Reason #14,756 of why guys like me hate the media:
For months, they screamed, "America isn't ready for the World Cup! It's gonna be a mess!"
Opposite proving true.
We didn't have to build a thing, and every stadium is shining like the new hot chick.
20-something Euro fans are falling in love with Buc-ees, country music, and the South. Country music and NFL stars are treating randos from X to luxury suites and concert tickets. Neighborhoods are throwing bbq's for VRBO foreigners.
America rules. This is incredible. Our best, everyday selves are on display, and we're crushing. Once again, reports of our racist, incompetent demise have been greatly overstated.
America forever ๐บ๐ธ
@VirgFortne5@amylcris Being a white woman is only marginally better. My daughter has also run into issues with college programs. Being female alone isn't enough "diversity."
Christopher Hitchens: โIn 1786, when the United States was barely a country, it was having its sailors taken as slaves by the Barbary states, the states of the Ottoman Empire and North Africa. Tripoli, shores of Tripoli. Ships stopped, its crews carried off into slavery. We estimate 1.5 million European and American slaves taken between 1750 and 1815.
Jefferson and Adams went to their ambassador in London and said, why do you do this to us? The United States has never had a quarrel with the Muslim world of any kind. We weren't in the crusades. We weren't at war with Spain. Why do you do this to our people and our ships? Why do you plunder and enslave our people? The ambassador said very plainly, Mr. Abdul Rahman said, because the Quran gives us permission to do so, because you are infidels, and that's our answer. Jefferson said, well, in that case, I will send a navy which will crush your state, which he did.
Islamic fundamentalism is not created by American democracy. It's a lie to say so. It's a masochistic lie, and it excuses those who are the real criminals, and blames us for the attacks made upon us.โ
@DisaffectedPod Pets play a special role. My dog got me through the death of my husband in a way no human could have. We are bonded. He grieved with me. He's getting old so quickly now, and it breaks my heart to know he won't be around much longer. My love for him is a powerful thing.
@GMErectheus@littleapostate I don't know if it was staff or not, but I was absolutely approached about organ donation at the hospital while my husband was on life support. In emergencies you don't verify who employs them. I felt pressured and now regret the donation after going through the process.
@DisaffectedPod I find it amusing that the people who are angry that she is called a man are the same people who insist trans men ARE women and unilaterally support the trans movement. But it's the prevalence of trans men that gives weight to the claims that she could be a dude.
@therealme_honey@OregonianPol I used to be blocked too. They must have had a drop in engagement so they had to unblock people to get comments on their posts ๐คฃ
@northstar_wind@RedWaveOR Yes, it's definitely the fault of the Republicans in Oregon who haven't been in charge for nearly four decades. That's definitely the problem.
@toobaffled It feels like everyone I know is being touched by cancer right now. Relatives, friends, coworkers. And so many of them seem to have aggressive forms. It didn't used to be like this.
@KGWNews Ok, well I'm in Clackamas County and most of my neighbors are considering putting their homes on the market because the homeless are out of control and appear to be growing in exponential numbers in our area in the past decade. I don't care what lies you spread, I have eyes.
@HughJarsehol@LiveAction "vessels for babies" is a dark term. At what point do we stop doing things that demean humanity? The fact that this language is so normalized should give us pause.
@JasonVaughn@LiveAction I don't like any surrogacy, but do you not see a difference between a hetero couple with fertility issues using their own genetic material in their own womb, and this?
โWe got all the way down the path of about to retrieve their eggsโฆ Some just wouldnโt produce enough eggs, some werenโt good genetic matches.โ
The language regresses back to treating women as defective for reproductive outcomes that fail to meet others' desires - fathers/husbands before and buyers now.
Rape gangs are not some kind of aberration. Ask any combat veteran what they saw in Afghanistan. The sexual torture and slavery of children is utterly commonplace in Muslim countries. Itโs part of their โculture.โ Which is why itโs suicidal to import that culture into the west.
I have now read the Rape Gang Inquiry Report in full.
I've been following this story quite closely for something like a decade so I'm not exactly surprised by its contents, but three elements stand out to me amongst the horror.
The first is that a large majority of the victims who provided testimony describe some kind of troubled or disrupted home life. Some were molested by family members before the rape gangs ever got ahold of them. Others faced physical abuse, neglect, drug addicted parents, housing instability, and so on.
Their testimony often describes a kind of "screening" process where a girl's particular vulnerability was evaluated with more moderate boundary pushing before escalation to full on rape and abuse.
