I’m a returning student and very debt averse. Everyone is always like “Just pay with scholarships” but there are so few, and what is there is mostly “Write a 5 page essay for a scholarship that will pay for one text book“ or “This $10k grant is open to sons of executives who are members of This specific country club.”

When they lose they’ll just blame it on the young people and the leftists that they actively despise and make no effort to court. Somehow the only lesson they ever learn is “Maybe we should be more conservative” so they’ll just keep inching right until we don’t even have the illusion of 2 parties. 

Democratic leadership in Washington is almost all in their upper 70s and early 80s in age. They have no understanding of what younger people are going through. 

Thank you for putting this in because Democrat loyalists love gaslighting about the lies they are literally on record saying. Talking about “They can’t do that. You just don’t know how government works” as if we made those promises up and these aren’t things that they actually said.

All the Dems had to do was keep their collective heads above water, but instead they’re using those buckets to pull water into the sinking ship......

Get ready for a bunch of comments about how nobody gets handouts for their credit card debt as if it is a reasonable argument for leaving people in crippling debt that only helps lenders because they made the choice to want to learn and get a good job. 

Among the many ways this is such a cruel, unforced error, is that they aren’t even trying to negotiate the debt cancellation. It seems, from a read through Twitter, that plenty of people would find it acceptable if they eliminated the interest/lowered the interest on the loans.

I just stopped by to say that there shouldn’t be any interest charged on government backed student loans. Not now, not ever again. If we can’t have debt free university (like a civilized country) right away, the least we can do is only require students to pay down the principle. This would help a lot of people who are…

Biden was never going to forgive any student loans. That was all made up bullshit. This is the guy who made it so you can’t discharge student loans in bankruptcy. In 2024, the Republican candidate won’t do it either. So nothing will happen with student loans for the next 7 years at least.

Democrats like snatching defeat from the jaws of victory as much as they like maintaining the status quo into almost inevitable fascism.

I think guys like this look for targets can either easily discredit or feel won’t say anything. Both of these women were in their early 20's. With one woman going to the police could have caused her to lose her job or career. The other was just waitress. The cops might believe but will a prosecutor press charges?

I always wonder about these famous guys who have violent events in their past, sometimes things they did decades ago. Do they live in paranoia that their deeds will come to light, or are they so deeply narcissistic that they believe they’re truly untouchable? Maybe neither. Maybe both.

“As their humiliations mount and the pleasures their riches yield are obscured by the show’s punishing aesthetic, the Roys and their milieu only become more sympathetic.”

Exactly this. Kendall does this constantly because he’s supposed to sound like a pompous fool and Roman will often fumble his snarky comments when he’s annoyed or caught off guard.

The dialogue in Succession can 100% get too smartassy for it’s own good but it isn’t so excessive that they behave like literal cartoon characters. Except maybe Roman. But what I like about the direction of this show is that they are meant to sound like d-bags trying really hard to sound clever. They stumble over…

Part of the investigation is processing the evidence. If they aren’t processing the rape kits, which is their job, then they are failing the public. The District Attorney doesn’t process rape kits. To your last point, processing the rape kit seems like a good way to make sure a jury convicts the right person, thus…

“If you believed it was a funding issue, that’ on you.” Lol, get over yourself. I was ignorant about something. Now I know more about it. Like everyone on this planet, you will spend the rest of your entire fucking life learning things you didn’t know before. Try to be a little less condescending to the rest of us.

Guess what? Lots of people who AREN’T survivors themselves are thinking of their perceptions formed from SVU when they disbelieve your story. It sucks but maybe there are better sources of comfort than one that also causes harm.

I don’t think it’s ridiculous at all. We’re talking about it right now. I’d say it was a very effective use of the media to generate outrage. I didn’t know that rape kits weren’t getting tested because of laziness/incompetence. I believed the lie that it was a funding issue. Do I think she’ll quit her job? No. But…

There’s also just facts and numbers showing how much violence trans women face.