial situations, education, upbringing, choice of employment, and reasons for living in that particular neighborhood (paying only 600 a month may have something to do with it). You fail to establish why these contributing members of society, they have tattoos and poor fashion sense but they do contribute, are so problematic. Unfortunately not liking them because they are different does not carry much water.
I also feel that it is important to note the use of photos in your piece. What you have posted has nothing to do with the content of the original article other than that they are examples of what you think hipsters look like. Since you went ahead and labeled the individuals featured in the article as hipsters I guess that makes it ok that they are all the same. This is unfair and if anyone were to actually go to the Times page they would see that the 20-somethings living in Bushwick look nothing like the caricatures you have displayed.
I am curious as to why are you so antagonistic towards a bunch of 20-somethings artists living together in a shady part of town. There is nothing wrong with being an artist, which they are obviously able to makes ends meet doing so. If they were to aspire to nothing more than that in life then why shouldn’t they. Who are you to judge them for that choice? Working as a graphic designer is just as honorable as working a monotonous dead-end job in a factory and no one should hold a torch for someone for doing job one over the other, especially you.
Lastly, cats do suck.
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4:50 pm
Hi Len, thank for you taking the time to try and read my article. It does not seem relevant to me whether this story was on the front page or in the Real Estate section. It is part and parcel of a larger agenda on the Time’s part to legitimate a lifestyle most Americans find abhorrent. Journalism is journalism and must adhere to the same standards no matter what page of the newspaper it appears. I am surprised you would try to argue otherwise.
You call my writing a “horrible critique” and that’s your right, I guess. But this happens to be a Christian website where we embrace values for the whole family, values that make America great. I do not think you are being considerate or fair. You clearly have a bias and it’s undermining your ability to make a cogent argument. Your hate is not welcome here my friend.
My photos accurately reflect the hipster lifestyle of New York. You might be wearing rose colored glasses, but this is the truth. This lifestyle is widely documented on hundreds of websites across the internet. I suppose you’re not familiar with them? Please try to do some solid research before making unfounded and frankly childish accusations.
Lastly, I am not “antagonistic” towards 20 somethings. Simply put, I believe in a stronger America and am fighting with all my guts to make that happy. It is insincere and unpatriotic people like you who are undermining all the things that once made this country great. I would love to know if you are a patriot and if you support our military. I pray that you do.. God bless.
“For the time will come when they will not endure sound doctrine; but wanting to have their ears tickled, they will accumulate for themselves teachers in accordance to their own desires; and will turn away their ears from the truth, and will turn aside to myths.” –2 Timothy 4: 3 – 4.
Hot debate. What do you think?
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“Journalism is journalism and must adhere to the same standards no matter what page of the newspaper it appears. ”
then why don’t your “journalism” have to do that?
“You clearly have a bias and it’s undermining your ability to make a cogent argument. ”
and why isn’t your bias doing that?
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Sure, I am biased in favor of The United States of America and Jesus Christ. That’s nothing to be ashamed about!
Hot debate. What do you think?
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so what’s so much better about being for jesus than being against him? you are both for america but disagree on how to do it. and neither of you have evil intentions.
if haveing a bias make you unqualified to have an openion why doesn’¨t you bias do it to you?
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THE USA AND YOUR CHRIST-GOD DON’T GO TOGETHER IN FACT THEY ARE TWO SEPARATE ENTITIES.
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//Journalism is journalism and must adhere to the same standards no matter what page of the newspaper it appears. I am surprised you would try to argue otherwise.//
I’d ask you’d adhere to the basic principles of journalism and have actual authenticity behind your crap, but we all know the answer by now.
//You call my writing a “horrible critique” and that’s your right, I guess.//
You guess? O thank lordy you guess that someone has the right to call you a “horrible critique”! What would the world do without your guidance?
//But this happens to be a Christian website where we embrace values for the whole family, values that make America great.//
I didn’t know religion belonged to one specific country, must’ve missed that in my history cla–oh wait, I didn’t, you’re just being stupid like usual.
//I do not think you are being considerate or fair.//
Seriously, do you not ever bother looking into a mirror when you say stuff?
//You clearly have a bias and it’s undermining your ability to make a cogent argument. Your hate is not welcome here my friend.//
Oh the irony bound to this! YOU cleraly have a bias that’s undermining YOUR ability to make a simple argument and have nothing but hate in your heart under the guise of love.
//My photos accurately reflect the hipster lifestyle of New York. You might be wearing rose colored glasses, but this is the truth. This lifestyle is widely documented on hundreds of websites across the internet. I suppose you’re not familiar with them? Please try to do some solid research before making unfounded and frankly childish accusations.//
YOU’RE the journalist, YOU’RE supposed to be doing the research. Why should we have to hunt for the answers to our questions? Oh that’s right, because you don’t bother. Those photos reflect jack, you’ve made some of the most outrageous claims before and said that they were authentic, when anyone with so much as an eighth of a brain would know that the picture was either a photoshop or something completely unrelated. You just searched for pictures of what you THOUGHT were hipsters and plastered them all over.
//Lastly, I am not “antagonistic” towards 20 somethings.//
You’re half right, you’re not antagonistic towards 20 something people, you’re antagonistic towards anyone who isn’t the ideal Christian.
//“For the time will come when they will not endure sound doctrine; but wanting to have their ears tickled, they will accumulate for themselves teachers in accordance to their own desires; and will turn away their ears from the truth, and will turn aside to myths.” –2 Timothy 4: 3 – 4.//
And we finish with a bible quote. You’re more predictable than the outcome of a two-headed coin.
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5:29 pm
You need to find help managing your rage or it’s going to tear you apart my friend.
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I’M SORRY I’M NOT TYPING LIKE YOU BILLINGS! MAYBE I SHOULD JUST LEAVE EVERYTHING IN CAPS AND LET MY ANGER OUT THAT WAY INSTEAD OF DOING SOMETHING ACTUALLY PRODUCTIVE! MAYBE I SHOULD TAKE A LESSON FROM YOU ON HOW TO ACT AND HOW TO JUDGE PEOPLE BY TAKING ONLY ONE OR TWO ENCOUNTERS WITH THIS PERSON AND FORMING AN ENTIRE BIOGRAPHY OF THEM IN MY HEAD?
Seriously, learn what rage is, you thick-headed moron.
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6:00 pm
Not appropriate.
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so what?
its not like your bullshit is
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“Not appropriate.”
Billings, I fail to see what’s not appropriate about it.
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sir, with all due respect, your photos actually don’t accurately reflect what hipsters in ny look like. Some of them look a bit more like midwestern, working-class stoners. Perhaps no photos would have been a more even-handed, honest approach.
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I present diversity here, so please calling me not honest is unfair and crude.
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Unless you define ‘diversity’ by meaning only one side, you are the absolutely, undisputed moron of the century. You NEVER, EVER, have even given ONE THOUGHT about the other side, you NEVER took into consideration anything that someone else has said, and either: ran away, insult them, repeat yourself, or throw a random quote at them. You literally have NEVER done anything different, nor do you show the mental capacity to do such a thing. You call everything aimed at you slander when the difference between what we say and slander is that slandering someone involves telling lies while we state the truth.
Go on, disprove this, show me you can do something OTHER than those four things.
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> It is part and parcel of a larger agenda on the Time’s part to legitimate a lifestyle most Americans find abhorrent.
This has the presupposition that the given lifestyle is somehow illegitimate. Remember that at one point in history, the christians were persecuted and hence were considered abhorrent. The opinions of the majority do not outweight the rights of the few — and since you’re complaining about liberals, I assume you are conservative and that last statement jives with your beliefs. The difference here is that it is to someone else’s advantage instead of your own.
> Journalism is journalism and must adhere to the same standards no matter what page of the newspaper it appears. I am surprised you would try to argue otherwise.
If it was in the real estate section then it is relevant to what page it is on, as it is describing how the neighborhood is changing due to new influences. Which happens to all neighborhoods, and if you care about real estate, it is worth noting and hence is news.
Also, please enumerate these supposed standards instead of just appealing to an abstract idea.
> You call my writing a “horrible critique” and that’s your right, I guess. But this happens to be a Christian website where we embrace values for the whole family, values that make America great. I do not think you are being considerate or fair.
A sincere attempt at faith and religion requires debate and discussion. Blind faith is not faith at all. Is this a religious site or a site for cheerleading your religion? I think you should take the former over the latter, as it is in your best interest in all ways.
> You clearly have a bias and it’s undermining your ability to make a cogent argument. Your hate is not welcome here my friend.
I don’t think her post was incoherent. Calling someone’s writing incoherent doesn’t actually make it so. Calling the sky green doesn’t change it from being blue.
> My photos accurately reflect the hipster lifestyle of New York. You might be wearing rose colored glasses, but this is the truth. This lifestyle is widely documented on hundreds of websites across the internet. I suppose you’re not familiar with them? Please try to do some solid research before making unfounded and frankly childish accusations.
All Christians are trying to kill people in crusades (cause Jesus loves killing). All Jews are stealing other people’s money (cause Moses said it was cool). All Muslims are terrorists (cause the Prophet commands it). And all hipsters are how you describe them (cause you clearly know).
Generalizing people into groups doesn’t work, toots.
> Lastly, I am not “antagonistic” towards 20 somethings. Simply put, I believe in a stronger America and am fighting with all my guts to make that happen.
There’s no way to know that they are not making America stronger in some way. There’s also no reason to assume that a stronger America is important.
> It is insincere and unpatriotic people like you who are undermining all the things that once made this country great. I would love to know if you are a patriot and if you support our military.
Patriotism has nothing to do with supporting the military. Patriotism is a love of your country — if you think having a military is bad for everyone and hence your country, then that is still patriotism. There is no text-book action that is patriotism.
