“Massive numbers of students are going to emerge from university with degrees, and into the workforce, who are essentially illiterate,” he said. “Both in the literal sense and in the sense of being historically illiterate and having no knowledge of their own culture, much less anyone else’s."

sounds like Techbros've
made an easily-manipulable
horde to use for their own per-
haps nefarious purposes? Well fucking
Played, lads. no Wonder they're Masters
of the (known) Universe. too late to tax 'em?

Hey look, Nathalie Graham totally failed to acknowledge her failure to properly include the entire first sentence of the statement "SUPER UW" made, which glorified a terrorist attack that killed over 1,000 innocent people.

Here's the "updated" version from her article. It actually makes her failure EVEN WORSE.

"In a press release, SUPER UW said they were “responding to the call” of the student movement in Gaza following the October 7 attacks in Israel, celebrating the way it “shattered the illusion of zionist-imperialist domination and brought Palestine to the forefront for all justice-loving people of the world.”"

Compare and contrast Nathalie Graham's weasel wording with the actual text:

"We are taking this building amidst the current and renewed wave of the student Intifada, following the uprising of student action for Palestine after the heroic victory of Al-Aqsa Flood on October 7th, which shattered the illusion of zionist-imperialist domination and brought Palestine to the forefront for all justice-loving people of the world."

SLOG SUCKS
NATHALIE GRAHAM IS A FAILURE

My family is from Chicago, my dad from the north side and my mom from the south side, which means he was Cubs fan and she was raised White Sox. It was a mixed marriage, with my mother eventually converting.

@2: JFC settle down

@4, The actual statement of the group supports the charge of antisemitism made by the University.

GARGYLES! PSYCHICS! TAROT CARD READINGS! EVERYTHING'S UNGODLY! DORKSIDED!

SHES NOT A CHRISTIAANNN

@6
I'm not a Christian either, I am an atheist, which is part of the reason why I am really good at spotting stupid bullshit, like your comment. I also understand your references ("DORKSIDED"). Great job on mocking a mentally ill elderly woman!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QqfjiuqVrV4

Gonna really act like using AI to do your homework matters while the president of the entire country can't read and literally shits his pants on a regular basis?

Using AI for coding makes sense and shouldn't alarm anyone.

@2:

The problem, which, unfortunately, many on the Right refuse to acknowledge, is that this conflict has been going on for nearly 80 years, back to the establishment of Israel after the expiration of The British Mandate in 1947 when the territories formerly under its control were apportioned by the United Nations roughly equally between the majority Palestinian Muslim population and Jewish residents and settlers. Regrettably, the apportionment was completely botched, resulting in the displacement of roughly 700,000 Arab and Palestinian residents from their homes, some of which they had occupied for generations, if not millennia, and which turned out to be the match that inflamed long-simmering tensions between the two groups.

Since 1947 this conflict has taken the form of a long stream of tit-for-tat responses from both sides starting with the Arab League sending militias into the Mandated Palestinian territories immediately after the UN directive and the Israeli army subsequently invading these territories in what can only objectively be described as a "land grab". Ever since then the two sides have been openly clashing: one side engages in an activity, whether it be the Israelis establishing settlements in occupied Palestinian territories or Palestinians conducting raids, bombings or rocket attacks on designated Israeli territories, and the other side responds in-kind. Lather, rinse repeat for nearly eight decades. Neither side is innocent of aggression or of having committed atrocities against the other, but the West has thrown in with the Israelis, while most of the rest of the world, and particularly Arab states in the region, have sided with the Palestinians. And like all such wars, it's innocent civilians who suffer the brunt of the violence, while political and military leaders on both sides continue to engage in a long, internecine struggle to ultimately control the entire region.

The People's Front of Judea will never surrender!

Using AI to work through complex coding problems as a professional is normal but students are expected to put in the work independently because they need to understand what’s under the hood first. A 3rd grader learning long division for the first time could just use a calculator but that would be missing the entire point of learning.

@11
Did you actually imagine that I didn't already know all of that?

@2 jesus wormmy
your desperation makes
you look even More looney

speaking of @1's
referencing ai's coming
ubiquity and domination

@14 Comte's post wasn't
directed at you, you idiot
but you already Knew that

@7 "DORKSIDED"

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bOpva_iit-8

Mocking the mentally ill is DOUBLEPLUSPROGRESSIVE!

Way to go! Regarding your comment link at #8, You aren't a "gangster" either. You'd shit yourself to death out of fear around real gangsters.

