See, as the daughter of a narcissistic mother, I see 1. a child who NEEDS to believe that her mother’s phone was hacked, because her very survival may depend on believing that. 2. an abusive, narcissistic mother who may have thought she found a completely deniable form of abuse that would temporarily give her her…

... by the way, “bougie” is not some millennial synonym for “fancy.”...

Also, he likely isn’t working class if lives in Richardson, TX.

Using emotions to criticize, embarrass, shame, blame, or otherwise manipulate another person. A relationship is emotionally abusive when there is a consistent pattern of abusive words and bullying behaviors that wear down a person’s self-esteem and undermine their mental health.  

I grew up apparently quite close to where Emily did, on the Texas side of the line. In the 90's, if you were in the KKK and people knew it, you were white trash. But the disdain for these individuals never was because they were racist; it was because there were so classless about it. They talked about it. The bragged…

Ctrl C, Ctrl V, Ctrl C, Ctrl V, ad infinitum.

Original thought requires caring about a subject. So it all tracks, really.

One of my friends put it like this, when I asked her if she was ready to take on two very young boys on her own:

I agree that the distinction is cultural vs ethnic. However, it isn’t true that she never made that distinction. She seems to have made it in writing on at least two separate occasions. Once in 2016 and once again in 2017 where she stated in a magazine article that she was a “cultural mix of Puerto Rican, Colombian,…

I know two women who were adopted by a Jewish couple and raised Jewish. Neither are racially Jewish, yet both claim to be Jewish. One is racially from Latin America and she took a birthright trip to Israel. I don’t think it’s so black and white.

I’m certainly not making any claims. I was trying to provide sources you asked for and I only quoted her, and then I state an absolute fact - that code-switching is a legitimate thing. And that if that’s what she’s doing, (note I used the word ‘if’ in both instances) it’s certainly different than ‘affecting an accent’.

https://www.complex.com/life/2021/01/human-rights-attorney-accused-of-posing-as-latina-for-years

Also, it might actually help to provide better social safety nets, so more people can buy better food. So his argument should really be for more government assistance, not less.

Culturally, we don’t care for society as a whole. Our entire foundation is one of individual triumph, to the exclusion of our community. We have been taught that our success is each individual’s success, and not the success of our society. We willingly help a person in need, but not a people in need. We idolize the…

What makes me angry is that some business owners are too stupid to realize that extending this benefit has probably saved your company a ton of money in the long run, both because of lost work time and the inevitable turnover. Turnover alone can cost a company 50-75% more in business cost that year than keeping a…

My mother does this. She was corrected multiple times, but she still does this. 

I understand that Marxism is a real political stance. Whether it’s legitimate is another matter.

Twitter bio says she’s from Berkley. So Imma go with B.

Or, maybe you have to be poor to be worthy.

And also to get in line for one of those last minute preemptive pardons from the Orangelini since Paxton heard he’s passing those out soon.