I have zero sympathy for these “celebrities.”

They put themselves out there online. They make themselves objects of public scrutiny, and in fact, that’s the basis for their entire business model - to make themselves objects of public scrutiny and profit off of positive responses.

But they’re going to get negative responses too. That’s just the way it goes. And if they don’t want those negative responses, the solution is terribly simple. All they have to do is not put themselves out there in the first place.

They can’t have their cake and eat it too. They can’t shout, “Hey everybody! Look at me!” then complain when they do.

Paris and Marie-Louise, who both study mental health nursing at the University of Salford, said they felt that being respectful of others’ opinions is key.

Paris said she thought it was important to be able to “express your emotions and feelings without being disrespectful”, and allow others to do so too.

The problem is that, not coincidentally in our current age, the speech we’re expected to respect - all of the examples they gave - are conservative views on race, gender and the like, all of which are pretty much explicitly advocacy for disrespect for some subset of humanity. So the call for mutual respect has already been violated simply by the expression of those views. The exact point of them is that this or that group of people should NOT be accorded respect.

So the whole thing is self-defeating.

Quite simply - if their calls to deny respect and/or rights to some group of people must be treated as legitimate, then our calls to deny respect and/or rights to them must also be treated as legitimate. And if our calls to deny them respect and/or rights are to be disallowed, then their calls to deny others respect and/or rights must also be disallowed.

There is literally no scenario in which it could possibly be “necessary” to invade Greenland.

How long are people going to continue to pretend that the US is not being governed by malicious lunatics?

Pay extra attention to Israel over the next day or two - when they suddenly do something like this, it’s to distract from something much worse they are doing or plan to do.

If I was a betting man, I’d be betting on them murdering the Freedom Flotilla.

How is that even controversial? We all watched it happen in real time.

Harris hit the ground running and she and Walz barnstormed the country with an overtly populist message and it worked - they immediately started catching up to, and even passing Trump. There was a moment there when it looked like he was dead in the water - that nothing was going to stop Harris/Walz.

Then the Dem power brokers reeled her in and, however they managed it, got her to drop the populism and switch to mealy-mouthed, pro-corporate neoliberalism, and it was all downhill from there.

It was just that simple and anyone who was paying attention at the time could see it as it happened.

Trump has no respect for anyone or anything.

He also has no honor, no integrity, no ethics, no morals, no empathy and no concern for anyone or anything other than himself and his insatiable greed, lust and ego.

Get used to it - you’re dealing with a psychopathic manbaby.

That’s the way to handle a desperately insecure little man like Trump - don’t rise to his bait - just calmly hold your ground, and preferably with a quietly condescending smile on your face.

There’s nothing that maddens a cowardly petty tyrant like the realization that you’re not only not intimidated by their posturing, but that you find it to be sort of laughable and pathetic. Because that’s what they’re afraid it is too.