I don't know the details of this specific situation and it's too triggering for me to research, all I'll say is parents who send their kids to these torture camps deserve worse than this. I don't give a fuck that some may have been "tricked", this industry has been well-documented for decades at this point. They spend more time researching a fucking blender than the prisons they send their own kids to.
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I think what struck me the most was that Brace's parents still haven't really come to terms with what they did to them. It's insidious how they infect the entire familial dynamic.
Brace's parents still haven't really come to terms with what they did to them
Sadly typical of these cases.
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Classic. This whole thing smelled to me like the same kind of relationship that Tom Hanks has with Chet.
To elaborate, there's an interview I saw of both Nick and Rob Reiner for the film they made together, and it was very clear that not only did the kid live in the giant shadow of his Hollywood star father, but as a kid felt small for his dad not being around much or doing a good job, and as an adult still felt small because every single adult he'd meet would instantly associate him with his famous film director and actor father. Engulfed in the shadows is what happens to a lot of these kids of famous artists.
Yeah, there was a picture from a month ago or so of the family and Nick looked haunted. Just clearly traumatized. Idk what went on behind closed doors but I know enough to look at the parents when a kid turns out so traumatized.
is this the one?
No, rhey were out for dinner at some grand opening of a restaurant. Nick looked utterly shell shocked.
The vibes are definitely off
Thats the one
Listen. We don't know what happened. We can't just sit here and speculate that he was driven to murder based on x y or z with no knowledge of the situation, or judge individual pictures on how murder-y the people in them look.
This is really important. I see it all the time on the net and even on here very recently.
I don't want to irresponsibly pathologise but you can tell from eyes. they've got the same eyes as its that dead vacant soulless stare
and it's like, bruh, have you never had a bad photo taken? I've never had a good one ffs and I don't have "crazy eyes" or whatever the fuck people think they're able to intuit psychology from.
It's really gross.
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fellas, is doing patois as a turnt up white boy the same as committing a double matricide/patricide?
no, but it’s certainly the happier ending
Yes.
Joe vs Elan School...
My thoughts exactlly.
if you send your kid to a child abuse camp you deserve to get stabbed tbh. at the very least you can't be surprised when the chickens come home to roost
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There it is
The troubled teen industry gets parents to send their kids there through a web of scare tactics and lies to obscure what they really are from parents. Also, at this point in his life, Nick had been to rehab at least once (he ended up going a total of 17 times in his life), and his parents probably felt like they were out of options, which is where the predatory company preyed on stressed parents and struggling kids to feed their million dollar child abuse machines. They don't turn anyone who goes through them into better people, but at the end of the day, Nick is still here and his parents aren't. Nick Reiner is not the principal victim of the Nick Reiner story.
CW for brief discussion of suicide.
I think it's undeniable that the troubled teen industry will sometimes produce violent outcomes. What they do to children is unbelievable, it just ends in suicide more often than homicide.
Nick Reiner is not the principal victim of the Nick Reiner story.
I personally don't think we need to rank victims here. We don't know anything about what happened and why. All we know is that he was a troubled person growing up and that he was sent to a child abuse camp by his parents - though they almost certainly didn't know that's what it was. That's not enough information to really even be sure what happened, let alone why.
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