You didn’t think the characters mirrored each other? That was almost heavy-handedly the entire plot. That was the story for which the female antagonist was merely a vehicle.

Geesus. What “narrative?” Also, do you, like, not know what hospitals are?

Likewise, plenty of people use opioids without ever going anywhere near a needle. Whether your vices catch up with you is a matter of money and luck. This woman had neither. That isn’t her fault.

I take it you’ve never met a smoker OR a junkie, then. Tumors and needles sneak up on people with habits that were, at one point, totally manageable. We don’t talk about how people in car crashes CHOSE to drive, but they definitely did. Do they not deserve help? Should they be left in the mangled wrecks to die as a…

He didn’t say, and to me it didn’t super sound like he cares. The only issue is how it affects HIM.

 She’s already clean. It’s been made clear her child will never be returned. This is some war criminal shit

“Doesn’t deserve?”

Kindbud4u.wordpress.com! A scholarly source of there ever was one.

Right, you did say that, but it wasn’t factual. The history of the word is not what you assumed it was. That’s a pretty big part of what I’m saying here.

So wait, which is it? A plural, or an adjective?

The article gets wrong that they used it themselves.

It was introduced into the English lexicon by people deliberately trying to make our language more racist

Yeah but it loooooks cooooooool and everyone can toooootally tell but the evidence is, like, already gone so you’re good

Contact highs are a culturally- specific placebo, so, no?

It’s absolutely a shibboleth for college educated people. People aaaaaalways just remember they believe in using it right about when someone working class needs to be put in place. All in the proud tradition of the left eating its own tail, I suppose.

 So you’re about 40 years late with that observation but I’m glad we all got there eventually

Cool!

Dude, “triggered” is so last year

Then give me examples of those things. Show me how it’s compatible with vernacular Spanish. It’ll only take one sentence. I’m on your side- the future isn’t one where gendered language like that will work- but this just doesn’t work (except to class-code your language, like a Victorian affecting a Latin catchphrase).

They are that, generally, but they are waaaay more often than not used as a vehicle for fringe activists who don’t want a coherent, readily implementable platform, much less an avowedly socialist one, threatening their spotlight. This has been my experience with them from the local to the federal level. If they do…