There’s no reason to assume the people posting here are unpatriotic. Blind faith in one’s country is unpatriotic in the same sense that blind faith is not actual faith.
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seriously when i read this one thing just hit me square in the face.
change hipsters with christians and NY times with christwire and we basicly have an article denoucing all the shit written here.
the world dosn’t center around you billings. just because you think something doesn’t make it right.
“It is an absurd and irresponsible piece of liberal arrogance that only the Times could pull off with an innocent face.”
and this is “an absurd and irresponsible piece of christian arrogance that only billings could pull off with an innocent face.”
see i told you. easy
“but this is Sarah Palin’s America!”
then why isn’t mcain president. face it you are the minority your views were recjcted and if you are not happy with that as you so proudly say yourself you should just leave america.
“Desegregation didn’t work in the 60s and it doesn’t work now, folks. Did you miss that lesson in history class at prep school?”
is it smart to point out a problem if you are a major part of the cause.
you are the one who refuse to live with them. most of the world can easily live side by side respectful of others culture. however you have some problem where everyone who isn’t with you is against you. so you are right let’s remove your from our society. you christian fuck heads simply can’t fity in it. let’s ship you all to siberia so we can live in peace.
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Mr. Billings, great photos from the 4th of July party! How is your current relationship with Bill?
BTW- What were you and Abe doing under that sofa?
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I find this comment neither enlightening nor compelling of a response.
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funny that’s what most people say about your posts here
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If it is not in your favor, why did you include it in your article? You could have chosen other pictures…
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When you say that it’s not worth a response–is that a response? (D’oh!)
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“I would define a child as anyone under 30″
Well then, you’re absolutely wrong.
“knocking some sense into those kids.”
So you support child abuse?
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7:39 pm
“You arrogance is really starting to crawl up my craw.”
Pot calling the kettle black. You know, I’m getting really sick of saying that, so how about you stop accusing others of arrogance, Billings? As I’ve said before, 98% of the people who frequent this site would agree that YOU are the most arrogant prick on here. I would ask a confessionwire question about it (I probably have in the past) but you’d most likely alter it because you’re a giant pussy.
“I don’t know you and frankly I don’t like you.”
Ooh! Billings, you’re so harsh!
“Are you here simply to annoy me?”
Most likely. After all, NOBODY LIKES YOU.
“Irregardless”
Dude, that word is NOT widely accepted in the English language. I believe we’ve been over this. Heck, it’s basically a double negative!
“my point remains that the New York Times encourages PEOPLE UNDER 30 to engage in a reckless, pointless lifestyle.”
No, it doesn’t. Don’t be ridiculous.
“Trust God my friends.”
You don’t seem to respect our American rights to NOT believe in a god.
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Hi, I am offended by the tone of your comment and will not respond to people who cannot calm down. This subject should not encourage shouting. This is for your health and mine. God bless.
“Better it is to be of an humble spirit with the lowly, than to divide the spoil with the proud.” –Proverbs 16:19.
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“Hi, I am offended by the tone of your comment and will not respond to people who cannot calm down. This subject should not encourage shouting. This is for your health and mine. God bless.”
Hmm, this coming from the man who wrote these:
“ALLS I WANT TO DO IS HELP YOU PEOLE AND YOU JUSTB SLANDER AND ATTACK ME CONSTANT AND WHY????? BECAUSE YOU”RE ALL INTO SEX AND DRUGS AND WHATNOT AND I STAND UP FOR A MORAL NATION OF THE RIGHTEOUS YOU WILL ALL BURN IN THE DEPTHS OF SATANS LAIR IF YOU DONT REPENT> I DONT WANT THAT TO HAPPEN BUT I AM TRYING TO HELP IF YOU DONT WANT TO LISTEN THEN DONT. NOW GO AWAY AWAY AWAY!”
“CLAIRE YOUR DUMB COMMENTS CANNOT INTIMIDATE ME AND I KNOW WHAT IM DOING SO STOP GETTING ME RILED UP SO YOU CAN GET PAGE HITS OR COMMENTS OR WHATEVER ITS LOOKING SO DEPSERTE YOU PART I CANY HARDLY TELL WHAT THE WORLD IS TO YOU FILKS NO PLEASE ANSWER ME THAT SO ENOUGH? I AM JUST TIRED AND SICK OF YOU ALL SHOWING NO LOVE, NO KINDNESS NO WISDOM.”
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I don’t think you know what shouting on the internet is buddy boy. THIS IS SHOUTING, USING CAPS LOCK OR HOLDING DOWN SHIFT WHILE YOU TYPE EVERY LETTER AND CHARACTER ON YOUR KEYBOARD IS CONSIDERED SHOUTING ON THE INTERNET! Seriously, you fail hard at knowing how this series of tubes work.
//You arrogance is really starting to crawl up my craw. I don’t know you and frankly I don’t like you. The sooner you’re put out to grass on this website, the better.//
Craw, defined by Merriam-Webster: 1 : the crop of a bird or insect
2 : the stomach especially of a lower animal. Unless you’re admitting that people are animals and thus evolved from animal-like forms or such, you can barely use words properly. Even though you mean that I’m pissing you off and making you sick to your stomach, the very same can be said about you. Hell, roughly EVERYTHING you’ve said can be said about you. As for me leaving this site? Oh buddy boy, you really need to learn how to take your medicine, even if you have to be strapped to a chair and force fed it.
//Furthermore, who in the world are you to tell me that “children” as a concept are no older than 15? Haven’t you ever heard an older person call someone “Sonny” or “Child”. That is the idea I am using here and for some odd reason you don’t seem to understand that.//
That definition is fine, using children in a ‘old person’ sense is fine. However, you can NOT use that sort of slang when you’re a journalist, or rather, pretending to be one. For one thing, around 15 is the age where children are taught that they have to grow up, that the world isn’t filled with sunshine and rainbows, and that they should be used to involuntary bed-wetting as a part of growing up. The fact that just about every media I’ve seen with a separate rating between children and 17/18+ year olds meant strictly for teenagers is enough of a hint that 13-15 year olds have to stop being children and that they should be mature enough to handle deeper concepts.
//Are you here simply to annoy me? Your inane rambling and liberal stupidity are just too vast to be believed. Are you liberals really this dumb that you lack basic 3rd grade reading comprehension skills? You are a fool, some sort of imbecile if you are for real. I am so sick of your antics, they really push past the boundaries of decency, young man.//
Nice, you insult my reading comprehension while exploding. Mature. You’ve also yet to disprove my point that your retorts are nothing but ‘you’re a liberal’, ‘you’re a gay’, ‘you’re irrelevant’, or a bible quote (and I beat that horse dead so much I won’t even bother commenting about it at the end of your insanity).
//Yes, I read newspapers when I was young. Irregardless, my point remains that the New York Times encourages PEOPLE UNDER 30 to engage in a reckless, pointless lifestyle. Why does this offend you so personally? You seem deranged and honestly you can’t write a decent sentence.//
And people under 30 who are still the demographic for the Times consist of adults. If you can’t grasp that adults should be able to tell for themselves between what’s a good idea and what’s a bad idea, then you’ve lost your mind entirely. As for why I’m so offended? Let’s just say you’ll do nothing but ignore it and move on. You’re so thick-headed that you can’t bother to learn anything else.
//Are you suffering from envy? Do you secretly wish you could write? I truly am scratching around to figure out what your mental problem is, You make no sense and I do not appreciate you hate.//
I don’t secretly wish I could write, I already can write, a helluva lot better than you. You also don’t appreciate my hate? What about the seething hate you and your friends have for everything that isn’t Christian? You can’t bother to find out who’s on who side and instead just attack them for their views. You keep saying that I’m a liberal. You NEVER thought that maybe you’re just too much of an extreme conservative and THAT’S why you’re hated so much? What if I told you I wasn’t very fond of Obama, and that I rather dislike him, or even hate him? Would that blow your mind? Of course not, you’d call me a ‘typical liberal liar’ and move on.
If there’s any envy around here, it’s you who has it. You’re already guilty of several of the Seven Deadly Sins, Stevie. You’re a Glutton, you and your friends are -very- Prideful, you cast your Envy on others, and you’re all Greedy with your views. Buddy, that’s 4 of the 7 right there, and I could easily throw in your psychotic Lust for Claire, Frollo. The only two sins I can’t pin on you easily are Sloth and Wrath, and I’m excluding Wrath simply because (from what I can tell at least), you haven’t killed a man by being pissed off at him.
//I am sorry if I flew off the handle before and I don’t mean to do it but I have to let out steam sometimes particularly when you people needle me. Sometimes I wonder if that’s all you want, just to get me upset. I will stand firm by my principles. Trust God my friends.//
What we want is for you to actually think for yourself once. It’s one thing to follow God and his words, it’s an entirely different thing to do nothing but follow them while taking His words out of context, demonize everything, and become a reflection of everything you despise. You don’t want to spread hate? Then why do you think gay people and animals should die? You don’t want to spread lies? Then why do you do so and act as if you know everything about the subject while you haven’t anything at all to prove it. You’re ex-gay friend that you seemed to look to for information on the gay community is telling you everything you’ve already heard. You’re learning from a classmate, not a teacher, and the both of you are warping the teacher’s lessons.
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You make me laugh. You are so wrongheaded and wild I don’t know where to begin. Thanks for trying to launch your disinformation campaign here buddy but nobody’s buying it. Thanks for the giggles. You don’t know the first thing and love and faith. I do pray for you folks despite everything however. I just want you to know that. And I do love you. I just want to banish your sin.
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Zealots don’t banish sins; they make them
Also, YOU AIN’T GOT NO PANCAKE MIX!
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“I do pray for you folks despite everything however. I just want you to know that. And I do love you. I just want to banish your sin.”
How many times do I have to say it, Billings? We DON’T WANT you to pray for us or care about us, and we MOST CERTAINLY don’t want you to “love” us. The idea of you “loving” me makes me want to vomit.
