This study (grrr kinja still won’t let me format or insert links) analyzed data from 116 countries and found that countries where prostitution was legal have a higher inflow of human trafficking: https://orgs.law.harvard.edu/lids/2014/06/12/does-legalized-prostitution-increase-human-trafficking/

So I was just reading too much into it and am totally ignorant on Chinese names I guess, lol. Thanks for the info!

Yes, but “that was just to make money, he’s a business man” and the piece of shit things he’s done in the past weren’t something everybody would know about (legitimately true - I, for one, never cared for him but I certainly didn’t realize how big of a turdnugget he actually was) and, ya know, when things don’t affect…

Unfortunately, I have the feeling that it would actually do the opposite and hurt human trafficking. I can see the traffickers just getting even more bold, and threatening the victims into keeping silent =/

Juan (Juan Wang, lol) is an odd name for a woman. It also said she was supposedly on her way to China for a medical procedure ... Is it possible that Juan is transgender and was traveling to China for gender reassignment surgery? Or am I just reading way too much into a woman having a traditionally masculine name...?

I can’t agree with that, but I think (although it’s completely unrealistic and goes against the constitution and would never happen) that people should be required to have at least a certain extent of knowledge regarding the candidates before they can vote for anyone. I know of a few people just off-hand who didn’t…

I think we agree, then, because I don’t think it’s *necessarily* rude, either, but I do think that in all but a few situations that I probably would find it rude. I’m sure we’ll never know the truth here, though, because this guy is just an all around jackass and I wouldn’t trust him to tell the whole, unbiased truth…

Wow! It’s obviously a huge inconvenience to miss your flight, but $5,000 would literally buy you an entire new vacation! I’d snatch that in a heartbeat, lol

Oh my fuck. This guy is our president. Our PRESIDENT. We’re so screwed.

People who tell stories like that - especially one like this that’s bitching so vehemently about a company - and refuse to name the company, piss me off to no end.

Well, if she loved him as much as I do, she never would have posted it without proofing The Exalted’s name first!!!

I hope the same! And exactly! Increase the offer until somebody accepts. I mean, nobody wants to miss their flight, but offer enough money and incentives and somebody’s bound to accept it. And even in the (unlikely) event that they couldn’t get anyone to accept, the way they went about this is so, so wrong. It’s scary…

No true fan would call Chris Meloni Chris Melons. The nerve!

So underrated! Love that show.

Me tooooo. She is just such a good person and gorgeous and such an inspiration. I legit love her. <3

That’s pretty fucked up. Especially since the guy very much did have a ticket until they decided they were just gonna take it back. Didn’t realize we should be saying “no takesy backsies” after purchasing a plane ticket, ffs.  There are very few situations when a company should ever endorse getting physical with a…

Actually, it does. Or, rather, it could, if United had just done what they should have done. There is no reason that this passenger in particular had to be the one to leave the plane. They could have offered more money to get somebody else to volunteer, or they could have chosen another person at random who didn’t…

Talk about digging yourself an even deeper hole, jeez. The incident is bad enough, but the way United is reacting and responding to it is just really, really terrible. I know I will never fly with them, just based on how little they care about their customers and their unwillingness to acknowledge their own mistakes…

Oh, I believe you 100%. Was the special a repeat? Because if it wasn’t that, I was sleep-listening to another show discussing him a couple of nights ago, lol. Something about Peter Thomas and Forensic Files is just incredibly soothing to me, so I get it!

I guess I missed the part of the contract that says they are allowed to physically drag a passenger by their arms down the plane.