That's what's called a parasocial relationship, and it's not healthy. Para means half, and the relationship is one way only. People imagine that they are having relationships, but they aren't. That's why the higher tiers of Patreon are so popular among certain people. They get a response back! $500 a month for a friend! Shut up and take my money!

the "place to have the authentic conversations weâ(TM)ve always wanted to have."

Just curious: what is their policy on censorship? Something tells me they are not in favor of having any kind of authentic conversations unless they politically approve of the content.

Whoever came up with this stunt deserves a raise. It worked wonderfully well. It even made Slashdot! Despite having nothing to do with technology. The summary mentions three of their products by name!

How is it that you people were totally OK with "Cuties" but the moment an actual anti child trafficking movie came out you reacted to it like a vampire to sunlight and called it dangerous right wing propaganda? And then said it was very rare, it wasn't an issue, despite the fact that the last time I was in an airport there were signs all over the place telling you to report child traffickers immediately?

Are you implying there is a genetic basis to intelligence? This is false and major point in alt-right behavior.

The US has bigger fish to fry than supplying its domestic population with oil. The US must dominate the Middle East because that's where the world's oil comes from. The US is responsible for the entire world's energy supply, not just for its own. This means wars, but fortunately the US has a large military and government officials in DC who are willing to make the hard decisions. Senator Lindsay Graham has just called for war with Iran and once that's been cleaned up, the Middle East will be even more dominated by the US (and Israel of course). We're in a good position here.

I've tried apkpure and similar sites. They suck. The selection is poor, many apps aren't on there, and it's just useless. Believe me, I tried.

Gosh, federal law prevents them from being disgusting sexist bigots? What a tragedy. I feel for these poor oppressed souls.

Your comment drips with ugly, bigoted classism. You must stop abusing and bullying working class people. You don't speak truth to the powerless.

It's not called Holland, retard. I'd call you a stupid American (your countrymen know to do this) but you're apparently ok with living in a country that executes black men and has school shooting drills. Enjoy your chlorine chicken.

When Trump did protectionism, it was bad, wrong and racist. The media told us every day he was dooming us to failure. Biden does it and it's a very important step and not racist at all. Weird, eh. It's almost as if they have a political agenda they're pushing under the guise of impartiality.

Russia didn't illegally spy on American citizens in direct defiance of laws passed by Congress telling them not to do so. None of these severe crimes were punished. Nobody is in prison. Some of them work in MSNBC now. All of them are acceptable an DC polite society. But sure, blame the man who exposed them.

It's not that they were riddled with backdoors. It's that they weren't riddled with backdoors. They were secure - to the NSA's spying. Let's not forget that We The People passed a law forbidding them to spy on us, and the NSA committed multiple serious, Republic-ending felonies by breaking this law. Nobody went to jail. The same people are still in power. China isn't the clear and present danger here.

Podesta the Molesta isn't new. When calling out pedophiles gets people cancelled (like you just did) it's difficult to understand why Democrats don't cast these people out. Associating with known horrid people is the essence of discredited political entities. But now, simply pointing them out means you're a dangerous political radical. Remember when Joe Biden raped Tara Reade and you shrugged?

I thought those people were too stupid to go to college? Do you have any other ugly class-based bigotry to expose in public?

Well at least those deplorables know the difference between a man and a woman. Let us know when the universities figure it out.