I have a knife in my car too, it’s part of the emergency kit. But of course I’m white so I don’t have to worry that some asshole white supremacist cop is going to use it as an after-the-fact excuse for executing me.

Flag it - it’s the fake Emilio Lizardo troll

It’s that same vibe of the dude who hurts you, and then immediately turns it around about how sorry he is and what an awful person he is, so that you’re supposed to end up comforting him instead.

The LW wrote in because they wanted to be given permission to remain as a malign, selfish influence in this woman’s life, only this time under the role of Regretful Friend. I wonder how they know she has forgiven them, when they’ve done nothing to make amends for their behavior?

Thanks, but you know better. Calling an Internet survey a “study” implies (as you no doubt intended) that this was an investigation conducted with some rigor and thus is reliable.

The person you’re responding to is the ‘woke’ troll. Flag and dismiss.

I read an interview with her about her childhood that was excessively creepy. She talks about how her dad pushed her in the same way she pushed her daughters, and would say things like “don’t ever embarrass me like that again” if she failed to come in #1 in a school competition, but she goes on and on about how she…

The benefit of going to Harvard and Yale is that you get access to the elite networks of people who went to Harvard and Yale. Educationally, not so much.

I’ve shown this joke to fantasy-sports playing dude I know, expecting them to react with angry denial, and every time they shrug and go “Yeah, that’s about right.”

I don’t know about “most people”. I’m sure there are a lot of people who, on being reminded that they did something terrible in their younger lives, react with self-absorbed defensive anger and try to shut down and punish the person who they blame for making them feel that way.

Hilarious that he thinks being defeated by a write-in candidate would be undoing democracy. No, you little shit, that IS democracy.

 “Any concept of restorative justice” is an odd way to skip past what restorative justice means. It doesn’t mean, we give him second or third or eighth chances because we feel sorry for him.  

So his story is that his female law students decided to falsely accuse one of the most powerful professional figures in their lives - married to an equally powerful professor - of sexual harassment, putting their own careers at risk of permanent derailment, in order to... punish him for writing a 2014 op-ed they…

Of course they knew that; they’re just shitty publicity-chasers.

I used to be one of those people who left the cart pulled up onto a concrete curb or in an unused space, thinking I was being helpful by making sure the cart didn’t roll anywhere and that it was easy for the employees to collect. Then I heard from an acquaintance who worked at a grocery store about what a massive…

C’mon, man. Of all the arguments for not putting the cart in the corral every single time, pretending you’re generously doing bored grocery-store workers a favor is a YTA argument all by itself, especially if you don’t live somewhere like Los Angeles or Hawaii where the outdoor weather is usually delightful.

Don’t forget the Tiger Couple’s racist book explaining that the status of Black Americans is about their having a shitty culture.

Of course he did. If you deputize them, it ruins your plausible deniability.

Interesting that the Intercept is now running this story (written by a GG protege who, in initially stanning for this guy, tried to cover his ass by saying he hadn’t ‘looked into’ the story much). I wonder what tack GG will take to avoid admitting to being a misogynist fuckup? Double down about cancel culture? Pretend…

I’m not ragging you for your response to him, just wondered WTF is going through his brain since he doesn’t even have the excuse of “well my lord and savior Trump said so”.