I’m not saying it’s justified, per se, but it does make sense to me: it’s a way to reclaim power, a way to flip the script and make him feel violated and vulnerable, make him cower in fear. It’s more vengeful than practical, but if you’ve been subjected to a guy sticking his penis inside you for ages and one day you…

That is not how this works. When you consistently abuse a person, you don’t get to claim abuse when that person finally fights back.

He also went on to get charged with domestic violence/battery of two more women.

According to her testimony (which the jury clearly believed), he raped her. If you’re looking for a logical connection between his actions and her reaction, here goes: she cut off his penis so he wouldn’t be able to rape her with it anymore.

“What’s the chance of them finding it? Y’know, I just didn’t want to live at that point - Where’s the gun? I was looking at it like “OK, so how do I self terminate now?” I just wanted to end it” - John Wayne Bobbitt at the futility of a life where he can no longer rape the wife he lovingly abused and cheated on for…

This is objectively good. I don’t understand why people who are so against abortion because it is ‘child murder’ don’t get that the best way to stop abortions isn’t to make them illegal (have you people HEARD of Prohibition???) but rather to increase sex ed/access to condoms/etc. etc.

It’s not comparable. Governor McCrory is trying to get the state legislature to straight up override the election results. A recount, on the other hand, could just re-affirm that Donald Trump won the states of Wisconsin, Michigan and Pennsylvania (assuming it doesn’t prove that Clinton was the true winner). That’s…

Here’s the post by J. Alex Halderman (Computer Science Prof at U. Michigan, and a member of the group petitioning for the recounts): https://medium.com/@jhalderm/want-to-know-if-the-election-was-hacked-look-at-the-ballots-c61a6113b0ba#.jrbfk79uv

It’s completely different from the NC gov race. There, he is hoping to cast enough aspirsions on the vote that it gets thrown out and the state legislature gets to choose a governor.

I think you may be a little ignorant about Leah Remini and her experience, but opinions based on nothing seem to be the new “cult” in America these days.

Her mother got the family into the cult when she was a kid. Very much at the “you go where your parent tells you” age; she didn’t have a choice about joining. I saw an interview with her and she said that one of the things that scared her most when she began to think about leaving was that her mother would decide to…

They were granted religion status by the IRS.

“I don’t understand any of this, but I’m going to comment anyway! Here’s my hot take!”

Scientology takes it a bit further than many (as far as the organization itself is concerned). Some people are trying to sum up the fucked up shit they have done but honestly you have to read in detail or watch a few documentaries to understand it. The best I can say is think of some of the nastier cult tendencies…

Scientology blackmails and cons people out of money all the time. I’m glad she’s suing.

You know that a lot of kids are born or forced into this, right?

She didn’t join, she was raised in the cult. smh

This is part of her plan. She’s poking them with a stick. She doesn’t need money. She’s out to get them

As someone who has read her book it’s more like years of indoctrination and damaging emotional abuse that started when she was a teen. So try again.

Personally, I have no stake in the issue, and happen to agree with you on the safety of pipelines over rail transport. The bigger issue to me is one of NA rights and the nature of the police crackdown, especially when juxtaposed to responses to sovereign citizen protests.