Edith Wharton all the way.

ehhh this feels very, “Let’s make an excuse to do disgusting things on film so that we can comment on humanity’s inevitable dissent into debauchery” which is done in the original text, Dollhouse, and like literally every other scifi/fantasy/horror show/movie/story with a premise such as this. Fuck, hostel is like…

“AI” is never going to somehow “gain sentience” in the real world...it’s a tired trope that has more or less been exhausted in popular fiction

so no one else finds the entire concept of this show to be kind of...creepy AF??? Like, sentient robots who are for all intents and purposes just people who are being used by rich people for whatever they want? But they don’t really feel pain (whatever the fuck that means) and they forget about it the next day??

i can’t think of a historical one, I just want to go to a utopia where animals talk and want me to be friends with them.

Im hoping this conversation will generate interest in and help raise funds for my upcoming rock opera in which AC/DC travel back in time to solve the Jack the Ripper murders.

Or maybe she’s just speaking honestly as someone who (as one of the most powerful people in arguably the most powerful branch of government) believes in the power of government to effect positive change. For her, the symbols of America represent ideals that she’s devoted her life to, and for Kaepernick, they are…

I feel really strongly about this.

Seriously. She’s disagreeing with them while upholding and defending their right to express their opinion.

That, or some people can put aside political beliefs when establishing friendships, either staying away from that boundary or knowing what buttons not to push. Obama and Tom Coburn, for example.

This is the least bad “bad opinion” I’ve heard on this.

Eh, I know I probably shouldn’t but I tend to give people who lived through WW2 a little bit of leeway on being stupid about this sort of thing.

So Donald Trump thinks women are just there for his personal pleasure?

Exactly what I was gong to say. All of these laws about owning and carrying guns and using them to defend your property (which includes wives and daughters, but not necessarily sons because males are people not property) are for White Men.

Stand your Ground is for white men. There was a prosecutor in Florida (IIRC) who explicitly said that the law shouldn’t count for domestic violence victims.

Can someone please explain to me why many states are totally cool with Stand Your Ground laws/using deadly force to “prevent death or great bodily harm” but this little girl faces life in prison for shooting someone who repeatedly threatened to kill his entire family with that very gun?

They phrase it that way because they don’t see women as equals deserving of respect. It’s the same madonna/whore thing that leads the rest of the GOP to believe that they must have control over a woman’s pussy.

And here’s Mike Pence on Pussygate:

One of the things about this that I find the most galling is all these chickenshits’ insistence that it is wrong to talk about their wives, daughters, mothers, sisters like this. As if women only have value in their relations to men. I am not anybody’s wife or mother or sister or daughter (parents are dead), and I…