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Well if he was that good at reading people, he wouldn’t need to be outed to find out the women he masturbated in front of were horrified by it. He’s not a typical comedian anymore. He lost that status when he, you know, turned women into his sexual objects against their will.

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I think seeing the surprise or revulsion of the women he forced into that circumstance was the entire point of that indecent behavior. I don’t know how on earth that’s a turn-on but a lot of men seem to share a similar perversion. He’s a huge idiot for thinking that not touching them made his brand of sexual assault somehow permissible.

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I don’t know what the appeal of that is when you do something like that with a real human being either, but if he read people so well, knew exactly how they were reacting and knew the entire time his influence and power kept them from trying to address the situation and that he was taking advantage of women again and again and again with that power… that makes him worse. He said when admitted to these acts that he would step back and take a long time to listen. Clearly, he lied again.

Again, no proof this man has changed, at all.

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…when they aren’t trapping women in hotel rooms and masturbating in front of them. Those wacky comedians!

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In his latest set, Ansari suggests that collective anger has overcorrected; now, rather than hold power to account, it targets the slightest and least consequential controversies. “Why is everyone weighing in on this shit?” Ansari asked of the Twitter users who flocked to debate whether an American teen-ager’s choice of prom dress constituted so-called cultural appropriation. “Everyone weighs in on everything. They don’t know anything. People don’t wanna just say, ‘I don’t know.’ ” The amused but progressive spirit that once informed Ansari’s commentary on current events seems to have crusted into suspicion about wokeness and its excesses. Without ever mentioning the #MeToo movement—or his own experience as one of its most disputed casualties—Ansari decries the destructive performativity of Internet activism and the fickle, ever-changing standards of political correctness.

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Welcome to social media, where everyone believes their opinion means something.

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Mom makes up story about fearing for her son due to MeToo and spreads lies about his behavior. Problem is, he is a #MeToo ally. Oh yeah, mom’s lies went viral.

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Saw some of that earlier, but it was mostly making fun of the picture.

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“Hey, lady, I don’t think the reason your son’s not dating girls is the reason you think.”

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That part that I related to is this:

Hanson said the #HimToo politics in his mother’s post surprised him, given that he and his brother had considered her progressive while growing up

Something change with this generation, and aside from fear of maybe not having control of everything, I am curious, although not entitled to the information, to know how she’s doing. Most the people who hate the Democrats in my family and embrace this kind of stuff… they’re not doing as well as they believe they should be doing. They blame others for that.

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This bolded part is what I just don’t get. Why so many a) blame others for why they aren’t happy, and b) how that ends up being the Democratic party fault. It is just so patently obvious to anyone who has paid any attention at all to politics since Carter that the Republicans are the ones who have time and again undermined the lower and middle classes, which together make up the vast majority of the people.

3761

Reminds me of a coworker (and Facebook friend) who once posted about how she got discriminated against at work due to her conservative political beliefs. I was really worried when I saw that, went over to her and expressed concern and offered to support her in any way possible with HR, because while political parties aren’t protected classes, it’s against company policy to do any such thing. She then explained “Well, it didn’t really happen to me, but I wanted to give a voice to people who it did happen to.” I internally cringed and made some “Oh, okay … I’m here for you if you need me” comment and went back to my desk. She didn’t mention the organization anywhere and she took her post down pretty quickly, but it made me realize there’s a very different mindset for some conservatives, and perhaps that why it’s easy for many of them to buy into the “Well, it didn’t really happen” BS.

3762

It’s really hard to empathize with people who turn their disappointment and anger against easy to target groups like the generation behind them, minorities and women, but the fact is, this is all their fault.

They were told to buy houses and convince they should buy houses they couldn’t afford. They were told to be loyal to companies to dumped them like rotten potatoes during the recession… the later end of the boomer group, actually believed they could go to work someplace and stay there until they retired. They believe their pensions were safe. And if you lived in parts of the country where you could go to high school, get a job at a local factory or mine, and then do that for the rest of your life and it’s pulled out from under you… we didn’t give them much to recover from that.

Now, MeToo has other component that just keeps getting louder, that if your son isn’t happy, if he doesn’t have the job he wants, doesn’t have the girl he wants… it’s the fault of liberal woman, like actual anger at women for not giving their son what they feel he is entitled too… only in this case she made the whole thing up.

That’s pretty messed up. I only say messed up because I am need to start practicing scaling back my swears for when I join my lil nephew on vacation soon. Like… “practice” a lot.

3763

This is the easy part: If you aren’t happy, it is far, FAR easier to convince yourself that someone else is making you unhappy rather than examining your own choices and figuring out what went wrong.

They blame the Democrats because the loud man on the TV/radio has told them that the person who has made them unhappy is a Democrat.

3764

Here’s one of the more depressing things I’ve read lately, from the Vox piece on ‘why Democrats need to fight dirty’:

Sean Illing

I definitely want to get into some of these structural barriers, but let’s be clear about this point you’re making. A lot of people still think there’s some meaningful connection between policy outcomes and voter decisions, but there’s a good bit of political science research to suggest that’s just a fantasy.

David Faris

Right. People just don’t seem to make the connection between policies and the party in power.

So, for example, the Democrats passed Obamacare and gave millions of people heath care, and yet tons of people who benefited from it have no idea what it is or how they benefited. And it’s like that with a lot of policies — voters simply don’t connect the dots, and so they reward or punish the wrong party.

I think the idea that we’re going to deliver these benefits to people and they’re going to be like, “Thank you Jesus, thank you for everything that you’ve done, let me return you with a larger majority next time,” is just nonsense. It’s the wrong way to think about politics.

That doesn’t mean we shouldn’t do things for people, but we’ve got to be serious about how elections are won. And they’re not being won on the basis of policy proposals or policy wins.

As I’ve said ad nauseum, a democracy is only as good as its electorate. Or perhaps humans really just aren’t wired to govern themselves, and even a democracy inevitably becomes a set of stale forms through which the genuinely interested and privileged can wield power as they see fit. //off to drink

3765

Yeah, it made me really reconsider how much I thought I knew the person in question.

3766

Yeah, liars tend to think everyone else is a liar.

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Cory Booker now.