They want more "Christian" books at school libraries? Buy a bunch of ultra-liberal Universalist Unitarian books and see how fast they say "we didn't mean THAT kind of Christian"
The current political incentives make this inevitable imo.
The Republicans, especially House committees, will dogpile onto any occurrence which benefits the Democrats. They drag executives in to testify and spray unhinged talking points on right-wing news shows.
The Democrats will make a few comments about hypocrisy and be done with it.
If Dems were a dog, you could feed it from your palm.
If Repubs were a dog, you wouldn't allow your hand anywhere near it's mouth for fear of being bitten.
First, I was a pirate because Napster allowed me to get the single mp3 I wanted without paying $10-15 dollars for the cd.
Later, Netflix, Steam and Pandora turned me legit with the high value of their services.
Now, I pirate again because I'm not playing $4 to rent Terry Gilliam's Brazil (1985) for 48 hours. I don't have a DVD player, and fuck letting Amazon, Google or Apple sell me a copy which they hold hostage on their platform.
My employer was told we owed a 5 figure bill for Google Translate services that we thought had already been paid. We could not get a human from Google to talk with us. It was just fucking impossible. Eventually leveraged an unrelated Google sales relationship elsewhere in the company, and they helped so as to not tank their in-progress sale.
Lawyer: They reported that my client shit his pants, which he did, but never issued a follow-up report explaining how he went to the bathroom to clean his ass later. Libel! Slander! Defamation!
All the geriatric elected officials complaining about how overprotective helicopter parenting ruins children will break land-speed records in their dash to support this effort.
Elon envisioned a world where Twitter was his personal fanboy adulation sandbox, full of ass-kissers and neckbeard nazi edgelords. Who else could have made that dream a reality using only his personal genius and $13 billion of other peoples money?
The cake is a lie, and so is phase 2. Working in tech, I've seen countless features shoved into a phase 2 that is tacitly acknowledged as unlikely to happen. If you give a shit about something, you put it in phase 1.
I think you may have intended this comment I made:
"Conflating sex trafficking with prostitution is exactly what caused the mistrial. They are not the same thing, despite how hard various AGs and politicians have worked to convince you otherwise."
The US Armed Forces are going to be rather handicapped after you have 20% of them executed.
Are you also executing women who pay for sex with women? What about men who pay for sex with men? How about anyone in a "sugar daddy" role? Or those who visit a legal brothel in Nevada?
Seems like our streets would be soaked with blood pretty quickly. Reminds me of Singapore executing 1st offense drug smugglers.
If you really gave a damn about trafficked women, you'd support the type of decriminalization parts of Australia has implemented. Trafficking goes down, and the health + safety of the sex workers goes up.
Conflating sex trafficking with prostitution is exactly what caused the mistrial. They are not the same thing, despite how hard various AGs and politicians have worked to convince you otherwise.
This was equal opportunity political point scoring foe both left and right. Corruption magnet Texas AG Ken Paxton and anti-sex work California AG Kamala Harris were both eager to be in at the death of Backpage. Looks good on your political resume.
When those who believe sex work is "a truly evil transaction that exploits vulnerable women and ruins them such that no man would want to marry them" (like one commenter) join forces with people who just want to save children from trafficking...the ability of sex workers to operate safely plummets. The actual traffickers get pushed out of channels that law enforcement could easily monitor and back into the shadows, where they are harder to find.
Which executives were convicted on sex trafficking charges? The only entity I could find trafficking charges sticking to was Backpage itself.
Pimping charges against them were thrown out, and the entire affair boiled down to money laundering and facilitating prostitution as best I can tell.
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They want more "Christian" books at school libraries? Buy a bunch of ultra-liberal Universalist Unitarian books and see how fast they say "we didn't mean THAT kind of Christian"
Sadly predictable
The current political incentives make this inevitable imo. The Republicans, especially House committees, will dogpile onto any occurrence which benefits the Democrats. They drag executives in to testify and spray unhinged talking points on right-wing news shows. The Democrats will make a few comments about hypocrisy and be done with it. If Dems were a dog, you could feed it from your palm. If Repubs were a dog, you wouldn't allow your hand anywhere near it's mouth for fear of being bitten.
Piracy roller coaster
First, I was a pirate because Napster allowed me to get the single mp3 I wanted without paying $10-15 dollars for the cd. Later, Netflix, Steam and Pandora turned me legit with the high value of their services. Now, I pirate again because I'm not playing $4 to rent Terry Gilliam's Brazil (1985) for 48 hours. I don't have a DVD player, and fuck letting Amazon, Google or Apple sell me a copy which they hold hostage on their platform.
Rudy is just following the old folk adage he heard at Four Seasons Landscaping,"When you find yourself in a hole, keep digging"
My employer was told we owed a 5 figure bill for Google Translate services that we thought had already been paid. We could not get a human from Google to talk with us. It was just fucking impossible. Eventually leveraged an unrelated Google sales relationship elsewhere in the company, and they helped so as to not tank their in-progress sale.
Lawyer: They reported that my client shit his pants, which he did, but never issued a follow-up report explaining how he went to the bathroom to clean his ass later. Libel! Slander! Defamation!
All the geriatric elected officials complaining about how overprotective helicopter parenting ruins children will break land-speed records in their dash to support this effort.
Elon Musk is an unparalleled visionary!
Elon envisioned a world where Twitter was his personal fanboy adulation sandbox, full of ass-kissers and neckbeard nazi edgelords. Who else could have made that dream a reality using only his personal genius and $13 billion of other peoples money?
The cake is a lie, and so is phase 2. Working in tech, I've seen countless features shoved into a phase 2 that is tacitly acknowledged as unlikely to happen. If you give a shit about something, you put it in phase 1.
I think you may have intended this comment I made: "Conflating sex trafficking with prostitution is exactly what caused the mistrial. They are not the same thing, despite how hard various AGs and politicians have worked to convince you otherwise."
https://www.catwa.org.au/prostitution-laws-in-each-state/ Disclaimer: not from Australia
The US Armed Forces are going to be rather handicapped after you have 20% of them executed. Are you also executing women who pay for sex with women? What about men who pay for sex with men? How about anyone in a "sugar daddy" role? Or those who visit a legal brothel in Nevada? Seems like our streets would be soaked with blood pretty quickly. Reminds me of Singapore executing 1st offense drug smugglers. If you really gave a damn about trafficked women, you'd support the type of decriminalization parts of Australia has implemented. Trafficking goes down, and the health + safety of the sex workers goes up.
If "It arises from women’s poverty in a patriarchal society", wouldn't that make it contextually evil, not inherently so?
Conflating sex trafficking with prostitution is exactly what caused the mistrial. They are not the same thing, despite how hard various AGs and politicians have worked to convince you otherwise.
Both sides get blame here
This was equal opportunity political point scoring foe both left and right. Corruption magnet Texas AG Ken Paxton and anti-sex work California AG Kamala Harris were both eager to be in at the death of Backpage. Looks good on your political resume. When those who believe sex work is "a truly evil transaction that exploits vulnerable women and ruins them such that no man would want to marry them" (like one commenter) join forces with people who just want to save children from trafficking...the ability of sex workers to operate safely plummets. The actual traffickers get pushed out of channels that law enforcement could easily monitor and back into the shadows, where they are harder to find.
The who what now?
Which executives were convicted on sex trafficking charges? The only entity I could find trafficking charges sticking to was Backpage itself. Pimping charges against them were thrown out, and the entire affair boiled down to money laundering and facilitating prostitution as best I can tell.