Literal skeletons are a bit harder to wave away, but I’m sure they’ll try.

Thank you for pointing out that this is cultural genocide. People need to be reminded about this more often. These children were not allowed to speak their native languages, not allowed to follow their cultural traditions or worship the gods of their peoples, were forced to adopt “christian” names, and were completely…

Damn, you beat me to it. Not the gif, but the cocaine remark.

You had me right up until you started talking about lithium. You need to go look up the effects of lithium toxicity. If they were making her take enough to cause delirium, then they were giving her wayyy too much. It is not a safe drug at high doses. Have you ever seen what happens to people who were given large doses…

Yeah, that stood out to me as well. That’s the sort of thing that could even be considered a form of “chemical restraint”, which is illegal. If they were giving her so much she felt “drunk”, then it was clearly too much.

Yep. This isn’t some indie band hitting the club circuit. This is a Vegas residency. I’m pretty sure that she was working 7 days a week as she says. They rehearse like crazy for those gigs.

“I don’t try and proselytize.”

I read “fellow devout Catholics” with a heavy degree of sarcasm (or maybe irony), but I could be wrong.

I suppose if you want to go by the FOR PROFIT Dictionary System then of course your words mean something different than what I think!

Just to add on to what you’re saying, not only is it not ancient history, there are still incidents of neglect and abuse by various caretakers, be they staff in a facility or group home, or the individual’s family members. It’s just that there are more regulations in place (well, instead of “none”) nowadays, so…

Unfortunately people tend to view mental illness in extreme exemplars: the “crazy homeless person”, the “psycho-killer”, the “catatonic” - living in their own world. It’s largely because they have no frame of reference so they pick it up from popular media. The truth is, on average, far more mundane. Many people have…

Nice, concise explanation of the anarchist position. I tend to get more flustered and wordy when describing it (probably because I’m so used to being put on the defensive the second I mention I’m one).

This guy keeps using the phrase “for profit prison and health care systems”. I don’t think he cares about the actual definitions of words.

By this guy’s logic, members of the military who have seen combat and killed people are mentally ill. Same with mobsters, gangsters, and UFC fighters, I guess. It falls apart upon the slightest scrutiny.

As long as they don’t mention the private equity douches in question.

My feet hurt just looking at it.

According to a Doctor Who episode, the royal family were werewolves, so maybe that’s why they have such a problem with [vampire] Meghan.

To GoldenGirlsGirl, thank you so much for your reply and explanation. I appreciate it and wish I could reply to you directly.

You could steal them and the lumber from a construction site, I suppose.

I love mid-century modern, but a lot of her design choices are way too clashy for my tastes. It’s all sensory overload, which is not what I think of when I think of mid-century modern. Not so many oversaturated tones (like all the bright red). Not the wallpaper consisting of giant pictures instead of groovy patterns.…