There’s a pretty good podcast on this topic by the CBC called Uncover: Escaping NXIVM that I think sheds some light on why people have joined this thing. I enjoyed it. 

Me too, but honestly, this seems like a false equivalency. This particular Scientology practice* isn’t that different from excommunication or a “No Homers” society. “You can’t be a part of our club, and now you have cooties! No club members talk to the cootie haver!” And while that’s pretty shitty, you can’t force…

Co-sign. That song is a bop and a straight up pleasure, no guilty about it.

I recently read an article, that discusses this very issue, with Republican women specifically noting that Republicans (as a whole and individuals) are fine with women helping, and with holding lower offices but when it moves to Governorships, the Senate, Congress and the office of President both men and women find…

And killing animals.

Yep. I was absolutely 100% the same as these girls when I was 19. A couple years at a state school (any non-religious institution will do) with just a handful of meaningful connections to professors and/or other students who can persuade them to truly consider another viewpoint can change the whole game. It did for me.

Also these products are pushed towards kids and teenagers mainly. Cardi B is obviously wealthy, but newer however someone like a Kardashian is super wealthy. I don't expect her to promote a charity or something instead, but maybe don't promote laxatives. Draw a line somewhere you've cashed in enough you vapid asshole.

Cold Hearted Snake was a great video, definitely encouraged some sexual thoughts for me as a pre pubescent teen. So was Rush, Rush which featured a swoon worthy Keanu Reeves, who happens to look exactly the same now. OK, maybe better.

I thought maybe she is just trying to get out from under her sister’s shadow....

I love a good Western, but I’m so tired of the apathy—or outright disdain—that most creators, even modern ones, in the genre have toward Native American characters. I appreciate you highlighting a few that have tried to remedy some of the sins of the past, but...damn, it’s way past time for a Western film that centers…

Yes, and the woman who is on the front line of this election, fighting for better consequences, is saying that this action will not help make things better, will not help the people she was fighting to help, and will not help with the next election (which is in just two weeks, to fill the office that Kemp vacated, and…

Great. Abandoning us will totally help. You could donate to local causes and support our disenfranchised but no. Doing nothing is easier.

That last quote gets even stupider:

I heard the original ending involves Lady Gagas character needing to leave town for an extended weekend so she just fills a large bowl with jellybeans and leaves them for Bradley Cooper in his normal feeding place. Tragedy strikes when an anxious Cooper proceeds to eat all the jellybeans at once, gets very sick and…

I suspect a lot of the folks watching and enjoying AoS just don’t consume it through traditional means that would show up in things like Neilsen ratings.

He didn’t march with MLK, rather he was at the March on Washington (along with 200,000 other people), where MLK gave his I Have A Dream speech, which isn’t the same thing. He completely abandoned his activism in 1963 - years before the CRM even ended - when he fucked off to white-ass Vermont, where he proceeded to do…

Well, -EVERY BERNIE BRO- knows it’s all about class, not race.

He backtracked quick when he thought he might offend his beloved White Working Class. He’ll throw us darkies under the bus to avoid saying anything bad about white folks.

Diary writing while still wearing a single opera glove seems on brand for her. It's all about style and devoid of content. (See: blank page)

I was going to make a comment about the obvious solution being Jesus bandaids for everybody, because of that thing with Kim and Kanye and the Jesus bandaid, but it got away from me and I’m not even really sure what the point/joke was originally supposed to be. Sorry, I’m in a weird mood. It’s election day and it’s…