BUT IT SAYS @2! BUT IT SAYS @2!
BUT IT SAYS @2! BUT IT SAYS @2!
BUT IT SAYS @2! BUT IT SAYS @2!
BUT IT SAYS @2! BUT IT SAYS @2!
BUT IT SAYS @2! BUT IT SAYS @2!
BUT IT SAYS @2! BUT IT SAYS @2!
BUT IT SAYS @2! BUT IT SAYS @2!
BUT IT SAYS @2! BUT IT SAYS @2!

fuck off
Wormtongue.

@16
I usually make a point of not reading your posts, but yours caught my eye.

Are you literally so stupid that you don't see where #11's post wasn't directed at #2 (me) as the very first thing he (yeah Comte is a "man") posted in his comment, as in "@2"?

Wow you are even dumber than your drivel makes you out to be.

@17. No, I am not a gangster. Bill Gates is. Duhh.

While I am still pretty spry, I wouldn't want to faceplant trying that on camera.

@19

oops.

@18
FANTASTIC SELF-OWN LOL

This is fuckin great. You really can't make this shit up

Marguerite is a gay icon. That’s not mental illness, it’s legendary.

@24
Cope with whatever stupid bullshit you have to tell yourself in order to make yourself feel better for mocking a mentally ill woman. So "Progressive"!!!

just to be Clear
comte's post was
for the Edification
of derr Schlogg and Not
for the Wormtongue's benefit.

your Rage's
gonna eat
you alive
worm-
my.

Man, this new one's a real piece of work, my goodness.

@26
His comment was directed "@2" which was me. Keep making yourself look stupid though, this is fuckin hilarious.

Also, I don't know why you are trying to conflate me with tensorna, whom you often call "wormtongue" or "wormy". We are not the same person. While I appreciate tensorna's posts, we actually disagree on several key points. The reason I don't argue with tensorna is that tensorna doesn't make STUPID points (unlike you).

Just thought you should know

Calling someone an icon is not mocking them. I think she’s amazing and she handled her time in the spotlight incredibly well when it could have easily gone off the rails.

In all of her 20 years in the media she has never once claimed to suffer from mental illness so armchair diagnosing her is highly inappropriate. Labeling everyone’s personality quirks and bad-day behavior as mental illness is stigmatizing and perpetuates negative stereotypes, but thanks for the trip down memory lane.

@29
You're welcome, I guess, but you're the one who brought her up in the first place.

@29 oops my bad. It was CDizzle who brought her up

No cdizzle quoted her and you posted the clip of her meltdown. Try to keep up.

@32
Already beat you to it in my comment #31
Do try to keep up though

@31. Oh please, it was your feisty fervor that inspired me to quote her!

Also I take it back, I am a gangster. I just photoshopped ANTIFASOY on my knuckles.

Government officials propose revenue-generating measure to run ads on the inside of citizens' eyelids. Initially ads will only run in off-hours, between 11PM - 5AM local time.

The intra-ocular ad sales were among a host of new revenue streams mooted in the current legislative session, as lawmakers scramble to partially offset the losses resulting from the latest round of high-end tax cuts.

Thanks I’m good but if you’re having problems keeping like 3 comments straight you can always take a deep breath and check your work before posting so you don’t have to go back and correct yourself

@37
Fair, as long as you tell that same thing to Kristofarian regarding his comments at #16, #18, and #26.

With all due respect I don’t care if you think my comments are fair or not. I’m just enjoying the show.

You’re worried about billboards being a blight on the city?
I’d have thought the homeless encampments, ratty RVs and addicts passed out on the sidewalks would have made the list first.

Hard to feel sorry for a man convicted of murdering 2 people with at least one more he wasn’t even tried for.

@wormmy

COMTE knows
you're Unedifyable
but Man are you Good
at Laying on the Bullshite

& creating new
Identities.

but But BUT
I DON'T DO
SOCKPUPS!

of Course
you Don't, worm-
my. of Course you don't.

@11, Nice, accurate summary.

I would only disagree with the characterization, "land grab". When attacked, as you acknowledge the Arab League did to Israel, you have the right under the laws of armed conflict and self-defense (Article 47, U.N. Treaty) to counter-attack into and hold the territory from which the attack originated. Settlement of final borders comes by a treaty between the combatants. There has never been such a treaty, and until there is possession is 10/10ths of the law, under the self-defense and laws of armed conflict.

Today's high temperature is 69.

If that isn't inspiration for a person and a partner to get some sun at Denny Blaine Park, I don't know what is.