Praying for someone is, in my opinion, interfering in other people’s lives. Whether the praying actually works or not (I’m an atheist so of course I don’t think it works) it’s the thought behind it that is offensive – the holier than thou attitude of “I know more about you than you yourself do and thus I know what’s good for you, so I’m going to TRY TO CHANGE SOMETHING ABOUT YOUR LIFE AGAINST YOUR WILL.”
Has this penetrated your thick skull yet, Billings? You are TRYING TO INTERFERE in our lives by way of prayer and we WILL NOT TOLERATE IT. I don’t care whether you really pray for me or simply say you do to appear to be a charitable Christian, but stop the bullshit. I don’t want you to care about me, I don’t want you to pray for me, I don’t want you to like me. You’re violating my rights by doing any of those things after I’ve told you, repeatedly, not to.
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9:39 pm
… Can you please keep this comment section on topic? You people have strayed too far out of line.
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So you’re just gonna brush the comments off then Stevie? No bible quote that’s ‘powerful’ enough to make us see different? No liberal slamming? No refuting?
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“… Can you please keep this comment section on topic? You people have strayed too far out of line.”
Is that your rebuttal, you pussy?
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I’m sorry but I’m an older man and I’m working on two important news pieces and it’s late and you kids have gone way out of line just to harass me. It’s no productive any more. I had a slice of pizza earlier and then time flew by. Actually, I can’t hardly tell what you people want from me in the first place? You love to chatter away with me then you turn all evil and this guy “Comedian” is just a freak and truly a mean guy with bitterness in his heart and I feel bad for him and hope he heals but really this is a lot to throw at a humble old guy who lives a simple life, don’t you think? Root beer, I’d rather be drinking that and playing dominoes… Anyway, this section is for talk about the New York youth trend and why it’s not conduicive to American prosperity.
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“I’m sorry but I’m an older man and I’m working on two important news pieces”
HAH! Sorry, but it’s not possible for you to write anything important OR news-related!
“you kids have gone way out of line just to harass me.”
Yeah, it’s because we hate you. Or are you still deluding yourself into thinking that we’re just “acting out our personal demons on you”?
“I had a slice of pizza”
You know, we don’t really need to know what you put into your grotesque body, okay?
“I can’t hardly tell”
Double negative, Mr. “Journalist”.
“You love to chatter away with me then you turn all evil”
We turn evil? No, we were evil from the beginning. Or at least trying to. Because, in case you’ve forgotten, we hate you.
“this guy “Comedian” is just a freak and truly a mean guy with bitterness in his heart”
No, the “mean guy with bitterness in his heart” is you. Or have you forgotten about how you’ve devoted your life to demonizing homosexuals and cats?
“but really this is a lot to throw at a humble old guy who lives a simple life, don’t you think?”
Oh Christ, you’re not going to pull that shit on us again, are you? The whole “poor me, I’m just an old man” routine? I fell for that once and I won’t fall for it again. What really baffles me is how you’ll claim to be “so strong, so unyielding to personal attacks” and then you’ll throw another tantrum about how we’re being so unfair to you, yadda yadda yadda.
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It’s called the truth buddy, the absolute harsh truth. You want people to stop hating you? Then stop spreading your lies and deceit and stop calling yourself a holy man when you do the devil’s deeds. Actual news rather than conspiracy theories and realizing that not everything is absolute are the first steps to recovery. Until you decide to stop being so zealous and hateful, you’ll receive noting but the same.
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billings let me be perfectly clear. what we want from you is for you to shut your big fat stupid mouth.
we are never nice to you. sure i’ll take it up as a disccsuion freely but i never agree with you and i always point out that you are an idiot. stop lieing to yourself and understand that we would celebrate you death and maybe you would be so hurt every time you feel abandoned by us. because that’s going to be often seeing as we are never on your side.
if you are not willing to take the consquences of you action then i’m sorry but you simply aren’t fit to take those actions. so either you suck it up and deal with our openion because asa matter of fact we too have freedom of speech or you learn to shut the fuck up because you can’t handle resposibility.
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Excuse me, how do upper-middle class and white trash mix?
White trash is defined as white people, usually living in a suburban-to rural area in trailer parks, that reside at or below the poverty line. Synonyms are: Hicks, Hillbillys, Republicans, and Red Necks
Those residing in the upper-middle class have white collar jobs and make well over $100,000 each year, putting them well above the poverty line; hence the term upper-middle class
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Hipsters are the white trash of the upper middle class. They mix that high income heritage with a trailer park ethos and that’s what’s so dangerous about them Carl.
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Seriously, I’m tempted to just put in a macro to automatically type in “And you’re an idiot because” just to save me a few extra minutes from how often I’d have to type it.
If hipsters were in the upper-middle class, then there would be no need for them to be ‘hipsters’ in the definition of your retarded world. Can you not talk out of your ass for once? You don’t have any info, and whatever links you gathered you either got from a similar site that didn’t read them, or just picked them up randomly. You have no idea what you’re talking about, stop being stupid!
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I truly wish you were just a bit more succinct (or maybe inspired?) because your comments fail to entice me. They also fail to excite my brain to thought, they are just that vapid. I am sorry my friend.
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2:52 am
the same could still be said about everything you post billings
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Ah, but the upper middle class of white trash are Christianist bloggers.
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First off, spell my name right. It’s like that for a reason.
Second, thanks for not refuting my comment about Republicans being white trash, it means that you agree with me.
Third, not all hipsters are white. How can hipsters be classified as “the white trash of the upper middle class” when not all of them are white?
Fourth, the trash of the upper-middle class is called the middle class, that means that they (or their parents in this case) are still white collar employees.
Fifth, those pictures you have of the hipsters only represents a small percentage of them. I know plenty of hipsters that are “straight edge” (look it up) and reflect some more “wholesome” values.
P.S. The reason it is spelled Karl Marx (like the father of modern communism) is to piss you off.
P.P.S. Hail Satan
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12:43 am
Don’t get all caught you hearing the sound of your own voice my friend, it spoils your ability to think clearly. The vast majority of “hipsters” are indeed white and indeed from wealthier families (far wealthier than I ever came from, but I am proud of who I am and my people, thank you very much). And your mediocre definition of the trash of the upper middle class being the middle class is a pedantic point at best, though slightly interesting and I may use it in a William F. Buckley type of quip later in my life. You sound somewhat educated so I’ll be gentle when I say, I do not wish to play word games with you young man, but following Satan is neither funny nor sincere. You just want to get my goat. Sorry I’m not falling for it. But honestly, playing with Satan too much does lead one into making poor ethnical choices later on. And sure, you might be a hipster now and having fun and having pre-marital sex but what happens when you fall in love and want to marry a decent woman but she’s been with many men and you, yourself, have too? How could you look into the eyes of your future children knowing that? And knowing that you have engaged in drugs and other things? How could your generation lead us anywhere if they’re made of white trash kids smoking pot and having sex all the time?
“Work hard and become a leader; be lazy and never succeed.” –Proverbs 12:24.
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My education: some high school, that is to say I have completed my junior year and will be a senior this coming fall.
Satan is a really cool dude (ask if you want an explanation)
Pre-marital sex: been there done that.
Sex in general: not a fan
Marriage and children: I despise the organization that we, as humans, call family.
I may look like a hipster, actually I really do look like a hipster, but I’m not a hipster. I don’t like the smell of pot (I once sat next to a pot head), so why would I do it. In fact I do not like the way that any kind of drugs (prescription or OTC) make me feel, so I obviously wouldn’t do hard drugs. As for Alcohol, last I checked having a drink is legal if you are 21 or older. So to answer your question, I will lead my generation, but I will lead them through song and not by actively seeking office (Rock and Roll will be revived).
And a final note, an indie band is a punk band without an anti-establishment message.
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This is what an 20 something hipster Satan worshiper looks like. Did you really want this as your future?
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Come on man. Let’s not make this a white and black thing. No need for racism. There are black hipsters, too. And Asian ones. And even some Hispanics. And Native Americans (you know, those people who lived in America before the white folks stole it from them). I think these racial groups might be upset about you leaving them out of the mix.
So why don’t we just take the “white” part out and call the hipsters “trash”?
They’re just a bunch of trash, right? Those hipsters. Those Trashy McTrashersons. Trash people. People made of trash. Trash humpers [via that hipster film by Harmony Korine]. Waste baskets. Garbage folk, you might even say.
And all of that would be fine.
But seriously, WHY do they have to be white???
You know, I have a dream.
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Look pretrtty much photoshopped mostly the “horn”
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It’s a real photograph, a mug shot actually.
Horny Man In Assault Bust
Cops: Oklahoman nabbed after trying to run down his landlord
JULY 14–Meet Jesse Thornhill. The Tulsa man was arrested early today after he allegedly tried to run down his landlord with a car. Following his arrest for assault with a dangerous weapon, Thornhill, 28, was booked into the Tulsa County jail, where the below booking photo was snapped.
http://www.thesmokinggun.com/archive/years/2010/0714101horns1.html
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And thanks for your ever skeptical response to truth I report in my journalism, my little friend.
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you reported on monkey voteing and refused to admit that it wasn’t real.
i’m sorry but anything you say is false untill proven other wise.
also i bet i can find an equally unpleasatn looking christian. as for unpleasant personality we have billings as aperfect example. if get to chosse between being like him and you billlings it sure is gonna be him…. bet he has more friends.
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I’m afraid to point out the utter stupidity of your comment. This is, sadly, a genuine photograph which you would understand if you simply click’d on the smoking gun website. The website, by the way, is run by liberals and widely respected in America for its authenticity. But still, if that doesn’t convince you I don’t know what does. You are really a shameful little misanthrope if you continue to harass me after this absurdity. Now I honestly understand why you annoy me, even with the truest facts around you doubt every word I type simply to frustrate the glory of my faith. Well, I learned my lesson today: You liberals are just too arrogant to accept anything but total domination over the truth. You want to destroy the truth, stomp it down with your boots and foolish words, your sex lust and liberal excess. You are a zealot and an ideologue whose ruin lies in his blindness and hatred. I feel sorry for you.
