Ah yes, the Schrödinger’s Douchebag excuse. A statement is made, and for a brief time it exists as both a sincere opinion and a troll. Only after a reaction is gauged does that statement lose its quantum superposition and snap into only one state. Ex:
A.) Ah, you agree? I know, right?
b.) What, you don’t like? I was…

Super callous fragile racist sexist Nazi POTUS

I’m imagining it’s one of the insider #Resistance members thinking “I’m going to send Trump this wholly inaccurate video and I’m sure that when it’s fact checked the fact that he’s wrong will embarrass him. What? Nobody cares about facts or accuracy anymore? Surely next time...”

That’s right, he had a background in graphic design before making it big as a comedian.

I had a friend who came back from the Army and when asked why he was back after only two years he said he’d washed out after some hard missions and had PTSD. He told some tales we all knew were exaggerated, but we left it at that. He’d always been a bit of a braggart before and we didn’t think it was hurting anything…

To me it sounded more like the author of the article was trying to make it seem like Lily was putting down the sex workers or making excuses in the face of what could be a scandal (though her “excuses” are surprisingly honest and clear to me). Lily’s just telling it like it is.

Reason 1 is because they’re trying this thing where when they play a city they try to perform a cover from an artist who is from that area. Reason 2 is probably just committing fully regardless of how well #1 went.

Dan Reynolds, singer for Image Dragons, setup the LoveLoud Fest to help LGBTQ youth and also released a documentary calling out the LDS for their anti-queer policies. So, he may be white and may be LDS but at least he’s a somewhat woke force from within the LDS. My oldest son is into them and the music is fairly…

You can bet that Del Toro wouldn’t have allowed Gambon to treat the Dumbledore character as atrociously as he did if he’d been in charge of Goblet. I know it’s been meme’d to death, but the whole “’DID YOU PUT YOUR NAME IN THE GOBLET OF FIYAH!’ Dumbledore asked calmly” thing would have been a more intimate and…

Hoo boy! For a Judge mister Moore sure doesn’t know a lot about the legal grounds for how signed releases or satire work, or - and here’s a real kicker - the fact that even civil cases have a “discovery” phase where evidence will be presented and Moore may be required testify about such evidence.

I think we can always compartmentalize each case and understand that while abusers can go on to abuse others just because you’ve been wronged doesn’t mitigate any wrongs you commit. You can sympathize with the abuse they endured while punishing the abuse they commit.

The framers of the Constitution were definitely OK with a little upheaval every now and then if the state of the union needed it.

Lots of people cheat. That’s not on the sex workers. If it’s a cheating “scandal” then that’s fine. Heck. at least Lily was completely honest about the whole thing.

I think she’s speaking her truth. I think it brings up a valid purpose of sex work and a service they can provide. There were even talks of visits to sex workers being possibly covered by some European health plans for disabled and such (not sure how that panned out). I’ve never felt sex work should be disparaged so…

I said much the same thing further down this thread. Victims create more victims, yes. All victims deserve to be heard. But, a victim who creates another victim is no less of a predator simply because they have dual status. You can have sympathy for their plight while also punishing them for the actions for which they…

I don’t know if calling her time with sex workers a “dark time” that she doesn’t do anymore - I don’t know if that description disparages sex work necessarily. Saying you were having a dark time and seeing a therapist doesn’t disparage therapy work. Sexual healing is still healing. If people want to see a sex worker…

I feel we’re overall on the same page here. I don’t believe having been a victim in the past is a mitigating factor if you create your own victims. Everyone is responsible for their own actions. There are plenty of people who did messed up things because they were abused as children, and while I may have sympathy for…

They used his lawyer though. It’s highlt unlikely that he didn’t try to help suppress the story.

As time went on we saw less and less of Teddy and Vern until eventually they became just two more faces in the halls. That happens sometimes. Friends come in and out of your life like busboys in a restaurant. I heard that Vern got married out of High-school, had four kids and is now the forklift operator at the…