We’ve needed to make like the French for a minute now lol

I think the main branch is probably just harder to get to for ppl than the neighborhood ones.

I wonder. I would never want to live through the scariness of 2020 again. I would never want to fear my house or business could be destroyed. But when I saw Derek Chauvin convicted, even now when I saw Tyre’s killers convicted, I wondered if they did what they were supposed to out of fear of nationwide riots coming back. It feels like that’s the language the powerful understand. So then it’s like, how mad can you get at people for forcing the issue that way

I agree with that.

Yeah! I think you’re dead on. The overdrawing one or the other is the issue. I have noticed what you’re talking about with demographics in Philly and it has made me kinda moderate my past viewpoint that race was everything in terms of who gets what - in Philly it’s clear that that’s not true. Thanks for your thoughts

Black people can be antiblack, absolutely. A lot are. I personally have been when I was much younger, I’m not proud to admit it but it’s true. That’s common for all communities, hating your own people (I keep bringing up women as my other example, this is like the women who say “I’m not like other girls, I can’t be friends with other women, I’m only friends with guys”) it’s standard stuff

I don’t like seeing people limit it to a class thing because it feels like they’re erasing the race piece of it when the race piece is foundational too. I see it as based in both, money and race.

Edit: I think I’m trying to say- race stuff feels so tied up with class anyway. In the US Black people are a permanent underclass. The country assigned people to be slaves and then to be under resourced after that (through policy decisions like blocking Black ppl from home ownership, blocking ppl from good jobs, etc.) Race is the way they assigned people’s class so it feels weird to just take that out of it when it matters- I don’t want to erase who is doing the worst with the police and why the way “it’s just about class” feels like it’s erasing it, does that make sense?

I don’t think it’s that weird. There were Black slave drivers. There have always been all kinds of people that sell out their own people. See: women who specifically target and tear other women down in the workplace, etc. That’s much less serious but it’s the same principle

I think people protest when they are available. People were available in 2020. And reflecting on life and speaking to each other. I think the state has made sure that we all get back to work and school so that kind of uprising can never happen again.

Okay, adding them to my list - thank you!!

Thank you for coming through!!! Can’t wait to get down. I never knew about Mezzo Lounge 🪘✨

You came ALL the way through. I knew there had to be something! I used to go to the Autocrats thing at the Parlour and got confused when I couldn’t find it but I guess they moved. Excited to try to go to a couple of these 👌🏾👌🏾👌🏾

Wow the red door looks super sick also

This resonates. Friend group break ups are strange. I hope you find a new group with time

That happened to my friend group too. I am still kinda working to accept it but I guess a pandemic is as good a reason as any for a group to shift- a major event happened that made everyone change.

So what… we’re like all immunocompromised now?? Is it forever???

I hit this today because I didn’t have it in me to do 2 hours of transit but wanted to be hot and it was great! I feel so relaxed. It’s clean af in there and I love those plants and having a private booth too. Thanks ( u/tammiallday too!)

I would like to see this become a wide spread message, similar to how people are calling out who is doing the bigger mass shootings. It feels like we never get to talk about it. I love my close guy friends, my brother, many men but there is a major major socialization problem happening there and if you raise it as a topic of discussion you’re an ‘angry shrew’

It’s actually kind of an ideal for me! I think being in a quieter environment than center city sounds good. Just needs to be reachable without a car. Though I appreciate that it’d be great to have a truly local option too

I literally just started working on a passport app with Montreal in mind. I’m saving that spot in google maps, thanks

It’s so sad! I’m about to get evangelical about it. People need to know how good it feels. America needs to import it in a bigger way, it’s an amazing tool for destressing

Anyway, thanks for this!

Oh my goooooooooddddd. This circuit type of deal is what I was looking for but I didn’t know how to explain it

Thanks y’all! Excited to take a look and try to be warm this winter

Can you link me to this? I’m not able to find it just by googling, I’m getting results in Virginia 😭

Dry AND Steam saunas. You’re speaking my language 👀