Very long con if that’s the case - he has been expressing the same shitty Drudge Report-linked comment section vileness for many years now.

hahaha yesss thanks i needed that

and how does that make you feel?

....and all the other women who say he raped them?

I tried to say this - you did it better. cheers

It’s different because this is social commentary. It would be unacceptable if she was sporting the wheelchair like an accessory, but her disanimation in these photos seems to play on her agency vs. the expectations of her hyperexposed family, the male gaze, and the fabricated nature of her celebrity.

First degree murder HAD to be charged here - Van Dyke would have walked on lesser charges. In Illinois intentionality or knowingly killing someone is first degree murder. In the Rekia Boyd case, where a Chicago cop shot over his shoulder at a group of people behind him, the cop walked bc only 2nd degree murder was…

Apparently it was Jabari R. Dean, age 21, no photo released.

I appreciate your thoughts. Sucks that some people are hateful about pretty much everything :(. As is the case with someone like Trump, the alarming thing about trolls is not so much that they espouse certain views, but that those views get some likes; my responses to a hateful person on here are as much aimed at…

Yeah I mean neither of us can know for sure, and I respect the approach of not engaging. Maybe I’m being foolish by engaging. I just want to convey that I am not doing so blindly; I do so intentionally with hopes that people with regressive views who read my words may begin to change their minds.

Gotcha. I hear you but I also wonder whether it's better to engage with people who seem like perpetrators or potential perpetrators of sexual violence in order to bring them within the fold rather than further isolating them, causing more instability and rage.

I pretty much agree. I lean towards believing & supporting Stoya and people who say they were raped in general, despite not having 100% factual certainty, because that will almost always be impossible to obtain. I’m just interested in shifting the culture towards support and empathy and against shaming, blaming, and…

Of course it’s possible not to believe or disbelieve either party. You’re free to continue to insult my intelligence if it makes you feel better.

No, I'm saying that I support and believe her, not trying to convince anyone that she is telling the truth. If you read my actual words they all say that this is what I think is most likely, based on a very strong rationale. As I said above, you are free to believe what you believe and the world will keep turning. If…

Haha get over yourself. This is not a court of law and almost no rapist who was in a relationship with the survivor can ever be proven guilty, barring a video recording of the incident. Demonstrably, you are spending time and energy casting doubt that a woman who said she was raped is telling the truth.

Spare me. Your initial comment clearly conveyed that she is not to be believed because she’s a sex worker. It’s an attack on her integrity.

LOL tons of people believe him and, like you, denigrate her. The overwhelming majority of rapists get away with it. He certainly had a lot to lose, but also very very small odds of facing significantly negative consequences, whereas Stoya was 100% assured negative consequences from coming forward due to vicious…

Because Stoya has that much more to lose reputationally and $-wise by coming forward.

Right. Those factors make it more likely that Stoya is telling the truth.

How does anyone know anything Alckapte? The best available evidence. Given the hugely challenging consequences of making an allegation, it’s not something to be done lightly. Is it more likely that millions of people walk around concocting devastating lies about other people that will involve putting their own…