Nick Reiner was at a troubled youth program as a kid.
Nick Reiner was at a troubled youth program as a kid.
Anyone who knows about these places know they are bad news and fuck up people for life.
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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.
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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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In my experience a lot of trauma visited on children by their parents is motivated by love and fear. They can't admit their wrongs because their intentions were "pure" or some shit.
I feel so sorry for Nick.
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The Game is a fucking masterpiece that should have won whatever awards they do for journalism
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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.
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fellas, is doing patois as a turnt up white boy the same as committing a double matricide/patricide?
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no, but it’s certainly the happier ending
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Yes.
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Joe vs Elan School...
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My thoughts exactlly.
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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
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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.
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that, or, you know, he was accurately assessed to be a troubled youth, which certainly seems like the nicest thing you can say for a guy who ended up doing in his parents with a knife.
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Brace from TrueAnon was sent to one, he talks about it on the series of episodes titled The Game. I first learned about them from the web comic that others posted, here. It's a struggle to believe, and the parents largely have no idea what goes on there either, but between just those two sources you'll see how fucked it is. Parents and the public at large are lied to about what it is, and since it costs some money, yes it is more affluent families doing it, and as has been said the kids are monitored and abused at all times and set against one another, while the guards are often former (well, current) victims of the system themselves, modeled after the very real cult that birthed it. It's harrowing to learn about but that it could produce someone so unstable and vengeful is sadly not at all surprising.
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Two things can be true!
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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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