They do not understand “no gods no masters”. They cannot imagine living without worshiping and being led by someone.

The phrasing of the lead-in and the circumstances made me think he got fired for paying the writers the moneys owed.

This is great, it’s like the 90's drag scene where a bunch of assholes peaked and have no talent left but to undermine other acts. Except better because I don’t have to go out and pay a cover or listen to terrible lip-syncing and vaudeville humor.

The odds are always in favor of “scumbag” or “coward” but if any 12 steppers are here they can speak to the 8/9th step being situational. Meaning if direct contact would re-injure to harmed party you find some other way to do those steps.

Funniest thing to me is how many people I know who applaud this are the same people shitting on people they know, or some strangers, for having their own small gatherings and lapses in distancing.

When I’m feeling optimistic I consider a lot of these idiots outing themselves to be the ‘good side’ of Twitter and the rest not really shutting 45 down online. Like he’s The.Worst. but if he were somehow exempted from gravity and his followers thought that extended to them too....well, cool.

Does “moderate” just mean “conservative with a base we don’t want to alienate”?

If you’re actually concerned with accurately sussing out people you should keep in mind, as I note elsewhere, your own implicit bias and experience. My point being a LOT of stuff that is reasonably suss for one person to do (as you note, a CEO or someone with traditional access to education having a lot of “will to…

100%. It is insane to me that it’s ok to go to war when you’re still young enough that people think you’re crazy to get married.

Rape-play or whatever it is here isn’t my kink, but I’ve lived with and among enough lifestylers to know that the exposition you see in movies like 9 1/2 weeks, or 50 shades, even well regarded movies comes off like the umpteenth iteration of Uncle Ben dying, it’s exposition for the uninitiated. Its the safe language…

I’ve had friends who did time and this book is among a few common reading materials for a lot of people, very often PoC, when in jail and the point being generalities on what is and is not an indicator of a negative personality trait may have implicit cultural bias. It’s really just like art of war/Machiavelli stuff,…

Sure sure, but it’s not like a solid indicator of more than someone who could be a creep but maybe look at their book shelf for a bunch of other self help goofery or if they have a personal history where formal education wasn’t an option, like a lot of people with potential get side tracked in prison with pop…

Just a minor note relating to a linked Tweet. AFAIK the 48 Laws of Power isn’t like a seduction manual, it’s self help shit mostly popular in the African American community in the same sense Il Pincipe is and for many of the same reasons. I suppose all of those ‘self empowerment’ deals can be used to be a seduction or…

So does this happen like every couple years, someone conveniently forgets that Tom has advanced degrees in political science as well as his entire back catalog?

Does anyone now if they had him altered or de-clawed or can his new family show him?

Older people just get better at hiding it.

If you buy property from someone and find treasure under the floorboards, should the previous owners be able to force you to sell it back?

“and somehow, the audience is meant to understand this as a perverse form of radical honesty.”

Or rather “Rich people don’t stop being assholes during plagues”

“Sussex Commons”