That’s very much a #metoo story and a painful illustration of how well-trained we are to normalize abuse.

You’ll never hear this the same way, right?

Holy shit. This is amazing, and terribly sad-but thank you for sharing this.

Nuns have been mistreated - not just by individual priests or mothers superior, but by the church as an institution. Oftentimes, as so many stories that came out of the Irish work houses betrayed, nuns themselves became abusers.

Was raised the same way, was not super politically active when that age(14 was decades back as well), but indeed I had my parents views mostly and here in Alabama I did not even hear many other viewpoints as conservatism was and is so prevalent. Best thing is that people can change so maybe some will come about.

The fact that you believe that terrorists are going to attack your house tells me that you’re a complete fucking moron. I don’t give a shit that you’re 15. You’re a fucking moron.

From my experience with a few history teachers, the best way to make a student to realize something isn’t to tell them so much as it is to have them draw comparisons themselves and come to their own conclusion.

A good friend of mine has been having his students, in a relatively conservative area, study the Know Nothing…

because the teacher flat out did not say this

As someone who, when he was 14 or so, was a genuine-article Reagan conservative, I’m not going to put too much weight on their current political affiliation. Right now, they probably live with Republican parents who have Republican friends who live tightly-knit in Republican neighborhoods. The whole point of suburbs,…

and that the Constitution shall not be infringed. Where I live in North New Jersey, to get a license for a gun is really difficult.

Isn’t that a bitch though? Conservatives are both the victim and the hero of everything they choose to be.

“The Constitution protects us from government”

This comment should be higher.

Demi is treated with love

I think an important factor is that Demi Lovato has publicly put her struggles out their for the public while being an advocate for mental health. She has been involved in public health campaigns and she has been a spokeswoman that is vulnerable wanting to be a voice. She has allowed people the chance to empathize and…

It’s a star, so they should let him do it.

$20,000 bail for attacking an inanimate object?

That’s a gofundme I would donate to

As someone who is a citizen of a country where socialism has been overwhelmingly successful, I’ve never understood why it’s been considered the boogieman in the States.

I really wish we’d stop using Sleepless in Seattle as some great benchmark for Rom Coms. That film is about a man who ran a woman out of business and then spent the rest of the film doing tons of sneaky shit towards her in an effort to “woo” her. She ended up forgiving him because...love.