I don't know why people are acting like this is on Biden that his adult son broke a law or laws. Everyone's got people in their family who are assholes.
It occurs to me that Kutcher and co might not have had access to the court proceedings, testimony, and evidence, but might have had a lot of access to Masterton's side of the story.
It also occurs to me that being friends with people is complicated and that bad people emotionally loan shark a lot - maybe they felt obligated to send letters of support because they were being guilt tripped about all he'd done for them or because they think being a good friend is supporting no matter what (aka being an enabler).
All that said, Kutcher's a grown up adult who should have been able to predict that supporting a sex abuser is going to conflict with being involved in an anti-sex abuse organization.
You're right, this kind of thing is nothing new. We've always been a society which will turn on a dime on anyone, no matter how good or poor the excuse, if given a good pretext to do so. It seems to be human nature.
Yes. If it stops people I know from dying or losing loved ones, I'll stay home. I will however expect the government to step up and make sure people and businesses have income during the lockdown. A few weeks of being inconvenienced is not the same as someone's life.
More realistic outcome - some game loving tweenage hacker does something fantastically destructive in whatever part of their infrastructure they can get into.
I think there's also a category of rapists who just flat out don't see their victims as people so they try to take whatever they want if they can get away with it.
It's still about power since they can only do that to people without power (temporarily due to impairment or permanently due to society).
But it's not the rapist getting off on having power, it's the rapist doing whatever they want because someone else has no power to stop them and the rapist has no empathy.
I know I keep talking about Kereru but last night on the way home from work one crash landed in a shrub like three feet from me and started feeding and by the gods they look ridiculous up close with their tiny heads and huge bodies.
Never bothered with the movie, and haven't read any of his more recent stuff. I also haven't paid for any of his stuff in decades.
I think it's worth reading Ender's Game just to be able to identify the impacts it's made on other things. The young man who wrote it hadn't yet decided to spend his money on abhorrent ideology.
OT is following some bureaucratic checklist when making decisions. Said checklist was probably designed by a group of people whose primary goals were "obey the legislation" and "don't get us in the media again for stupid rules".
There's some Mormon dogma built in (like how Ender's a "third" which relates to mormonism directive to have kids till your uterus falls out but the evil state wouldn't allow it but then the extra kid saves the world (and we know the state is evil because they are using child soldiers and engaging in eugenics)) but a lot of the undertones are more in what's not in the books than what is. They're still quite readable in terms of prose and such. Definitely less preachy than some of his other series.
There's a tui flapping around outside making his presence known with whirring wings and landing on things with a thump. The other day there was a kereru sitting in / crushing the spindly kowhai tree by my driveway (that tree is not mighty enough for that bird). So I guess spring is here.
I was always not thrilled about that development, it would have been in a location inconvenient for anyone who actually needs to work in the city - IMO the developments we need are ones meant for people who make the city run to live in.
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I don't know why people are acting like this is on Biden that his adult son broke a law or laws. Everyone's got people in their family who are assholes.