Hi ๐ I'm Ariel.I'm an artist, mom,and body builder. ๐ I strictly use X to engage in political discourse, but I might upload art from time to time ๐ค
@KristinForLife No. Im a believer of safe legal and rare, I do think there are circumstances in which an abortion is appropriate procedure. Its sad because a life is still lost , but there are instances in where I understand why a woman would choose to make that decision.
@VekaFitzfrancis@FrMatthewLC I know im going to get hate for this but I understand why a person would chose to abort due to those circumstances. Im sure she still felt the loss .
Speaker Mike Johnson BLASTS Democrats' insane list of demands to the end gov shutdown, which includes:
-Half a BILLION for liberal news outlets
-$24.6 million for climate resilience in Honduras
-$13.4 million for civic engagement in Zimbabwe
-$3.9 million for LGBTQI+ democracy grants in the western Balkans
-$2.9 million for desert locust risk reduction in Africa
-$2 million for organizing for feminist democratic principles in Africa
THIS is what the Democrats are holding the American people hostage over. Unreal.
What did @RealAlexJones do to warrant a $1.4B judgement?
Just that he said Sandy Hook was a hoax?
The 1st Amendment gives him the right to not only have that opinion, but say it out loud.
MSM constantly reports not only their opinion, but false info.
What am I missing?
@CaudilloXIV Im not one to hate on a person's fashion sense. I will say , it is kind of funny that this is most likely a printed shirt made in China. I think his message would get across more if it was hand made.
@_pipdid I feel the same . I belive in hindusim , I dont wish to convert to a diffrent religion . Mabey one day people could realize that most have more in common with one another then they do diffrences.
YES โ We donโt want an income tax.
YES โ We want less regulation on business.
YES โ We want meritocracy, the chance to earn what you can, and the ability to build a legacy for your children.
NO โ This is not some โFASCIST AGENDA.โ
This is quite literally the American Dream.
@_pipdid It sounds like your looking for negative patterns. Im not saying to ignore them , but try looking for some positive ones to. It helps to look to the small things . I hope you feel better โก
I'm seeing quite a bit of comment about this, so I want to make a couple of points.
I'm not owed eternal agreement from any actor who once played a character I created. The idea is as ludicrous as me checking with the boss I had when I was twenty-one for what opinions I should hold these days.
Emma Watson and her co-stars have every right to embrace gender identity ideology. Such beliefs are legally protected, and I wouldn't want to see any of them threatened with loss of work, or violence, or death, because of them.
However, Emma and Dan in particular have both made it clear over the last few years that they think our former professional association gives them a particular right - nay, obligation - to critique me and my views in public. Years after they finished acting in Potter, they continue to assume the role of de facto spokespeople for the world I created.
When you've known people since they were ten years old it's hard to shake a certain protectiveness. Until quite recently, I hadn't managed to throw off the memory of children who needed to be gently coaxed through their dialogue in a big scary film studio. For the past few years, I've repeatedly declined invitations from journalists to comment on Emma specifically, most notably on the Witch Trials of JK Rowling. Ironically, I told the producers that I didn't want her to be hounded as the result of anything I said.
The television presenter in the attached clip highlights Emma's 'all witches' speech, and in truth, that was a turning point for me, but it had a postscript that hurt far more than the speech itself. Emma asked someone to pass on a handwritten note from her to me, which contained the single sentence 'I'm so sorry for what you're going through' (she has my phone number). This was back when the death, rape and torture threats against me were at their peak, at a time when my personal security measures had had to be tightened considerably and I was constantly worried for my family's safety. Emma had just publicly poured more petrol on the flames, yet thought a one line expression of concern from her would reassure me of her fundamental sympathy and kindness.
Like other people who've never experienced adult life uncushioned by wealth and fame, Emma has so little experience of real life she's ignorant of how ignorant she is. She'll never need a homeless shelter. She's never going to be placed on a mixed sex public hospital ward. I'd be astounded if she's been in a high street changing room since childhood. Her 'public bathroom' is single occupancy and comes with a security man standing guard outside the door. Has she had to strip off in a newly mixed-sex changing room at a council-run swimming pool? Is she ever likely to need a state-run rape crisis centre that refuses to guarantee an all-female service? To find herself sharing a prison cell with a male rapist who's identified into the women's prison?
I wasn't a multimillionaire at fourteen. I lived in poverty while writing the book that made Emma famous. I therefore understand from my own life experience what the trashing of women's rights in which Emma has so enthusiastically participated means to women and girls without her privileges.
The greatest irony here is that, had Emma not decided in her most recent interview to declare that she loves and treasures me - a change of tack I suspect she's adopted because she's noticed full-throated condemnation of me is no longer quite as fashionable as it was - I might never have been this honest.
Adults can't expect to cosy up to an activist movement that regularly calls for a friend's assassination, then assert their right to the former friend's love, as though the friend was in fact their mother. Emma is rightly free to disagree with me and indeed to discuss her feelings about me in public - but I have the same right, and I've finally decided to exercise it.