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Coolness Averted posted:I'm not sure if that thing where they squint and find synonyms, anagrams,and secret clues is induced schizophrenia that leaves people finding false patterns, or if it's a matter of so much media consumption they have baby brains that process everything like it's a TV show or movie. It's brain damage. Brain damage and untreated severe mental illness. And making GBS threads out some vile, incoherent screed on twitter or wherever is normalised as long as you're racist about it.
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I’m guessing the video itself isn’t paid for by the makeup brand and is the posters true feelings, however they’ve chosen to promote said video and thus is flagged as an ad?
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Jul 17, 2023 21:11
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Read After Burning posted:My partner read that and enjoyed it, although there's apparently a bit too much focus on how horny the protagonist is now that his wife is dead. I don't remember that part but also it's been 15 years and that definitely sounds like the sort of thing Matheson would get hung up on.
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Jul 17, 2023 21:31
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Hey, remember this lady from back in December 2022?Read After Burning posted:If you're gonna be a "Tiktok surgeon", you may wanna.....not. Well, she lost her medical license for good! https://twitter.com/InTheKnow/status/1679517400813772801 https://twitter.com/13abc/status/1679536174795218949 https://twitter.com/WDTN/status/1679528731981774849 EL BROMANCE posted:I’m guessing the video itself isn’t paid for by the makeup brand and is the posters true feelings, however they’ve chosen to promote said video and thus is flagged as an ad? I think that's it!  Baron von Eevl posted:I don't remember that part but also it's been 15 years and that definitely sounds like the sort of thing Matheson would get hung up on. I don't think it's anything TOO detailed, just something about the lady vampires bending over in front of the protagonist's window to mess with him.
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Jul 17, 2023 21:50
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Yeah, that sounds like Matheson alright.
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Jul 17, 2023 21:54
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steinrokkan posted:Uh, I forgot to buy milk again. Welp, better take my highly illegal trafficked child slaves with me to the Piggly Wiggly Actually maybe my favorite part is them implying 10% of crying children are trafficking victims.
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Isn’t that sort of what happened with Elizabeth Smart? The kidnappers just took her out in public. Not that I’m defending the IoSM here or anything.
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Jul 17, 2023 22:01
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I Am Legend is half evocative loneliness and half the goofiest poo poo. The protagonist breaks down weeping from the lack of sex and later it's mentioned that it's been 10 months since his wife died. The vampires that congregate outside his home every night have two tactics to try and get him to come outside so they can kill him: 1. Male vamp - ask him to come outside 2. Female vamp - wiggle bare crotch At one point he's late getting back and fights his way through all of them to get through the door, makes them seem super weak. But the melancholy... one simple part that got to me was him having sherbert for dessert
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steinrokkan posted:Uh, I forgot to buy milk again. Welp, better take my highly illegal trafficked child slaves with me to the Piggly Wiggly I read somewhere 1 in 10 children is actively being trafficked at any given time. Luckily there's a helpful secret code and warning signs to help you spot this: -Is the child waving an arm? This is to get your attention -Is the child stomping a foot? This is potentially morse code to alert witnesses -Are they crying? Distressed? Potentially saying "no" or unintelligible things? This is because they do not want to be trafficked -Other key phrases include"Mommy!" Or "Daddy" as in "(this is not my) Mommy/Daddy!" -The child may feign falling down, or getting hurt in order to make their crying seem to be for another reason and dupe their attacker. -Traffickers generally target children at least 10-20 years younger than them. Always be wary of an adult you do not know accompanying a child you haven't seen them with before. -Not all trafficking victims will act out, many have learned they must act affectionate towards their abductors or otherwise feign happiness. A smiling child, or one laughing at things you don't find funny may have been drugged! -Traffickers often hide in plain sight, if you routinely see an adult you do not know accompanying the same child (sometimes for years) be ready to act!
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chglcu posted:Isn’t that sort of what happened with Elizabeth Smart? The kidnappers just took her out in public. Not that I’m defending the IoSM here or anything. Smart was older than "throwing a tantrum" age, and had been conditioned against acting out by her abductors when they began bringing her into public, chiefly by threatening to kill her if she did literally anything. They also disguised her to make it even less obvious that she didn't belong with them. CW: rape: She also blamed abstinence-only sex ed for her unwillingness to act out, because once she was raped she believed she was ruined and so it wasn't worth escaping anyway.
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Data Graham posted:Such innocent times https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2ZAc0xC9hbw Behind the innocence hides a tragic backstory.
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Didn't one of those nutters straight-up grab some guy's kid in the checkout at a drug store and try running to their car with them (aka, kidnapping) because they were convinced the only reason an adult male would be in public with a kid was abuse?