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it was my responese to the fact that you claimed to report the truth. i never said the picture wasn’t real. i did however say that the guy on the picture most likely is a far more pleasant person than you.
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8:58 am
Billings, please just kill yourself.
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“You are a zealot and an ideologue whose ruin lies in his blindness and hatred”
wait a second billings you dare claim that this is me? YOU claim this? seriously way to take our description of you. i seriously have no words….. you plain ánd simple decided to try and insult me by saying “NO YOU!!!!”? are you stupid? yes we do not agree but unlike you i at least ackknowledge that you might be right and that at least you most likely are more happy like you are but i refuse to live like you and that makes me the bad guy? no really i don’t know how to respond to this. it’s so utterly stupid that i don’t know how to take it in.
let me try one more time. i harash you because you harash me why is it okay when you do it?
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12:19 pm
What do you expect from a group of zealots such as these? They cast their sins on others and condemn them. Hell, why do you think so much of what Stevie says can be applied right back at him? Every single one of them is a damn loony.
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i know but this really takes the cake doesn’t it?
i mean billings calling me a zealot have to be a new low?
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2:19 pm
Mr. Billings,
I have one, simple question. Of those that stumbled across your work above, how many have you shown the love, compassion and forgiveness of Christ?
You have not represented the Jesus Christ that I know and love. Each of the people that you reference in your article are a child of God for whom Jesus Christ suffered and died. If He felt the same way you do, do you believe He would have suffered that way?
Furthermore, I come from a place that is no better, or perhaps worse than them, and yet, I am forgiven and am no more loved now than I was then.
I say shame on you for exhibiting such hate in the name of Jesus Christ. Thankfully, His love for you is not contingent on your level of love for others. You are clearly a gifted, if not mis-directed, writer. I hope that you will use the power that comes with it to bring those that are lost to Christ, as opposed to driving them away. If the above article is a reflection of what Christians, and therefore Christ Himself, are like, I would want nothing to do with it either.
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Sadly these zealots will think ill of you since in their mind they think Jesus and God are full of nothing but hatred for those that do not follow His word to the letter and by ‘doing their work’ they will earn His love. They hate in the name of love and cast judgment on those that have done no wrong. They honestly believe that women who aren’t married are whores, non-white people should burn in Hell for existing, and that everything around them is trying to turn everyone gay. I’m not God or Jesus and I can’t read their minds, so I can’t say anything about their fate, but from what I’ve seen of these false practitioners, they’re doing the devil’s work of spreading lies, deceit, and hate, while thinking their actions are holy instead of being sinners to the utmost degree.
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12:53 pm
Dear Shay, do you really think I am a rebel? Listen, my work simply follows in the footsteps of some of today’s great Christian thinkers and teachers: Rev. Falwell, Rev. Robertson, Concerned Women of America, Dr. James Dobson, Focus on the Family, Americans for Truth About Homosexuality, Exodus International, National Organization for Marriage, American Family Association, Tony Perkins, Pope Ratzinger, etc. etc. Are you honestly say all those incredibly devout and compassionate Christians are wrong? Or are you just singling me out because you have a chip on your shoulder?
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11:34 pm
No, you’re not being singled out. You, Falwell and the rest are all wrong. You make the fundamental mistake of thinking that because you enjoy a certain life others must follow that life to the letter.
Other people exist. Even stupid people. Even guys with regrettable facial hair. But you must spend a lot of time peeking out the curtains worrying that there are a horde PBR-drinking douchebags looking to sex you up for Satan.
God doesn’t care about anyone’s facial hair or bad taste. Neither should you. Try reading the front page next time and worry about things that actually cause people suffering and then go out and try to alleviate some of it–starting with not talking. Just go help. Pick up someone who is actually on the ground, brush them off and dress their wounds. I don’t mean this metaphorically, that you should just post another ridiculous article. Actually go out and help someone. Feed the poor. Tend to the sick. Teach someone to read. Sweep the sidewalk in front of your house.
Honestly, God bless you. Remember Jesus. He didn’t conflate servicing his view of the world with an actual life of compassion. He didn’t stand around pissing about the NY Times. He wouldn’t have bothered. He’d have been busy resurrecting someone. Get to it.
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8:13 pm
here check out a verse from your own bible. way to go! http://bible.cc/romans/2-1.htm
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It is an interesting comment, thank you for pointing this out. As I have written about many times, “Therefore thou art inexcusable, O man, whosoever thou art that judgest: for wherein thou judgest another, thou condemnest thyself; for thou that judgest doest the same things” does not mean Christians should be silent on the issues. Are we to stand quietly by when the rapists and murderers run our land? Should we bear silent witness to pedophilia and homosexaulity? Of course not and the Bible does not teach that in any way, shape or form. The verse in question invokes us to be as pure as we can be before we wade into the battlefield for the souls of others. I have my house in order, do you? And yes, I do think it’s a responsibility of us Christian-Americans to break free from liberal lamestream media oppression and speak out about our rights and our faith.
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Because you didn’t get what he was trying to tell you:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yytbDZrw1jc&feature=related
And in case this works:
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8:42 pm
I agree that you should be free to speak your mind about your beliefs but your article is clearly a generalized statement that doesn’t seem to have merit. It also is very negative towards people who are just living their lives how they choose. Almost all of the “hipsters” that I know of have their own jobs and places to live without any help from their rich parents. In fact, most of them do not have rich parents and are still in debt from getting loans for going to public colleges, if they were even able to go to college. They are making it on their own and living their life as they choose which everybody has a right to.
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Well Cory, I guess we have to agree to disagree then. The target audience of my article is parents and I believe most of them will understand where I’m coming from. It’s important that we lead our lost 20-somethings away from the idea of permanent unemployment and fooling around as “artists”. Truly they end up regretting that lifestyle when they’re 40 and working at a coffee shop instead of having a genuine career such as a banker or sports coach.
And sure, you may know a few people who have jobs and their own money, but the occurence of trust funds amongst these people is prevalent and widely accepted.
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//Well Cory, I guess we have to agree to disagree then. The target audience of my article is parents and I believe most of them will understand where I’m coming from. //
The Happy Hotel?
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“Truly they end up regretting that lifestyle when they’re 40 and working at a coffee shop instead of having a genuine career such as a banker or sports coach.”
I’d much rather work in a coffee shop than be a goddamn sports coach, especially if it’s a nice, quaint little family-owned coffee shop as opposed to some disgusting place like Dunkin Donuts.
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CLaire, you have an evident bias. Many would find training the young through competitive and team-building exercises a positive thing. And spouting off about Dunkin Donuts, are you’re getting a tad off topic here?
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“CLaire, you have an evident bias. ”
As do you.
“Many would find training the young through competitive and team-building exercises a positive thing.”
The majority of posters on here would disagree with you.
“And spouting off about Dunkin Donuts, are you’re getting a tad off topic here?”
Uh…you’re the one who brought up the coffee shop…
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10:29 pm
thanks for using a picture without consent of the owner.. OH and all of your generalizations are completely false.. i guess i should make a blog and say all christians are child molesting biggots.. that have nothing better to do, other than read the same book over and over again, and bitch about ‘problems’ without actually doing anything. get over it, and go kill some ‘fags’ and ‘niggers’ because thats what god wants you to do right?
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10:35 pm
Don’t try to trap me in the use of words I do not use. You should be a bit more aware of your own adults. I am trying to help people and you need to be up front with your beliefs here.
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10:51 pm
FAMILIES, ADULTS, here is a christian, DO YOU WANT YOUR KIDS TO GROW UP LIKE HIM.. i mean come on man for real?
also about the growing up to be artists, without artists you wouldnt have this damn site to bitch on
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12:57 pm
Come on now, the Hitler card? isn’t that garbage just getting old?
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1:05 pm
your frequent use of pathetic scare tactics seems to say you don’t belive so.
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this article, not to mention christwire as a whole, seems full of hatred. WWJD? ask yourselves that before publishing such hate-filled drivel. on the other hand, i find it hilarious. whatever you do, keep up the good work.
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2:55 am
Jesus was a hipster.
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No way. No how. Not possible. You cannot possibly be a Christian AND be hip. That’s just ludicrous. It’s insane! You’re crazy. You’re a lunatic! You’re–
Oh wait. Jesus wasn’t a Christian. He was a Jew. And a “semi-employed” one at that.
Ok, you’re right. Jesus was definitely a hipster. My bad.
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That’s right Jim and he was brown-skinned. Yikes! He didn’t want to live with us and we don’t want to live with him! Damned ethnic.
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To all those who say Hipsters are trust funders or else otherwise rich, here’s something for you to digest:
Parents Pulling the Plugs on Williamsburg Trust-Funders
http://www.nytimes.com/2009/06/08/nyregion/08trustafarians.html
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10:23 am
What a load of crap!! Do you actually think NYT has that much power over the youth? Obviously the person who wrote this article gets their identity and inspiration from outside sources such as news papers, but that is not common amongst intelligent people who possess minds of their own. A great deal of us under 30 (the so called hipsters) do not aspire to work on farms or factories. We are thinkers,artist, business owners, writers and musicians. You act as if their is something wrong with having dreams beyond the mundane. True- many of the so called hipsters may end up selling out to the corporate agenda and trading our paint brushes, guitars, and body piercings for a paycheck, but many also flourish by following their dreams. Also- The racists undertones in this article are despicable. The author of this article should really make an attempt to broaden their worldview before they attempt to tackle a subject that they obviously understand.
