I think regardless of whether or not any specific terror organizations had anything to do with this attack, or if it even has to do with religious radicalization, it will be exactly the sort of thing Daesh is hoping for. Millions of immigrants are hoping to come to the United States, or to the EU, to escape what is…

Does anyone know if regulating ammunition has ever been considered? Like, if you want to buy more than 100 bullets you have to prove you’re not a maniac? Or you can only buy that much if you’re a registered shooting range, etc?

Can people stop freaking the fuck out about herpes? One in six Americans has genital herpes. It’s absurdly common, very treatable, and once on Valtrex, the vast majority of people with the disease have extremely rare outbreaks or even none at all after contracting it.

This is not a media issue, this is a police brutality issue. I respectfully suggest that you may have a personal bias, no one likes to think ill of their friends.

I maintain that supporting someone like Van Dyke shows me that there are no good cops. If they were good cops, they would stand up and hold the bad ones accountable. Instead they all hold the thin blue line in some bullshit brotherhood narrative. If my brother murdered someone, I wouldn’t stand behind him. I’d be…

Yes!!! I know there are good cops! Why do they feel that they need to be solitary with pieces of shot like this murderer just because he was a cop once? Why?

Sure, it’s easy to say that after the fact, but at the time, how was Van Dyke supposed to know that McDonald wasn’t a zombie, or a vampire, or some other immortal creature of the night that no single bullet could fell?

Why do the “good cops” show such unwavering support for the murderous ones? I don’t see the culture changing without that paradigm shift occurring: they have to be held accountable by their own.

Worst of all? This was the text:

Yeah same, I don’t really get people’s reluctance to just block the fuck out of someone. Guess how I stopped myself from seeing my ex on my feed and vice versa, I just unfriended her, so simple. We were no longer friends, there was no reason for us to continue being friends on facebook.

She may have also been in so deep with the story that by the time she realized the inconsistencies it was too late to scrap everything and start over - after all, she was a writer with a deadline who has to rely on the magazine for funding and promotion - and it sounds like RS wasn’t giving her an out.

Agreed. I would totally be the person to forget mine, too. And these gym employees see the same people all the time—even if the person wasn’t famous, they should recognize a regular. Any time I’ve worked service jobs, we always had regulars, and you sort of get to know them.

While it is true that Caitlyn Jenner transitioned with privileges that far too few trans* enjoy, I think responses like Mr. Smith’s make it pretty clear that transitioning is still an act of bravery.

As a sports medicine doctor, I can almost certainly assure you he didn’t die of natural causes. There’s more to this story. Wait for details to come out. Given how often he was traded, and the abrupt end to his career... I would strongly suspect substance abuse.

I think the most logical answer is the best

His DNA was found in bite marks on her back and scratch marks on her torso. While that certainly doesn’t prove anything conclusively, it’s a far cry from “none of his DNA was found on her”.

None of the facts of the case have changed at all though; if he was innocent before she signed the affidavit then he’s innocent now. If he was guilty before, he’s still guilty. All this means is that like so many cases of these sorts, it will never be resolved in a court of law.

The thing is, her parents didn’t fail. They died. Apparently she was recently orphaned and put into a foster home. But lets toss her around the room a few more times until she gets over her grief. That’ll teach her.

Many, many white people in this country will go through Olympic level gymnastics to defend the actions of all cops because to them, cops are there to protect you and if you get yourself hurt or killed, YOU are the problem. It’s all black and white with their worldview, no pun intended there.

So you believe the use of force was proportionate to the situation? I’d like to see the use of force continuum that agrees with you.