@41 - it's hilarious how tensorna lives rent-free in your head, and how you can't believe that there might be more than one person who reads Slog and comments here that could ever possibly disagree with your dumb, almost unreadable takes.

Keep it up though, I'm having an awesome gut laff at your expense.

So much vitriol. So little point.

“Massive numbers of students are going to emerge from university with degrees, and into the workforce, who are essentially illiterate,” he said. “Both in the literal sense and in the sense of being historically illiterate and having no knowledge of their own culture, much less anyone else’s."

This is a disaster! What will happen to them? There's just no way they can all get jobs at the Stranger! ;-)

Seriously, I'm old enough to remember this same type of complaint, back when we went from manual computations and typewriters, to computer word processors.

And anyone who thinks of unqualified persons getting college degrees as a serious problem should have spoken up when an Ivy League university granted George W. Bush a degree. (In History, no less.)

(Oh, and in case any doubt remains, this is my first comment in this thread.)

https://youtu.be/-YGrzdGx0Qs

Posob joins the slog trolls

@47
Cool it with the racist comments

Racist?! Lmao, what's racist about it??

our resident
psycho cum
hall monitor

unhinged
& unleashed

laying Waste to
derr Schlogg as if it's
Life depended upon it

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Zu3nu6ue2qU

@49
It's not my job to educate you. Educate yourself.

@53. Look up "projection."

@20 - Elon is the "gangster", not Bill.

@53
NO YOU

LOL

The excess of bike lane for the cycling hobbyists is the real blight on the city.

@36 ~ Bingo.

when every Moment's
an Opportunity to Harvest
the Citizenry, vulture capitalists
feel Cheated if they cannot Seize it.

the Rich'll get their
Way even if it Kills the
Rest of Us. Maybe it's Time
we stood Up to this Unholy mer-
ger of Corporatism and Government?

June 24th:

Cadet Bonespurs'
Happy Fucking Birthday
cum Nuremburg Rally may be
Our Last Best Hope . see Y'all There?

Unless
of Course
you're Too busy.

@53,

Your comment there @7 characterizes Marguerite as both mentally disabled and elderly, neither of which is accurate. And so I'm gonna go ahead and say the burden of proof is on you to justify any other assertions you make here. This thread is absurd, btw. And Nathalie didn't so much as mention Gaza, we should've had a pass on absurd threads!

NYC has similar ad pillars but they also are wifi hotspots and cell charging stations, which Seattle could... you know what nevermind this thread is a lost cause

@60
"And Nathalie didn't so much as mention Gaza"
No shit, Sherlock.
Apparently you missed this travesty she posted:
https://www.thestranger.com/news/2025/05/07/80045377/uw-cries-antisemitism-in-wake-of-pro-palestine-protest

Weird
ain't it, how
🛴🔨, babyback,
wormmy & tentsores'ren't
Here savagely Feasting on this Feeding Frenzy

'tis
highly
Unusual

perhaps
probiscus'll
enlighten us?

@46

ah, there
you were
slipped in
Unnoticed

apologies

Where Were you?

Isn’t there a comment thread on the uw post? Why are we in this?

@65
"Isn’t there a comment thread on the uw post? Why are we in this?"

It's the same principle as when your dog poops inside your house and you stick his nose in the poop to make him understand that's a big no-no so he won't ever do it again.

Nathalie needed her nose stuck into her own poop

Oh honey. If they were reading these comments you would have been banned within seconds. Also you definitely seem like the kind of person who shoves their dog’s face in their shit but you’re not supposed to do that.

Gee whiz, sorry for ruining your circle-jerk echo-chamber.
Also, you obviously don't have any dogs.

@68...
As someone who has dogs and have worked with them professionally for many years, I will say that you are completely wrong.
I also offer my sympathy to any critter that has to deal with you.
Asshole.

@69
Well I have four dogs, AND my house is poop free, because when each one of my dogs pooped in the house as puppies, I utilized the technique I originally described. My dogs love me and I love them, and they never pooped in the house again.

Cry about it

@70,

I have dogs too and my house is also poop free despite not utilizing the house training method you describe. I don't think dogs are capable of "love" inasmuch as that's worth, and yours might be loyal to you, but they'd also surely be happier living with someone who wasn't an asshole.

@71
Oh, you don't think dogs are capable of love.
You are even dumber than I previously thought you were.

Ha ha, I mean it's an incredibly nebulous concept and perhaps I should've said I'm "uncertain" whether they possessed such a capability. Though I do think this is a much more interesting topic! You know who I bet has got some thoughts on the subject is Neale Frothighamm. You out there Neale?

