My point, which was a reply to another commenter who was questioning the legitimacy of his claim to addiction, is that he can be an addict and me morally repugnant. The “weird problem” I wanted to point to was the idea that pathological people are innocent by virtue of their pathology. I feel like if you’d read the…

Not defending him. He is a sex criminal. He is a danger to women and girls. No part of my comment was a legal or moral defense of any kind. If “I’m an addict” was a legal or moral defense addicts would never go to jail. You need to take a breath.

This is the precise thing I was thinking about, actually—more specifically I’m thinking about stuff like Hillbilly Elegy and related attempts to “contextualize” the behavior of white trump voters; of course those people have “reasons” for holding the beliefs they do and acting the way they do; what baffles me is that…

Yeah it’s like compulsive sex, shopping, eating, exercising, cleaning, gambling—all of those can genuinely fuck up and threaten your life in deep and painful ways. But substance addiction just seems like different (albeit related) kind of medical problem. I guess I just get irked when people try to undermine the…

But also: you’re completely right that drugs are different—I hate when people try to make non-substance-abuse related problems the same as drug addiction.

Grew up with two (drug) addicts in my house, and I’m in therapy for some disordered compulsive stuff. I think a lot about this actually — like, Anthony Weiner has some psychological pain that he repeatedly tries to soothe using sex with very young women and sometimes minors. That’s true. But he’s also morally…

I’m hearing from an anonymous source close to the issue that Ivanka has always had her heart in the right place and that she’s just a baby bird, why are you all being so hard on her, she’s just trying to do her best, and aren’t we all just trying our best? Really I’m just like all of you guys, and frankly i’m…

Hey on the bright side I’m sure the constant reversals and contradictions aren’t contributing at all to the basically unimaginable stress that Dreamers and their loved ones must be feeling right now.

There is a long unironic comment below that begins with the observation “Hillary is my mom” in case you were looking for something to hate read.

Yeah the insistence that she “let it go already” (when “it”=one of the greatest personal and national traumas in US history) (and also when “it” happened less than a fucking year ago?) seems, surprise, gendered to me.

Is this satire

At least Jobs’ corporate propagandist routine was less...overtly dystopian?

Hi, I’m here to talk about Apple Stores being rebranded as Apple Town Squares with Genius Groves inside.

Fucking thank you.

I would rather move in with Dan and Jenny and live in misery with them forever than suffer through a single drink with Serena tho

She was kind of the worst part of gossip girl though.

I’m hoping the rest of the album is a a detailed confession about how she killed a man just to feel something again.

yo in a way though continuing to play the victim makes her the ULTIMATE villain.

Have you heard the bonkers speculation that she chose nov 10 for release b/c she wanted to release the album on the day Kanye’s mom died?

I think this song is at least bad in a way that’s sort of fascinating? Like if a week ago you told me “Taylor swifts new single will sample too sexy for my shirt in the chorus and the aesthetic will be approximately that of a Suburban Basement Halloween Party in 2004,” I think I would be like “woah...rly.”