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7:47 pm
You forgot to mention dancing. Hipsters LOVE dance parties. And we all know what dancing is. It’s a vertical expression of a horizontal idea. Shame shame.
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Mr. Billings, after reading through the responses here, I’m not asking you to give up but I think responding to people who are engaging in less-than-civil debate, which is typical in the comments sections of more controversial articles, is a waste of time. My personal view is that there are different parts of society that preside differently and the homogeneity of a culture would be a poor alternative. I can appreciate the Christian audience of your online paper would prefer a slant that is more to the right, but I don’t think it’s fair that a culture / sub-culture be put in a purely negative context no more than more left-leaning individuals brand this website as a collection of people stuck in a bible shell.
After reading some more of the content of this site, I’m not surprised that this article has made it here; most of the topics are replete with negativity and slanted with minimal balance to their arguments. “How To Spot a Masturbator” is sure to be a meme for a split-second if it hasn’t been already (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Internet_meme). At first I thought this was a parody site until I started reading all of your rebuttals and then realized you were serious.
I hope that the people that are reading and commenting do what I am going to do with christwire.org
Ignore it.
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12:59 pm
Yes I guess you’re right, it’s not fair to single out a subculture for investigation and moral criticism. I guess I should be nicer to the subcultures of crack addicts and pedophiles, too (this is sarcasm, you imbecile.)
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you certainly asume we should when it’s the christian culture that’s in question.
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8:07 am
Mr. Billings: despite disagreeing with your ideas in every significant way, I was able to respect you for the civility you displayed toward aggressive commenters earlier in this thread. But then you had to call someone an ‘imbecile.’ Completely uncalled-for and a real disappointment.
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I am sorry to have disappointed you Kit, but after 100 angry comments these people are really grating my goiter!
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9:37 am
Wow, for so called Christians. You guys know how to hate.
It really draws a pretty straight connection between the insecurity in needing there to be something beyond your tiny little lives and ultimate ending in death. I can practically read the quivering of Mr. Billing’s voice in the article. You might as well video blog your fits of crying in the fear that you are alone and there is nothing beyond death.
And those damn hipsters are making your tiny little life an even bigger mockery. God, if you are up there, please show Stephenson the empathy he could not find in himself and comfort him so he can hide all of his hate.
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1:18 pm
Mr. Billings,
You’re a racist biggot.
If you’re scared of these youthful ‘hipsters’ ruining your country…
what the fuck do you think you conservative christian fucks will do?
Rape our children, steal our money, and prescribe your dated beliefs on everyone you meet.
No one cares billings, christianity was so 90′s.
It’s all about PBR, tattoos, gay sex, and drugs these days.
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1:21 pm
I would gladly hand over this country to Dr. James Dobson than your Russell Brand any day of the week.
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12:36 pm
Russell Brand is a comedian. An apt comparison would be Jeff Foxworthy or Larry the Cable Guy.
I think you are onto SOMETHING with this piece (I live in the epicenter of hipsterdom), but I think you don’t understand this community enough to put a finger on it. I’m not going to defend hipsters because I think they are sometimes amoral and nihilistic. They suffer from the national disease of narcissism that you see in every community these days. Still, they are not dumb, and they know what they don’t want anything to do with: ignorant, reactionary, hateful, bible-thumping bullshit like this site. Anyone who is disgusted by this kind of evil shit MUST be closer to the right than the wrong.
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Mr. Billings,
You’re a racist biggot.
If you’re scared of these youthful ‘hipsters’ ruining your country…
what the fuck do you think you conservative christian fucks will do?
Rape our children, steal our money, and prescribe your dated beliefs on everyone you meet.
No one cares billings, christianity was so 90′s.
It’s all about PBR, tattoos, gay sex, and drugs these days.
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1:24 pm
Sadly, your insipid response exemplifies the average education of America’s stoned out, burned out, lazy youth. Do you have a grasp of history? Maybe some education is in order. Did you know that Conservatives have been the greatest friends of America’s black people?
“Credit Where Credit Is Due: The Republicans Passed the 1964 Civil Rights Act”
http://www.gopusa.com/opinion/mz_0808.shtml
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1:59 pm
I went to college with most of the people who live in the house you have used as the centerpiece of this post.
I was likely the only libertarian-leaning, Christian scholarship kid from the heartland enrolled there.
I am afraid to report that those I know who live in what you peg as a den of sin are in fact warmhearted, generous and cordial people. Vitriol like yours–while good for a chuckle, and at points apt–makes it seven times harder for Christians living in culturally hostile areas to have public interactions. Mutual caricature but zero progress.
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5:25 pm
Thank you for the kind words and the verification of aspects of my article. Just a as point of correction, I never said these people weren’t “cordial.” It irrelevant for the larger emphasis of this piece. All best, Stephenson
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5:51 pm
Preston didn’t verify anything you wrote. Don’t flatter yourself.
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3:31 pm
You have got to be the most mediocre persuasive writer in the world.
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This reminds me of when the Westboro Baptist Church protested an All Time Low show. Then again, if people like this are just complaining about hipsters, at least it keeps them from doing any real harm. Also, Lauren Measure ftw.
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1:16 am
Well, I’m just glad that Christians aren’t judgemental.
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2:05 am
This article is so silly and bad that I’m convinced that LATFH.com secretly wrote it.
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My what a bitter, resentful, intolerant little man you seem to be. The New York Times has pushed past the decent boundaries of journalism because it featured an article that didn’t interest you? I didn’t find it all that interesting either. In fact, your response was much more entertaining. The Times article simply wrote about six young people who hold down jobs, go to school and also pursue artistic interests. You, on the other hand, have described drunk, smug, trustfunders who mysteriously also steal money right from us hard-working Americans. At least the Times is truthful in their reporting. Do you personally know the people profiled in the magazine? If they’re living off their parents’ money, why are they working at jobs like movie concessions? Their jobs as graphic artists, concession stand workers, etc. aren’t real jobs?
Your writing is entertaining, I’ll give you that. Except for that shrill edge of jealousy that seems to underly the entire piece. I mean really, they masturbate themselves numb? lmbo. How would you know that? It would seem like a line like this would be a far worse influence on our youth and children than anything in the Times article.
I doubt you would say that the Times’ coverage of terrorism incites our children to become terrorists. You hide behind your alleged intentions of protecting our childrens’ well-being to bash a piece about the kind of people who must have bullied you at some time in the past. It is not knowledge of things that will harm our children; it’s hateful, intolerant ignorance of which you are a shining example.
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4:54 am
ok. I was had. well-done lmao.
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You’re a complete fucking idiot. Have you ever even been to New York or Bushwick? I think you’re confusing Bushwick with Williamsburg, which unfortunately in 10 years it won’t be too far off from that. I live in Bushwick, I’m poor, I went to a fancy art school, I grew up poor and I grew up working hard manual labor on farms, landscaping and housekeeping, I went to that school because I worked fucking hard and got a full scholarship and took out loans that I will be paying off for a long time to come, guess what I’m sure as shit not working as bookstore manager, I’ve lived in New York, I’ve lived in rural New England, I’ve lived in not so rural New England, I’ve lived in the South, no one ever beat the shit out of me, I may not exactly be a hipster by what has recently become the definition of a hipster since I’m poor, my family’s poor and I only wear clothes that are falling apart and sewn back together because I can’t afford to buy new or even used clothing and I also just don’t give a shit, but I could certainly be mistaken for one especially by people who don’t live in a place like this where there are a multitude of them. I actually saw more hipsters in the South per capita than I do here, dumb fuck. Bushwick also isn’t a “Latino” neighborhood, it’s fucking mixed, majority black, but there is also Latino, caucasian and Asian people and guess what, everyone is extremely happy living together here! It’s fucking awesome, this neighborhood is amazing and aside from the fact that it clearly gets no funding from the city or state to maintain the streets, it’s not exactly crappy. On top of it, I know the people that live in that house and they do not have a trust fund and they’re rent is so fucking cheap they can live off the meager earnings of an artist. And who the fuck cares if it matters in a hundred years? At least we’re not a miserable racist fuck leading a life so miserable that we run a website that condemns people we don’t even know and are so fucking stupid that we believe in a magical being in the sky and baby zombie jesus. All you’re accomplishing is pandering to other racist, ignorant assholes who will be dead and gone in a hundred years and no one will give a shit about you either, so who are you to judge? And just looking at the headlines on here, I’m going to address them here. “How to Spot a Masturbator”, look in the mirror, jerk off, everyone masturbates including you except you probably do it to child or horse porn. “I am Extremely Terrified of Chinese People”, you should be because they’re going to eat you, they don’t even let assholes go to waste. “Tiger Woods is Cured of Whores”, oh yeah, because it’s the whores that were doing this to him, not like he wasn’t actually the whore himself. I wish I had a dick so I could sodomize you because I watched Golden Girls as a kid and now all I want to do is be a dude and fuck other dudes, but first I hope you bleached your asshole. Boycott Bill Murray? Bill Murray is the most fabulous man ever to exist ever, that’s like saying boycott puppies and kittens!!!
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3:43 pm
Hello friend, I sense that you have had a lot of difficulty in your time, that you’re angry and alone. You seem to keep so much pain inside and that is not healthy. Are you a Christian? Have you ever thought about accepting Jesus Christ as your own Personal Lord and Savior? There is so much joy in Christ! So much love, it would be an incredible experience for you. It could truly open your eyes and the suffering words you have typed here only make me believe you need something more righteous in your life than your own self-righteousness. I am here for YOU! I love YOU! Don’t ever forget that my friend. God bless!
