What good are the United Nations anyway?

I say this with all the patience I can muster as a non-American:
AMERICANS HAVE NEVER BEEN THE “GOOD GUYS”. Not recently. Pretty much never. The closest you came was WWII and that was a good couple years after you watched all your Allies get stripped and socketed, until you finally had to join, because you’d played…

And a nation that prides itself on being the good guys in a fight doesn’t do this kind of thing.

Unfortunately, we really aren’t better than this.

We are not the good guys. And we never have been. Our country gained land and monetary power through genocide and slavery. We had to have a full blown civil war to end slavery (which was still unofficially practiced for decades afterwards). And most of our wars since then were entered to exploit financial resources…

No, we are living in 1776-Present USA. This has always been the way this country works. Trump is “just” an especially vile escalator. Without Bush, there’d be no Trump. Without Reagan, there would have been no Bush. Without Vietnam and Nixon, there would have been no Reagan. Without Eisenhower, Kennedy, and Johnson…

The recording is so disturbing. It literally made me sick to my stomach and I’m trying to hold back tears at work. They need to release the names/photos of border patrol agents/ICE agents/any agents involved in this atrocity. They need to be held accountable for their actions.

Man, this comments section REEKS of Axe body spray and PBR.

Nobody cares about you.

He married a Hearst....you know, the family that built a castle in the middle of California. He will never hurt for money.

I hate to say it, but I find myself thinking that way. The rest of us who aren’t zillionaires are subject to all sorts of misfortunes that aren’t our own fault. Even if Hardwick’s not a douchebag abuser, he’ll be fine and be richer than most people could ever hope to be. Same with Bryan Williams and his helicopter…

In general you can calculate the existence of evidence by the swiftness in the firing. Which is why Spacey was off HoC before the story had time to dry. They knew for a long time. In a lot of these cases the networks/production companies are less spooked bean-counters and more semi-accomplices who see that the jig is…

...no, it’s not.

Do you have any idea how many women’s lives and careers have been ruined just by someone’s words alone without a single shred of proof? Sucks that it can now happen to men too, doesn’t it?

he’s a multi-millionaire who married into money. That’s Lydia Hearst as in Hearst Castle; as in William Randolph Hearst; as in Hearst Communications.

Nobody needs to shed any tears for him.

You could choose not to associate with the kind of people who would make those kinds of accusations to begin with. It’s neat to have scummy friends and a crazy girlfriend if your goal is to look cool and “real.” Up until their nature plays out and they drag you into the mud with them. That’s not keeping your nose…

Lol. Yes, because that episode was written by a garbage white guy who is shaking in his boots. The chickens have come home to roost. Don’t be a garbage monster and you have nothing to worry about. NO ONE gets rich off a sexual assault or harassment claim.

And is married to an heiress.

Due process still exists. Matters of reputation are another thing entirely. Sorry, but even if he’s innocent, no company would want anything to do with this kind of scandal. Friends matter. Relationships matter. Public perception matters. Hardwick should have kept his nose clean.

Due process is exactly what’s happening. It’s standard human resources procedure to put people on leave while credible allegations are investigated. There are enough witnesses that the company has already talked to to make it a credible allegation. Read the details instead of reacting to the headlines. “Due Process”…