Age of consent laws basically exist as a clumsy compromise regarding whether women and girls should be given the benefit of the doubt or not. We can't get across the idea that it's wrong to prey on women and girls regardless of age, so we compromise and tacitly tolerate vileness and victim-blaming for the population…

Are we sure it wasn’t a €69,000 watch, Nice?

“As a libertarian...”

If “16 is considered moral and is legal in most of Europe,” then why did he feel the need to include this line in his apology?

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This one is also unfortunate.

Nothing you said indicates there is any harm in exploring and pushing to implement renewable energy.

Okay, so the videos are in Italian. As someone who took French in high school (which is very close to Italian), I can tell you that the umpire is not saying “I like to play sports with my brother” or “I would like to go to the store.”

Uh, you know those ads are served based on your search history my dude.

You know those ads are populated by your browser history and not the website you see them on right?

Rough morning here for Italians.

“I have never thought that thing I said” is pretty impressive by the admittedly already high standard of bullshit to say in insincere apologies. 

Networks pay millions for ex-players to explain these things to viewers, and 99 times out of 100 it’s obvious the analyst just tries to wow the viewer with jargon from their playing days and fill the airtime with word salad. Watson is more helpful and succinct in that clip than any of them. Does CTE make them…

Well, it’s important to note that this ties into the Boomer thing. In 2016, the median age of Fox News viewers was 66. Two-thirds of Hannity watchers are senior citizens. Less than one-quarter are 25-54. Fox is popular with this cohort because it reinforces what they believe and the “brain rot” is because hearing what…

I’m 61 and have been, since I was in my 20s, disappointed in the greed exhibited by some of my age cohorts. I was 22 when Reagan got elected and crushed the Air Traffic Controllers Union, paving the way for our current economic situation. I greatly appreciate you resisting the urge to pick up the big brush and not…

He is also literally going down the same hole many boomers are: Fox News brain rot.  It used to seem like Trump was cynically repeating conservative conspiracy BS.  Now it’s clear that he actually believes the worst of the fever swamp nonsense.

Second rate? Oh, you sweet talker.

There’s a reason I (twice) made sure to say that it’s not all Boomers. But it is a generational thing. Children born after 1964 literally don’t remember a world without stronger civil rights protections. If they remember Vietnam and the loss of American exceptionalism, it’s a hazy memory at best. They don’t remember…

Agreed on all points. I’d like to add one minor thing, though. Trump further encapsulates the Boomer id, in that he doesn’t understand the role he’s played in his failures. He rails against banking and lending systems, as if they’re the reason he can’t run a successful business. He’s perfect, and his businesses are…

I find myself thinking that President Trump is not merely one of the worst people his generation produced, but the embodiment of the collective id of that generation. Thin-skinned, venal, looking for someone else to blame and so very, very scared of changes.