@HereticArtwork@sleve_mcdichael When I went to SF for the first time, and first saw a homeless man sprawled out half on the path and half on the street, I rushed over to see if he needed help and he started threatening me 😅 you learn very very fast that there really is so little you can do in most cases 💔
I feckin hate how blindly people on the left adhere to a set of beliefs they appear to have barely even thought about. Just stock arguments, stock responses, rhetorical tricks, snide gotchas.
There is a problem. You cannot gotcha your way out of the problem.
We are absolutely, unequivocally, unquestionably, making the problem worse with mass migration, and are diluting our DV, policing, court and prison resources to a degree that will absolutely kill more Irish women. That’s a fact.
This is a disaster. We are walking into a disaster
I volunteer for a DV helpline and have been an activist in the sphere for many years, and I find this line of argument really disrespectful and unhelpful to victims of DV. 🧵
Nobody is benefitting from this. The fact is that men from highly misogynist cultures ARE more likely to abuse and rape their partners. This is not arguable. This is fact.
If we actually care about Irish victims, then we need to be very honest about the fact that….
I volunteer for a DV service and I have to say that the volume of asylum seekers and migrant women who contact us is alarming - it’s not just the scale of the violence, but the total lack of resources we have to effectively protect these women. We can barely protect Irish women.
This morning everyone is reacting to the horrific attempted beheading in Belfast.
But last week in Galway a young Iranian mother of two, Masuma Sohrabi, was murdered and almost beheaded.
There is no viral video of this brutal attack.
She was living in State care.
Her body was thrown over a bridge.
Murdered by her ex-partner.
The had been living in an IPAS centre together.
She had previously secured a court protection order against him. He was moved only a few miles away.
Only a week later, her story is all but forgotten.
In 2012, Savita Halappanavar, died in State care while giving birth in Galway.
Her death lead to the one of the biggest political movements in Irish history, after an enormous campaign of outcry from, media & NGOs.
My question is:
Where is the national outcry for Masuma Sohrabi??
Where are the NGO's demanding an overhaul of IPAS?
Where is the media demanding answers?
The sad truth is her death doesn’t fit any convenient political narrative for the NGO/media complex.
As some journalist in the Irish Times might say,
her murder "isn't being helpful".
COURTROOM MELTDOWN: A Florida trial came to a sudden halt on Monday afternoon after the defendant became heavily emotional.
George Pino, 55, on trial for a 2022 boat crash that killed a 17-year-old girl, started bawling so intensely during opening statements that the state asked for a recess.
Prosecutors argued Pino's outburst was fully visible to the jurors, prompting the judge to pause the trial so Pino could regain his composure.