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chglcu posted:Isn’t that sort of what happened with Elizabeth Smart? The kidnappers just took her out in public. Not that I’m defending the IoSM here or anything. The couple that took her were a weird homeless couple. They always wore these white-ish full body wrap things and dressed Elizabeth the same in public. My memories of the couple were just that they were some weird religious nuts I occasionally saw in downtown SLC or on a bus and that was years before the abduction. disaster pastor posted:Smart was older than "throwing a tantrum" age, and had been conditioned against acting out by her abductors when they began bringing her into public, chiefly by threatening to kill her if she did literally anything. They also disguised her to make it even less obvious that she didn't belong with them. and this... especially the CW bit.
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The Eye of Argon is legit fun to read, spelling errors and all. You should read it if you haven't.
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Byzantine posted:Didn't one of those nutters straight-up grab some guy's kid in the checkout at a drug store and try running to their car with them (aka, kidnapping) because they were convinced the only reason an adult male would be in public with a kid was abuse? There's been multiple cases of this sort of thing, including someone basically livetweeting their attempt at 'saving a trafficking victim' in a store. It boiled down to they made up in their mind a man would never be in public with a girl unless it was trafficking. Warning signs the girl was being abducted included that she wasn't comfortable talking to the strange woman who approached her and that the father seemed agitated that a weirdo wouldn't leave his child alone. They luckily didn't try grabbing and fleeing with the girl, but after failing to convince the child to leave with her, they tried talking to the store manager about it lol
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Byzantine posted:Didn't one of those nutters straight-up grab some guy's kid in the checkout at a drug store and try running to their car with them (aka, kidnapping) because they were convinced the only reason an adult male would be in public with a kid was abuse? It's happened on planes a few times; parents of one race (perceived or otherwise) traveling with a kid of another race (perceived or otherwise) getting accused of kidnapping. New York Post article from 2020 posted:A black social worker is suing American Airlines, alleging her civil rights were violated after she was detained under suspicion of kidnapping a one-year-old white boy. People Magazine article from 2021 posted:A white mother who was traveling with her Black daughter is demanding an apology from Southwest Airlines after being suspected of human trafficking. Also Lindsay Lohan once apparently tried it with a Syrian refugee child, but she may have been having a mental break at the time. 
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Thinking that “light-skinned and blond” kid may be hispanic isn’t that weird, but thinking that one‐year‐old may be five years old is.
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Vib Rib posted:I think this is my favorite part. The idea that they've just kidnapped a child and are now casually shopping with them like it's nbd. Just butt in to random families and demand to see the child's birth certificate so you know they're not child traffickers disguised as suburban shoppers! This is very normal. I used to work for a nonprofit that combatted TiP (I didn’t work with the department that focused on children) and I always lol at these. The sheer amount of misinformation on how it happens is staggering. People think that it’s like, throwing kids in vans in broad daylight. Or when covid popped off and people were like “if kids have masks on, you can’t see when they have duct tape over their mouths!”. It reminds me of how early on in breaking bad Walt wants to do a deal at a junkyard and both parties are like “why the gently caress are we here? We usually just meet at the mall”. I live in a US city that is regularly #3/4 for human trafficking nationwide. It’s a relatively small city, but it has a bunch of really high traffic areas (sports stadiums, malls, event centers) that area right next to each other. Most human trafficking (not the kidnapping part, the selling/moving) happens in a parking lot before kickoff or at 2PM on a Saturday. And what’s ironic is that it’s these TikTok yokels who post all day about “secret hand signal traffickers use!!!” are typically providing the cover for traffickers while they’re shopping at H&M and getting drunk in a parking lot before the big game.
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if they really cared about human trafficking then they would passionately advocate for fewer barriers to migration. but they dont for some reason
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There just aren't consequences for spreading misinformation. Anyone can make a TikTok and say "kids in red jackets are a sign for potential slavers that this one is up for sale" and just go on with their day. People will do anything but check on legitimate websites for what real human trafficking looks like.
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ELTON JOHN posted:if they really cared about human trafficking then they would passionately advocate for fewer barriers to migration. but they dont for some reason The largest human trafficking cases have generally been cases of unscrupulous employment agencies abusing (h)(1)(b) guest worker visas. But no "vigilante" is going to give a poo poo about some poor farm worker in Arizona working in slave labor conditions.
