thank god you’re here on this story about a child predator to critcize ... *checks notes* ... all Twitter users.

Twitter is a cesspool, but does it really have the power to 'destroy' someone like Payne, other than calling attention to his shitty behavior?

I follow her on tiktok and she has been worryingly open about her mental health issues — or rather, her mental health issues are worrying, and putting them on social media when she has almost 600k followers is also worrying. She also posts thirst traps more often than I’m personally comfortable with, considering she’s…

She explains in great detail why, as a Black woman, she can’t be completely excited about this. Including the ways that Harris has failed Black people in the past, and the way the last Black person in the Oval Office let her down. So I’m confused...is the plain and simple fact that Kamala Harris is Black, regardless…

then trashing them as a traitor.

I think people don't realize that the electoral college doesn't weigh "excitement" in their decision.

Yes. I wouldn’t begrudge anyone their excitement over Harris’s selection. I think representation genuinely matters and is important. Also, from a purely political standpoint, she’s a great pick.

But it’s tough not feeling somewhat alienated by the intense meaning-making of Harris’s candidacy, especially after the presidency of Barack Obama. The Obama years were enough to transform me from a giddy 18-year-old willing to freeze outside in January if it meant witnessing the inauguration of the first Black…

I mean, it’s not THAT unreasonable of a take. Divorcing a spouse is (generally) not seen as a moral failing anymore, whereas infidelity still is (which I agree with, TBH). 

I find it telling that the LW’s last paragraph is all about her fears that if she doesn’t continue her relationship with her dad he’ll start drinking or self-harming. That says volumes about what she was raised to believe was her responsibility. 

It is extremely upsetting to find out your parents are people, with so many flaws. It’s worse when they do something that doesn’t jive with your personal ethics, which they helped shape.

One of the hardest things to realize as an adult is that you don’t know your parents the way they know each other.

This is sad - in their letter, the writer says they assumed a divorce would be their father leaving because of poor treatment on the part of their mother and that he was an attentive and loving partner. I’ve been the one who gives and gives and gets nothing back. It’s exhausting and dehumanizing. And yes, he could…

Your opinion changes when you’re married to someone who refuses to meet your physical needs, despite counseling, conversations, pleas, etc. When you no longer love someone, you leave them for someone else who meets those needs. When you DO love them, you’re faced with the choice of sacrificing something important to…

I clicked because I’m obviously living under a rock, and I thought Ms Knowles and I shared a love of ‘00s emo.

I was too young to go see this myself in theatres (I guess I could’ve asked my mom, but I assumed the word “suicide” in the title made it a non-starter) so I had to wait until it aired on TV to watch it. I remember hearing 10cc’s “I’m Not in Love” for the first time and thinking that it was the greatest song ever.

Wayne’s World is also right at the weird dividing line between hair metal/hard rock of the late 80s and grunge/alternative that was just starting to blow up at the time. I remember as a kid Waynes World still being cool in the spring of 1992, but by the time the sequel came out the next year(even with a Pearl Jam…

I have seen Ben Shapiro - who comes across as a garden variety twerp - programs presented as pre-roll on YouTube. 30 minute pre-roll. Which means someone is paying Google Ads to run that garbage.

This needs more stars. Here you go ...

For what it’s worth, it seems like the single biggest factor stopping white Republican women from voting for Democrats is abortion. That’s the “but”they give as a reason after they say Trump is putrid, McConnell is useless, they worry about racism, etc.