Yeah, “ball people” doesn’t exactly roll off the tongue. What about ballers?

To be fair, that describes most of the Democratic Party.

-no contact til age 16

I always tell them that if I really believed that my govt sanctioned the murder of 50M citizens, I’d see no other recourse than armed revolt.

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the usual guff about Slate being a family

What’s similar is herding a group into a particular area and not letting them leave. I’m sure you’re smart enough to have figured that out and also smart enough to realize that I wasn’t saying the LAPD massacred everyone.

The Black Panthers tried that. The reaction? Change the laws so black people can’t do it anymore.

Sorry, I can’t unpack a century of LA racism for you in a kinja comment.

White-Oppression Complex (which, ironically, has the same initials as one of the only known antidotes for the disease—women of color)

What political goals do people have as they loot their neighbor’s gas station or store?

Orange County

Counterpoint:

Did Nat Turner “riot”?

Morning cuddling with the empty box is usually the highlight of my week.

You give them too much credit, ie - you assume that they’re acting out of ignorance. Whereas I think they know exactly what they’re doing and why they’re doing it. Rumsfeld, for example, had already served as SecDef in the Ford White House at the end of the Vietnam war. So he had all the historical lesson he needed…

Yeah, that’s the part that jumped out at me, too. Yikes.

As a Recovering Republican, I counsel patience and compassion. This is a long process, not something that happens all at once. Like shedding one’s religion, you spend awhile trying to balance things which are contradictory and ultimately cannot be balanced. But you still try. Until one day you say, fuck it. And…

Agreed. It’s kinda fucked up either way. Since it doesn’t take that much by our standards, I’d feel more OK with it if she/the production company did something for the families of all the kids who auditioned. All the kids who didn’t get the part got a glimpse or a taste of something more, but then just got sent back…

“It’s a valid lifestyle choice,” is what I keep telling myself.