And the people who are only online and not telling their spouse are significantly more likely to be predators. I'm not saying irl communities don't have predators, they absolutely do, I've been abused by someone I met through one, but being part of irl communities means that if you get reported as an abuser (and the community comes to the conclusion that the report is valid) you can't just change your username and show up to the same events and spaces
captainlezbian
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You sound like an example us irl folk give to draw people away from online only
I'm not surprised it traumatized you, even if you didn't know the whole situation. Suddenly separating a 7 year old from their mom and brother for 2 months without explanation sounds exactly like the shit that would give long term issues
Huh, then I'm baffled unless it's rose hullman
That was a really hard won battle for the intersex community. I'm 30 and if my intersex condition had been caught at birth (it was very minor and hidden by foreskin), I'm pretty sure they'd've moved from pressuring my mom to circumcise to pressuring her to "fix" it.
Theocrats are rarely true believers. We're headed towards the mammonite theocracy
Denver vs Vegas and LA isn't surprising. Cities built on industries that don't require education won't be massively educated
Let me guess the red in Indiana contains Purdue and Bloomington
It's those but so bad it's a disability. Like how just because most people don't hear something from time to time doesn't mean they're all hard of hearing
I'm reminded of that ex Soviet joke about how they always knew the government was lying about their own countries but were shocked to learn it was telling the truth about america
What else would we do? Like it's not ok and we're obviously not ok. But any effort to improve things is met with state violence and further propaganda to convince half the country that we're the problem with America. I'm white, that makes me lucky when it comes to this.
You try explaining to your fellow Americans that it's horrifying that cops do this they'll say "everyone knows you need to do what the cops say and they were just a criminal anyways, and we need the cops to keep us safe." They also love to say "maybe you should experience violent crime and see how you feel about cops then." And let me say, I've experienced violent crime in the past year and my opinion of cops worsened.
But yeah huge swathes of Americans have problems with it. We marched over it in 2020, we've marched over it before and we'll do it again too. But this country is barely a democracy, we're bound between two parties, one that's pro cop but thinks they need slaps on the wrist and more training when they murder people and the other that thinks that doing that is an unacceptable level of punishment. Oh and the deck is stacked in the latter's favor.
I honestly wouldn't be surprised if our nation collapses in the upcoming administration.
People sure do like to act like France isn't one of the most nuclear armed nations