And THIS... is a deflection. Big surprise coming from you and your lot 🙄

There's more to the world out there than just the US and the propaganda we're bombarded with from birth, Sheila. Stop supporting a genocidal apartheid state.

Thanks but America was never great. It has always been a genocidal, colonialist project by and for the rich on stolen land. Its fall will be the best thing to happen in the history of humanity.

I remember watching the 2012 Olympic opening ceremony with a Czech pal.

His comment summed it up perfectly "Pete, watching this makes me proud to be British".

Four years later he left the UK due to Brexit.

I'm interested to hear what you think of Desmond's statement. Is it 100% deflection or is there some truth and was Rodgers maybe allowing whatever frustrations he had to interfere with his job performance (and his honesty in interviews)?

Yeah, that's what I meant with my "boys will be boys" excuse being sort of culturally engrained. It takes all that other stuff and tells boys/men that things aren't their fault, they're just this way, and it's really insidious the way that attitude seeps into a male consciousness/psyche.

...difference means a higher likelihood of being targeted in your youth, your adulthood, or both. That theory lends itself to the phenomenon you've seen: Damaged men who at their core may be good hearted, but they haven't worked out how to put that core into practice, so they do damage of their own.

I feel like part of full accountability is being able to pretty openly talk about mistakes you made. And yes, I have reached out and apologised, the more obvious bit, and yet one which seems to elude so many men.

I think to grow up in the US and be leftist it's likely you're "different" and that...

"Nuclear accidents are deadly and cleanup and disposal are fraught with problems". Fossil fuels directly contribute to several dozen times more mortality and morbidity via both the process of obtaining them, and their environmental impact when used.

...I'd done something hurtful and wrong and what a horrible person that made me. The denial of that was that shield, that defense mechanism. And it took a fuck ton of work and reflection to realise these two elements were playing off each other in me well into my adulthood and I needed to change.

I definitely think it's nurture, not nature. "Boys will be boys" implicitly is telling us that boys/men do shit just because of who they are and they ought to be held harmless for it. Add that to in my case, childhood bullying which dropped my self-worth through the floor and the pain of thinking...

As a man who formerly just did not have it in myself to take accountability for anything I did wrong (a defence mechanism, sure, but a really destructive one), I feel this really deeply. I'm sorry this has been what you've had to contend with for so long.

😂 Nice one. Yeah trust me I have great frustration about things on both sides of the Atlantic. Yes, he's a "Republican" and now he's trying to get the actual Republican candidate to drop out of the race. I just never want to hear "vote blue no matter who" from Democrats ever again. Carl Beijer:

Cuomo is a bog standard, average Democrat politician. Happy to help.