Ryan Leigh Dostie

Author of FORMATION, @GrandCentralPub repped @WME, non-fiction, military fiction, contemporary fantasy, combat veteran, ancient history lover, linguist, she/her

[Ryan Leigh Dostie @RyanDostie]

If we, the victims, know how the system treats those who report, so too do our rapists. Decades of continual evidence have shown that our reports will be met with derision, our careers threatened, and we will endure alone.

So what do they have to fear?

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[Ryan Leigh Dostie @RyanDostie]

@japan_nobunaga We’re actually 11 nations broken in to regions. I’m from Yankeedom and rest assured, it’s an entirely different country from Deep South

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@FreddyLA7 They closed the dining area?? Can they even do that? That’s going to mess up the Waffle House meter

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@FreddyLA7 That is one of the beautiful things about America. If you don’t like where you are, move in any direction and it’s like you’re in a whole different world

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@guy_pharm @FreddyLA7 As an northeast American I have to ask…is that real??

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@theislandlad @FreddyLA7 So what if it is? He’s not wrong. There’s often so much distracting from the actual sports these days. Leave our Freddy alone

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@Avabelly__ If he admitted to ALL of his crimes, and every unethical thing he did, and accepted the full penalties to take responsibility for his actions…I wouldn’t like him but I’d think a little better of him

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@renabaddie_ Depends entirely on semantics. Could be 52 or 22 depending on how one uses the word “people.” Bodies are either “dead people”, “dead” or “bodies.” You wouldn’t count those killed as “people” unless you said “dead people” (at least in American English). Again—semantics

[Kayla M. Williams @kwilliams101]

As a DAV lifetime member, I'm grateful they are standing up and speaking out: we all must "reject the premise that the only way to fulfill the promises made to the men and women who served in the past is by cutting benefits for veterans in the future"
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@Simi_2210_ It’s it skin? Idk if it’s an organ but I remember the skin being the largest something

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@onceamerch @FreddyLA7 Eeehhh I wouldn’t say the nicest in the US (I mean, Hawaii), but there are gorgeous beaches in other states, just depends on one’s criteria

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Europeans learning America is the very definition of “circus and bread” is my new favorite genre

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@FreddyLA7 I had to go to the comments to see what was so impressive bc it just looked like a regular sporting event to me

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@FreddyLA7 We may live in a capitalism hellscape but we do know how to hype everything up, at least.

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@MrInternationyl @BigWave372 Working at a bank isn’t just a job but a career. There’s possibility for upward mobility. That’s not really the case in, say, fast food. If she wants to become a bank manager, she has to start somewhere. The point is that the starting pay shouldn’t put one in to a deficit

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@egotis10 @frankedgarbass @HectorE88315654 @mariakalantze You’re thinking in modern context. “White armed” did not mean the color of one’s skin but of her class. She did not have to spend a moment in the sun. No one in the ancient world was concerned with the color of skin & would rarely write it as a descriptor (Romans sometimes)

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@RpsAgainstTrump @SCBeckner Alex Pretti fought and died in a different kind of war, but he is every bit the American soldier, in my book. Died protecting a civilian, while standing up for our freedoms and rights, and defending the humanity of his fellow neighbors.

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@Skonc33 @JanayKinney @ryangrim 2nd Amendment. Legally allowed to carry. Has the permit & everything. We don’t even know if it was loaded. We don’t know if he was inserting himself. He was standing and filming when officers approached & shoved him. Yes, he’s still protesting. Move your unAmerican ass elsewhere

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@Skonc33 @JanayKinney @ryangrim Protesting against authority is literally the heart of America and a time honored tradition. Sorry you don’t know your history. Go to back to where you came from if you don’t like how we’ve done things here

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@mikeonthebrink @JanayKinney @ryangrim You’ll have to point me to the seconds you see it on the video then bc I’m not seeing it. I only see the canister. I do see when his shirt come up, exposing his lower back and belt. Most likely scenario: they saw his gun & holster on his body as his shirt came up, yelled “gun”

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@Skonc33 @JanayKinney @ryangrim You shouldn’t expect to be executed in a free country. Go back to whatever fascist country you came from if that’s the behavior you expect and want. We don’t want that sort of violent authoritarianism here