Yes, giving unrepentant abusers space to yuk it up on their redemption tour makes me angry. 

go fuck yourself

Hahah, it’s funny because he’s a violent abusive misogynist who brutalized his ex-wife, a woman 23 years his junior, and then capped it off by suing her for millions of dollars, making his ruination of his life complete, and now a major media conglomeration, which put this garbage on basically every network on TV last…

Well I’m convinced, way to back up your argument by explaining the key differences that distinguish my example. Absolutely airtight.

is this supposed to be a joke?

ooooooohhh....now it comes out.  the hateful misogynist was inside you the whole time!

Well, to the extent they don’t care about their legacy, FDR’s experience with court packing, which the conventional wisdom seems to be was counterproductive for him, could be instructive. IIRC, even though FDR’s court packing plan was hugely controversial and caused a lot of consternation, him just floating it made the…

Might be a good time for more Dems to start pushing for court expansion/term limits/etc. Not anything that’s going to pass anytime soon (especially the latter, which would require a constitutional amendment), even if Dems by some miracle retained control of Congress, but good to start laying the groundwork for these…

You haven’t. You said I was “ignoring points” and when I asked which ones you said I was focused in on the minor “zero control vs. some control” argument and was ignoring Sudeikis’s desire not to have it done in front of his kids. I went back and looked at the original comment I responded to (it’s the one I quoted…

I don’t think they were married, so it wasn’t divorce, but in any event, they had already broken up, this was already hard on them, and I don’t see how her getting handed some papers in relation to the divorce (which, incidentally, they can see anyway on the internet since she was served so publicly). How is it…

Dishonest framing, as if it’s just a bunch of loose leaf A4 with no emotional resonance for her. As if the papers aren’t legal notification of a custody battle. As if she’d have zero emotional response to it in front of the kids. You really think children don’t notice that shit? You’re being daft.

I’m not getting mad he didn’t want to upset his children, I’m just wondering what he it is people think about someone getting handed papers people think is so traumatizing for children.  Weird how you didn’t answer that question.  What do you think process servers do?  They ask your name, hand you an envelope, and may…

As was pretty well established by a variety of much better informed commenters on Jezebel’s two posts regarding that, Sudeikis has zero control over how she was served and what’s more he publicly expressed regret about how that went down (despite having no control over it).

In what world do you think kids are traumatized because they see their parent get handed a piece of paper!

Yes it does! The same thing happens! If they ignore his instructions, they can get fired! The stakes are literally the exact fucking same! Look at what this guy says about consulting with clients to keep them happy so they keep coming back!

What does it mean to say they were not obligated to follow his instructions? He is the client, he pays the bills. AGAIN, they are only obligated to not follow his instructions in the same way a waiter is not obligated to follow my instructions on what food to bring me. Like, yeah, the 13th Amendment is a thing, but…

I was trying to respond to each point that person made! You accused me of ignoring people’s points!

Okay, so what you originally said was “zero control” and what you just described is “some control.”  You decide what argument you want to make: Either Sudeikis is innocent of wrongdoing because he had no control over where the process servers served her, or he is innocent of wrongdoing because, while he exerted some…

Yes, responding to another essay length response. That’s why I said “originally” and not “never,” but I guess being precise and expecting you to read what I actually wrote and not the arguments you are making up on my behalf.

What do you think the spirit of the argument is? I saw that someone said something factually incorrect, and I provided the actual facts. I’ll admit, if there is anything more to the argument than that, I don’t care! I don’t care about whether Wilde cheated on him, I don’t care whether Wilde was really bothered by…