Same. (I’m 47)

So much the same that a tiny cynical part of me wants it to be because of drugs. But I well know that anyone can have a stroke at any time. (My brother had one in 2nd grade! He’s okay, though!)

This is so sad. I feel so badly for his family and friends and fans.

So sad. I will be watching my Buffy the Vampire Slayer Blu-Ray (original movie) in his honor.

I blame anti-vaxxers, to be honest. There have been some high profile cases of people on planes or buses who turned out to have measles. Including a French family quarantined in Costa Rica over it and a NYC-Boston bus docking in Boston’s South Station. And a skin rash is a symptom of measles.

Lead with an insult— oh, those stupid women who can’t “see sense”: that’s a winning argument right there. Why not tack a “Bernie alone can fix things”— and here I’d been hoping that the Russian/troll talk-lines would be fresher for 2020— onto it and see how that floats?

Wouldn’t surprise me one bit if some of those harassing Ms Nasab are some of the extreme pro Bernie pieces of shit posting on Splinter 

If this isn’t addressed this site has no credibility and Bernie supporters are now a cult. Yeah I said it. 

I’m going to need one reason that the Splinter/Jezebel crowd is going so hard for Sanders and ignoring Elizabeth Warren. I’m going to need one reason that Sanders is better than Warren other than “has a penis” to not conclude y’all are have internalized misogyny to such a degree that you can be ignored.

He’s spent the last couple years going back to his regularly scheduled program of snoozing through work without accomplishing anything of note, while ranting about things now and again.

Bernie's far out, impractical ideas are going to ruin the Democratic nomination. He's going to be labeled as socialist, he is already, so no, the Democrats do not need such a far out radical. Democrats need someone with common sense ideas to run, and they need to run on the ideas of calming down the country, healing…

Hasn’t changed a bit. He’s going to lose it for us again, folks. We have to come together on a candidate that can beat trump and his gang of traitors. Bernie cannot do that. So stop the nonsense. 

The most popular? With who? Yeah I guess Barack died. Have a seat, several

That excuse as an abuse survivor makes me insanely angry. My childhood was stolen, who I would have been was murdered, who I am now is in part the product of childhood rape and torture. I have not abused, and have in fact gone out of my way in life to make myself a threat to abusers. My stepgrands actually joke that…

Yes. And you should too. — See also:
-George Pell (Vatican treasurer)
-Jimmy Saville (very famous UK television personality)
-Jerry Sandusky (very famous football coach)
-Bill Cosby (famous actor)
-Harvey Weinstein (Hollywood producer)
-Jeffrey Epstein (billionaire)
-R. Kelly (famous musician)
-Bryan Singer (famous director)
…

Something has always troubled me about the whole MJ story. If he loved and admired and desired to spend so much time including sharing his bed with children, why weren't there ever any little girls around. This alone makes me think that he was sexually attracted to young boys.

Sorry, may sound harsh, but the guy was a freak show in his adult life then practically canonized after his premature death. Where there is that much smoke there was most assuredly some fire at one point. Can’t believe how many people still defend him.

Lisa Maria Presely said the same thing.  She said when the cameras were off he wasn’t this high pitched shy guy.  He was actually pretty aggressive and didn’t trust anyone.  And cursed a lot apparently.

No wonder he couldn’t sleep.

Michael Jackson crafted a persona as Peter Pan (right down to the name of his ranch) both as an expression of his never-grow -up sensibility and a cover for surrounding himself with young boys. A memorable thing was said on the night he died: Liza Minnelli, a close friend of his for many years, said it was an act;…

His answer to that question really doesn’t skirt the answer: That footage, from people who were somewhat disconnected and did not have close relationships with Michael Jackson or his victims, was not as compelling as the footage of the victims and their families. That was literally his answer. The investigators were…

I see what you are saying, but don’t you think that getting to know these men, believing they were raped repeatedly, would make you a bit defensive of them - antagonistic towards those who doubt?