yeah, you hit the nail on the head here. When you look at the actual facts of the situation, it seems like the letter writer is still fantasizing about having had more control than they actually did.

Thanks for that perspective. I guess we never really know what the other person is experiencing and it can be grandiose to assume. I think that having a heart-to-heart conversation is important in clarifying that.

OK, you need a column.  

“I’m sure some people will find this advice too strident, or object that she is a grown woman who has entered freely into a post-relationship friendship with you and it would be infantilizing to assume you or I know what is best for her. I don’t care. There are certain relationships in which one person holds so much…

Okay, when I read this letter, my first reaction was: wow, this person is making several bad (unjustified) inferences. The relationship he describes reminds me of one I was in and, similarly, if you ask my ex his side of the story, he too would be taking lots of credit for why my life is the way it is. In reality, I…

Yes, I’m sure even the cops would classify all that screaming and yelling, the stampeding people, and the continued nights of protests a “resolved conflict.”

I am so sorry you had to endure that. My parents leaned liberal, so I did not encounter the same challenges.

general shoutout: please dismiss the troll *sigh*

It would go on to be the start of a long lifetime filled with taking my parents sacred cows and driving them to McDonald’s. Dad didn’t have my mom or even my brother and I’s photos on his desk at work. He had his hero, Reagan. That one statement likely sums up my life and relationship with my family.

Is it wrong of me to wish that someone had chucked a roll back at him à la the Bush shoe thrower?

Sounds about reich.

How do you know he DIDN’T carry an AR-15 while on life guard duty?

No, silly. That’s how we mop up hurricanes.

He has nothing to offer other than the name “Kennedy”, which is the point. People, you need to stop. Taylor Swift fucking one of the kids named Kennedy was your orgasm. There is nothing left but a sticky mess to keep this dream alive.

This is gold because YOU DID IT.  It is first hand knowledge, and you were so far before your time that your 4 year old self didn’t even know.  

This is the best thread ever.  

Let me play (lol) ah.. let’s see.

Can we build a wall out of paper towels?

Lets not stop there, how about they’re also encouraging vigilantes and then throw in a dose of victim blaming to boot?

The First Lady, as CNN later wrote, showed “touching compassion.”