Here’s a springboard article, if you want to do your own research.

https://www.nzz.ch/english/how-the-myth-of-stockholm-syndrome-came-from-a-media-driven-hostage-spectacle-ld.1752897

The woman, based on whom the term was coined (the psychiatrist never even talked to her) wrote an autobiography “I became Stockholm Syndrome”.

There’s also the works of Allan Wade, a Canadian psychologist, who has talked to the victims throughout his career.

Basically when you’re at the whims of an armed lunatic, you might cozy up to them in order to appease them. The victims were also really afraid of the police coming in and shooting them. Which is pretty justified, considering the police couldn’t even identify the perpetrator before conceding on his demands and bringing in his prison buddy.

The guy with a gun, whom they’ve been talking to for days and has not hurt them in the slightest looked much less dangerous than the impending doom of the police barging in and shooting the wrong person.

Stockholm syndrome was made up to cover for police incompetence

Go figure

Technically molecules consist of ions, not atoms. Though now that I look it up, they’re used more or less interchangeably in English in this context.

Gets pretty deep the more you think about it. There are 0 hydrogen atoms in a molecule of water. Does that mean the sun is a negative star?

What I’m saying is, life has no meaning.

The only Jesse Watters clip I can get behind is the one where his mom tells him how disappointed she is in him for lying to people for profit.

The US also has a tendency of exporting its nonsense to the rest of the world. So it’s not like we’re safe out here watching the clown show.

See Myanmar justifying its 2021 coup d’état by “election fraud” (wonder where they got that idea) and Bolsonaro’s fanbase doing a more violent copycat version of Jan 6 in Brasil as examples.

Oh my god, can’t you let another country suck for a minute without making it about the US?

A gag order has since been lifted. Whether it’s the one that would cover this, I have no bloody clue.

And frankly the fact, you even need to think about which gag order is in effect, is some peak trash reality TV drama. Which figures.

Oh my god, he’s dead? Thank you, this made my day.

Shame it took so long.

The UK is a joke you can live in.

I love how just a year ago, he was the one to call out FTX.

People in glass houses shouldn’t throw stones and all that…

The whole industry seems like a criminal plot at this point.

Ex-fucking-cuse me?

I have a whole fucking family, who lived through the USSR. Not a single one of them misses it. Being spied on every step you take, my grandma has the “you never know who’s watching” mentality to this day.

That’s not to say they don’t hate the current regime, but it’s nothing compared to the absolute atrocities of the USSR’s secret police.

Well, I’m from a post-USSR country and a substantial part of this was the criminalization of homelessness. Can’t have homeless people, if you lock them up (be it in a prison or asylum).

Then again, just about anyone, who did not conform to the party’s message got locked up. Getting your place bugged at the slightest hint you might be up to something disagreeable and all that good stuff. The secret police could disappear and or beat you up without any real justification.

I hate late-stage capitalism as much as you, but coming from a country that’s been through this, I am extremely reluctant to give the rotten and frankly repugnant USSR regime any credit.

Conflating Israel’s actions with Judaism as a whole is extremely antisemitic in its own right.

Israel’s regime does casually murder children on a regular basis, it is not antisemitic to say that.

If you’re suggesting ignoring the fact, just because “Neo-nazis might like it”, I can’t stand with you.

The Wikipedia says it comes from a French misspelling of an indigenous word that could be used to describe the people. So it might be a little less offensive than that, but still not great.

Also Sioux isn’t a native name, it was given to the Lakota people and others by the French colonizers.

Sioux is a name given by the colonizers. It’s not just the borders.

Blue-footed boobies are the only boobies, I can get behind.