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      The way people talk about SA is weird as fuck in general.

      It’s simultaneously treated as an unspeakable crime that is only trumped by murder and deserves the harshest punishments but simultaneously people are ride or die defending offenders and assume victims are lying and better shut up unless they got definitive and irrefutable evidence.

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      Unfortunately I fee like there is a lot of apathy when it comes to sexual harassment. Many people have accepted that they will need to put up with it in their day-to-day life to a degree.

      My anecdote for this is being in a major city a couple years back, standing on the sidewalk outside of a restaurant we had just finished eating at. Completely minding our own business and finishing up our goodbyes when some random person walked by, kissed the top of my partners head and then kept walking. I was seeing red, physically and emotionally spinning out. My partner was in shock and disgusted. The other couple with us was pretty much just like “meh, what are ya gonna do?”…

      This wasn’t even just harassment, it was assault, and the response from our friends was so nonchalant as if this is something they see and experience all the time in the city. It was sad and disheartening to say the least and it really contextualized two things for me.

      -what we hear about is only the tip of the iceberg, harassment and straight up assault is pretty much happening nonstop all the time.

      -people are apathetic to it because of how prevalent it is.

      Both of those seem so obvious, but gaining the perspective was eye opening.

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        People definitely accept common=okay because they’re reflexive p-zombies who function entirely on thr ‘first impression’ layer of the brain with little to no interiority.

        Not a natural or inevitable state of affairs, but one both nonsense and authoritarian systems drive us towards.

        There is no genuine morality, no genuine outrage, no genuine anything. Just pure instinct.

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      It’s so much worse because it’s not a subset…it’s like the entire base of both libs and reactionaries in America. Democrats overwhelmingly ignore Bill Clinton and Joe Biden’s sexual misconduct. Every republican overlooks Trump’s (and Giuliani. And Matt Gaetz. And Hegseth. And Kennedy. And…) sexual harassment and assaults.

      We’re gonna need some kind of volcel John Brown tbh.

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        those people are praising the nazi tattoo guy still. a lot of libs are just closet socially acceptable fascists.

      • a month ago? my mom and dad were talking about the Epstein case regarding Israel and my mom said that trump had a lot of pictures with Epstein ,my dad dismissed the thing and said that trump would be super duper pro Israel regardless since he is literally a convictedremoved and someone who was impeached

        which you know kinda shocked me ,my dad isn’t a misogynist or anything but he’s a bit sexist ,so hearing him bring up trump being aremoved made me realize something

        my mom and dad are both lawyer (defense attorney’s) ,so is my uncle and grandpa ,so it does make sense for them to care about the law

        but what it made me realize is if Palestine was a self governing country with elections a guy like trump could never win because people care about the law

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    There’s… a lot I want to comment about:

    Robin Reiter, a single mother with a 13-year-old son, didn’t hesitate to jump into the mix in response to a commenter who told angry members to “get your panties out of a crunch and just relax.” “We are literally terrified that a mayor who won’t condemn Hamas and won’t condemn the phrase ‘Globalize the Intifada’ is now running the city with the second largest Jewish population in the world,” the 49-year-old wrote.

    Reiter says she’s now considering a move to Hoboken, New Jersey, as a result of Mamdani’s win. “It feels very immoral to me at this moment to pay tax dollars to a city that just elected someone who would love to see my people murdered,” she told me. “We’re all looking for an out, because I can’t jeopardize the safety of my son.”

    ??? I lose hope everyday when I see people fall for blatant bigoted propaganda against a not even that socialist Mayor

    She vented this frustration on a thread where moms debated the baseless accusation that the mayor-elect plans to implement Sharia law. “It’s always mind-numbing when folks bring up, for instance, Mamdani’s ‘lack of experience’ when the ENTIRETY of this current administration are the least qualified, most WTF choices arguably in American history,” she wrote. “And are the reason Mamdani even stood a chance.”

    A rare lib appeared But yeah, before this I think she was also calling out the NYC Trump voters which is funny, if anyone in that lib space wants more reason to not vote Cuomo (which according to the article, the anti-Mamdani moms did), is that he was endorsed by the DJT, which… if you’re not living below ground in an underground bunker has been hated by a majority of Americans.

    The 38-year-old wants to raise her toddler somewhere with a police officer on every corner and is concerned that Mamdani may pull funding from the NYPD in favor of mental-health-outreach workers. She also doesn’t like his plan to phase out gifted and talented programs for kindergarten students. “That just completely eliminates any ability for me to consider sending my child to a public school,” Sarah told me. “Part of the reason why people pay to live on specific blocks of the Upper East Side is so they can go to PS6.”

    Now this, I’m not sure, someone correct me, I didn’t hear anything about something education related to Zohran Mandani, is he doing so? If so, why again, I forget… If not, then uh… IDK. As for the police in every corner thing, she’s a typical american propagandized to think police are for the people.

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      The 38-year-old wants to raise her toddler somewhere with a police officer on every corner

      she may have had 38 birthdays but this woman is 12

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      phase out gifted and talented programs for kindergarten students.

      They’re kindergarteners, I don’t think they need to be ranked and categorized by mental talent at that age, maybe wait until they learn multiplication and division before deciding which ones are on the fast track to advanced degrees.

      No idea if he’s even doing this, but he should.

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      He just wants to get rid of it in kindergarden, which is a good thing; all the ‘sorting’ that happens at that age is based in pseudoscience that isn’t regarded as legitimate by ed. experts, but of course there is a cottage industry in it. Understanding who’s gifted and who isn’t doesn’t really happen until a few years later.