Stephenson
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9:43 am
I live in Salt Lake City where the hipsters abound. While I could never be mistaken for a hipster, it’s happened that the majority of my circle of friends could fall into this category. They wear tight jeans whether men or women, most of them are in bands, and a good number of the men sport facial hair that could never be taken seriously. But that’s the point; they’re not out to be taken seriously. They want to have fun with their clothes and facial hair because most of them are aware that at some point, they won’t have the luxury of not taking themselves seriously anymore. The problem with this article is that it launches an amalgam of generalizations, stereotypes, and personal biases against an entire group of people. Of course you’ll always hit the mark with some of the population when engaging in stereotyping, but I know a lot of “hipsters.” And not a single one is rich, comes from rich parents, and all of them are employed. They’ve simply embraced a lifestyle which doesn’t revolve around “making something of yourself.” And I don’t mean to say that they aren’t, because again, my friends are all employed and most are in school. All I’m saying is that they’re happy to enjoy life and not be caught up in the future every waking moment.
As for the rest of it, I think this article was rife with hypocrisy. You bashed the Times for their liberal agenda, hipsters for their agenda, but this entire article leans towards your own conservative, religious, and frankly, pretty ignorant agenda. One of the main reasons I left christianity far behind was because I never met someone so ready to judge and dismiss as a christian. I wonder if you’ve ever actually known, not met, but known someone who would be considered a hipster. Because this article sounded as though it were pieced together by someone who was irritated at having to look at mutton chops on the subway all the time. As far as I’m concerned, the reason most of my friends are hipsters is because they’re the people who were immediately kind and welcoming when I moved here. I can’t say the same for any of the religious communities. And “you would get your butt whooped in Topeka”? Really? If you’re going to advertise yourself as an investigative journalist, at least leave out lines that sounds like a 12 year old thumbing through a book of cliches from 1956 wrote them.
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Allright, enough with the paranoid rant. You are clearly to sound off as if you’re part of this group and laying claim to a certain class of “cool”, then you say you aren’t and accuse me of being a hypocrite. Well, not buying it, sorry. The lamestream media has feed hard-working AMericans lies for long enough, it’s time for those of us with conscience and faith to stand up and voice our opinions. We have been shouted down by the likes of you before, but we have our faith and we will continue standing up until you hear us.
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10:52 am
No self respecting Hipster would ever play Antone’s. Also shouldn’t you forgive the New York Times? Are you not “Christian”?
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3:48 pm
The New York Times is a pro-zionist propaganda machine.
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11:53 am
Wow, for a Christian you are really good at hating your fellow man.
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12:28 pm
LOL, complaining about hipsters is just about the most hipster thing you can do.
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Anyone who does not contribute to the fascist states of america deserves a round of applause.
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2:52 pm
Okay, when you say “the Topeka” which “Topeka” are you talking about? Because there are places in Topeka, KS where they’d fit in just fine. And not just with the hippies or the other hipsters living there, but they’d probably do just fine with the blue collar or even the mobile home living single moms. They like PBR just as much as the average hipster.
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3:15 pm
As a resident of Bushwick, white, mid-twenties, with a completely white-collar successful career, I find this article horrendously short-sighted and uneducated. Have you been to our neighborhood? I’m guessing you don’t have the stones. While it is not the most beautiful neighborhood in the world, the population gets along better than you could possibly imagine. I say this because your use of outdated, and just plain offensive terms such as ‘ethnics’. And if you think a population shift is impossible, I suggest you look at the history of the neighborhood to our West. Where was Williamsburg 15 years ago? It certainly wasn’t the gentrified, bustling community that it is now. It also harbors many a family, European immigrants, and a higher price point for realty than some neighborhoods in Manhattan.
As for the hipsters there – there are a great number of ridiculous people making a living off of their parents, and I am no more a fan of this than you. However, I don’t think picking on them or their lifestyle is going to change anything. They don’t care about you, they don’t care about much of anything. Every single generation of this nation has had a subculture of people who acted selfishly and in a self-serving manner, who acted out and lived life without moral boundaries. Yours did as well. Has the world collapsed in a fiery apocalyptic chasm? As far as I can see, people have more ease living a full life with every passing generation.
I sincerely hope that the almighty will bestow you with a clearer head and straighter vision in the future, so that you may write about topics that actually matter and not ones that don’t affect anybody, anywhere.
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3:51 pm
“As for the hipsters there – there are a great number of ridiculous people making a living off of their parents, and I am no more a fan of this than you. ”
Thank you for verifying my point and God Bless you for having a decent job and making your family proud. We need more patriots in this country not afraid of a little hard work! Take care of yourself!
Stephenson Billings
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4:52 pm
Hello.
I’m glad you are practicing the freedom of speech. Your response to this article is hilarious and gave me a nice chuckle.
However, as an interracial woman, I have to say I’m glad younger generations, whatever their problems or lacking in “societal contributions”, are mixing up ethnic demographics. I’ve seen some pretty nice results from this, the only thing I can say bad about it is after the artists move in, so do dealers looking for hot ghetto bullshit to exploit, their galleries, restaurants, big $ gentrification, resulting in those poor victims of displacement once they can’t afford their old shithole or find a new place in in the area. (I mean of course it’s their fault because all poor people are poor as consequence of their laziness and inability to educate themselves- hell whats $40,000+ in debt with interest for a few decades once you find that job in this booming economy?)
Also- you might want to think about some generalizations you’re making. A lot of traveling hippies, punks, “hipsters”, I guess as you generalize DO know how to farm and DO actually know how to work hard. I know because I’ve farmed with them, and work full-time myself. I went to class everyday, have a BFA and a good body of work, get along with my folks- who are proud of me, vote, actually read, enjoy classical music, etc- but based on your generalizations you’d never know that. And that’s not the fault of those of us who turn you off solely by appearance. It’s one thing to look presentable for work or a nice restaurant, but in daily life- didn’t your mother ever tell you not to judge a book by it’s cover, honey?
Now I know your point is the NY times goading us kids all on the path to hell… but… well I simply don’t believe in hell. It’s a social construct to harness us all into a constant state of masochism submitting to the few on top who reap all the rewards on heaven before the rest of us get there. Oh, I know this because I went to history class- and went to church for the first 18 years of my life. As a college grad, I think this educated theory works quite well. Also, I know you don’t mean to be racist, but, you come off that way. Not an insult, just an observation. Oh, and times do change. They must, it’s the only thing that’s constant. Why try to keep things the way they are? Oh, I mean the news on the status quo always puts a huge smile on my face, but I think we can do just a tadbit better. But it’s not about drinking, livin’ easy off of someone else & being a toddler all your life- you’re right in that regard. It’s about learning from each other as human beings and overcoming differences to construct a better world for us all- no matter what our belief may be on what this life given to us is all about- and it’s hard work. That is the real motivation behind “creative” pursuits- that specific form of communication. Please don’t make help make it harder by stoking the fire of stagnation and dogmatic prisons. Because I have to say as much anger as you’re able to conjure up to all us poor “hipster” souls- I feel really sorry for you with that narrowminded vision you’re pushing.
Regards.
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10:47 pm
Hi, thank you for providing our visitors with some first hand knowledge of this interesting, albeit erratic, subculture. I respect your opinion and appreciate that you took the time to write, although I find much of what you say outrageous or frankly insulting. God bless, my child.
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10:13 pm
dear mr. billings,
too bad you’re boring and not that great of a writer.
eat shit and die.
sincerely,
female hispanic hipster/ genuinely hard-working small business owner who contributes more to society than your trite and juvenile rants ever will.
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10:45 pm
Hello friend, it’s so easy to talk the talk, but can you walk the walk? I’d love to read your published works some day. Be sure to send me a link when that happens. In the meantime, please save your blind rants for your poor, suffering boyfriend.
“You shall not covet your neighbor’s house. You shall not covet your neighbor’s wife, his ox or donkey, or anything that belongs to him.” –Exodus 20:17.
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11:40 pm
This is one of the funniest things I’ve read in awhile. Too bad he didn’t have the chutzpah to be a poet. Guess he decided to sell his second-rate soul to anyone with enough hate to want these sorts of intolerant ramblings. Too bad too. The guy is funny, especially that last paragraph where he whines and embodies all the negative qualities he sees in hipsters. I almost can’t believe this isn’t a great work of satire. I hope it is.
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11:44 pm
This whole site is satire, right? It has to be. There is no other explanation. Kudos.
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11:56 pm
Okay, Stephenson…I’m a Christian. A devout one.
But I’m still pretty disturbed about certain parts of your article.
I mean, where did the random attack on your fellow god-fearing Latinos come from? Desegregation doesn’t work? Give me a break, Stephen. My lord Jesus asked me to love my neighbor. Why don’t you take a page out of his good book?
As morally bankrupt as some of these “hipsters” might be, that doesn’t excuse the overwhelming hate of this article. If you think they’re such bad influences, why waste your time raging about it? Why not instead devote your time to being a good influence for the teenagers that you may or may not be in contact with?
Christ forgives, Stephen. Can you?
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12:41 am
Atlantic Magazine confirms Christwire’s Hipster Expose:
http://atlanticwire.theatlantic.com/features/view/feature/Hipsters-Indulgence-and-Failure-of-Every-Kind-1684
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3:43 pm
They’re making fun of you
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1:55 am
I am a 20something. I don’t consider myself a “hipster” but I know many who are. I only know one “hipster” that is supported by her parents, but the many others that I know get absolutely no support from their parents. Most of them have full-time jobs.
What I really want to comment on is that you appear to think that being an “artist” is not a real career. Both of my parents are very successful artists. They were able to purchase their own house, purchase their own cars, and raise two children with the money they made being artists. Both of my parents had full-time jobs (artist jobs) and are some of the hardest workers that I know. They have never complained about putting in extra hours, and they often do. Both of them are respected in our city, across Canada and my father is even known and well-respected world-wide. Individuals, companies and organizations from all over-the-world know who my father is and hire him and fly him in to do work for them. My father is a designer. My father is an artist.
