That’s like petty cash for them. Not an effective deterrent, which is the point I expect

Leaving a plague of abandonment trauma in his wake.

Thanks!

Maybe you haven’t noticed it, but many people are deeply irrational.

It’s sexual assault, not rape. Rape requires penetration.

It’s a calling card

Ok, I will think on that.

If you are not inclined to want fascist leaders, and assuming you are a person and not a troll, how do you imagine ceasing to support the less fascist party during an election year will result in less fascism?

Why? Seems to work well most of the time for me.

A Snowcrash future

Thinking about why you’re fearful to ask her out is a way that you’re managing to avoid asking her out. Just ask her out OP. You’ll feel better afterwards.

Yes, yes you have.

Doubtful that this would work. A better solution would involve having take-offs be more widely spaced in time

I would pay to see that movie, however

A clsssic!

Whatever else might be said, its impressive that this older dude can do a split like that.

If you can’t self-accept then you might self-attack. But why self-attack when you can project and scapegoat?

Barry Lyndon holds up beautifully

Everyone’s afraid of him because of his mob and death threats, personal career consequences and the possibility that he comes back to power in which case all of the above multiplied.

Rain drips, soaking into the floor, and Slothrop perceives that he is losing his mind. If there is something comforting—religious, if you want—about paranoia, there is still also anti-paranoia, where nothing is connected to anything, a condition not many of us can bear for long. Well right now Slothrop feels himself sliding onto the anti-paranoid part of his cycle, feels the whole city around him going back roofless, vulnerable, uncentered as he is, and only pasteboard images now of the Listening Enemy left between him and the wet sky.

Either They have put him here for a reason, or he’s just here. He isn’t sure that he wouldn’t, actually, rather have that reason…