Are there any other crimes a person can commit while drunk that they won’t/can’t be prosecuted for because their drunken state meant there was no way to prove they intended to commit a crime?

“She said that the office declined to prosecute because her attacker was “drunk and they ‘can’t prove’ he knew I wasn’t consenting.””

Please thank this loyal citizen for planting the seed.

Then indict her. That is actually a crime. I’m just not cool with the general notion that Bill Cosby drugged and assaulted women because she wasn’t wife enough for him.

I don’t know the dynamics of their marriage but she’s not in charge of how Bill Cosby behaves himself. The only thing she has control over is whether to leave him or not. She obviously decided to stay married to a rapist but it’s certainly not her fault that Bill Cosby drugged and assaulted women.

I don’t know whether or not I agree with this. Obviously Bill is human garbage, but I’m not sold on Camille.

I love that Spider-kid photo with him.

i love him so much and just need him to stay put for a while longer...like 10/20 years tops

To be charitable to them, I think most of them are sincere enough, it’s just that people who only have a theoretical understanding of hardship have a tendency to retreat back into theory when the going gets tough—because that’s all school and life have taught them to do.

‘well if he can, everyone can’

‘well if he can, everyone can’

We started to absorb this woman’s idea that changing people’s behavior was the solution to their problems, which meant absorbing the idea that people’s behavior was the source of their problems.

Did you miss the fact that the author was a foster kid, not a trust fund baby?

Direct cash payments to the poor are—by far—the most effective method of fighting endemic poverty. Not only do they build on local systems of knowledge, but moreover they are far more cost efficient and much easier to manage. All with added benefit of stripping out the disdainful paternalism to permeates so many other…

This is awesome and so accurate. The popularity of research into “resilience” has gotten a ton of traction in recent years, but the truth is it shakes out to be another way to blame cycles of poverty on impoverished individuals rather than the institutions and power dynamics holding them back in the first place.

THANK you! That was my thought on the subject. "HELP! I've racked up a zillion dollars in loads so I could take six years to finally get my bachelors in communications!"

…and we all paid our fucking student loan bills, quietly without bitching (too much) about it.