I was also taught this at some point- I don’t remember when, maybe already in grade school when we wrote letters to companies (and got a bunch of free stuff with form letters back). But, this has been a pretty constant message in school- don’t use exclamation points, never use smiley faces, use ‘hello’ or ‘dear’ and…
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“Maybe he’s not an intellectual, but he tried to be useful for his family,” the participant from the Russia meeting told me. “I feel bad for him, honestly.”
Donald Trump is a liar who, as a form of rationalisation I think, believes that everyone lies just like him. He cannot talk about any policy topic without attributing bad motives and making personal character attacks.
the Bectons, as well as other plaintiffs in the case, were awarded a total of $184,850 last month, with $148,850 of that amount going to Dajerria.
That is extremely depressing, but you may indeed be right.
Yeah, I’m an American living in Europe. While it’s not quite as extreme here, I attribute a lot of that to the power differential in terms of the degree of impact of any US action versus that of a single European country. But, if you put Italy, Austria, and Poland together (to name just a few, not including the near…
This is beyond terrifying. It’s not just the US, though I truly believe that Trump is feeding these kind of movements in other parts of the world. This just happened in Italy: https://www.theguardian.com/world/2018/jun/19/italy-coalition-rift-roma-register-matteo-salvini
America today is not Nazi Germany, this is true. But, I would say this- from the Holocaust comes the refrain “Never forget, never again”. The two go together- we can only prevent what we remember and therefore know to be wrong.
I get your point and, yeah, the degree of people around Trump who have just debased themselves trying to defend his lies by lying themselves is astounding, but I still can’t believe that she would go to Walter Reed for plastic surgery. It’s just way too public, why do that and why risk it? I mean she could just have…
I really don’t know what is going on. I don’t think she got plastic surgery simply because I really think any time away would have been planned in her schedule to not raise questions. This idea seems more like it was a last minute decision to have plastic surgery that no one knew about. I find that unlikely. I also…
All the thanks back to you, fedupgirl! I admire so much your willingness to post on this platform about your experience and I am so very sorry about what happened to you. I think you are incredibly brave and I hope you know that many, many people will not diminish what you experienced and what is happening to so many…
Benefits are from the government, though pay of course is not. Most are independent contractors in a highly regulated working environment. So, there are for example licensed brothels and specific areas where prostitution can occur. Unlicensed brothels, akin to a black market, are a problem here. One of the problems is…
I have read and commented on all their earlier coverage (clearly you didn’t read it or you would have noted that) making this same objection. Their coverage has focussed exclusively on concerns related to consensual sex workers without ever once writing an article about what the issue with sec 230 of the CDA is, never…
You seem unable to comprehend my actual comment. Not sure what this is about. My comment about Backpage was addressed to the author’s inclusion of its closure in this article. So, I don’t give a shit that you seem offended that I pointed out the author’s words and addressed her. I strongly disagree with Jezebel’s…
Before I delete your comment- re-read what I wrote. I am addressing Jezebel’s coverage of this issue. Very specifically. And no I don’t apologise for my frustration with JEZEBEL’S distorted and disrespectful reporting of the issues at stake. You want to participate in the conversation? Re-read your comments. You spew…
Thank you so much for the work you do! I am sending you the biggest hug! : ) I try to be calm and pretty reserved on Jezebel even though I find that a lot of what they write is very problematic because the understanding of complex issues that they cover seems to be very shallow and cursory. But on this issue, I have…
No, you are again incorrect about what this law does and what the effect of section 230 of CDA was on prosecuting sex trafficking.
I posted this in response to another comment on this article- I live in the Netherlands where prostitution is legal. What has happened is very interesting in terms of the correlation between trafficking and consensual sex work. In terms of sex workers, legalisation and regulation has been a big success- access to…
You forgot women and children who are sex trafficked.
That is simply untrue.