Good ol’ “anchoring tactics” to make the discussion about 15 year olds.

The youngest documented age was 14 in criminal filings, and those investigations have been repeatedly criticized.

The youngest alleged victims, in civil court filings, are 11.

So, let’s stop talking about 15 year olds. Let’s discuss 11 year olds. I’m assuming the Overton window will be shifted by bots to talk about how the world was pre-1800s.

I work in rural America, but I’m not going to be specific.

I happen to have a career which puts me in contact with a good number of people who say things like, “Have you seen Bob’s daughter? She doesn’t look like she is 14…you’d think she was 23.” As if that’s some form of rational thought process for their inability to stop sexualizing young girls.

Our lizard brains think a ton of stupid shit. If you’re well adjusted, you turn off those thoughts, or minimally don’t say them out loud.

You’re not wrong with your opinion but your context is.

My comment is in reference to the post

“You didn’t do shit. You were just a spectator.” - Xi

Ironically, this quote is itself misattributed.

Boycotts need to be permanent. Brief displays of protest don’t amount to enough long term pressure.

If we can’t execute a full labor strike, we need a sustained effort that severely harms bad businesses or bankrupts them.

Pedo Pele

I can promise you they know they’re being cruel.

The supposed savings come from when people like you die sooner.

No /s?

Hmmm, maybe he’s a traitor?

Until the senile old man forgets tomorrow.

What is the simple term for verifying the “news” is aligned with your propaganda?

“Fakt Checking?”

But you’ll do nothing to stop him.

Tulsi only gave her device to Russian intelligence to install exclusive games not available in the US.

I don’t see the issue here. Gabbard is known to be trustworthy. Let her play the cool games.

Not sure how much of this story you’ll be able to read:

https://open.substack.com/pub/mattstoller/p/monopoly-round-up-the-democrats-corporate

Matt Stoller discusses how the well connected Democratic Lawyers caved.

They need round-the-clock community driven monitoring and protection.

Might as well get started catching the fascists in the act.

The energy a narcissist can commit to vengeance is unimaginable to the regular person.

My claim is it isn’t constructive to scream about “corporations” without actively understanding the core issues. Corporations are human constructs governed by a set of laws within whatever locality they exist.

We have allowed corporations to become overly powerful and greedy by letting our elected officials effectively accept bribes in the form of so-called election finance. This has led to regulatory capture by corporations.

My point is corporations are whatever we allow them to be, and after generations of allowing them to become monopolistic behemoths, we either need to find a way to reign in their power or we’ll be run over.

If you want to reign in corporations, you have to start by changing the systems that govern them. Screaming that they’re greedy is a fools errand, they’re obviously greedy in the current form. We need to take action and actually hold people accountable.

Corporations are whatever we define them to be.

They’re only legal structures which we could construct to be beneficial, or as we see in modern times, others could mold to rob society of greater good.

The problem isn’t corporations, the problem is humans don’t have the consistent will to build societies that prevent and punish greed.