Y’know, your post is a textbook example of folks who don’t want to deal with ‘inconvenient’ mental illness. People with bi-polar disorders can be one of the more difficult populations to treat because, especially during manic episodes, they don’t want or feel they need to take their meds, or get treatment or whatever.…

Not in Portland.  Portland has a very long tradition of political public nudity that has been upheld multiple times in court - for both men and women.

They don’t cater to superfans. They are the last of the studio system and they absolutely will not allow significant controversy in their magic kingdom.   What that functionally means, is that they don’t allow anyone who’s under contract with them to do anything unusual, challenging or controversial and, when the…

Then, you’d be shot and probably killed. That’s the fundamental problem with resisting ‘law’ enforcement via violence. Throw a frozen bottle at a cop? Get shot (and anyone around you) with ‘less lethal’ rounds. Graffiti? Get tear gassed. As it stands now, protesters are faced with reactions that are far more violent…

Well, we also need to rein in the police so that they’re doing the job they’re trained for and their trained for the job they’re supposed to do - our police training practices are abysmal and we stick them with work they’re totally unequipped for (first on scene for mental health or non-violent drug use, for example,…

In this case, I can actually (sorta) agree with tRump because ... I personally think he had a minor stroke some months ago when he was rushed to the Presidential Hospital (forgot the name) to ‘get a head start on his physical’ - and among the tests for the stroke, he probably got a basic cognitive tests to see if his…

That was common back then.  She’s far from the only female (usually teacher) who’s assaulted children under their care but when they showed up in the news back then, it was often called affair, sexual encounter, relationship, etc.  It’s still pretty difficult to get people to see that women can, and do, sexually…

Pretty much. Unpaid labor isn’t generally counted in the cost of something because it had no cost.

I ... can actually see that no one told them - because it’s been made clear over the years that tRump can’t read and needs his intelligence briefings to be less than a page long, and done in cartoons in order for him to register them at all.  And he generally pays no attention to anything that doesn’t directly relate…

If the questioner is willing to put in the time with their friend, they should probably look into de-cultifying strategies, or the work some people do to help neo-nazis leave their shitty views (and friends) behind.   The techniques of changing someone’s beliefs is difficult and is not based on reason; among other…

FBI - and they’re not exactly the best option.

It’s quite possible, either by starving them of funds through the budget or getting rid of whatever charter/ordinance/code created the police force in the first place. The hard part is figuring out how to manage the (relatively small) criminal acts without either rehiring police officers or re-creating the same…

Thing is - police murders have not gone appreciably down despite years, sometimes decades of ‘reforms’ and, I believe, this is not only about the acute actions of police murder but this whole thing is in response to decades of power grabs by the police forces around the country. The police, pretty much everywhere,…

Well, the cops deal with a fair amount of naked people - in homes and publicly intoxicated and so on. Plus, the general public (ie: bystanders) have the right in some jurisdictions to not be filmed without permission. These are some of the reasonable reasons why, but I think the solution should be an AI/human system.…

Man, I just wish they’d keep him in whatever basement he’s been stashed in the last few weeks, have some personable spokesfolks talk about him and let us hold our noses and vote in peace.

I also think that ‘leadership by authority’ (good terminology) generally only works for short periods of time/crisis and in homogeneous cultures - which America very much isn’t.

Good leaders do that. But we have a poor understanding of what good leadership is and often good leadership is equated with weakness (caring for others, willing to forgo your own pleasures and needs in order to ensure the needs of others are met, share the victories but take ownership of the failures, etc). American…

It’s also a point to make that medival marriages were not about sex, or the participants, really. They were about money and deals for the families involved. Children were important because of inheritances but for the most part, marriage partners weren’t out there hunting for nubile girls to fuck and marrying them to…

Most of his structure of power in his novels strips out actual historical checks and balances, though. The Church was a powerful check, having a huge amount of money and influence, Guilds and lesser houses could (and did) topple the upper nobility if they got out of hand ... the examples are beyond my very limited…

It didn’t seem the author was neglecting the fact that men suffer rape as well ... but that the concept as a whole was getting grueling in a way that didn’t develop the story.