@73
Yall are still trying to conflate me with tensorna. I guarantee you, in all honesty, I am not tensorna.

You may find it hard to believe, but tensorna isn't the only person who is a regular Slog reader and who disagrees with the "Progressive" bullshit that it is vomited forth upon these pages.

I remember "Will in Seattle", "Fnarf" and "The Supreme Ruler of the Universe" (John Bailo), all long gone before your time.

Not to imply that they weren't "Progressives" posting stupid shit. "Fnarf" and "Will in Seattle" certainly were.

John Bailo wasn't "Progressive" but he did post some stupid shit fairly often. "Will in Seattle" was the worst stupid "Progressive shit" poster. Whatever happened to him?

Anybody seen Fnarf or Will lately? Let's have a fun meetup! Catch up on old times!

@74,

I'm not conflating you with anyone and don't think you're tensorna. The commenter I was referencing in @73 posts under the name NotMyopic (despite his being extremely myopic, for whatever that's worth.)

Anyway, regardless of whether or not dogs are capable of "love," your dogs would be happier living with someone who wasn't an asshole. This is objectively and indisputably accurate. For whatever that's worth.

Edit for clarity lol:
""Will in Seattle" was the worst stupid "Progressive shit" poster."

"Will in Seattle" doesn't even begin to hold a candle to Kristofarian in that department, currently. Congrats Kristo. Someday you will realize what an awful insult that actually is.

"Anyway, regardless of whether or not dogs are capable of "love," your dogs would be happier living with someone who wasn't an asshole. This is objectively and indisputably accurate. For whatever that's worth."

Keep on telling yourself whatever it is that you need to feel better.

@tenny congrats on not bringing up Hamas or Sawant. You’re learning, I think.

@64: "Where Were you?"

Living rent-free in your head, of course! (Didn't you read this thread?) ;-)

Because you seeing your bogeyman constantly, behind every comment you do not like, makes for the best sign you've yet given us for your rock-solid sanity.

@70 Posob...
Conga-rats to you.
Do you treat your kids the same way?
(I really hope you don't have any kids).

You again @ 75...
If you've been around long enough to know those names, then I'm curious to know what nym you used back then. It couldn't be Mr. Poe, he's too smart. Seatlleblues? Maybe.

Original Monique (or Andrew), not a chance in hell. Same with Elswinger, Julie in Chicago, many others.
My guess is Loveschild. You do sound that stupid. And BTW, Fnarf does pop his head occasionally, not often enough.
What nyms have you been banned under?

@81~that'd
BE A Bingo.

Mrs. Catalina has some most
Interesting views on "republicans"
and the Role their Mumzies played in
shaping them. the way they've become

rubbing their noses
In Their Own Shit is
certainly "on brand."

how many "personalitites" can One
(including their siksokbtts) com-
mentriatator possess? is there
any Limit on Characters?

'cuz there certainly
Are some here
with most
Familiar*
distrub-
ing Tr-
aits.

*one
STRONG
Daddy to
RULE them All

spareth thy Rod
spoil thineth
protheny.

@81: "If you've been around long enough to know those names, then I'm curious to know what nym you used back then... What nyms have you been banned under?"

Same question to you, as a couple of the commenters you mention were long gone by 2020:

"Behold!
A Member of the The Stranger Community
'sup
drewl2

"Member since 2020"

(https://www.thestranger.com/users/44445599/drewl2)

https://youtu.be/3ZKxungSg9U

Today's mood:
Radiohead Bones

@83 check the account for 'drewl'.
Member since 2009. And that was after they stopped allowing unregistered comments. I've been around here longer than that. If I was trying to hide from my past here, sticking a '2' at the end of my original nym would be a pretty stupid way to go about it. Which makes me wonder what posob has to hide. You should understand this, "Tensor".
The only difference between us is that I was never banned; my email address was hacked and I had to create a new account. I've tried to get Slog to merge my two accounts, but they either can't or won't. Not sure which.

wormmmy also
darkens the Merc
but Not, unsurprisingy,
under tentsores -- Babsmc-
something or other, but (thought-
fully) he doesn't want Anyone to read
his (as Catalina once called them) 'vile projections.'

https://www.portlandmercury.com/users/37046509/babsjohnson

and
no wormmy
I Won't be URLing
them For you. fuck off.

I'm none of those people, I haven't commented on here since 2008, but I read the Slog pretty often. See if you can figure out who I was back then! A fun mystery investigation for losers!

