Fuck.

The thing is, I actually think a boarding school and a therapist'd be great for her.

THIS THIS THIS. "Treatment" schools, especially in Utah, are punitive as shit. I knew one Mormon kid sent to one for mild depression who ended up upset they were kidnapped in the middle of the night and were stuck in a glorified closet to shit in a bucket for days until they stopped sulking. This was not atypical. …

Oh, fuck, a treatment boarding school in Utah. Those things are usually paid prisons.

If it makes you feel any better, George R. R. Martin is very aware of the white savior trope and is very likely to viciously deconstruct it. It's very likely to bite her in the ass.

In my experience, the people who do leave without warning are the people unwilling to have a five minute conversation where they answer the question "huh?" I'm a communicator, and to me refusing to speak about it is something I'd only do to someone who was super shitty. When you're distressed, it can be difficult to…

I personally hate ambiguous relationships (friendships, business, or romantic) and don't put up with them for very long. Mostly because it seems like, while people who don't want to define what they are to me talk a good talk, the walk usually looks like someone with serious boundary or emotional issues.

The majority of people wearing them are sick. You're still expected to go to work or school if you have a cold or flu.

How will your baby survive if she goes a month or two without everyone knowing she's a girl?

I don't hate it here, and didn't say I did. You've either misread or are really not very bright and still think in all-or-nothing-terms like a preteen.

I'm sorry, people who contribute to their deeply flawed country are more patriotic than you are, and contribute more than you do. We don't plan on abandoning our country to scumbags. If that pisses you off, that's the cherry on top.

Look, I'm not "proud of my country" because I do not own what other people do. I do own, in some small part, what the government does. I don't owe it to you or anyone to engage in nationalism. So sorry.

Hm? I wasn't replying to you.

And I get tired of people who tell people every bit as American as they are to leave. It's disgusting and unacceptable.

Look, I have spent some time in other countries, and I have spoken to people from them. It is NOT super common for many other countries to say much more than "Yeah, it's all right, I like it." And if they see some shitty things going down, they absolutely criticize it.

I wish more people loved their country enough to work towards improving it. That involves acknowledging our fuckups. I don't see denial as patriotic. Jingoistic, sure, but not patriotic. If it is a love of country, it is a sick one.

I guess you could, but "Canadians say 'eh' a lot" doesn't carry the same sting as "You frequently support brutal dictators and have funded the coups of democratically elected leaders who weren't explicitly pro-American, then talk about that region of the world which you intentionally and systematically destabilized…

The GUI strikes me as a bigger deal than the mouse, personally. GUIs were really important to making personal computers more than a niche product.

I don't know, "lol America" seems pretty tame considering we're massive dicks to the rest of the world and to a large segment of our own population. What do we expect? I mean, not all of us are like that, but the people who aren't are probably also the people who get that we've earned being on kind of crappy terms…

I'mma comment here and probably get a lot of people angry at me, but as an American, I am a little embarrassed that other Americans will take a legit criticism of America and refuse to acknowledge it because you say something as tame as "lol America."