This is a bit of a stretch - Instagram is shallow and bringing up Nabokov seems a little much - but I see your point.

I really don’t see much room for commentary on women’s success here, though, accidental or otherwise. It’s more about how social media and presenting an idealized image of our lives has become so all-consuming.

It’s a false comparison. I don’t think we should ignore Trump because he’s bad, I think we should ignore Trump because his power *ONLY* comes from his media presence. Shitstains like Westboro Baptist and Isis and whateverthefuck else actually have ideologies and deeply held religious beliefs, however twisted and…

When are these White males gonna stop raging? They raged against freeing Black people in the 1800’s because it threatened them in some way, they raged against the Italian, Irish and Jewish immigrants in the 19th and 20th century, they raged again against giving any equality to Black people in the 1960’s because (?),…

Sure, his rights were violated, but as most of us who were kids in school post-Columbine learned- kids in school don’t get any rights anyway.

He’s obviously milking this for everything it’s worth. The question is how much that hurts his credibility. Everything I’ve learned about his father says he’s the kind of guy who would throw himself down a flight of stairs and sue you for his injuries. I don’t trust anything he says about this.

Asking for 15 million dollars is also quite a lot, even if you were discriminated against. That’s probably approaching the yearly budget of the school he went to, depending on where he was.

agreed, it is also pretty odd that we are going to investigate whether this kid’s civil rights were being violated when he moved to a place that doesn’ believe in civil rights for women and gays.

I don’t doubt for a minute that he intended to kill his girlfriend, but jesus, the thought of an appeals court being able to upgrade or reverse a jury’s verdict just because they disagree is frightening. It makes me appreciate our criminal justice system a little more, no matter how broken it may be.

The original trial was not a jury trial.

Not sure if you read all the way through and perhaps I’m misinterpreting here but the article says it was a judge’s ruling that was overturned, not a jury’s. It seems fine to me that if one judge gets something wrong that a decision can be appealed. I think judge’s decisions get appealed in the US too.

I don’t. It’s an exorbitant amount. He should get something a bit more proportionate to the suffering he has experienced.

Fuck that. This was the best thing that ever happened to this kid, and he was in no way ‘damaged’ to the point of 15 million dollars.

he won’t, and now the kid looks like a money-grubbing asshat.

I am starting to feel this way, too. It’s looking more and more like a circus/money grab by his father.

I feel like this kid is Kony 2012ing us

i might be wrong

but i already learned my lesson and have an embarrasing tshirt that I’ll never wear in public so

She’s a single mother because she’s divorcing your revolting, child-molesting ass, Jared. Even if you didn’t see a day behind bars.

In trial, Fogle reportedly sobbed as he recounted how he’d hurt his family and his wife, who would be a single mother should he go to prison.

You were a pedophile before the diet, you fucking idiot.

Or Diablo 2 or Diablo or Path of Exile or any of the Divinity games or Warcraft 3 or... that seriously made me cry a little inside. But honestly, how is Warcraft 3 not on this? It provided us with our current MOBA invasion. Planescape Torment not there as well? Command and Conquer? Also, Pillars of Eternity if we’re…