yeah, like yelling about people drinking children's blood or sacrificing babies does nothing to reduce the prevalence of child abuse. idk, people just enjoy these super lurid-but-rare stories too too much. yet when their friend confesses to them they were raped, what do they say?
These sorts of stories bother me for that reason -- they tend to be sensationalist and lurid, like watching SVU or "stranger danger." Rather than focus energy on material conditions of women and girls -- who do suffer misogyny and violence and deprivation -- they encourage conspiracies.
Right?
Proposed Lifetime Smoking Ban to Become Law in Britain
The proposal, which was approved by Parliament on Tuesday, will ban the supply or sale of tobacco products to anyone born in 2009 or after, permanently.
If we're going to allow the government to regulate OUR computers (DMCA, pending 3D printer legislation, etc) then I'm going to have to insist on the right to regulate THEIRS.
If We The People can't have computer freedom, then nobody should have it, including gummint thugs.
"The glasses would be only one more addition to the rapidly expanding surveillance state under the Trump administration, which is collecting massive amounts of data on people and organizations in the U.S.”
newrepublic.com/post/209309/...
Also important to emphasize as these glasses will largely be used as a workaround against laws banning racial profiling more than anything.
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In a 9–8 split, judges rejected church/state separation concerns and handed a major victory to religious conservatives
flipping through a proof of yet another book from a somewhat well known liberal voice diagnosing “where the left went wrong” and i’m struck, again, by the fact that a large part (if not most) of the liberal commentariat simply does not believe that the political right has agency.
Millennials are ruining the cocaine industry
Southern Poverty Law Center indicted on federal fraud charges by Alabama grand jury
Justice department’s inquiry focused on the civil rights organization’s prior use of paid informants to monitor hate groups, the CEO said
snopesdotcom • 5d & Threads CNN reported the findings of a months-long investigation into a website and chat group teaching men how to drug and sexually assault their wives and partners. However, posts inaccurately claimed that the news outlet said 62 million men "attended" what they called the "online rape academy."
• 5d • & Golly gee thanks, Snopes! That was definitely the most important part of the whole situation, wow where would we be without you???? Maybe focus on the women being drugged and raped and NOT on how some people mispoke about views vs visitors because they were blinded by rage and disgust. Way to give asshats an excuse to keep minimizing this awful shit 0220 1 з > 1
15d Phew. It was only 20000 videos with 50000 or less views each. Faith in humanity restored. eg 13 2 Show replies d Why is this news now??? We heard about this in Canada a year ago! We saw the husband on trial and get sentenced. We saw at least another 100 men in France and the EU being arrested. PLEASE ASK YOUR NEWS AGENCIES TO CATCH UP TO THE REST OF THE WORLD!!!! ↓ 1 Show replies 0 4d You're splitting hairs with this?? Really?? '43 3 Show replies Yeah.. But 20,000+ videos under eyeckeck amd passed out is what needs to be focused on. These are potentially very real crimes and victims just out there on the open web in a site under searchable tabs that failed age verification this year. 9 ▶
We don't give a fuck about "uh ackshully is was 62 million views." WE FUCKING KNOW! It's a RAPE ACADEMY. Fuck your parsing. Q4 Show replies : 5d SNOPES! No! 0 7 " > 5d Stoppppppppppppp Show replies .ai 5dl The issue isn't the number of users. 1000 or 62m, the issue is that There's a grape academy Committed by men againat their partners, men who presumably were trusted by their partners. Those are the inportant facts, not the number of men. Any number above zero is unacceptable. Anyone mad about the number being misunderstood, mis-reported has failed to comprehend what is really important in this
Like look at this reply section to a Snopes post correcting the misread of the piece. It's just people putting their fingers in their ears and screaming that facts don't matter. It's insane. www.snopes.com/fact-check/c...
First saw this story over on Threads, and people really, really, really did not like anyone correcting misinformation about their misreading of the story. We seem to be moving to some sort of post-reality where people just want fake stories that reinforce their beliefs.
How many recommendations do you folks need?
Get up into this Baltimore tale. It's beautiful.
Trump Is Said to Be in Talks to Send Afghans Who Aided U.S. Forces to Congo
A U.S. aid worker said that the Afghans, who were evacuated to Qatar, would face a choice between moving to the Democratic Republic of Congo and living under the Taliban.
“Police learned from—and in some cases, literally stole ideas from—organized labor without preserving the fundamental principle of solidarity at the core of the labor movement.”
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“A strike at a factory is meant to hurt the boss’s wallet, but a police strike is meant to hold a city hostage.”
A child can seem fine while the virus slowly replicates in her brain, poised to exact a terrible toll years later. Because both Britain and the United States are confronting outbreaks, I am sharing my story. Parents should know just how dangerous this disease is.
The month opened with a gunman in an Iranian-flag shirt killing 3 people at a bar in TX. Then, an attack with homemade explosives outside the mayor’s mansion in NYC Next came a deadly shooting March 12 on a VA college campus and, the same afternoon, a car-ramming at a MI synagogue...
impossible to overstate how poisonous this shit is. dudes on the street smiling and waving at your toddler are an indicator of a happy and functional community
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There’s something mentally wrong with the President of the United States.
Sen. Jack Reed to Warsh as he dodges questions about divesting his assets: "Excuse me. I must commend you on the way you can circularly go around questions and not answer them. It's a skill. Unfortunately it's not a good skill for the chairman of the Fed."
Emails released on Monday by California’s attorney general show Amazon allegedly colluding with other companies to raise the prices of pet treats, khaki pants, eyedrops and other products sold online
Front cover of "Get Your War On" by David Rees Pub. 2002
Wow. Look what I found going through some comic books.
#getyourwaron
#comics2002
Republican states are marching toward Idaho’s extremism on bathrooms. Missouri is next.
www.advocate.com/politics/sta...
Religious narratives have some power, but can obscure both the domestic angle of Trump’s Iran actions and its brutal incompetence.
LMAO
