I really like monarda, and bees love it! Yarrow is also a good one and easy to keep. Daisies and coneflowers are good too. Heuchera is also great, but it’s a shade plant.

His family died in the holocaust, I think he survived by hiding in the streets of Warsaw and begging for scraps, most of his family died, and then as an adult he had see his pregnant wife’s brutal murder. I mean, some people literally would give anything to just live in France and not come back to the US.

With all due respect to her, he was convicted and needs to serve his sentence.

Statue of limitations are not applicable in this case. Statute of limitations limit the amount of time a victim has to report a crime to the police and for the state to bring charges, not the amount of time the justice system has to catch, try and imprison a perp.

Hopefully she’s just trying to lure him back to the country so she can like murder him or something.

This. :)

I can listen/ hold space for someone else’s views and also acknowledge when I perceive someone as being hostile. These two things are not mutually exclusive.

I’m another outsider and agree, Beet seemed kinda hostile in his response. There’s definitely an undertone of “how dare you, the fact that you even had to ask means you’re a problematic white person” in his post. Though, to be fair to him, this question is probably posed by people who really ask so they can say…

Holy shit. I heard people were trying to explain away her actions as nothing THAT bad. I didn’t want to believe it. You people are nuts. “I don’t think she would go through court”. I’m glad what you “think” is all you need to justify her being an absolute horrible piece of shit. It’s not about court. It’s about a…

I actually agree. Women like this should INFURIATE other women because it makes it harder to believe actual victims. Because, since there are rotten people like this woman in the world, there is always that sliver of doubt.

I actually read Jezebel regularly and comment on some stories because the content there is very interesting. A lot of the people there are very cool but there are some very aggressive and irrational people there, too. The meanest of all of Kinja boards I visit —but also the source of some of the best discussions…

You realize we can care and do something about both the dearth of unprosecuted/investigated rape cases in this country AND worry about/do something about clear cut cases of false accusation right? Saying that we can’t/shouldn’t worry about shit like this until we reach some unquantifiable level of parity with legit…

Yep. Always has to be either or with this kind of shit. God forbid we have a little nuance and admit that shit like this happens but maybe isn’t prevalent. That’d be too reasonable.

You don’t think if the cops would have shown up and this guy wasn’t recording he wouldn’t have been taken to jail?

Nah, fuck that, stop making apologies for somebody threatening a man just trying to make a living with false rape and assault accusations over him not having a *fucking iphone charger*.

Just because she probably wouldn’t do it doesn’t even sort of make it OK, just like it’s not OK when people *actually* do it. Like,…

However, had she even called the police then this guy was in for a world of hurt and grief. It doesn’t need to go through a long trial to effectively ruin this guy’s life.

I kinda thought that too, but when it walks like a duck and quacks like a duck...

Yes, we will ignore it. She threatened to destroy his life, drag his reputation through the mud, drop a cloud of suspicion over him that would follow him forever. She wants to cost him time, money, opportunity, friends, family, and a future.

And he used some bad words. His cool slipped and out pops some naughty…

Let’s put it this way: if I see a future thinkpiece about the “problematic” language of this guy, who had just gotten out of a massively stressful and threatening situation at the hands of an utter shitbag, I’ll have to tie my hands to the desk to keep myself from throwing a brick through my monitor.

Eh, I’d rather not invite a cross-section of that fucking insanity to this thread.