The focus on society over the individual thing is so true. I love Finland, as well as neighbouring Scandinavia and their social programs.

As one of the USA’s neighbours to the north, I’ve noticed a disturbing trend over the past few years, with this American obsession with the individual. There’s a very “I’ve got mine,…

I mean, feel free to explain to little Janie all about your Randian jerkoff fantasy and how her mother is a leech on the system but Janie is eight and she’s hungry and she doesn’t understand why adults who have food won’t give her food when she’s hungry.

Some shit

- People or animals watching me

Things that would stress me out from living in a glass cabin:

Another example of church people being good Christians, bless their hateful little shriveled up hearts.

Jaxton. JAXTON?! No to that.

I hate that you’re likely right. In our society, nurse Wubbles is most likely to get the result of the department taking appropriate action by suing over Detective Payne’s conduct. I share your doubt that any internal investigation will have teeth to change his behavior in the future, but a sizable settlement payment…

Once Payne and his superior who pushed him are fired and unable to find another job, then I’ll believe in that “goodness of society”.

The Geneva conventions should be modified to provide protections to deportees as well. ICE needs to be dismantled as a hate group in and of itself. Human beings should not be treated like this. What could ever be a reason to deny a human being rights to food, water and a restroom? The US has officially become the…

“after refusing to violate hospital policy”

^ this. My MiL is American, yet waaaaaay into the Diana myth. It seriously weirds me out. She has this bizarre hatred of Camilla Parker-Bowles, and is ready to put Diana on the alter next to the Virgin.

But the thing is that there’s no ‘record’ to set straight. I’m pretty sure we’ve all got the gist of it and won’t ever know every last detail about Diana or her marriage. No one doubt’s she was a good and loving mother. She was also a lot cannier and manipulative than she pretended to be and Charles was a lot more of…

Yes, this. William is not at all close to his father, by all accounts. (They are similar in whinginess.)

Prince Harry isn’t exactly a worker bee. He just has more of his mother’s charm.

Over the last 20 the culture around Diana hasn’t changed one iota here in the UK, set at that moment of the car crash. No matter what the narrative will forever remain as Diana, the People’s Princess (surprisingly often spoken in the tone of belonging to the people rather than of the people), and be one of how she got…

People psh’ing Amigara are fools, FOOLS! Spirals ooooh, who cares about spirals!

Am I supposed to know what Cinefamily is? You’d think that would be explained in one of the first few paragraphs.

I feel like rather than ending in an awkward silence one of them should have been like: “So... uhh... you doing anything after work?”

The only way this could not be completely awful is if it were an exact recreation of the original story but gender swapped, because that would tell us some interesting things about how we perceive violence and gender. Anything else is going to be a stereotyped mess.