She shouldn’t have been punished in the first place.

You are advocating the punishment of someone who exposed severe government malfeasance and you consider yourself a liberal?

Everyone who fucking supports keeping her in jail no longer gets to use the term “liberal”, you must modify it with “neo” because you’re all fucked as are your reactionary ideologies. You’re no true liberal.  

Yeah TERF alert for true! Also the “manipulative liar with disturbing behavior” ugh OK so you think she should be in prison because you think she’s weird or off. wonder why?

I don’t think “rehabilitation” is about being THAT literal, but rather trying to get to the root of the cause and/or helping someone to develop the skills that would allow them to reenter society as a normal, functioning human being.

Here’s what I think—not trying to “correct” you but just to draw out the conversation.

I believe that prison should be a punishment

as a feminist liberal

But if the average sentence for her crime is 3.5 years, she’s already served that time. She has paid her debt.

He literally said her father wasn’t a war hero because he was captured.

And she’s never gonna give you up, never gonna let you down

It’s also quite possible that the normalization of sex through porn also leads to more openness about sex, leading to healthier, more fulfilling relationships.

On the other hand, everything about being a teenage male creates unrealistic sexual expectations.

But the publishers were inspired by God himself when they chose the helvetica font. Divinely inspired.

...They even changed the language (English), and paraphrased when they felt the need (The Message).

I would decorate 10 bibles for another season of Avatar.

Do they think that Jesus hand printed their Bible Himself? Are they not aware that the publishing company picked the font and lay out and even some pictures to go in the book they have? How is that different? Why do they care? When am I getting a 5th season of Avatar: The Last Air Bender? These are the questions that…

This is what bugs me about Dana White and UFC as a whole. What is the point of publicly calling her and and shaming her for this? She has to make money and White has clearly proven he isn’t going to throw cash their way for nothing. This is idiotic.

Its nice to hear an informed opinion based upon experience (and not conjecture) on these threads. Thanks. :)

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