Unfortunately, yes, this is more common than is often acknowledged. I worked with a guy from Puerto Rico (which is a U.S. territory yes, yes) who told me, “All the good Puerto Ricans stay in Puerto Rico.” I of course asked, “What does that make you?” He said, “I’m different.”

“Got mine, fuck you” knows no boundaries.

this is a good reminder how absolutely vicious immigrants can be when it comes to the immigrants that want to follow them; some of the most virulently anti-immigrant people I have ever met (here, the UK, Canada) were immigrants themselves, they practically trip over themselves to pull up the ladder behind them. There…

A faceless entity that a large internet mob has a vested interest in discovering the identity of now, and it looks like they’ve already got his name at least. If I’d drawn the ire of a large streamers audience I’d be shitting bricks to be honest even if I thought they’d find it difficult to track me down. But it’s…

“Covering tracks” is probably the wrong term.

It’s more like a sudden turn of face from “You dumb ****” and such then once openly confronted, “Oh I didn’t realize how bad I was, I’m sorry, I promise to change.” It’s a control thing. This seems fast but I’m inclined to believe her, considering the abuse involved.

I’m…

I think “set her free” isn’t what he did.

It sounds like a manipulator being manipulative, and someone who cares about him despite how he treated her wanting to believe he changed.

I know what you are getting at, but at the same time the guy was outed in front of the whole world, by a person with nearly 6 million followers, many of whom offered her support (even legal support).

Having personally witness the kind of abuse she’s describing, I would say this sort of turnaround isn’t uncommon. An abused person in a relationship often wants everything to just course correct and become normal, and when the abuser promises all sorts of things, the victim will grab onto those promises like a life…

It’s a little odd but one thing that’s a common trend with these kind of abusers is they’ll act very quickly to cover their tracks. They’ll put on their nice face and make amends and say they’ll get help when they’re caught. And sometimes they do... and sometimes it’s just a ploy to keep their victim from actually…

As a woman myself this is driving me insane... first of all, her scumbag husband.. but secondly, her. She is a financially successful woman, she has the power in her horrendous relationship. Divorce him, he is an insect.. don’t threaten to divorce him, just do it. Any man (or woman!) who threatens to those sorts of…

Hey Kotaku, Luke, Patricia, et al.

“Don’t be absurd! We didn’t spend the last 40 years gerrymandering every state legislature and packing every courthouse we could get our hands on, just so some filthy voters could come along and undermine all our lovely power.”

Fair voting is fucking Kryptonite to Republicans.

So Margo is Martha but with much nicer digs. Hopefully she can say hi (privyet?) to Mischa and Nadezhda for all of us.

Only in the absolutely ghoulish warped mind of an American conservative would it be perfectly acceptable for a 10 year old to be gunned down in her classroom, but an absolute travesty for that same 10 year old to get an abortion after being raped. And because the “liberal media” sees politics in this country only as…

I was born in ‘81. So I had an 80s/90s hybrid childhood. I missed out on that 80s teen fun and fashion. One thing a lot of young people don’t understand about the 80s? The paranoia. The misguided war on drugs had us all convinced a stranger would jump out at us and force us to take angel dust. We also had police come…

He’s so fucking good in that movie, but then again, that whole film is stunning. The cinematography is stunning and the performances are uniformly awesome. It’s easily among my favourite films of the past decade.

I think his role in The Dark Knight trilogy is underrated - especially The Dark Knight where his character carries a lot of angst and is probably the moral centre. It’s a fantastic performance, especially for a superhero film sequel.

Gary Oldman deserves to be an Oscar winner but he absolutely deserved that title for Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy rather than Darkest Hour. While it seems appropriate - given some of his more famous roles - that he won for one where he got all shouty and bombastic, his quiet, layered and nuanced turn as Smiley was…