please please please give it up

Michael, I see you on Twitter saying “…I get banned from commenting on Stereogum for having common sense.” This is clearly not why you were banned. You were banned for passive-aggressively (actually not that passive) insinuating that Tom should have his kids taken away for him. What is wrong with you?? Do you know how devastating that thought is for a parent???

“Sheesh, it’s like I’m already a better parent than the people who’ve had them for several years…”
Shut up, you know nothing.

The best part of the new album is how a significant part of Beck’s income goes to support a kidnapping and extortion cult.

I, too, want to apologize for my comments in the post about story on Drake’s Rolling Stone Freakout. I completely support and agree with Rolling Stone replacing Drake on the cover with the legendary Phillip Seymour Hoffman, and at the same time, have to question why Rolling Stone couldn’t have averted the problem by delaying Drizzy’s cover for the next issue. Death is a scary thing, and I think a lot of people misinterpreted my comments to be insensitive and unsympathetic in regards to Mr. Hoffman and smoking family members, but I think the say, “I won’t stand by and watch you kill yourself doing that” is something to be considered, which actually come from a place of fear and love.

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Considering how the last comment thread on this subject went down, why don’t we all just

Perhaps people are crucifying you for being judgmental about someone you don’t know.

I thought I was their least favorite ‘Gum commenter!

Damian’s kids were in school when I was with him. I certainly didn’t see him doing any neglectful parenting, and I’m pretty sensitive to that kind of thing. (Also, people without kids should not judge how people with kids deal with stress or anxiety. You have no idea. Just saying.)

Congrats, you’re banned.

Why are the mentally ill even allowed to have children then, especially if causes them to seek out a dependency on some form of drugs? We’re over-populated as it is. When I think of all the perfectly healthy parents out there who are unable to and dying to have children, and then read a story about one that spends a bulk of his time getting stoned at a legal weed bar, it really just makes you want to kill yourself because it shows you how fucked up (pun not intended until I just wrote that) life and its irony is.

You don’t need anti-depressants or weed to straighten out your head, by the way, Damian — Just some good old fashioned wellness discipline including a healthy diet and probably some form of daily physical activity. Otherwise, you’re perpetually living in a world where in order to function, you must be clouded by some substance as a crutch — be it the lame ones a doctor might prescribed or the “cool” ones all the “punx” will pat you on the back for endorsing. That to me is not solving the problem. It’s masking it. It’s exchanging one false hope addiction for another.

I mean, technically, anyone could bring this post to the local D.S.S. of where both parties reside and let them handle it, as it’s hardcore evidence (pun not intended until I just wrote that) that there’s a possibility of two parents who are unfit to provide their children a safe environment based on their drug habits.

I don’t smoke at all and probably never will, but I think it’s a really invalid argument to make that the person who doesn’t have a child themself can’t have an opinion on parenting. Maybe the reason these people making the criticism about what is and what isn’t good parenting have a few common sense lightbulbs in their head that tells them until they get all those bad habits out of their system, it isn’t time to take on the adult responsibility of rearing a child.

Call me crazy, but if I were a parent and knew another parent smoked up in their free time, I’d probably not trust that parent to watch my kid for a few hours or whatever.

Sheesh, it’s like I’m already a better parent than the people who’ve had them for several years…

Lost interest in what I thought was going to be a very cool read as soon as I got to the second paragraph about weed and read about the author smoking up with the interviewee.

I understand drug culture exists widely in music, to each their own, cool whatever, but it’s troubling to me when it’s being flagrantly flaunted by two supposed “respectable” father figures still clinging onto their punk rock / college bro lives.

Pathetic.

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