So, dude is already arrested and handcuffed with his arms behind his back, reaches for something everyone admits that they understood at the time was not a weapon and the response is to beat and taser him?

“I’m not saying all cops are stupid, but dog, some of them are dumb as fuck.”

I’m designing a new test to give to potential police officers.

It isn’t. He’s a troll who likes to impersonate me. Dismiss his comment. I will report him.

I can’t tell if this is sarcasm or not, and either way, it’s disappointing. 

With this many bad apples, it’s probably time to switch to pears, cuz this ain’t edible. 

Nothing to see here, folks. Just a single, solitary bad apple which I’m sure was immediately plucked from the barrel before it could ruin other shiny, good apples. 

Oh yeah, and when you’re asleep in your bed and they murder you? And then protect the cops who pulled the trigger blindly. That’s the fucking problem.

Might as well call a crackhead for all the good the cops are gonna do.

And, it might not be deadly for most young people, but it will have a decent risk of long term health problems.

What kind of ACTUAL fucking dipshit ARE you. Are you the kind of dipshit who can’t read statistics? Or the kind that ignores the burgeoning body of evidence that this is an extremely complex virus that is leaving people with serious health problems for MONTHS after they’ve allegedly “recovered”? And that we still do…

even if we assume minimal risk for young, healthy people, they may act as spreaders. whether or not the young, healthy people would be harmed, they’d be making things like basic errands or even accepting deliveries even more dangerous for higher-risk people.

Every word of that is true. Far too many Americans are ignorant, motherfucking selfish assholes.

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This, exactly. My father was like this in our parent-child relationship. Screwed things up royally, we reconciled because I thought I “should”, until he told me how he felt like my life was shitty only because of him. That I wouldn’t have gotten divorced, that I don’t have a better job, etc....because of his…

Why do I hear Carly Simon playing all of a sudden...

Yep.  And it’s unlikely they will be able to prevent themselves from hurting the ex or others in the future if they don’t understand their own motivations. 

I do think this Fuck Up is a massive jerk for the reasons outlined above, but the idea that she would be happier married to a guy that she dumped him for? I disagree with that. It also doesn’t take into account what her ex-boyfriend deserved out from a romantic partner. I don’t say these things to absolve the LW…

Okay, when I read this letter, my first reaction was: wow, this person is making several bad (unjustified) inferences. The relationship he describes reminds me of one I was in and, similarly, if you ask my ex his side of the story, he too would be taking lots of credit for why my life is the way it is. In reality, I…

Letter writer cannot forgive themself because they probably desperately need to feel relevant and effective in some ways, even if they’re bad ways. You want to believe you are important and you actions matter. Your actions probably did matter, but it’s not okay to put this all on yourself with no agency on the part of…