Chances are, her family was just as abusive. Children that learn to forgive the bad things their parents to do them because they love their parents have trouble setting boundaries later in life.

Humans made rope before they had metal of any kind. It was made out of grass fibers, and used to tie stone blades to axe handles and arrows. Viking rope-making technology is space age by comparison.

Probably the same way they invented cheese, bread, cloth, and everything else—thousands of years of trial and error, then perfecting the technique.

He sounds like a trust-fund socialist. For Marxism is the religion of self-hating bourgeois.

Looking the same does not equal “identical”—especially not if the knock-off falls apart in less than a month. The whole point of a fake is that it is cheaper to manufacture. It is possible, in theory, to make a perfect imitation, but nobody does that cause it wouldn’t be as profitable.

Scientology is not part of the government yet, thank God. It’s not about the principle of investigating something sick and dangerous. It’s the fact that racists have come to power, and a TV series could be seen as normalizing their point of view. Besides, there’s enough presence of KKK in the news right now.  

You are right, except that it’s really bad timing. If Hillary won, the show would make sense for the reasons you mentioned. But with the extreme right taking power, learning why they are the way they are is more than what people can—or want to—handle at the moment. KKK is no longer a fringe group of crazies, they are…

A student can get expelled for a having joint. Without a conviction or even a formal charge. Not many people seem aware of this, but the Constitution—including things like presumption of innocence or right for a fair trial—does not apply within universities, not even the public ones. They make their own rules and…

If the media ignored him, we’d be angry that they weren’t exposing the evil thongs he said and did. Remember how everyone cheered that “now he’s definitely not going to win” when he made fun of the disabled reporter, or insulted the parents of a dead soldier, or said that women should find another job when harassed?…

It’s more likely to have cash than any other store, because people may want to avoid having that purchase showing up on their bank and card statements. Not that there’s anything wrong with buying sex toys.

Yeah, it does. Supporting Nazis makes you a Nazi. Supporting racism makes you a racist. It’s not “political correctness,” it’s logic. Reality is not an opinion, whatever you may have heard.

Reminds me of that show Russia used to have, where the contestants would steal a car and get chased by the real-life police. If they could avoid getting caught for a certain amount of time, they’d keep the car. If not, they’d go to prison for 7 years. Wild capitalism is wild.  

Don’t get your dick bent out of shape. Not all women dislike those Twitter threads, whatever the author may think.

That’s not “mansplaining.” Mansplaining does NOT mean “something annoying done by a man.” It has to be directed at a woman, with the implication that she couldn’t possibly figure it out on her own. The examples you’ve linked are not that at all. Not to mention that I’m a woman and I find them quite entertaining.

What do we have to lose? If it doesn’t work, the result will be no worse than doing nothing. Besides, if this election has proved anything, it’s that nothing what worked and didn’t work before apples any longer? Had an accused child rapist ever been elected President?  

Frankly abortion and guns should never even be connected issues. There are quite a few pro-gun liberals and pro-gun feminists. You know why? Because you can’t protect yourself from violence and your rights from conservatives with “peace and love” slogans. It’s not flowers and drum circles that are guarding abortion…

Just so you know, there’s absolutely nothing American (or North American, or even “first-world”) about Christmas presents. People living in the cardboard slums of the poorest developing countries—without running water or any kind of plumbing, indoor or outdoor—buy their children presents. It’s been done since before…

Exactly. We risk something whenever we go outside the path of least resistance. If people always knew how It’s gonna end, no one would have the courage to do anything.

Lol are you serious? “Why didn’t they just move?” If you can’t imagine having to choose between living in a death trap and being homeless, you are more privileged than you realize.

The owners—or the guy that had run the place—might be the easiest scapegoats, but it’s not that simple. I don’t know who owns the building, but if they brought it up to code (assuming that was even possible) it would be commercial rental property way out of reach of the Ghost Ship residents.