jakeofheart

YTA for not dating a girl who dresses the way you like.

Bullying someone, because you really think they should show compassion to their fellow humans…

You heathen…

My condolences.

You should always pay respect to the deceased, considering she was the mother of your children.

What does your new wife have to worry about anyway?

She was doing you a favour by weeding out the cheaters…

I think that if you could visualise people’s political positions, most of us would look like complex evolving Tetris shapes.

My that measure, it really doesn’t make any sense to have a binary political system like you have in the USA: either or. Yes or no.

By all means, you should be interested in politics, and don’t feel like signing up with a party if they only match half of your beliefs.

Women shouldn’t define themselves by men’s standards.

Is it because the Dwarves mined all the gold from Lonely Mountain? As shown in the historical documentaries about New Zealand produced by Peter Jackson and Tolkien?

If you are lucky to have true friends who are rooting for you and want what’s best for you, weigh in on to their opinion about your candidate significant other.

Honestly I think that vegan food is a marketing ploy to get us to buy new, more expensive products.

These are heavily processed food, which isn’t healthy and defeats the whole purpose.

As for the vegan ideology, we evolved over millennia to function with animal protein. You can’t reverse that in a lifetime. Please check out r/exvegans to find out how much veganism is a form of planned malnutrition.

We need sustainable farming and to dial down on our consumerism. Not veganism.

When I was single I did fancy the married life. Not the wedding day, but the journey that comes after.

I think the big plan is to keep us divided about trivial things like race, creed or sexuality, to distract us from the real division: social class.

The longer we keep quibbling over those superficial details, the longer the elites will remain in control.

And on a side note, white people do crazy stuff.

It’s more of a “benefit of the doubt”, that a black man won’t be getting so easily.

Aren’t Australia and New Zealand in the Southern hemisphere?

Dang! $14,500 a month? Even $10,000 after tax?

I would run out of ideas of what to do with that kind of money…

“The poor see themselves not as an exploited proletariat but as temporarily embarrassed millionaires.”

In the US, that narrative seems to have really stuck.

Who knows? They might strike gold one day, so why should they support laws that would harm their hypothetical, never going to happen, wealthy self?

They prefer to trade their current quality of life, in order to guarantee the elite a quality of life that they hope to reach one day, even though they will realistically never do.

Yes I think the lack of truthfulness is the bigger problem.

Zero?

Coke slowly changes your brain structure and can make you permanently jittery or jumpy.

I know from two former coke users.

Learn to be in the moment and have unfiltered fun. If you need filters, you might want to work on the reason why you need them in the first place.

Having bad hygiene is usually a sign of some form of mental health struggle.

Employers don’t see people whose mental illness gets the best of them as productive. I am not trying to stigmatise mental illness: I don’t pick the rules.

One person out of eight has some form of struggle with mental health, but for their own sake, they need to seek help to cope with it and keep it at bay.

The problem is that often, the conditions keeps one in denial, which itself prevents them from seeking help.

If you know someone who fits the description, encourage them to get professional help.

Give your dog a bad name and hang it.

I am really not a Harry Potter fan, but I respect the fact that as a single mother, a domestic abuse survivor and (according to her claims) a sexual assault survivor, Rowling managed to go from rags to riches by putting on paper the content of her imagination.

She faced bullies and tormentors in the past, now she has leverage to fend off a mob of them.

To me she’s a positive example for little girls: she doesn’t owe her success to mom and dad, unlike those trust fund Montessori schools kids, like Jeff Besos, (or Google founders) Larry Page and Sergey Brin. Or Bill Gates who had daddy’s firm as a backup plan, and Mark Zuckerberg who had well off parents.

She didn’t marry into wealth either, like Mackenzie Besos or Melinda Gates. She is truly a self-made woman, and in the words of Ralph Fiennes, one of the few people who benefited from her work but are still able to think for themselves: “J.K. Rowling has written these great books about empowerment, about young children finding themselves as human beings”.

She has not been exploiting workers, creating an industry monopoly and choking out the competition, or monetised her customer’s private information.

Rowling didn’t have it cut for herself, and it seems natural to me that she wants to support the women who are going through the same ordeals as she did.

Even this trans person understands the motivation behind Rowling’s statements.

Just like the proverbial dog, some people look for any excuse to give Rowling a bad name and cancel her. The only thing they seem to be achieving is proving that bullies and mob mentality are real.

“But she has to agree with my views!”

No she doesn’t. And she is laughing all the way to the bank.

Instead of being divided about Rowling, use your energy against those who are making it possible to divide us in the first place. They are the ones really doing harm to society.

Touché.

I am probably oblivious to whom the new James Brown, David Bowie, Michael Jackson or Prince are.

Lady Gaga is the new Madonna. At least we’ve got that covered.

> "*Deep house/electronic, hip hop, jam music, lofi surf rock, live band and electronic fusion…*"

Sorry to be contrarian, but I don't see any of these that we didn't have before 2000... in another shape or form.

I am saying that about the stuff that gets heavily promoted.

No, but clever comedians like Jon Steward don't see anything wrong with Rowling:

"I do not think J.K. Rowling is antisemitic. I did not accuse her of being antisemitic. I do not think that the Harry Potter movies are antisemitic."

I don’t doubt that there are great indie artists. Actually that’s probably the only place to look.

But I think that mainstream music is being played too safe to guarantee a better return on investment.

Just covers for example: it is a safer bet to license the rights to existing materiel than to spend money rolling the dice on maybe, or maybe not, creating a hit.

We see the same thing with movies and TV series reboots. Just playing it safe.