It is simply based on personal experience, and it is just my opinion.

Well I personally think that there's a large overlap between people who put stock into energy healers and other new-agey stuff, and anti-vaxers. I think they appeal to the same types of people and use a lot of the same rhetoric, and it ultimately comes down to a massive, misplaced distrust of conventional medicine.

Because federal laws differ from state laws, and tend to carry greater sentences. That's pretty much it aside from differences in the facts of their respective cases.

People who sell these services are absolutely hurting people. They're lying about their abilities, making false claims about health benefits, and charging people for a service that they can't possibly provide because it isn't a real thing. They're swindling people; even if they actually believe in their own bullshit…

2gether!

Oh, I know. I think it's just a holdover from when I was a kid and my little sisters wanted nothing more than a horse or pony, but we were waaaaay too poor for one. My one sister was able to convince my parents to get her riding lessons, but it didn't last long because they just couldn't afford it, and my sister was…

I have this weird thing where I associate horses with rich people, which I associate with being privileged assholes. It's totally unfair though and this kid is adorable.

Does talking about something necessarily need to lead to *doing* something? Aren't things sometimes worth analyzing for it's own sake? Nobody here is even really talking about a boycott, so I just don't know what your point is.

Probably not. But it certainly doesn't hurt anyone to talk about it.

That's not entirely true. You can also write about it and encourage others to do the same.

This legit made me laugh in a way that internet comments rarely do. Well done.

I feel like Carl's Jr. does shit like this precisely because they know people's feathers will be (rightfully) ruffled, and they'll write articles about it, giving them a sort of free advertising.

Classy.

I would hope that if you ever actually did that, that you have a really good lawyer.

Yeah, break-checking is bad news. I would never drive in a way that was unsafe. But I will fuck with you if you tailgate me. Just in a safe way, by slowing way the fuck down.

If you tailgate me, I will do everything in my power to box you in with other cars going 10 mph under the speed limit, because fuck you.

Was your friend's father tried in federal court like this woman? Because that might explain the discrepancy.

There wasn't anything deliberately provocative in megamarcx84's post though, especially considering his entirely reasonable explanation that followed. And Iblza didn't just respond in this thread, she made her own comment as well, which was completely off-the-rails insane, and, imo, far more deliberately provocative.

One definition of irony is something that is the opposite of what is expected. For example; someone going around posting anti-troll pictures being a troll themselves.