I mean, they’ve done awareness campaigns about it. I’m pretty sure they know it happened.

Dude, I’m impressed Katie Couric (or anyone) can do that, and sustain it for that long. I would fall on my tailbone within 5 seconds, if I could get up there at all.

I hear you. I guess my thinking is that poverty and malnutrition are ultimately products of exploitative and wasteful economic and social policies. I know you’re advocating for more choices for women, and not for population control/eugenics kind of stuff, but I’ve heard so many people basically say “poor people need…

I mean, I’m all for informed family planning, but no, it’s not like those ills would be solved by just.. not having as many kids.

But it’s important to acknowledge their complicity and how that essentially made any real punishment impossible. As in, because they covered up the abuse and fostered an environment where abuse could happen, the statute of limitations had passed by the time it came to light. So no, they couldn’t put him in prison, but…

Yeah, it’s the kind of sex that’s normalized through porn that some people find troubling. I think sex is generally considered pretty normal/obligatory for adult romantic relationships.

Only like, half of America votes in the Presidential elections. Maybe we should work on that instead of guilting people who feel miserable/unsafe in their hometowns into staying there.

Idk who this is but I LOVE her hair color.

California is fucking enormous and various. You could absolutely find a studio for that in parts of LA County or the Central Valley. Probably up by Humboldt area too. No, you’re not going to find that deal in the bay or in any major city center here, but CA does not have a monopoly on the US housing crisis.

I mean, if you see pictures of her as a young teenager (shes 15 here) she really doesn’t look that different. Those lips are real. I agree that her beauty has been prolonged and a little augmented, but surgery can only get you so far.

I was really only responding to the idea that his statements were an actionable, illegal threat against President Obama - which they are not. I still definitely think he should not have said... any of the things he said.

I mean his statements are repugnant but I don’t really see how it can be construed as a threat, unless you think he’s going to force Obama to have sex with a cow.

I know it’s dumb but I’m still sad that Brad and Angelina broke up.

criminalizing HIV transmission is actually a huge part of why the disease is such a social stigma. It’s sort of circular logic, isn’t it? And it’s lead to situations where people are sent to prison for spitting on law enforcement when HIV positive. Seriously.

30 years is an outrageous sentence. I certainly hope he doesn’t get the maximum next time.

30 years is unequivocally too harsh a sentence.

On the other, young black men get murdered for doing less than she did to him.

The most surprising thing about this to me is that she reached out to Margaret Cho - like, did they already know each other..? Is Cho the only asian person she could think of?

Now who’s being disingenuous? Can you seriously not understand where I’m coming from? There were voters - a lot of voters - in CA who voted to abolish the death penalty *and* to make it more “efficient,” in the event that the other measure didn’t pass. That cognitive dissonance is real. I’m sorry that I projected that…

I genuinely do not understand how you can reconcile your *personal* view of how the death penalty should be applied with how it is actually being applied in this country, and think “well in this case I’m okay with it.” You even recognize that it’s racist and overly sentenced!