The world has taken unprecedented steps to punish Russia but there’s still so much more to do. There’s still talk of countries buying gas in rubles; not all international businesses have pulled out of Russia. The US still hasn’t sanctioned Putin’s mistress. There was no large scale evacuation of Mariupol. Macron is…

Unfortunately, I think it should be noted that men and boys are also being raped in Ukraine, though perhaps not as frequently, and will also need a lot of support in the aftermath of their assaults.

Jordan Peterson and Ted Cruz are ugly people who need to know when to stay in their lane as ugly people.

“If I were inclined to engage in sexual harassment, this is unlikely to be the first time in my entire 30-year career that it comes to light,” he wrote in an email.”

I have been on this planet a relatively short amount of time so I don’t know if I can say that something like this has ever happened or on this scale. Broderick v Broderick?

I’ll take your word for it. From this article I get the idea that the timeline is something like

We already count the “unborn” by tracking live births per year. That’s why we know we don’t have a enough people to feed capitalisms gaping maw which is easily 1/3rd of the reason people want forced birth.

You’re right. Instagram can’t be held to account and has no financial stake in whether someone harasses another person and is not liable for damages. Though in my follow up I wonder about the TOS websites use if your account is utilized in harassing someone. Obviously, social media sites don’t take that sort of thing…

I also thought about how the Terms of Service require a “contract” between you and the site. So if your account (regardless of who is logged in) breaks TOS, you suffer the consequences.

“But much of it is focusing on Vardy’s agent, Caroline Watt, who also had access to Vardy’s Instagram account”

My example was a bit extreme but I hold the point that judges and juries bring with them the bias that someone is less likely to be truthful or a victim because x happened in their past.

Our justice system is broken. Of course there’s no way to know the truth when there are only two people who know what happened and there are no witnesses or the witnesses didn’t see events as described or are otherwise “non-credible” themselves.

When the news broke about Batali being found not guilty, the headline was about the victim having credibility issues but the TV news people didn’t say what those issues were. From NPR:

I’ll take a different tactic: mass killings aren’t tied to a singular ideology, religion, or economic model. Mass killings, genocides, etc. can be driven by beliefs within those systems but that reinforce a regimes goals.

Of course “violence is wrong”

Among the many, many things that burn me about our lack of universal healthcare is that -if-we-had-it- individual states could not deny you the same medical services you could get in another state. -If- there was health equity and access, then you could not get “lesser” services in one state than in another.

The (simplified)* foundation of this country is one of rebellion. The GOP loves to yee-haw about this but the truth still stands that America was an experiment in challenging the “natural order” of the rightful rule of kings and their lords who handed down decisions from on-high and were not experiencing the…

It’s not just privacy—those who are outraged by the protests at Kavanaugh’s home also seem to fundamentally misunderstand what constitutes violence. Violence is children going to bed hungry in a country that refuses to tax billionaires. Violence is a higher education system so wildly unaffordable that predominantly…

Yep! Yet here we are, depriving DC and Puerto Rico (among others) of their rights. I don’t know what it would take to admit them to the Union but it should have been done yesterday.

Hey! I get what you mean.