Note to commenters:

“A sockpuppet is an online identity used for purposes of deception. The term, a reference to the manipulation of a simple hand puppet made from a sock, originally referred to a false identity assumed by a member of an Internet community who spoke to, or about, themselves while pretending to be another person.”

Wikipedia

Stick to one identity, please.

Just like the situation with the Russians from that troll farm in St. Petersburg, it is possible to see where your posts come from, especially if you don’t even make an effort to hide them through a VPN or something. If you have two identities posting from the same computer, stop that. I’m not going to out those of you doing that (the rest of you can probably guess already), and nobody makes you use your real name, but try to have some backbone and stick up for yourselves. And above all, do not type a comment under one name and then have one of your sock puppets say something like “good point.” That is entirely lacking in integrity.

From the photographer’s Instagram:

The program includes a ‘spanking & rope lounge,’ dominatrixes and ‘sexuality coaching’ — along with speeches from Assembly members Ron Kim (D-Queens) and Yuh-Line Niou (D-Manhattan).”

So the masochists have two ways to get punished – going to the “spanking & rope lounge” or listening to political speeches! That’s America – land of choice!

By the way, I was going to speak at this, but they didn’t have easy chairs or coffee and danish in the spanking and rope lounge, so maybe “lounge” wasn’t really the right word. OK, you’re thinking that masochists shouldn’t have any comforts – but what about the poor people who have to spank and hog-tie them? Will nobody think of the sadists?