Money isn’t the only requirement of decent parenting. If DeNiro and Pacino would be likely to live to 130 and keep their minds intact, then yeah, it wouldn’t matter. But the fact that both of them are statistically likely to drop dead and/or go senile long before their kids hit fourth grade should give any good…

“Honestly, props to that psychic’s business savvy.”

How about actually no? How about “fuck psychics and the fraud they perpetrate”?

I have a good friend who is a corporate executive, married to a successful lawyer, and she still constantly seeks her parents approval in regards to her life choices, especially financial ones. The other day she was worried about what her parents would think about her going on an overseas vacation with friends.…

I think it’s precisely because they have so much money that they are obsessed with his approval. It’s the only currency that ebbs and flows or has measurable value in their lives. Money, on the other hand, is so abundant that it is a meaningless abstraction. They are so wealthy it is simply a fundamental, invisible…

They just should have named show: 3 nepo babies who doesn’t care about anyone except themselves, who will never make good CEOs.

I mean, I get that, but it’s just hard to see someone who has financial independence feel that way.  I can understand if you are living with your parents or need their help with something, sure, but even before dad was dead they’d all gotten enough cash out of the empire to be fine.  Kendall could have gone and lived…

And for all her misgivings about the intractable evil of her family’s business, and particularly ATN, she threw away a career in Democratic politics at the mere prospect of running the company.

Agreed...but that’s the part they (or any fundamentalist religion) don’t say out loud; they just pretend the women are happy with this arrangement. Hell, in the Duggars’ church, women are supposed to get their husbands’/fathers’ permission to get a driver’s license, let alone a job. But the part about theocracy via…

There’s also a control element. You can’t get a job or want a separate source of income if you have 4 in diapers. You can’t start to have independent thoughts if you’re exhausted from keeping a passel of kids alive while also attending to the needs of a man-baby who might as well be another child.

I watched two. whole. seasons. of GOT before I was like, “Why the fuck am I doing this, especially when I’m in the middle of at least 5 other series?”

That’s sort of true for all kinds of trauma. The way it was explained to me is that a part of you gets stuck at the age of the trauma and sometimes when you’re under stress some characteristics of that age come into play. Say you had major trauma in your life at 10, and if when you’re an adult the Swamp Monster breaks…

Thank you for taking the time to write this, as it reflects my sentiments almost exactly (including not liking fantasy but giving GoT a shot anyway).

To me that’s when things stop being just a different religious sect and upgrade to being a cult.  

This is my takeaway. It’s fine to not like it. It’s fine to completely avoid it (as much as possible). But undeniably, the writing and directing are outstanding—maybe the best since Chernobyl back in 2019, and Chernobyl is a masterpiece. The performances are stunning. It took me a couple episodes into season 1 to get…

I adore kittens but you are right.  Until they are about 2 years old, they are little furry assholes.  

That is one of the teachings. Women are supposed to gaze at their husbands with a look of wonder and fascination whenever they are speaking.

The way Michelle gazes at her husband ALWAYS creeps me out.

There are a lot of horrifying aspects of IBLP but here’s the one that, to me, best represents their insanity: IBLP women, like the Duggars, are expected to wear their hair long and curly (permed, if they don’t have naturally curly hair). Why? Because Bill Gothard thought women looked most beautiful with long, curly…

Public schools do little to promote critical thinking, which is one of the largest issues with current America. Home schooling and the like promote anti-critical thinking, keeping people dumb as they get older.