As for the other adults in my life and my family… the majority of them work in the arts and they are all successful. All of my aunts and uncles have bought their own houses and their own cars. Some would call many of them “work-a-holics”, because they happily work much more then full-time and are extremely successful people. I have an aunt who is a professor of music at a university. Music is art. I have an aunt who is a professor of theatre at a university. Theatre is art. I have an uncle who is a clothing designer. Design is art. I have an uncle who is the head of the Theatre Department at a university. Theatre is art.
In addition to being artists, all of the adults in my family have successful happy marriages (no divorce). They have all raised polite, successful and wonderful children who are also hard workers (my cousins, siblings and I all inherited our parent’s strong work ethic). They are all financially successful and own property. And, each adult in my family is highly respected within their own career (design, theatre or music), are respected/trusted/loved within their own communities, are respected in the cities that they live in, and many are even world-known and respected world-wide.
I love my parents. I respect my parents. My parents are the most honest, most kind, most loving and most successful people that I know. My parents are leaders within their community and are respected by all who meet them. My parents work extremely hard and they love the work that they do. My parents are artists. They aren’t 20something kids, they aren’t hipsters, they aren’t lazy, and they do not rely on anyone for financial support. My parents are artists. Hard working, successful, 50something, artists!
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2:17 am
Blessings on your parents for their success, my friend, but if you read the Bushwick New York Times article, it’s clear these people are going nowhere. They clothe themselves in the fabric of bohemianism, but in truth produce nothing of merit. They are frauds and the whole idea of “hipster society” is a fraud upon America to sell us more crap. I’ve seen it all before: hepcats, bohemians, beats, beatniks, hippies, flower children, gypsies, yippies, Gen X, slackers, hackers, “writers,” “actors,” “dancers”…. All a genuine drain on our society. If these people were inventors, business men with real jobs maybe we could think our way out of this recession but Obama just wants to lend them all cigarette money and buy them a soy burger so we can wait for the economy to sink even further, that’s why he’s extending unemployment benefits, to buy these losers off and their parents, the ones who trust fund these tyrants, are only draining their retirement fund and putting 2nd mortgages on their homes and how is that going to work when they get old? Their kids will still be bumming change and the parents will need money for health care and retirement homes and all that and who is going to pay? This is a crisis for Boomer Generation. We need hardworking 20somethings to be employed, earning REAL salaries to pay for us when we’re old, whether it’s directly or by contributing to Social Security. It’s about to go bankrupt, did you know? Because our kids today want to play in indie bands and sell pot on messenger bikes and hang out in coffee shops hitting on girls who don’t shave their armpits. I have been to Austin Texas and I have seen the TRUTH so don’t try and package some carton of lies for me, I do know and I worry for our country because I am a patriotic American. God Bless the USA!
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1:17 pm
billings what you seem to fail to grasp is that it’s OUR life NOT YOU’R generations.
what you want and expect from us means dick. we live our life for our own sake and just because you failed to do that doesn’t mean you get to demand that we don’t either. it’s our life to do with what we want.
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7:42 am
You know things like this always bother me in the worst way. There are MULTIPLE bible verses that tell us not to condemn or judge yet I come online and find someone whose general distaste for something overrides any biblical knowledge they have. You can throw at bible verses to condemn literally anything. From football to the existence of women around the general population during their menstrual cycle it’s all there. Yet whenever they tend to disregard things like this and just go on a condemning streak they tend to forget the more super parts of the bible like loving thy neighbor and etc. etc. You’re giving your faith a bad name, you come across as more than just a tad bit racist, and despite being a “investigative journalist,” you know very little about the culture your condemning and haven’t experienced it at all. So kudos mate for generalizing something you know nothing about.
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4:55 pm
Josh, quite simply you do not know much about scripture. By your interpretation, we must not judge those who commit rape or pedophilia or sodomy or incest because “judging” is wrong. Do you honestly believe the Bible promotes this sort of anarchy? No, of course not but this is a common mistake young people and those outside the church make. There is so much you could learn from solid Christian teaching, just open your heart to Jesus my friend. His Love is all encompassing and will truly save your life.
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7:57 pm
I’m well aware about what the bible says and we’re not talking about pedophilia or rape. We’re talking about someone’s lifestyle. Don’t treat me like I’m some moron and I just don’t know enough about the bible to comment. Also I have to say that I thoroughly enjoy your selective reading with everyone’s comment. Addressing one point out everything I said takes that much effort?
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8:05 pm
You have to understand, Stevie’s retarded and completely mentally challenged. He believes in following the word without actually following it. He is nothing but a moronic Zealot trying to bastardize a religion rather than follow it.
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9:15 am
This is easily the funniest thing I’ll read this week. Thanks for being awesome(ly dumb).
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10:34 am
I can’t wait to see this featured on the New York “Hipster” Times
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12:54 pm
The comment section of this article is so entertaining, thanks to everyone involved.
Mr. Billings, I’m friends with the guys and gals in the house from the NYTimes article. They are all kind and intelligent, wonderfully creative and hard-working. Apart from their own individual successes, they’ve created an artistic community that inspires everyone who passes through it. I could go on for a long time about how wrong you are, in every way, about them and the NYTimes’ choice to celebrate their house.
I think you mean well, but I also think that if you met any of these NY hipsters you’ve attacked in this article, you’d feel silly for suggesting that they have anything in common with your horned devil-worshippers from Oklahoma.
“You know there is nothing easier than writing an article against something, it writes itself. You’ve just got to be angry about something and puff and wheeze with indignation and fury and resentment and bile and malice and the thing writes itself. But if you write anything that’s for something it looks sentimental and cutesy and so much harder to write well.” – Stephen Fry
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5:03 pm
Tom, you call these people a “community”? Since when is a community a group of boozed-up, self-righteous youngsters experimenting sexually in basements and then finger painting out their daddy issues on perfectly good apartment walls considered a “community”? Please tap out that pipe of stinky liberalism you’ve got stuck in your craw and get some fresh air in Sarah Palin’s America.
By the way, the only chance I’d ever have to meet one of these “hipsters” is if they came to mow my lawn.
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5:09 pm
//Tom, you call these people a “community”? Since when is a community a group of boozed-up, self-righteous youngsters experimenting sexually in basements and then finger painting out their daddy issues on perfectly good apartment walls considered a “community”?//
I could easily say the same thing about you, ya little fucker. Can you honestly say that this description fits a community? A group of people who’s intent and goal is to spread hate and lies and insult and slander others while casting anything others have to say as lies, while also refusing to practice what they preach as well as cast their insecurities onto others and damn the people that do things that they themselves do or think about on a daily basis.
Wanna take a wild guess as to what group I’m talking about? Here’s a hint: it’s you, you retard.
//Please tap out that pipe of stinky liberalism you’ve got stuck in your craw and get some fresh air in Sarah Palin’s America.//
How does Sarah Palin own America? Is she the President? Hell, didn’t she quit her job in Alaska? Fuck, didn’t you people damn her for doing so and then continued to insult her?
//By the way, the only chance I’d ever have to meet one of these “hipsters” is if they came to mow my lawn.//
So you admit you’ve never met a hipster, and thus you have ABSOLUTELY NO FUCKING RIGHT TO JUDGE THEM YOU LITTLE PRICK. BY YOUR OWN WORDS NO LESS you have shown this.
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1:11 pm
You obviously don’t pay attention to the New York Times. According to a recent statement made by the editor, “Twittering” is not a word.
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2:04 pm
Yes that’s it Christian boy let the HATE flow hot from your fingertips. Jesus would be so proud of you right now. This sort of attitude is totally what He had in mind for the future of humanity when He died for your sins. I am proud of you for reaffirming my belief in the weak nature of man and organized religion. And you do it so eloquently, wow, seriously thanks for this. It makes me so happy to know that a “man of god” is so easily rattled and turned into a monster. You’re no better than these “herpes suffering cigarette smokers.” They think your closed mind is a disease, and you think their apathy and alleged promiscuity is the plague. And i think both groups are annoying as hell. Thats America. A place where everyone is free to hate on everyone else. Pathetic but beautiful. Lets call it Even steven. truce?
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4:24 pm
Seems like a hipster wrote this. Am I supposed to read this as ironic? Because that is how this is coming off. No one is this ridiculous…no one. You crazy hipster with your ironic balding pattern. Come on man.
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7:45 pm
I know this article is obviously a joke, and this entire website is a intended as satire. And its funny, yeah. But then again, what a colossal waste of time. You’re deliberating creating a false argument in order to watch people say absurd and ridiculous things. People can be idiots, but I think your intentions are quite misplaced. You’re only riling people up, regardless of where they fall on the faith/political spectrum. I think the last thing we need is more people engaging in stereotyping and demonizing of different viewpoints just so a few of us can have a chuckle at the absurdity of it all.
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7:51 pm
Sara, I think you make some valid points but you also make many useless ones. I realize this is a fight, but I do hearily believe that for every 1000 who are turned away, there are 10 who open their heart to love and joy. There is so much we can learn from our greatest traditions, for the healing message of Jesus, of God’s grace, why not pick up your head from the propaganda machine and try a little something outside your comfort zone? And no, the mediocre conspiracy theory thing by the liberals has no merit in my book. Sure, they can try to discredit my message by saying I don’t believe, but I really could care less any more. I am happy with my faith and my love and the way Christ has effected my life. Can you say the same thing about your life?
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7:59 pm
You’re the one coming up with crazy conspiracy theories, you’re the one trying to find hidden messages in everything. Who do you think you are, some adventurer in a mystery novel or movie or something? You are already mentally challenged so it wouldn’t surprise me.
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8:37 pm
The venom and overgeneralizations in this man’s comments can only be classified as sad.
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2:58 am
I was reading all these comments and laughing to myself and feeling generally smug when I got to thinking…
What if it actually IS satire?
What if this guy is just playing his part well, and all the hate comments are just people falling for it? THEN who looks like an asshole?
