Leonard Peltier

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The only really good thing about the election is that Leonard Peltier won the Peace & Freedom Party's nomination for President. Although I'm a registered Democrat (because my mother told me I'd have more political power if I could vote in the Democratic primaries, but I'm increasingly thinking that since my candidates always lose the Democratic primaries anyway, I'd probably stand more chance of making a difference by just helping make the Peace & Freedom Party's registration numbers get bigger), the Peace & Freedom Party has always been the party that's won my heart. I mean, I don't just like this party, I love this party passionately! What other political party can you name anywhere that anyone truly passionately loves?

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Yes - I feel like she has this intense need to control who her boyfriend goes to movies with because she's really terrified of ever not having any guy at all, but she's not really that much attached to her boyfriend as an individual at all and seems to really want to trade him in for a higher "status" guy who she would find more "befitting" for her own new glamorous model status. And maybe because of her intense terror of not having any guy at all, she doesn't handle the long-distance not having any guy geographically with her right now thing very well either. Anyway, she seems to just really not care that much about her boyfriend as a person or as anything other than something to prevent her from being single, and it would be a lot kinder and more mature of her to at least inform him of that directly and just dump him outright rather than distancing herself from him more and more by kissing a bunch of other guys and pleading for forgiveness and putting him in the position of feeling like the "bad guy" for putting this miserable relationship to its death.

And yet I can't stop still basically liking Shandi too, even at the same time that I see her handling her relationship really immaturely and hurting her boyfriend. Strange how that is. Perhaps it's hard to hate anyone who already hates themself from their guilt at what they've done, but really then, why do people do things in the first place if they know it's going to cause them to hate themselves? I don't really understand that kind of behavior.

Oh well, I guess Shandi still deserves sympathy, if only because unlike most people who do this kind of thing, she's doing it on national television and thus will be more severely publicly embarrassed by it all than almost anyone. She's behaving badly, but she doesn't really deserve that level of punishment for it.

And I don't think she's going to actually sleep with that guy, if only because their schedule doesn't really seem to allow for being away from the group overnight. I think she's just going to make out with him a whole bunch, but when you yell at your boyfriend for going to the movies with a married platonic friend, you really can't expect him to fogive you for making out with some other guy, and even less so when you also previously gave some other guy your phone number and called him and failed to tell him you had a boyfriend.