i'm genuinely flabbergasted by how many people believe it's better for a child to be born into starvation, abuse, neglect, illness, & poverty than not be born at all
"wife" being the opposite of "unrapeable" confirms a lot about young men's views of marriage and its purpose that we already knew.... Men aren't lonely enough!
Do you know how much PROPAGANDA it takes to convince a whole country of people that their military exists solely to keep them safe, and not to keep people around the world under their rule by destroying their homes and infrastructure while stealing their resources?
A internet inteira só consegue falar sobre a "fertilidade" de Mariam Nabatanzi.
Mas essa história nunca foi sobre biologia.
Foi sobre um crime silencioso.
Aos 12 anos, ela foi vendida pelo próprio pai para um homem de 57 anos.
Ela se tornou a quinta esposa em um casamento sem amor e cheio de abusos.
"Aos 18 anos, eu já tinha 18 filhos e implorei por ajuda médica."
O médico a proibiu de usar anticoncepcionais, dizendo que a única forma de não morrer era continuar tendo bebês devido à sua condição.
Ninguém percebeu o verdadeiro absurdo.
A própria madrasta que a criou se tornou amante do seu marido e teve filhos com ele.
Em 2015, o homem vendeu a casa da família e fugiu com todo o dinheiro, deixando-a com as crianças.
"Uma de minhas filhas se formou em enfermagem, foi para a Rússia e nunca mais me deu notícias."
Hoje, ela trabalha em 5 empregos diferentes para sustentar os filhos sozinha.
Reduzir a vida de Mariam a um "caso impressionante de fertilidade" é ignorar uma sequência brutal de abandonos, abusos e falhas do sistema.
Strange to think that the far right probably did more criminal damage in a single night than Palestine Solidarity movements have done in the past three years.
Two tier policing, indeed.
Kevin Maguire: "After the attack on the Liverpool football parade & it was a white guy, middle class, former royal marine, no-one went after other white, middle class former marines & set this person represents that entire group"
1 in 20 Catholic families were burned out of their homes in Belfast in 1969.
As one scholar put it, at the time it was "the largest forced population movement in Western Europe since the Second World War."
This is the kind of thing that was said about the Jews in the 1930s.
It is not hyperbolic to say that degrading an entire culture leads us to a very dark place. Reform are playing with fire right now trying to stop themselves being outflanked by the extremists of Restore.
Belfast riots : Immigrant family rescued by Police after rioters set their house and car on fire while the family was still inside.
This is an attempted murder.
Those poor kids will live that trauma.
Somebody might want to explain to me how having all the shops closed and groups of men wandering the streets dressed in black with hoods up and faces covered is supposed to make any of us feel safer, particularly young women on their own. So intimidating 🤷🏻♂️ 😡
it's kind of funny how this scene was very clearly written to make AJ look like a pretentious dick but in hindsight... yeah, he was one hundred percent right, SBC is basically the fucking devil
Seems like a bit of an oversight for the headline to mention him asking if he could kiss her, but not mention him cornering her, leaning his body against her and grabbing her hair. Or that she was a child sexual abuse survivor and he was a stalker.
Call you old fashioned? Alright, old-fashioned, @PatrickChristys, let us go through the decades you prefer.
The 1960s: Ian Brady and Myra Hindley tortured and murdered five children, buried them on Saddleworth Moor, and recorded their screams on tape.
The 1970s: Peter Sutcliffe murdered 13 women with hammers and screwdrivers across Yorkshire.
Dennis Nilsen began strangling young men in his London flat, dismembering them, boiling their skulls on his stove, and flushing the remains down the drains.
The 1980s: Michael Ryan shot 16 people dead in Hungerford. Fred and Rose West were raping, torturing, and dismembering women and girls and burying them under their house in Gloucester. Their own daughter among them.
The 1990s: Two 10-year-old boys abducted a toddler from a shopping centre in Liverpool, tortured him, and bludgeoned him to death with bricks and an iron bar.
Thomas Hamilton walked into a primary school in Dunblane and shot 16 five-year-olds and their teacher. Harold Shipman was murdering his patients by the hundred.
The 2000s: James Watt and his family enslaved a man for a decade, tortured him with baseball bats, air pistols, boiling water, and pit bull attacks, then decapitated him and dumped his body in a lake.
Mathew Hardman, 17, murdered a 90-year-old woman, cut out her heart, placed it on a silver platter, and drank her blood.
The 2010s: Derrick Bird shot 12 people dead across Cumbria.
Thomas Mair shot and stabbed an MP in the street while shouting "Britain first".
The 2020s: Jemma Mitchell decapitated her friend, stored the body for two weeks, and drove 200 miles to dump it.
Those are the decades you prefer. And for each decade there are 20 other equally horrific incidents.
And here is the thing, old fashioned Patrick. According to the Crime Survey for England and Wales, violence, burglary, and car crime have fallen by close to 90% since the mid-1990s. The ONS confirms that violent crime is two-thirds lower now than in the 1990s.
The country you live in today is measurably, statistically, dramatically safer than the one you are nostalgic for. That's not an opinion, it's a fact.
And I am not even touching Glasgow and its past knife crime epidemic.
So, which decade was better, Patrick? Tell us.
Zack Davies walked into a Tesco in Mold in 2015 and attacked Dr Sarandev Bhambra with a machete and a claw hammer while shouting "white power".
Cut to the scalp down to the bone. Left hand nearly severed. Five hours of surgery. Davies tried to behead him.
Nazi flags and Combat 18 stickers at his home. Life sentence.
In public. In a supermarket. In broad daylight.
You were saying?