I'll say it again for the slow ones: It's hilarious how you can't even begin to comprehend that there could possible be even more than one person that disagrees with your naive "progressive" bullshit.

@87 Posob... (I'm guessing it's an acronym for "Piece of Shit/Son of a Bitch").
Guessing who the the trolls are/were is a fun game in these parts.
You haven't commented since 2008? Why did you stop? Bigger question is why did you start up again with spewing shit? Were you banned? Probably. Do you have more time on your hands (because you were axed by DOGE), so you just want to shit-post to cover your regret for voting for Trump? Maybe.
Many possibilities here. Inquiring minds want to know.
Like I said, it's a fun GAME guessing who all the cowardly shit-posters (who have to keep changing their nyms because they got banned) are/were.

You coward. Go back to not commenting.

@85: "The only difference between us is that I was never banned..."

That's not a difference; I was never banned either. Trouble with my personal IT locked my "tensor" account, so I created "tensor's new account," or "tensorna" for short. If that fooled you into thinking I had something to hide, I'm very sorry; I must've seriously underestimated what "obvious" requires in your case.

@86: Yeah, your desperation to believe there cannot be more than one person calling you on your considerable nonsense extends all the way to the Portland Mercury, which I've rarely read and where I've never commented, but you seem to have a long-running feud (by which I mean you keep returning for more losses) with commenter Babs Johnson, who, you seem to have convinced yourself, is also me. Weird.

@88
I suggest that you cry about it some more

@80

"Where Were you?"
--@Moi

worried
Sick, we were,
wormmy -- some
Imposter(s)'d Stolen your
viscious Tone nearly Verbatimwise
& was mouthing! All Those Things you Wished

YOU Could say
but were (just varely)
'intelligent'* enough Not to.

you may not live in
my Cranium (and it's a
Beautiful one) but you Haunt
these Hallowed Halls of tS like the
Ghost of Lord Voldermort, only sightly

Less appealingly.

welcome
back?

@88

Bravissimo,
@Drewl2!

And a Hearty
Welcome Back!

these Trolls
could Use a little
What For, Now & again.

*ah.
So. That's
why all the ai.

Glad we
got that one
all cleared Up.

your
Welcome!

@89

""... all the way
to the Portland Mercury,
which I've rarely read and
where I've never commented... "

your Lies
are Olde &
you tell them
Poorly, but we've
all gotten 'accustomed'
to them - like one's Sole pair
of hand-me-down clodhoppers
two or three (at Least) sizes too small.

tis a 'joy'
to Have you
here, wormmy.

@91: That's a lot of words just to admit you have very poor reading comprehension, which everyone here already knew anyway. (Hint: how many times have I claimed to own a dog? Or multiple dogs?)

"you may not live in
my Cranium"

Oh, really? Read on!

@92: If you want to give me credit for the humiliations Babs Johnson has inflicted upon you, well then, I can't stop you. Thanks, I guess?

@93

oh, wormmy

they all
Ran away.

@89 tensorna...
My mistake, my apologies. I see you were 2009 as well. I may not agree with you on certain things, but you have never tried to hide your Slog persona.
I can respect that.

Unlike the dipshit @90 whose only retort to being mocked is that I'm crying.

Hey Posob! If I'm crying, it's because I'm laughing so hard at the stupid shit you post.

You fucking coward.

@95: Apology accepted. The reason I did not look for your earlier nym was that I read the last two characters of your current nym as the number "twelve," and we have other commenters with multiple-digit numbers who aren't continuations from earlier accounts, e.g. thirteen12.

@95
Please explain, in detail, why I am a fucking coward. That should be good for a chuckle.

@97
I posted my bonafides about my history here.
You claim to have last posted in 2008, but won't say what nym you used.
What are you scared of Big Boy? What is haunting you 17 years later?

You can't own up to your past here?
That is a coward in my book.

@tensor... thanks. I didn't think of that. I wish I could just go back to drewl.

@98
It's laughable how much this matters to you. Why does it matter what my name on Slog was 17 years ago? What a bizzare hang-up, man. Wow get a life lol

By the way, is "drewl2" your real name? If so, you are probably part of the old-money drewl2 family from The Hamptons, and then we are probably related, we might even be first or second cousins! My real totally legit legal name is Posob Drewl2. Please send me a postcard and give my regards to my uncle (your mom).

@98
Cousin "drewl2", what would you do if I gave you my real name and actual address?

Would you come to my house and scream at me to kill myself?

Would you say that you'd love to see me hanging from a tree branch?

Would you yell "you look trans" at me?

What would you do?

Let's meet half-way at least