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8:33 am
Did some research. Turns out I’m right. Who knew?
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12:33 pm
“Desegregation didn’t work in the 60s and it doesn’t work now, folks. … They don’t want to live with us and we don’t want to live with them, get it?”
You’re a racist! Come off you’re high horse, you sound like a very bad christian. WWJD? he would love and embrace the hipsters.
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1:44 pm
This article kicks ass. And all the negative comments about it are annoying and nowhere near as amusing as this article. Thank you for sharing your thoughts Stephenson. Hipsters are lame.
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2:21 pm
I immediately supposed this was satire without even giving it a second thought. I was completely wrong. Whatever the case may be this is one of the funniest articles I have ever read. I don’t care if this guy is serious or a serious idiot. Can’t you guys find the humor in it? Why blow it all out of proportion. And if you admit you’re a hipster then you’re the worst kind of hipsters, why put a label on yourself? The truth is Stephenson makes some really good points and some really really bad ones as well. That is what human beings do. Everything we do or say is inherently flawed, even if when we are correct there is always some asshole who disagrees. Why take anything said on the internet personal? It’s pointless, time consuming and idiotic. Just laugh at it. I know I am.
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11:37 am
This article is hilarious. But this gawker one about the NYT article is way better. http://gawker.com/5590284/is-bushwick-brooklyn-the-coolest-place-on-the-planet
“Stuff That Is Actually Cool
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Wearing sunglasses
Saying swears
Doing drugs”
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4:43 am
Gawker was popular some years back and was at times interesting, but honestly who reads that mediocre, discredited blog these days? Maybe it does fit into the whole “hipster” culture idea since it attracts those who want to appear intelligent without actually having to do any work or have any original opinions. It saddens me that you visit that website, but it’s very much the trend among certain very young people today who want the latest on Tom Cruise and Britney Spears. If that’s what you’re looking for, this site honestly is not for you. Best of luck and here’s Christwire’s analysis of that site:
Gawker: The Blog That Killed Liberal Print Journalism
http://stephensonbillings.wordpress.com/2010/08/02/159/
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2:27 pm
Obama is so cool he doesn’t make one drink the kool aid, he makes one drink the “cool” aid, because he is that cool. He is one cool cat, just like the one of the cats of the self-dubbed portrait painter the author lived with in his salad days. Which reminds me, considering the amount of green space around the “hipster” house in Bushwick… I wonder if they are growing salad greens? Probably not, lazy hipsters. I am morally outraged at this waste of salad green-growing land.
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10:24 pm
I think the author is just a jealous, stale old man who completely forgets the energy of being young.
Have fun being bitter into senility.
I’ll have another Pabst Blue Ribbon.
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9:59 am
AHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA!!!!!!!
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3:40 am
Judge not, lest ye be judged. American “Christians” barely seem to understand the tenets of their faith, it’s quite hilarious. I’m so glad I wasn’t born an American, the thought of having to interact with racist, sexist, small-minded, neophobic people like this author fills me with dread. Greatest country in the world? You’re not even the greatest country called America.
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6:38 pm
Hi Rich, as a Christian I can tell you that you’re misusing verses from the Bible. Yes, I am ready to be judged go ahead. If we as a society prohibited ourselves from judging others, would that mean we’d just let the child rapists and murderers run free? Oh, no, wouldn’t want to judge those people!
Seriously, please don’t use your childish cut & paste responses to sound intelligent because you don’t. You just make a greater fool of yourself.
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4:01 pm
WAHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH
I’M OLD!
WAAAAAAAAAAAHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH
I’M A RACIST!
WAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAHHHHHH
thanks for the laugh.
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11:37 pm
Mister Billings, you’re not being singled out. You, Falwell and the rest are all wrong. You make the fundamental mistake of thinking that because you enjoy a certain life others must follow that life to the letter.
Other people exist. Even stupid people. Even guys with regrettable facial hair. But you must spend a lot of time peeking out the curtains worrying that there are a horde PBR-drinking douchebags looking to sex you up for Satan.
God doesn’t care about anyone’s facial hair or bad taste. Neither should you. Try reading the front page next time and worry about things that actually cause people suffering and then go out and try to alleviate some of it–starting with not talking. Just go help. Pick up someone who is actually on the ground, brush them off and dress their wounds. I don’t mean this metaphorically, that you should just post another ridiculous article. Actually go out and help someone. Feed the poor. Tend to the sick. Teach someone to read. Sweep the sidewalk in front of your house.
Honestly, God bless you. Remember Jesus. He didn’t conflate servicing his view of the world with an actual life of compassion. He didn’t stand around pissing about the NY Times. He wouldn’t have bothered. He’d have been busy resurrecting someone. Get to it.
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1:04 am
Wow Billings you really are a piece of work. Hipsters are a blight on our society but so are self righteous Christians. I thought your Jesus preached forgiveness and understanding? Your work makes me hope I am wrong about being an atheist so I can go to hell and not have to read another word you write. Take care.
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2:15 am
You use the word “irregardless” and site your own articles as citations. Nothing you say will ever convince anyone with half a brain of anything.
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3:49 am
This is hilarious. This might be the funniest website ever. And scariest. You know what’s really terrible about hipsters? most of them don’t molest little boys, or believe in some silly book that has been diluted and misinterpreted through generations of misogynistic men, called, uh, what is it? oh yeah, The Bible. That book that does its best to keep heterosexual white men superior to all other humans who breathe/soil the same air as everyone else. Sheesh. Those hipsters! Oh, those poor hipsters. wait until they are judged by that great white wizard at the gates of mordor. Oh wait, wrong book. I get those confused so much. I feel like the followers of Lord of the Rings are way cooler and open minded though. YOU SHALL NOT PASS!
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7:00 pm
Hahah I put skinny jeans on my dick when I fuck your mom
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2:26 pm
I only read the first few responses, so this might have been covered already, but the verb form of “twitter” is “to Tweet”. FYI.
Ps. I’m all for hipster-bashing, but this article is ridiculous.
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12:06 am
It’s sad Mr. Billings, that you’re posing as a Christian because from what I can tell you’re a fear-filled person that doesn’t get the true message of Jesus (love everyone and do not judge – that’s what it all boils down to). Oh well…. maybe after you leave this earth (maybe not). By the way, your article has nothing to do with the NYtimes article, which I just read. Those people written about in the NYTarticle look to me like really interesting artists that are not freeloading off their parents. Hipster is a style and does not imply freeloader. I know wikipedia isn’t the best source but it is interesting and has merit… check it out: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hipster_%28contemporary_subculture%29
By the way… skinny jeans for men are “in style” so ya better look out, Mr. Christian Right Wing Apple Pie Guy could some day soon come to church in his Sunday Best looking like Rod Stewart (hahaha!! I live for the day, actually I’d love to see your face that day… deep belly laughs ensuing).
Anyway, don’t bother writing back, I won’t be checking out your crazy website anymore.
Guess you need to be reminded that Jesus hung out with prostitutes and tax collectors – the outcasts (probably your idea of a hipster) … he loved them all… he didn’t judge them.
People who bash people are not Christian.
You have some major homosexual fears that could be rooted in something… or compensating for something. I’m not trying to get you nervous… I’m just saying… whenever a button is pressed it’s usually revealing something to us about ourselves… hmmmmm………..
I can’t believe how many people read your articles. what the heck is this world coming to????????????????????????? now THAT’S scary!!!!!!!
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12:15 pm
I heard all I needed when you said you were from clarksville. Cry Havoc and let slip the dogs of bigotry…..
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12:53 pm
Racist scumbag.
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10:19 pm
these American christians are getting nastier and more viscious by the minute…. This is easily one of the most hateful, disrespectful articles I have read in a long time… I guess the word kindness is no longer part of the ‘Christian lexicon’… This article can only be described as pathetic coming from an adult male. The hipsters in New York have more maturity and wisdom in their fingernails than this intolerant Christian poison his whole pseudo Christian whole body.
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10:23 pm
sorry, I wanted to say: “The hipsters in New York have more maturity and wisdom in their fingernails than this intolerant Christian poison in his whole pseudo Christian body”.
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11:11 am
I felt I needed to say something…who cares? Why don’t you relax and stop complaining?
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11:35 am
You people are fucking insane.
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10:30 pm
“This! Yes this, my Christian readers, is something that the New York Times finds interesting enough to write about! Who reads this garbage and thinks, “Wow, that’s wonderful!”?”
you wrote about it too..
Serious question. Is this website a joke? It’s full of outrageous contradictions, which would lead me to believe it’s just a gag.. yet it also seems to actually be, someone’s perception of reality as well.. this is killing me, i need to know!
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1:34 am
After reading a few of your blogs, mostly for their comedic value, two things stand out. The first is your rampant inability to spell correctly. The second is your blatant hypocrisy… lambasting hippies, hipsters and users of psychedelics on a machine and a system (the internet) which was created by exactly those people. Go figure.
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2:32 am
Please point out this “rampant” spelling problem in my journalist. Sure, it happens in my responses when I’m quick to type but you have to look at the parade of nutjobs I’m dealing with here!
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1:41 pm
christwire knows shit. you people are warped and sick. you need to look into yourself.
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8:40 am
Yeah look at this dirty hipster. He’d surely get beat up in Topeka, in Sarah Palin’s America.
http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/6/66/MattMaust_NY07.jpg
OOPS! That’d be Matt Maust of Cold War Kids – a dirty hipster band, who also happens to be a graduate of evangelical Biola University with two of his bandmates, all of whom are devout Christians.
So looks like Topeka in Sarah Palin’s America, you imply, would beat down a good Christian man because he looks like a hipster. Well, that’s just fantastic. You should probably write a whole new piece targeted at those folks and urge them not to judge kids by how they look.
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8:58 am
and also…
http://farm1.static.flickr.com/234/522498210_b2a45eb896.jpg
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