King has a history of sexual fantasies dressed up as something else in his stories though. The Shining and The Stand have this sort of thing in them too. And if it weren’t about the fantasy aspect (from the pov of the boys), why all the “oh wow, your big dick makes me cum”? There’s no reason for that shit.

No I would never think of King as a pedophile. The problem is that he is actually a talented writer (even though not at all someone I like- he does have a particular skill set) and so things will work on a few levels. I agree it just doesn’t fit, but I think that’s because he is at a conflict here that you have…

No. He throws it in as an adolescent fantasy. Speculative fiction from that generation is full of this sort of shit because male authors, who were nerdy boys, generally assume that their readers will be other nerdy boys. If it were just a clumsy metaphor about bonding, it wouldn’t include the girl being all “wow your…

It’s also incredibly stupid. She’s 11ish right? Sex with six partners in a row would be difficult for even an experienced woman. For a child, it would be painful. And he has her surprised by the big dick size and having an orgasm with him, etc. Of course it was consensual, she did it for them, that’s the role a gal…

Because he’s an asshole? And look, I’m not going to sit here and troubleshoot his photos. Obviously there is a shop vac and they are sucking up water and then knocking down damaged areas to let the inside dry out which is what you do when you have a little water and not a lot and you want to fix it before it gets bad…

I think the problem with 1 is that you aren’t considering that the water was still rising. And if the flooding was happening like that, it might be a structural problem. It’s foolish to bring a bunch of people to compromised building, especially when there were other safe dry places to go nearby- it’s not like the…

I’m not being a sucker. I’m from just down the road and it’s been well known my entire life by anyone with half a brain that these people are charlatans- Joel and his daddy before him. But this article specifically did not post the pictures of the flooding of their church. It’s a good story to say they are just being…

This is a repost because I’m in the greys:

Take care! It’s horrible!

This dude is definitely a charlatan so I dont mean to defend him generally. But the situation with the church ‘closing its doors’ is an example of being unfairly attacked by social media. It’s true that this area did not flood and his church was not under water and therefore it is better off than a lot of homes in…

Ha ha. What’s funny is that I’m a Texan, born and raised, with family from South India so you just hit two nails on the head. You’d be surprised how little anyone in Kerala knows about Marxist theory and yet still call themselves communists. They are committed to the action, not the theory, and actually most of them…

Yes I agree with all that. Also I’m sort of a nerd that way. Though as I’ve gotten older and life has gotten harder and the challenges are affecting me more personally, I care less about that stuff than I do about fighting the people who are immediately attacking me and finding solutions to the immediate problems. But…

yes I agree. It’s hard to talk about this stuff online, especially since the left is so broad and none of us are experts (or at least not me, and you say you neither).

Antifa and black bloc are the same thing, at least unless something has changed very recently. Antifa just means antifascist and black bloc is a street tactic. Antifa is decentralized so you can show up and be antifa. They have local autonomous chapters. They include anarchists, communists, socialists, everyone on…

People disagree about this stuff, and since it’s all theoretically anyway, the wisest response (IMO) is that it’s stupid to go on and on in detail planning a society that is nowhere near existing. Systems arise in circumstances and with need. But briefly, I can say that your question might be a little muddled? What do…

I don’t see how conservatives and libertarians (in the American sense- classical and European libertarianism are very different) fit into this. But as for socialists and big government- socialists (at least the democratic ones common here) are not opposed to government. They are opposed to imperialism and state…

They aren’t aligned. The left often fights itself. They are trying to be aligned in a big tent sort of way right now because they are fighting the same short term battles, but long term they have very different ideas about what they want. To answer your question in the short term though, everyone on the left agrees…

Antifa is not a unified group and has no cohesive ideology about government. The Antifa I know and see at rallies range from communists (some of whom have very clear ideas about the role of government) to anarchists who believe all authority should prove their necessity, etc. to various factions between those. Also I…

Not sure what you are trying to say. What ideology do conservatives and libertarians (as understood by the American usage) share with antifas? I can’t even guess what you mean by conservatives, though with libertarians I’m guessing you mean the sort of anti-authoritarianism that some of them might share with…

No what we are seeing is how deeply the socialization of entitlement runs for rich athletic white men. Now that she’s sometimes personally affected by the things that rich white men in power do to others, she’s facing massive cognitive dissonance.