I don’t know. I read that article this morning and was surprised at the number of comments about it being “sad.” IMO, just the fact that Smith is 94 years old and has enough mental acuity to be aware of her irrelevance automatically makes it not sad. What is unfortunate is that she only defines herself by what she…

Yeah, this is not complicated stuff. Articulate your values — values substantively different from those of the Republican party, which to be fair would require Dems to have substantively different values (hmm maybe that’s the rub here?) — and stand up for them.

Thank you. The “Democrat Purity Test” is doing literally nothing to help our current situation and will only hurt us in 2018.

Embrace single payer, work for fairness in taxation, demand defense cuts, banking regulation, monopoly protections, campaign finance reform, union rights, voting rights, equality and protection for all citizens, immigration reform, demilitarization of the police, demilitarization of foreign policy, and for fuck’s sake…

So you just want Democrats to do what exactly? Just sit back like Republicans did and take their ball and go home and refuse to do anything? Not govern? Not offer any solutions? It working out really well for the Republicans so far.

Um, I wouldn’t call what Bertolucci and Brando did “surprise”, it was out and out assault.

Cosigned.

Thank you for this insight. It’s heartening to hear that the actor in this story was a decent person, at least, even if the director sounds like a shit.

As much as I hate that the job has to exist, I’m glad it does. And the walking through and technical aspects being worked out with the crew and actors is HUGE in delineating between “what you need to portray in the context of the scene” and “what is actually happening to you as a person,” for both the assaulter and…

That’s one thing; because I’m pretty sure the cast didn’t think they actually crashed a helicopter with the actor in it and weren’t permanently traumatized. Springing sudden, intimate physical violence on somebody with no warning or preparation is assault, plain and simple.

Wow, so part of me is super happy to know that someone is there to look out for the actors in these scenes,but I am super bummed that rape is used in film often enough for it to be necessary.

YES YES YES ONE GOOD THING

We were talking about Hirano and how wildly unethical his behaviour was. You don’t make public statements on the treatment of a patient you have never seen and whose case you haven’t reviewed. He did a lot of damage with his God complex.

This. The right-wing Americans were fucking hypocrites about this. Charlie would have died LONG AGO had he been born in America. And no one would have cared. Anyone can check GoFundMe right now - it’s filled with American children seeking money for hospital costs.

That’s not at all what happened though.

The nurses and other staff at the hospice where Terri Schiavo died were inundated with death threats as ambitious Republican politicians joined forces with toxic anti-choice zealots like the utterly, irredeemably odious Randall Terry to make the case an international cause celebre.

You’re right. GOSH is a world class paediatric centre, they were well aware of nucleoside therapy and explored it as an option early on but it became clear that it would not help in this case. You can read their position statement here:

The couple said they had wanted to give Charlie a real chance of getting better and that a “whole lot of time has been wasted.”

“Charlie’s case has been receiving international attention, even attracting comments from the Pope and Donald Trump.”

There is a difference for wanting to exhaust all options within reason & grandstanding to try & impose on a country where children go to bed hungry, homeless & sick every night. Donald Trump & The GOP were willing to use this child & his parents as a prop to try & promote themselves. The parents were also grasping at…