The thing with Koons is, he has a long history of NOT attributing an artist whose work he uses (or, more accurately, rips off [it’s not enough to make a small thing really large, or to give a litter of puppies clown noses]. As in, he has a history of not getting permission, or even sharing profits.

If you want to get technical, she was raised for it from childhood. It’s just been her jumping between “masters” for decades. That’s how she got tangled up with my dad in the first place.

Jesus, I’m sorry to hear that. My mom is stuck in something similar.

If it helps any, those who seek out “gurus” tend to be people who feel like they lack direction — or the con-artist “guru” managed to awaken that feeling within them through manipulation, then exploit it by offering a super-duper bullshit “cure” of whatever they sold him. Or they fall for the “we have the truth, the…

“If this WAS a cult, then it’d mean I am a fool” is the best security a cult-leader ever had.

It leads to people assuming they know what’s what, and that they won’t be conned by someone. Then, when they are approached by the cult for more than socializing, they want so much for it to be real, not a scam, that they believe it, and join.
At least, that’s what I’ve observed with people I know who have been…

There’s also the strong desire to know some truth, or great secret. A lot of modern cults work on those lines.

Most cults don’t require communal living, at least, not daily. They use group vacations, organization trips, or “lecture” trips to get that; by making it out to be an awesome getaway where you’ll just happen to be doing stuff for the organization, it makes people want to go; they will even charge members for the…

Many individual churches within mainstream religions operate as cults. It comes down to the pastor and the culture of the congregants, as well as traditions within the church.

I was raised into one, and didn’t see it until I was an adult with a fucked life. It happens.

Rising sea levels have made sinkholes more common than ever in Florida. I’ll wait until Mar A Lago is devoured by one to cheer.

I like it, I like it. Make him wear VR goggles 24-7, that show an augmented reality wherein a naked Trump is always present. Sometimes he’s just standing around. Sometimes he’s trying to shake his hips. Sometimes he’s jacking off. And the goggles are linked to all of Weiner’s electronics, so that every time he tries…

Because he’s not president, much less president with a congress full of ass-kissing, spineless, good-for-nothings.

No no, hear me out — COLD PACK UNDERWEAR.

Ugh, I read the synopsis and noped on to a different episode. I don’t need that kicking around in my brain.

He won’t stop. If he didn’t stop after his wife found out, after he screwed his career into an early grave, after his wife found out again, after he photographed his boner next to his toddler and his wife found out again and left — he’s not gonna stop unless someone finds a legal & humane way to stop him. I suggest…

Yes. It’s related to his sense of entitlement to women’s bodies, and his resentment of them as the owners of the bodies that he desires. It’s not because of his orientation that he’s like that; if it were, all straight guys were be exactly like him.

I don’t know, I mean, there’s out gay guys who are misogynists too. Being ridiculously misogynist doesn’t mean he’s gay, just like it doesn’t mean he’s asexual, or bi, or any other orientation.

“Mens rights” was a response to the feminist movement, because it’s extremely offensive to some guys when they encounter something that isn’t all about them.

And? He inherited a multi-pronged disaster, and was fought tooth and nail on fixing it for his entire time in office. I think he did reasonably well, considering.