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around 80% of nigerian woman arriving in europe across the mediterranean have spent time in the hands of human traffickers, and european countries are happy to funnel hundreds of millions of euros into morocco and libya to prevent them from crossing. the only way theyre getting across is by going into debt to various mafias, and a young migrant woman arriving in europe with debts to pay off is gonna be forced to pay it off with prostitution
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cult_hero posted:The largest human trafficking cases have generally been cases of unscrupulous employment agencies abusing (h)(1)(b) guest worker visas. But no "vigilante" is going to give a poo poo about some poor farm worker in Arizona working in slave labor conditions. Isn't there that thing in....the UAE, I think? Where rich families will hire poor women from other countries like the Philippines to be maids, etc., confiscate their passports/IDs once they arrive, and then just...don't let them leave? I seem to remember some UAE influencer being accused of this and essentially defending it as not a big deal?  Here we go! I don't think this is the woman I'm thinking of (the one I'm thinking of was more recent), but here's an example: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sondos_Alqattan#Video_on_domestic_workers Read After Burning has a new favorite as of 23:19 on Jul 17, 2023 |
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The anatomy of a moral panic is to identify a real issue (child abuse, human trafficking, drug overdoses, etc) and then redirect energy and outrage away from a complicated, difficult to solve issue (abuse of authority by trusted family or community members, the failures of the immigration system/misogyny/capitalism, a broken healthcare and social service system) to a conveniently already mostly powerless scapegoat. The Satanic Panic came in the wake of increased cultural awareness of child abuse as a thing and redirected suspicion away from people it would be inconvenient to suspect or inconvenience like parents in respected families, respected members of the community like clergy, and other potential authority figures in a position to abuse the trust of a child to a convenient Other of evil scheming daycare workers that want to undermine God and the American family. It turns something that could actually threaten the status quo into a reason the status quo is not only in no way involved, but actually under attack by these evil outsiders!
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ELTON JOHN posted:if they really cared about human trafficking then they would passionately advocate for fewer barriers to migration. but they dont for some reason Right, I've ranted about this before (maybe not in this thread) but the majority of human trafficking isn't the lurid child sex rings, it's poo poo like smuggling people seeking jobs into a foreign country and then forcing them to work jobs like farming, cleaning hotels, or construction while paying them illegal wages and controlling their movement. Conservatives also love reframing sex work as 'trafficking' since a lot of the public sentiment on sex work has softened, but we're generally all still repulsed by human slavery or the abuse of children, so they can get us to turn a blind eye to regressive policies and movements or even actively support them.
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It's really easy to get people to believe in folk devils, and extremely hard to dismantle actual broken entrenched systems.
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The shadowy organization that will steal your kid unless you've memorized their secret codes from the various fw:fw:fw: e-mails your cousins keep sending you: definitely real, and wouldn't you feel stupid if your kid got kidnapped by them? Your neighbor's maid whose passport got taken by your neighbor and is afraid to say anything because he's threatening to kill her daughter if she does: probably an illegal, who gives a poo poo?
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Stonehouse Beach posted:I Am Legend is half evocative loneliness and half the goofiest poo poo. I have a second hand copy bought for $1 sitting on my shelves, honestly not sure if I should move it up or down my ‘to read’ list based on that.
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Read After Burning posted:My partner read that and enjoyed it, although there's apparently a bit too much focus on how horny the protagonist is now that his wife is dead. wife dead, so what, let's gently caress Your move, Hemingway
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chglcu posted:Isn’t that sort of what happened with Elizabeth Smart? The kidnappers just took her out in public. Not that I’m defending the IoSM here or anything. They took her out in public but she wasn't throwing temper tantrums. She was found because relatives of the kidnapper recognized him from a police sketch and gave police and media photographs of him and then people recognized him from those photographs.
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Read After Burning posted:Isn't there that thing in....the UAE, I think? Where rich families will hire poor women from other countries like the Philippines to be maids, etc., confiscate their passports/IDs once they arrive, and then just...don't let them leave? My "Involved in human trafficking" T-shirt has people asking a lot of questions already answered by my shirt
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https://twitter.com/JakeMooreUK/status/1680962682726363136
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Coolness Averted posted:Right, I've ranted about this before (maybe not in this thread) but the majority of human trafficking isn't the lurid child sex rings, it's poo poo like smuggling people seeking jobs into a foreign country and then forcing them to work jobs like farming, cleaning hotels, or construction while paying them illegal wages and controlling their movement. "Activists" (quotes intended) love to conflate the difference between these two groups, so they can conjure up images of white middle class women or children being kidnapped from mall parking lots or cruise ships and forced into prostitution. Because the reality of Romanian men crammed into overcrowded lodgings and paid poorly for picking fruit (or Filipina maids having their passports confiscated by their employer, etc.) is far too boring and difficult to deal with. They'll latch onto and defend unlikely sightings (different age, height, hair colour, ethnicity, geography) with all sorts of implausible explanations - the original description was wrong and anyway the kidnappers disguised them and are hustling them about Boise, Monterey and Toronto, surrounded by a team of bodyguards. (Thinking especially of Amy Bradley here: https://lostmediawiki.com/Amy_Lynn_Bradley_(lost_Rhapsody_of_the_Seas_cruise_pictures_of_missing_woman;_1998))
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Remember when chuds were mercilessly mocking anyone that threatened to leave the country if Trump won? How they figured it must be a good idea now! https://twitter.com/JoeyMannarinoUS/status/1680925944440139778?t=uZYujjH3S_-38sXbQgEmow&s=19
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"Biden hasn't gone door to door to confiscate all guns and force us all into gay marriages yet, but he certainly will upon reelection."
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