The only one who was calling him Cool Pope or Chill Pope were you guys. And that was only because at least on the surface he seemed slightly less evil than the guy before him, you know, the one who was a literal member of the Hitler Youth. Not a huge bar to pass.

Sometimes I believe Kelly can be saved because a woman who really believed in what they were doing would not have thinning discolored hair and fucked up skin.

can you imagine what that’s like? Going online, making friends with all the other conspiracy nuts? Now all of his friends think he’s part of a false flag operation? That’s gotta hurt.

Regardless of the crimes committed, throwing a person in jail for life before their brain has fully developed is the very definition of cruel and unusual punishment.

This x1000. But the truth is American prison isn’t about reform, it’s punishment and getting undesireables out of sight. Positive changes are a hard sell and just get labeled as ‘coddling criminals.’

This is a wonderful idea. I sent one. Our constitution bans cruel and unusual punishment, and that includes preventing sexual harm from happening to prisoners.

yes thank you i wish they would just kiss

If I’m correct, you admit to reading only three paragraphs of this and then, in response, write two. I will never understand

My gran Fanda divorced her abusive husband in 1970, though that legal decree was years in the making. These books saved her innermost self afterwards. She told me that after almost 20 years of daily assaults, that she felt when she left him that her body was a thing god made specifically for punishment. She didn’t…

hot take : josh brolin is married to a dress form.

I’m not a lawyer, but I remember watching dateline and a defense attorney said “when someone gets off on a technicality, the technicality they’re talking about is the constitution”. And that always stuck with me.

Ugh, this is giving me flashbacks now. My girlfriend at the time was a black woman (I’m a lily white dude) and we decided to check the film out after it won best picture. Literally those exact scenes you just described made her so physically uncomfortable we had to turn it off and I spent the next few hours trying to…

It’s sad that you put that as sarcasm. Because technicalities matter. They matter a lot.

Yes, those pesky amendments. Don’t worry, they’ll be eviscerated soon enough. Hope you enjoy it!

It manages to have some real racist and naive and white-people-focused stuff while talking about racism - I don’t think all the resentment is about LGBTQ rights being robbed of their moment, at least some has to be that there are so many more movies that engage racism directly and artfully and interestingly and this…

I remember seeing it and thinking that for a movie that was about race relations and took place in LA, it had precious few Latinos in the cast/plot. But then again, I didn’t finish watching it because I found it so bad. It felt to me like a screenplay by a sophomore in college who was trying to write a deep screenplay…

Go home, you’re drunk. Crash isn’t even as good as the other Crash.

These are kids; telling a trusted adult is not a “wasted step”, and it also allows her some accommodation from the school, so she doesn’t have to ride the same bus with him or whatnot. Give the girl a break- she did nothing wrong. No one can ever be a victim perfectly enough to meet everyone’s standards.

You really have to be a horrible shitheel of a human being when you are an authoritarian hothead with roving death squads and you can still only muster an approval rating of 76%.

Same. Abolish the draft.