These guys aren’t bureaucrats. Bureaucrats would be state employees just doing their jobs, but unknowingly screwing up the water.

That’s really the only way he could even attempt to rationalize this enough to proclaim his innocence...without being clinically insane.

He probably thinks since the rapes were mostly coercive, he didn’t do anything wrong. “I only intimidated them into having sex with me. That’s not rape!” In his head, this is probably dating. He’s that much of a narcissistic monster.

5 of us got caught stealing a grade book in middle school. They didn’t actually see us take it though, so they couldn’t prove it and couldn’t punish us. We did change the grades the grades successfully though.

You take that back right now!

I didn’t say it was free speech. It’s only unconstitutional for the government to supress your speech. Private employers can and do so all the time. Unless this was university was a state university, she is not entitled to free speech. And even then, if the government is paying her to give a speech on something…

It’s a job. She doesn’t get to decide what she talks about. It’s payment for perspective effectively. It shouldn’t matter anyway as long as it’s releveant to her area of expertise. Speakers don’t pick the topic unless they have influence like say an ex-president. And I don’t mean a Q&A after, but that this is all they…

That depends on what you define as free speech. However, I meant share and discuss her views on the controversial topic with the audience.

Instead of trying to cancel the speech, I’d say make the discussion about the offending topic.

I think that’s the sort of tribalism that affects most groups. I’m always been stunned by the idea that only a person from a specific group can vocalize, fictionalize, or even express simpathy for the perspective of or a situation affecting a different group. Somehow the idea was spread that only people in a group can…

Metal Gear prototype! Everybody panic!

What’s he saving his money for though? No spouse or SO, no kids, no family, and it appears no friends either. He could try buying some of those to at least have the appearance of of a life not being crushed under the weight of loneliness and daddy issues.

Maybe the public can just pay for his haircuts (since he clearly doesn’t know what the hell he’s doing) and he can pay for the stadium.

In spite of the false Bernie comments, this article makes you my spirit animal. I’ve been saying the same stuff for weeks and it’s nice to see someone else put it together, especially destroying the idea that black people are a monolithic hivemind.

Well, i think people generally misunderstand monogamy as never feeling an attraction to anyone which isn’t reasonable or that monogamy is just some great struggle and grind where people can barely stop themselves from screwing the nearest person which isn’t true either. It’s much like that 50% of marriage end in…

I don’t understand why bridemaids and groomsmen need to pay to go to somone else’s wedding anyway. If you want me there, you need to cover any accoutremont you deem necessary and that includes clothes, airfare, and hotels.

I hope a permenent goodbye was your gift.

I’m kind of with him. If you have to modify a monogamy to make it work and to feel you have the freedom (sexually and otherwise) of singledom, then maybe singledom would work best. It never made sense to me when people attempt to have both singledom and monogamy.

He’s a longshot to be sure. But, in a country of the uneducated, uninformed, and unaware, he can win because as easily as those folks can be manipulated one way, they can be swayed the other. Cynical, but true. My grandmother, 79 years old and born during the depression, didn’t think Obama could win with his name and…

But does he need to understand it from all angles to get it and participate? When black people say to white people “you can’t understand racism because you don’t encounter/feel systemic and institutional racism,” that sends the message that 1) they can’t educate themselves with the hundreds of years of music, art, and…