“It’s full-on communism and a general sentiment that if you’re rich, you’re evil[.]”

“A 2015 study by the National Domestic Violence Hotline found that 24 percent of women who have called the police to report intimate partner violence were then arrested or threatened with arrest themselves, which certainly has a chilling effect on reporting.”

Are you saying “people in their 20s” as in “all” or “some”? There are people of all ages who have been convinced of far more absurd notions: some people believed the Planet Pingpong absurdity; some that Sandy Hook was a hoax; and others (somehow still) in the Earth being flat.

People can lie about anyone and anything, but it’s vastly more difficult to sell the lie if someone’s existing image or idea of what that person is like counterindicates the allegation. This equally goes for “selling” the truth: “so and so would *never* do that! And I should know; I’ve seen all their movies/shows, and…

This is what I’m saying. Angelina Jolie was (or is) a special envoy to the UN, and all the wild shit in her past gets basically glossed over as youthful horseshit she grew out of in her 20's (haha, didn’t we all drink our fiancee’s blood in a limo on the way to an award show? I know I did! Ah to be young again.) She…

I’m not trying to get infinitely “granular,”

We could get infinitely granular comparing the situations to argue over how many points of similarity are needed before we declare them analogous for the purposes of any given discussion. I keep coming back to how differently these women are situated because I think that difference is great and important enough that…

That was the “tl;dr” of my own comment (not the article) for those who didn’t want to read the whole thing.

I’m not saying the media isn’t doing what the article says it’s doing—I’m saying Jolie is so much more powerful than Heard (both absolutely, and relative to her own ex/opponent,) and better situated and equipped to handle the situation than Heard, that the cases are not ultimately analogous.

“[A]t this point, it’s gonna take Putin . . . . ”

Almost exactly my method (I do 1:1 underwear to *nights* away +1.)

tl;dr - Jolie/Pitt are not reasonably analogous to Heard/Depp. Jolie will be fine.

Uhhh... you guys for reporting on this?

I think that’s accurate re- why Clinton lost the election; I remain skeptical of anyone claiming to know the exact mix or confluence of factors that lead Trump to earnestly run for office in the first place.

The broader issues you alluded to probably require a Constitutional convention to fix, which is an incredibly heavy lift and super dangerous besides given who all controls most state legislatures. SCOTUS justices retiring at strategically opportune times is fully within the control of the individual justices—Souter,…

It’s a fun construction, but it relies on a massive stacking of inferences, each relying on the one underneath it being the most reasonable of all other conceivable possibilities—it’s a proverbial ‘Charlie Day whiteboard meme’ of an argument. It’s a much more direct line to Dobbs to point out that the literal opinion…

I don’t know that “easy” is the word for 50 years of highly coordinated efforts to train and shape the electorate, and restructure an entire branch of government, in order to pull this off. Should it have been vastly more difficult or impossible? Sure, but "easy" is not the word.

By all indications, John Roberts wanted to decide Dobbs on the narrow issue of that case that was actually before the court, and was not in favor of overturning Roe; having RBG rather than ACB in the seat could well have made the difference. She was a remarkable person who unfortunately bought into her own hype, and (i…

I don’t think we can draw as direct a line between Obama making fun of Trump to the present predicament as we can between RBG not stepping down and the present issues.

First off, saying that you and your liberal friends elected a a Democrat to whatever seat for the first time in forever, is neither responsive nor relevant to my claim that Boomers can’t be relied upon to vote for a progressive, millennial woman of color in a Presidential election.