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  • Yeah...

    Yeah.

    But we can't stop holding our guys to a certain standard just because their guys have no standards.

    That said Franken deserved better, and it's pointless to claim the higher ground here because they've made it clear that they don't have a bottom. They can always go lower. They have no shame. Like... pathologically. They are incapable of experiencing shame as a normal person understands it.

  • Don't be glib. If it came out that my oldest friend wqs not only a rapist, but also used his fame and religion to silence the victims and avoid prosecution... AND I was involved with an organization with the express purpose of stopping sex abuse... I'd absolutely tell that friend to pound sand.

    There were multiple times when I learned that friends of mine were sexually assaulted, some of those times were by people I considered friends. There's zero chance that I'd do anything to "put in a good word" for the rapists I once called friends, because their actions in my company have ZERO baring on how they acted in private.

    Tl;Dr: If you're vouching for the upstanding nature of a convicted rapist based on your interactions when he wasn't being a duplicitous rapist... that says more about your ignorance to how terrible that person can be as opposed to the good works you saw from the rapist when they weren't raping. You're also a victim.

  • Back in late 2000, my girlfriend and I broke up. She moved out of our apartment and back to her hometown. I was feeling kinda down and one of my friends invited me to a rave the next night. I didn't really have any interest, it never seemed like my kind of scene. But I didn't have anything else going on, so I went with him. He ended up buying ecstasy, which I had never done before either.

    That's literally the night that changed the entire trajectory of my life. I spent the next decade traveling all over America, going to parties, hanging out with people I met on a message board. I ended up shacking up with a girl I met on the board for a few years. I made friends that I still have today.

    My 20's were a blur of parties and substances, but I can trace a direct line from what happened that night to where I am today.

  • I am happy with my job. I am paid a fair wage for the work I do. I am given a ton of leeway with arriving late/leaving early to accommodate my kids and their various goings on. All in all, it's a great arrangement.

    I am still out the door at the very minute my shift ends. Not a second later.

  • I spent the better part of my 20's traveling all over America. During those years my bases of operation were either the suburbs of NW North Carolina or the trailer parks of NE Ohio.

    I heard plenty of southern affectation in the trailer parks just south of Cleveland. For reference, Cleveland is across the lake from Canada. There's no reason ANYONE in Ohio should have such an accent short of their own moving from south of the Mason Dixon. That said, there's more America below the Mason Dixon than above.