I don’t think paying the ransom would have prevented anything back then. From what I’ve heard and read the son, his wife and this grandson were going to be fulltime, club hopping dilettantes no matter what and at the time that meant lots of drug use and lots of overdoses. When that sort of person didn’t die from an OD…

“If there is a God, He will have to beg my forgiveness.” — A phrase that was carved on the walls of a concentration camp cell during WWII by a Jewish prisoner.

Nope! But I did get to choose whether I wanted to peddle nationalist propaganda and defend atrocities regularly committed by my country (I don’t) or if I wanted to agitate against them and press for substantive, fundamental change (I do).

How old is too old to drive a teen in your congregation to a secluded road without her permission and demand she touch you sexually?

I can see a conversation like (the above) happening, where her knee-jerk was to say “Fuck off, I can SKATE, bitch” without ever actually processing the actual conversation that was happening.

You didn’t sin with her, douchecanoe. You sinned against her.

She said the Disney parade was really corny. Not sure that counts as being “really awful.” It’s probably the kindest way you could put it.

I am not sure how we, meaning society, is borderline Team Tonya these days. Did she really need to go to the Golden Globes? Yes, she grew up poor, and with a shitty mother. And she was crapped on by the skating world because she was deemed poor trash. But sorry, I don’t feel sorry for her. We can tell her story, but…

This story has been coming up in my newsfeed a lot and I was blown away by how many people sincerely believe that Nancy Kerrigan “had it coming” because Tonya was a wholesome real American and Nancy was a stuck-up princess or something. Like the words “slut” and “prissy” and “snob” were used to justify a bat to the…

Yeah, did you see the Allison Janney speech at the Globes where Harding got an ovation? I was like “uh, why are we cheering for someone who likely had a role in whacking the knee caps of another person?” More cringeworthy than any of the other perceived slights, real or imagined, that got play on this site.

Yeah, it’s obvious that Tonya has been lying for the last 24 years about this. I watched the 30 for 30 on this and realized that Tonya was so resentful and bitter about not being accepted by the figure skating establishment, she was probably happy to be a part of blowing it up and embarrassing them all.

I enjoy watching figure skating (and gymnastics), but this is one of the issues I have with sports where the winner is not decided in an objective way. You swim or run the fastest, you throw something the furthest, your team scores more goals, etc. (Obviously there is subjectivity in even some of those sports, but…

I mean hasn’t her story this whole time been that she had no idea her husband could be planning something? Now she says she knew he was, but didn’t connect the two things just after hearing Nancy was attacked. Obviously she thought at first random other group attacked Nancy for some reason. Really?

Just because she was a little crabby on her publicity tour, she’s a terrible person? I think that’s kind of extreme. We all get crabby.

“I did overhear a conversation...maybe somebody should be taken out...I’m a good skater” GTFOHWTS. And she was applauded at the Golden fucking Globes? Lauded on the red carpet? I mean, let bygones be bygones but this is nuts.

What “nuance” could possibly justify the actions of an ethnostate maintained by European and American money and military power that abuses its native population, denies them free movement, occupies and steals their land and bulldozes their homes, restricts their access to clean water, bombs their hospitals, and kills…

I also just adore how she thinks Palestinians are subhuman.

From the Sports Illustrated story in 1994:

Cheering on brutal settler colonialism does tend to require a certain steeliness, true

I recently reread Jane Eyre and I think I dont like her? She’s a moral person, basically, but the way she watches and judges people... and don’t get me started on Mr Rochester, what a dick. His manipulations, his entitlement, bleh. They deserve each other imo.