Sounds like you’re talking about Obama there IMHO.

Her VP candidate is also pro-Assad and called people protesting the Charlie Hebdo murders “white power marchers”. Did I mention he’s associated with holocaust deniers?

The Green Party’s platform seems to be, in a nutshell, kook-adjacent with plausible deniability. Their constituency seems to be crunchy granola liberals and lefty conspiracy theorists— and it’s a huge disappointment.

You really think non-union guards are going to be any better? Seriously?

It’s fine, we’re good. All’s forgiven :)

Sorry, I always get rilled up a little with that wording — because it doesn’t really take the feelings of the disabled person into account (because children are monsters; even the kids willing to be nice to me were bullied severely.)

I don’t exist to teach other people empathy. I’m severely pigeon-toed, but because I’m not in constant pain, I’m not a candidate for hip surgery. I would have jumped on this in a heartbeat as a child/teenager.

Ugh. What a mess. I feel so sorry for the kids. I believe the daughter, but that doesn’t mean Lolita isn’t telling the truth as well ...

She and her allies essentially threatened to accuse the administration of structural antisemitism, which was a bad look for the Obama administration because they were already getting that from the rabid edges of the pro-Israel crowd.

I’m a dual citizen, and I’m more appalled by America’s fucked up police and courts than I am by Sweden’s mediocre judiciary (though Tingsrätter are just as worthless as American local courts)

Please tell me you’re reading something besides Aftonbladet, Expressen, and the Local.

The only place in Swedish media I’m seeing this information (re: refugees) in avpixlat, aka Swedish Stormfront. One suspect is an asylum seeker, according to police reports.

As for the other, I’d love to see what the original Swedish was, because there are different words for “not ethnically Swedish/foreigner” that…

This. It’s a major problem at all European festivals, not just Bråvalla. Swedes report more rapes/sexual assaults in general and record them differently.

It was ALWAYS security theatre.

Yes, call ahead to the airline and ask for a wheelchair/extra support. It speeds things up considerably and puts you in different queues for immigration/security et al. The only thing to remember is to tip your handler in the US, 5USD is enough.

(I’ve gone from/to the US with a knee injury where I couldn’t stand for…

It is an international story — from the Japanese perspective. Public Security Section 9 isn’t Overwatch, FFS.

It’s interesting that he keeps referring back to the manga — which part of the manga does he mean? Is he trying to distance himself from Stand Alone Complex anime?

The amount of drugs you have to take just to keep the drugs keeping you alive from killing you is insane.

Methotrexate is a nasty drug. My mom had it as part of her chemo cocktail about a decade ago. It’s not vincristine bad (that one I wouldn’t wish on my worst enemies) but it's still going to make you puke.

Grade 10 was dystopian science fiction for us — 1984 and Fahrenheit 451, and War of the Worlds. I also read Childhood’s End and Brave New World, which had previously been read by other classes but not by us (we had old classroom sets I got to borrow from).

Why on earth would you not want people to know you enjoyed The Book of the New Sun?