My dad and his best friend got the cheapest flight to Europe they could find the summer after they graduated high school. It was on the Romanian national airline, this back in 1979 when the Cold War was still going strong and Romania in particular was a secret police nightmare dystopia that made Animal Farm seem like…

Yes it is, I also had consensual sex with my rapist after being raped, theres a lot of complicated reasons for that that I don’t want to get into. If you do a google search (or Bing, whatever poison you prefer), you’ll maybe get some more insight into why. I’m trying not to respond to you as a troll but as a person…

Yep. There’ll be fierce storms and heavy rainfall through most of the North Atlantic/ North Sea at this point. We’ve just had a couple of cruise ships port in the town I live in, and the their frozen, seasick, bedraggled denizens have been moping around town, a sorry sight to behold. :(

Since the foster care system is rife with sex trafficking and the system doesn’t even know who their parents are most of the time thank to the fascist border patrol, I fear much worse. I wish I was being hyperbolic, but that’s exactly what went into my mind. The sex traffickers and predators know where to get their…

Thank you for celebrating the glorious misfire that was “Cop Rock.”

I wish more people realized how complicated adoption really is and how gross the industry can be. I recently got into a debate with some asshole on a child free sub who basically said people who want kids should just adopt because it was better for the environment to take an unwanted kid “out of the system.” They…

I read that book when I was a pregnant 16 year old in the late 80s. I had a super asshole pro life mother and I knew I’d be giving her up for adoption. I have hated seeing all the regressive laws and reproductive fuckery all my life, but hated it so much more the past several years and seeing the book become so…

Ah, done in by a drive-by attack, I imagine—a pilum from a chariot?

I just finished listening to a six-episode series on Last Podcast on the Left, covering the roots and rise of Mormonism. Mormons actually pride themselves in abusing medicaid and other gov assistance programs. They call it “bleeding the beast”.

This article filled me with revulsion but it did prompt me to do some quick wiki research about the Marshall Islands. It’s fascinating:

Of course not. That’s always the tell with them. If you have to google what party the crooked politician is in a FOX write up, they’re a republican.

I have long believed that AZ is the meanest state in the nation. Even our mormons are pure evil. He’s probably one of the creeps that sits alone with teens asking about their sexual urges (a real thing that happens).

Go to the Fox News article on this. Never is there a mention of his political party...

Of course not. They probably thought they were saving these kids by raising them in a Mormon home (I am assuming if he was Mormon that a good deal of his buyers probably were too).  

Also: the population of the Marshall Islands is only about 50,000 people. The main population center is an island less than four square miles in size, and has about 20,000 people. He brought over more than 40 women in a little over two and a half years. Those are meaningful numbers in a community that small.

Can we as a culture please become much more skeptical of religious folks’ promotion of adoption as a “mission”? There are many cases of churches promoting adoption to such an extent that orphanages in whichever country that church as selected to “save” kids from begin adopting out children with living parents under…

Some certainly got paid and used the money to go home. But I will eat my fucking hat if there aren’t a significant number who never got the promised compensation (miscarriage, stillbirth, expensive complications this fuckwit here had to shell out for and got butthurt about, changing their minds, mouthing off) and were…

Me, reading the headline: I’ll bet this dick thought he was doing a service, putting babies in good Christian homes.

These are the same people who stand outside abortion clinics and shout about the “undeniable bond between mother and baby!” “you will live with a lifetime of regret!!”... unless you want to sell babies for profit. Looks like we now know ANOTHER reason repubs want to keep women pregnant. They want to sell that baby for…

Republican, Arizona, Morman, human trafficking, defrauding government programs, somebody’s hitting conservative nutjob bingo somewhere.