Sure, for a time, largely by other Christians. I don’t think it compares in any sense to how Jews or POC have been and continue to be treated in America.

Are there a lot of 23-year-olds making 50-60K with $7500 in savings and a $3500 valued trade in, and who would qualify for 3.34% APR? I work in auto finance, and I can tell you that it’s not very common.

Right, but it’s not like white Catholics are a historically marginalized group. It’s not apples to apples.

I really want to be snarky here... but is this actually a fair point? There are historical examples of Jews being played by non-Jews in offensive ways. Shylock in Merchant of Venice comes to mind. The Jewish people have clearly suffered and been marginalized historically, and continue to be in some places. I’m not…

Have you ever tried not being an asshole when replying? You’ve got an impressive streak going, but maybe try it out.

Hah. I got one of those hats before they shut it down.

love, but also will lead to future musculoskeletal disorders!

Just get some nipples tattooed half way up. Problem solved.

It’ll probably still be tattooed then.

Sturt!

He was on a CBC podcast recently, also promoting his book. I can’t recall the name of the podcast, but he went into the entire inheritance issue. He seemed very much to think that because his mother and father “only” paid for his college, and told him he would not receive a trust fund or inheritance, that he...…

oh sorry, it’s L’Orange de Julius. c’est bon?

Wait, is the plural of soap... soaps?

Oh totally agreed (I’m definitely of that age). But he was a famous football player, and I think she was also famous prior to marrying him (too lazy to look), so it’s a little different in my mind than the obsession we have with the gruesome deaths of “regular” (for lack of a better word) people.

In this all-encompassing way? I don’t know. This feels different even from the 1990s.

Social media has given it much more bizarre skew IMO, and I don’t think it was ever this widespread, do you? I mean, there were “famous cases,” but the sheer scope and interactivity - public interactivity - is something new.

We’ve turned death into a reality show played out on social media accounts. There’s a selfishness to it that that borders on inhuman. One person is dead, one is missing, we know next to nothing about the details, and this constant, gleeful, public speculation from total strangers is really off-putting.

More entertaining in that it wouldn’t be fixed.

...but then she might also be alive right now...

I don’t understand. They’re pro life... surely they’d... they’d never...