This isn't necessarily surprising given the nefarious intentions the gangs had for these girls, but their willingness to explicitly target the absolute most vulnerable children who were already struggling sickens me. These girls, more than anyone, needed some kind of adult guidance in their lives, and this vulnerability was cynically exploited to initiate them into an even more egregious Hell.
Which brings me to the second detail, which is the extreme violence these girls were subjected to. "Grooming Gang" is an unacceptable euphemism that may accurately describe common initiatory tactics employed against these girls, but which criminally downplays the behavior of their abusers once initiated.
These girls were not "merely" groomed into sex. They were not "merely" raped. They were not "merely" trafficked. They were subjected to a program of overtly racialized sexual torture and humiliation designed to maximally degrade them and kill them in their souls. And this was "acceptable" because they were White and not Muslims.
This detail fundamentally alters the character of these crimes. This was not horny men out of control or even cross-cultural understanding gaps around the age of consent. This was a targeted program of ritualized torture and subjugation as a means of ethnic domination. In other words, these gangs are conducting war against the White British using serial child rape and torture as a form of conquest.
These are not crimes in the conventional sense. These are war crimes being conducted by one civilization against another, and they need to be treated as such.
And finally, the third point (encapsulated in the excerpt below) is that every single level of the state utterly failed these girls in the most egregious and unfathomable ways imaginable.
It's one thing when you have no physical evidence and are confronted with a "he said / she said" situation with respect to a rape allegation. It's another thing entirely when you have a pre-teen frequent flier at the NHS back again for her Nth sexually transmitted disease treatment, a 13 year old with broken glass shards embedded in her vagina, or a pregnant 13 year old.
These are cases with obvious alarming physical evidence that no one addressed in any meaningful way.
Politicians (Labour in particular) covered it up and suppressed action into investigations in order to maintain the Islamic bloc vote.
Police suppressed investigations, dismissed accusations and evidence, intimidated victims into silence, arrested victims for the crimes of their abusers, dismissed proven cases of rape with impotent warning letters, and in some cases directly raped the girls themselves.
Care homes disregarded obvious signs of abuse (including outright confessions), and enabled their abusers to maintain consistent access to the girls, in some cases acting more like pimps than caregivers.
Social workers addressed victims' needs so incompetently they recommended victims audition for a TV show role about being a child prostitute because it was "relatable" and even attended a victim's coerced sham marriage to her abuser.
NHS staff consistently failed to do anything in the face of overt medical evidence of obvious, undeniable sex crimes against these girls, treating the acute problem and sending them on their way with no protection whatsoever.
And teachers, much like the social workers, routinely delivered their students into the predatory arms of their abusers as they waited outside the schools, and utterly failed to appropriately address signs or confessions of abuse.
Virtually every arm of the state is directly complicit in exacerbating the abuse. Not one single institution at any level reliably offered protection or recourse to these girls.
As far as I am concerned I Restore government would be entirely justified in firing every single person in the employ of the state. If they are not a documented whistleblower they are complicit and thus compromised, and none of them have any business retaining their roles or their pensions. On the contrary large numbers of state officials deserve severe penalties for criminal negligence or outright complicity in these crimes.
Justice for these crimes will necessarily take place at a scale that will shock the pacified sensibilities of the over-socialized Liberal West, but nothing short of a biblical level reckoning will be sufficient to qualify as justice in this case.
@RupertLowe10 is not wrong to draw comparisons to the Holocaust. It is the only appropriate frame of reference in the popular zeitgeist that articulates the actual magnitude of what was allowed to take place under successive British governments. Nor is he wrong to propose the reinstatement of the death penalty as the appropriate restitution for these crimes.
The rapists and state officials who enabled this atrocity both deserve to hang. And I pray that the British public will entrust Rupert with the power to deliver justice long overdo.
In any case I am deeply appreciative of his efforts to bring this to light. He is the hero Britain needs right now.
Vote Restore. Deliver these girls justice.
When I was organising the march, a Muslim lady contacted me to say the same happens to muslim girls in their community, so they encourage their men to go after British girls instead to keep their own daughters safe. She also said, as many marriages are arranged, they dont want to have to "service" (her word) their husbands so encourage them to take British girls. She reassured me by saying, "not nice girls like your daughter though", like that was some sort of comfort. I was so shocked and disgusted I blocked her.
@emilie65031828@robkhenderson Not menopause, but I developed issues later in life that led to hysterectomy. If I had waited until my 30s to have kids I would have discovered too late that I was infertile. There were no signs anything was wrong until my 40s though. So glad I had children in my 20s.