true... it’s a terrible fuck-up. I guess that’s as much consolation as I can offer. Hang in there.

I have no idea who this guy was, so I googled him and see that what he enforced laws on racial segregation.

I am not kidding at all. I am not proposing writing essays about the US political system.

why is that ‘horrible’?

brexit is worse than trump. trump is one silly president for 4 years and he will have to be managed. After that things may improve.

yeah, I agree the remain campaign was terribly weak. It didn’t help that Cameron, who came with the idea of referendum himself, was basically the face of the IN campaign.

as compared to what? Here we are discussing individual living standards which are worsening for the majority of people as neoliberal policies foster very unequal redistribution of wealth.

if that was the case, Trump wouldn’t be elected as statistically speaking the number of people with very high incomes is much lower than the number of voters with middle- and lower incomes.

yes, and one source of that insecurity is certainly worsening economic situation.

what’s the point of having democracy, if political leaders are selected based on their ‘likeability’?

I think it’s extremely naive to discount this as a valid reason. Plenty of people from smaller American cities voted for Trump precisely because they felt that two Obama’s administrations did nothing to address their economic difficulties.

I can’t believe I’m about to defend Trump voters, but I guess I’m about to do that.

the women are also not willing to give it to themselves. I can understand white men voting for Trump.

as a person living in the UK, the election result has not surprised me.

I had a tattoo done aged 19. I still love it, though in a different universe, I could possibly grow to regret it. However, that is nowhere comparable to doing porn at 18 and then growing to resent that...

I think that the example you give, violence in films and also video games is not as clear-cut an issue as many would like to believe.

pretending that teenage porn and acting out on those fantasies are unrelated is wishful thinking.

well that’s exactly the most puzzling thing about porn to me. On the one hand, we are living in this ‘sex positive’ culture where almost everyone’s kinks are indulged, these include teenage girls (and boys), rape fantasies and etc. and on the other, the society ‘punishes’ the men who act out on those fantasies.

I’m literally going through this right now. 3 weeks freshly ‘amicably’ separated. It’s tough. The lost future, the feelings of guilt for finally leaving, the constant worry about if he’s ever going to be ok. Then, there is the relief. Very strange situation.

I separated from my husband three weeks ago. We are both reasonable kind people, we are not trying to make each other ‘pay’ for things and still it’s incredibly painful, sad and tragic. The count down days till my actual departure were such a pressure... I’ve been through some terrible things in my life already, and…