No, I don’t think Western women are exempt at all, but they do a hell of a lot better than women in places like Iran, India, Pakistan, and the men from those countries who go to Western ones often show exactly why that is the case with their attitudes.

Another who was trafficked to her stepfather before school age was murdered by a client. Several more traffic try to traffic themselves then end up pimped, for “protection.”

here’s very few places on the face of the earth where you can find stuff like that because it’s the number one thing that will get the cops to come down like a ton of bricks on you. And rightfully so! I have never heard of this case.

All this in a small village of less than 500 with no less than 20 churches, mothers and/or traffickers all in attendance, the men pimps and johns pastors, deacons, elders. Many end up married to their avoiders, for a veneer of respectability the abusers had from being born the correct gender…

This does not describe anything I have ever seen in the US on any scale.

Every case that involves something like this usually involves a literal cult… But yes, if that is what you are referring to, then, sure, those crazy LSD-breakaway churches are absolute nuts. I agree. But this does not happen at scale anywhere in the US.

Right, completely bonkers stuff.

Hope he has fun in jail.

That is an interesting take. You could also look at it like the anxiety and buildup and the wheels of justice slowly closing in are its own form of punishment.

I am somewhat playing devil’s advocate here. I am mostly against the death penatly. I understand how in certain circumstances its expedience may be needed but that does not describe the USA or where I live today.

So, you would characterize the whole of Jewish theology and heritage to be non-sexist in light of this teaching…?

And you are nod advancing a minority position based on cherry-picked text…?

No, it doesn’t.

There are occasionally instances of a frat plying a woman with drugs and gang raping her - I covered a story like that last week. But these often don’t get formal rape charges because there is enough indicator that it was consensual and merely recorded without consent and then regretted later. Sometimes, they are even complete hoaxes.

Generally, when a minor is groomed by heritage or actual Christians in the West, it’s usually a solo operation. Sometimes it is done within the church, sure, just like how public schools are now breeding grounds for female sex offenders. Every other week there’s a new case of a woman in her 20s or 30s banging one or often mulitple high schoolers. Churches/schools are used for access or end up creating the dynamic that emboldens weirdos.

There is not an issue really of gangs of Christians doing this in the West - there is too strong of a consensus that it is wrong.

Organized, extended gang rape sessions that can involve imprisonment, abduction, months of ongoing assaults on minors, featuring gatherings of likeminded men just tagged intothe action via social network - these seem to happen exclusively in Muslim circles, at least in the 21st century.

And, to me, that is what constitutes a grooming gang.

It was. And people who would normally be interested in this morbid news are offended I shared it, lol, because it involves trans criminals .

Let me guess: every conservative kid is embarrassed by their parents? lol

Really, I am not here to say 'Nuh-huh! You are the brainwashed ones!" but to only suggest that speculating anyone here is the product of brainwashing is odd.

I also think there is something amazing about the liberal consensus in institutions than accusing the parents of brainwashing when clearly we have a teacher engaging in indoctrination.

Oh, don’t worry - they are still pro-life. It has to do with legalizing abortion pills for up to 9 weeks, it seems:

The Korean Catholic Church has expressed “deep concerns” over government plans to formally introduce abortion pills and urged for a reconsideration.

Abortion was illegal for some years, but it still has always been a sort of gray area. I know someone who said it was easy to obtain an abortion if you simply went in and stated that you were in ‘distress’ and other things and you could get an abortion in certain hospitals basically by repeating this. A doctor would fill out paperwork that falsely gave a valid reason for it to be a normal medical procedure, and where these things were obtainable were known, I think even via internet.

This is how abortion existed in Ireland between the 90s and that long march to legalization, so I hear.

I am pro-life, BTW.

LOL

I am a sucker for ‘Mediterranean & Middle Eastern women whose entire aesthetic is just trying to be Kim Kardashian’ so I accepted this without scrutiny.

My wife does not do this but I would say she is “Kim Kardashian aesthetic adjacent.” If that makes sense.

I’ve found it has been a net negative for my life since I now have to iron too much and pretend I am one entire class level above what I actually am and my home is now meant to be “fake gold on white” or “fake god on red on white,” but… The rest of it is really good, so I sit with it.

Been better but I’m moving on

Just a death in the family and a good friend had a crisis

I’m just like… accomplishing my part of the emotional labor.

Otherwise, things are on track

Great extra vid - HID TRACKING DEVICES IN DOLLS? HOLY…

For real. I hate it. I have a daughter who would l ove to interact with these characters…

Seeing my daughter hug the teenager or college kid dressed as a Panda or cartoon character and really glowing like, “I met the Panda…!” “I met Heartsping… Heartsping hugged me…!”

The idea of all this being interrupted is frustrating.

I agree with that. Especially on this level. I think it would actually be embarrassing to try to blame it on something like this.

