How is it “beyond ridiculous” to shop as ethically as possible? Are you really so greedy that you don’t care if people get paid as long as you get the lowest price possible? It’s not that hard to avoid buying from shady third-party sellers on Amazon - just use your eyes.

It’s up to you to determine what your responsibility is - all this article does is ensure that you can’t use ignorance as an excuse. Your personal morality is your own business.

Somebody doesn’t understand economics. When there is no legal method to purchase a product, illegal methods will always arise.

Welcome to capitalism - it must have been nice living in ignorance under that rock all this time.

I mostly agree with you, which is exactly why I recommend people pirate the show. (or not, because the pilot wasn’t that impressive...)

Jesus. You’re a fucking sociopath.

Paying money for a product is not extortion any more than all of capitalism is extortion. If you want it for free, steal it! Ain’t nobody stopping you.

The patently false idea that “there were basic facts everyone agreed on” is the real culprit here. Our understanding of the universe has always and probably will always be in flux to some extent. To believe otherwise is a dramatic misreading of human history.

“Expected to read” - by whom? Did someone make blogs mandatory and I missed it? FUCK!

I don’t see where I ever patronized you, but thanks for turning a civil discussion into a personally insulting one for absolutely no reason. I couldn’t possibly know what you already know when I commented.

It sounds like you believe the justice system should be more about punishment rather than deterrence. While that may make you *feel* better, we have about a thousand studies demonstrating that strict punitive consequences don’t necessarily prevent crime, ESPECIALLY crime perpetrated by children and teens.

The nuance of the difference between “enthusiastic consent” and “consent by coercion” seems entirely lost on you, so obviously you’ve gotten the wrong idea about the intent of this piece. Please, try a little harder to not be a total knob. Put in at least a minimum of effort.

Oh, honey. Please learn what “freedom of speech” actually means before wandering into adult conversations. You’re embarrassing yourself.

Only fool I see is you. But nice try - we definitely need more people pedantically policing how other people use the Internet.

If you need to ask the question “why would a large black man run from police?” you’re a fucking moron, and your privilege is showing.

Fuck off, you abysmal excuse of a human being.

Your desperate need to twist every comment made in this thread into somehow either agreeing with you or being written by someone you can dismiss out of hand without addressing their argument is pitiful. You respond to every person in the thread and then call someone ELSE out for writing three replies? WOW.

We can only wish that she’d stabbed you instead, since you’re clearly a subhuman piece of shit. Kindly die.

The article says she’s a woman - anyone doubting that is applying their own biases. There’s absolutely no doubt as to how she identified, and pretending there is incredibly disingenuous.

Why did you drive your car into a crowd of demonstrators in the first place? It’s not like they’re running around looking for people in cars to harass. He made a choice to drive towards a crowd of people instead of turning around or pulling to the side of the road and waiting for them to pass - the consequences of…

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