I’ve yet to see anyone claim this guy deserved to die. No one deserves that for stealing a poster. But understand that he was an adult from a country these people believe they are at war with and he apparently committed a crime there...

They regularly starve thousands of people to death every day so beating someone into a coma for stealing a hotel room poster is not off the wall behavior for the norks.

In North Korea yes, unless you are Rodman.

We execute people for:

Newsflash: Anti-black racism is not only found in America.

Rich. Thank you. THANK YOU.

He goes, “it’s hard where you have Chloë and we need her sister, so you’re locked in a kind of casting just based on the people I know and want to work with.” And it reminds me of when a production making the film Man in the Moon cast all over the south for a young southern girl to play the lead. I auditioned. My…

Drop Dead Gorgeous did this. I mean, it was a comedy, so there’s that aspect, and whether or not that was the most sensitive portrayal is definitely a whole different topic of conversation, but her hair was failing out and she was hospitalized with IVs and in a wheelchair because she had no energy.

As someone who struggled with disordered eating in my teens (and has flirted with it in my 20s and early 30s) I concur.

Yup, a start. The weed legalization push in Washington state focused a lot on this. POC’s are waaaay more apt to get pulled over for some ticky-tack bullshit, and weed is so easy to smell; BAM, you’re in the system for drugs now, you’re fucked.

It’s because the NRA knows that many of its most hard-core supporters are white cops and racist rural whites who don’t see anything wrong with this shooting. There are in fact a lot of gun owners who are upset about this for obvious reasons, but these are the gun owners (like me) who long ago swore off the NRA when it…

I also always wonder who these anorexia movies are for, as they often push the “beautiful tortured thing girl” stereotype and let me tell you, anorexia sufferers feed off this. These kinds of movies are never cautionary tales, they’re actually very triggering and encouraging.

The confession was never for us, it was for them; for the North Koreans.

Yeah, the whole thing really stinks. Blaming the president because your adult child travels somewhere that is a well known dictatorship that hates the US (why anyone would go there is beyond me!) and even if he didn’t put his hands on a poster it’s pretty obvious NK is not where any American citizen should travel to!

I’m going to go with it came from them being obviously Muslim. Rage happened when he saw them. It happened to be on the road. Biggest eye roll ever.

This doesn’t make sense to me. How was it road rage? He decided to throw beer bottles at them, and then beat Ms. Hassanen to death? Where did road rage come in: it wasn’t as though they were in another car.

I’ve also been accused of victim blaming, but it’s a legitimate question. North Korea has handlers for foreign tourists that basically only allow them to see propaganda or (fairly new) items. Unless you are a journalist, scholar that has some connection to authoritarian countries or North Korea, have family from the…

The Warmbier family has unfairly and repeatedly insulted the Obama administration and blamed them for their son’s situation and ultimate death. I’m very sorry a young man died, especially in such a grotesque fashion, but I think the family’s absolute refusal to take any personal responsibility or think reasonably (it…

Very good piece out in the Atlantic on how there are no good options for dealing with North Korea.

It’s pure hubris for Americans to keep going to countries like North Korea and Iran. They have to know what will happen to them but the attitude seems to be “I’m an American, I can go wherever I like and do whatever I like”. And about the U.S. secretly negotiating with North Korea, I guess we do negotiate with…