You would also think at high profile performances that require flawless execution for the sake of your reputation, you would play the whole thing safe: look over everyone’s heads, even at fixed points of the wall or something else non-descript behind them, and to just really not let a single thing break your concentration…

I am not a professional singer and I am well aware of this advice, and I have used it when speaking before classrooms and such before, and always found it worked pretty flawlessly… No idea how you are a professional singer performing at the BAFTAs and it’s like, “Yeah, I’m really nervous, how about I start looking into the faces of famous people while performing? That’ll keep me on point…!”

This could be relevant:

There’s a reason Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez isn’t mentioning her fiancé Riley Roberts when she talks about freezing her eggs … TMZ has confirmed they broke up.

AOC and Riley actually split roughly two years ago, and called off their engagement, according to Puck’s Chief Washington Correspondent Leigh Ann Caldwell … who was first to report the couple’s demise.

Multiple sources on Capitol Hill tell TMZ, it’s felt like ages since the pair were seen together publicly. That’s not hyperbole … Riley and AOC were last photographed at 2021’s Met Gala.

About a year later, in May 2022, the congresswoman confirmed she and RR were engaged. While we’ve confirmed they’re dunzo, we can’t say for certain when the break-up went down.

TMZ

I have heard people suggest she would one day be a good Presidential candidate. That would seem to be the most likely endgame for AOC, would it not?

So, when does she plan on carrying her babies to term? Age 55? I do know of a woman doing that, but when one becomes a parent even at age 40, you become acutely aware of the ticking clock.

One of my buddies had his daughter at age 46 and, over beers, calmly stated that he was stressed because he realized that he would be retiring right as she enters university, which isn’t a small bill, and he realized that he would be statistically likely to be in sharp decline when she is the age at which most women get married and give birth…

I know another guy who made the decision to marry very late in life and sired a child at age 60 with a woman who was 40. The boy is 15 and he, at 75, already had his first week-long hospitalization for a heart attack. And, yes, I live in a country with socialized medicine and it still drained his bank account (lol).

It actually makes so much sense to do this classic move: married in college or shortly thereafter; immediately have 2, 3 kids in quick succession; youngest is 3 by the time you are 30, 31 and you have all the time in the world to relentlessly pursue your career.

But, really why I am very anti-progressive, even if it makes sense for AOC or a cancer researcher to freeze their eggs for later…

*Let’s not pretend that Melissa needs to put her life on pause for 25 years to climb the corporate ladder in your typical Small & Medium Enterprise cubicle farm job.

Stop pretending you are doing anything besides working for the guy.

And that’s the hilarious thing about the progressive left of Reddit and elsewhere: they see through the Capitalist system and are ready to crowd fund everything for everyone in this broken system, but they are fiercely loyal to the idea that the most respsonisble thing for you to do is to freeze your eggs so you can work better for the man.

Did anyone watch this know what happened? I heard he brandished a knife naked while on camera.

I did not know that detail.

However, considering how he has made his fortune… It is kosher to gossip about this.

I heard celebs would pay him to be gossiped about by him 😂

That is next level stuff

Yeah I noticed the name too

Yeah, not intervening to protect and serve a citizen who was being killed - is criminal under the good Samaritan ethos. You’re obliged to help each other in a healthy CONSERVATIVE society. That’s the social fabric conservatives are supposed to uphold and protect.

Herein lies the totality of your error…

Thao was in charge of crowd control. He arrived late to the scene, and his only task is to make sure that nothing funny happens from the crowd. His attention is not supposed to be on Floyd/Chauvin, because he would be failing in his police work if he was not focused on his task.

Even if you believe that Chauvin killed willingly in cold blood, there is no reason to believe that Thao did anything wrong since everyone who watched the video saw that the death was a subtle affair that did not involve some great tumult.

Cops should be helping people stay alive. That’s their job. Every cop whose more interested in cuffing someone as they’re bleeding out or worse beating/suffocating them disgusts me. It’s a total dereliction of their duty to the public, themselves, a sense of a moral code, and humanity.

You are describing the general goal of police work, and certainly all tasks an officer engages in should be toward that end, but let’s not ignore the fact that crowd control is normally a part of executing that task, and there is a division of labor.

A criminal whose alive, can live to be reformed. Citizens rights should outrank a cops drive to kill or punish “criminals”.

Agreed.

Meanwhile the cops in question usually get a transfer and a new job being a cop somewhere else. Those in the George Floyd case only got harsh sentences because of the publicity the case got.

… But it was not actually justice. It was the result of massive political pressure to convict them and give as extreme sentences as possible. It would become a plume in the hat of Minnesota’s DFL politicians and bureaucrats, and the whole of the Minneapolis legal system understood the assignment that was being given to them by the national media.

Cops in America must have learned the transfer-system from the vatican. Immoral groups keeping death-perverts in their ranks are as bad as pedophile protectors. That shit doesn’t fly in other countries. Cops actually get fired or moderate criminal sentences elsewhere - as a consequence of that happening regularly they’re better at their jobs, better at determining the public interest, and happier at work (less hated, more recognized as helpful).

Lol, geez.

Nah, man, if you think the West had to learn corruption from the Vatican, lol, idk, man.

Do you know people?