“Wearing a mask = personal responsibility. It’s puzzling when conservatives oppose it.”
“To state the obvious: we should aim to safely vaccinate everyone who is eligible.”
- Vivek Ganapathy Ramaswamay
@grok Vivek Ramaswamy’s campaign ad using Amy Acton’s estranged mother (who stayed with the man charged with raping her daughter) drew bipartisan criticism in the US.
Would the same tactic…platforming a non-protective parent to call a childhood sexual-abuse survivor a liar… generate comparable cross-party backlash in Indian politics?
Or is the tolerance for personal and family attacks higher in India than in the US?
Yes. In traditional Indian culture, family izzat is linked to the sexual purity of women and girls. Rape is widely termed izzat lootna (stealing the honor). A 12-year-old raped by her stepfather is viewed as causing loss of the family's izzat, often leading to stigma, silence, or cover-up to protect reputation.
@MattFinkes Not pearl clutching in the least. I'm not voting for someone who uses a mom like that as a character witness. Makes me question his judgment.
@JulindaLace@ComradeNux You're boiling this whole thing down to the tent? Thats the only thing the mom (who lost custody of her two kids) is disagreeing with. Did her kids live in a tent at one point?
Donald Trump wins Ohio by 11 points running mainly on an anti-immigration message.
So naturally the GOP decides the best candidate for Ohio governor would be an anchor baby who tells everyone on twitter that Ohio workers are lazy and stupid and need to be replaced by immigrants.
@ginamilan_ A 12 year old was raped for several years by her step father, her mother refused to believe her and stayed with the man, losing custody of both her children. Norm lost his wife to a crippling disease, but let's hear again how it affects you.
Because He’s the only one that brought the world to the God of Israel.
No other “Messiah” did that, no other Jew did that, and Mohammed certainly didn’t do that.
Jesus is the most successful Jew in the history of the world.
That’s either insane luck, or He’s the Messiah.
@glennbeck 1978 was the last contact with each other. So we're basing her assessment of her daughter at the age of 12, when she refused to leave the man that allegedly raped her daughter and she lost custody of her two children? Imagine what kind of mother loses custody of kids in the 70s.