Yeah, they aren’t going to investigate shit. They spent two decades shrieking about voter fraud, that’s always entirely been a horseshit excuse to make it more difficult for women and minorities to vote.
This should be on the news everyday. This is a bigger fucking deal than the “hanging chads” were, but since no one is watching the watchmen the best we’ll ever get is this kind of analysis.
“Provide evidence”
provides evidence
“Actually that doesn’t count and actually it also invalidates your argument.”
Arguing with conservatives is always the same, ain’t it?
Also: “if Elon’s dick didn’t work the news would be so eager to report it the fact they haven’t means it must” is the stupidest argument I’ve ever heard. Why do you need the fascist strongman to be virile so much that you abandon basic logic?
There has been reporting on irregularities.
When you have a literal billionaire who bought one of the worlds largest social media platforms and has the other ones fellating him - when late stage capitalism has effectively killed journalism and most news is shared primarily through social media, truth is hard.
If there was any real evidence of that being true, it would definitely have been reported on way more widely.
He literally rigged the election and the news didn’t cover it lol
Fox News etc had the stupider republicans convinced that Obama was going to declare martial law to get a third term. This was something I had family members scared of.
Every accusation is a projection…
“Any ‘abuse’ came in the aftermath, when I was made a scapegoat in order to protect his powerful position.”
And that’s what seals the deal for me. If Clinton gave a shit about Lewinsky, he would have at least tried to protect her somewhat in the fallout. He had fun, she had consequences.
People on the left treated her like shit - I guess it is further evidence that Bill Maher has always been awful. She got played on manipulated on both sides. Her reputation was trashed and she had a hard time finding work after - it destroyed her career and future.
This was a boss that took advantage of his power and authority to get a couple loads out, and then disposed of the person once they became our nation’s designated bearer of the scarlet letter.
I had sex with men who were much older than me when I was in my early twenties. The difference was that they weren’t my boss.
Dan Savage I think had something about “campground rules” too - if you are going to have sexual relations with a legal consenting adult you are significantly older than, it’s on you to use your greater experience to leave that partner better than you found them.
Her video on trans issues has made it very difficult to take her seriously as a thinker. The same types of manipulative half truths and tropes I see from TERFs pretending they have the “reasonable” view, while also spreading the hysteric media narrative about the kids getting transed.
Are you a woman? How the fuck do you meaningfully say no to sex with the President?
Go fuck yourself with that “taking away women’s agency” bullshit. Bosses don’t get to sleep with employees. Teachers don’t get to sleep with students.
Monica got treated like shit for decade. That’s not “hot as hell” unless you’re a creepy misogynist that gets off on women being public humiliated.
Whitewater real estate scandal. Kenneth Starr was investigating him for that and when they couldn’t find anything actionable, they switched to the perjury and sex.
I’m not a fan of a President using their power to have an intern blow them (I don’t think there’s meaningful consent there), but it doesn’t compare to raping multiple women, peeping on teenage girls at Miss Teen America, and making comments about how you’d fuck your daughter if that was an option. The aristocrats!
Lying about sleeping with an intern - impeachment
Lying about sharing classified information on an insecure group chat - “he’s just a widdle guy 😢”
The line at every DMV at all three of the cities I have lived and worked in starts at 3 am.
To get my drivers license the first time, we had to try three times to get a testing spot. (And the first time they failed me because of my leftist bumper stickers 🙃)
I tried to get a real ID a couple years ago, and somehow my documentation wasn’t correct. They demanded my marriage license and didn’t like something about it.
Bureaucratic institutions have already not been functioning in the south.
Red states also resisted the RealID rollout. They kept having to delay the requirements for requiring them for flights, because states like Oklahoma were pissing and moaning the entire time.
The same kinds of places that don’t want the wrong kind of people to vote intentionally have made the process of getting that identification difficult. I have no idea why I was turned away for a RealID a few years ago, and now I’m not even going to try because having my marker reverted back to an ‘F’ would probably get me killed.
Say one wanted a career change to mental health policy and advocacy - what kind of terminal degree would be taken seriously in these conversations? Or what are the avenues for laymen to be listened to?
I’ve experienced horrendous shit, advocated for people experiencing horrendous shit, seen shit…. My state does not give a flying fuck.
I just do not understand why so much mental health policy and practice seems counter to helping people.
How does one organize to put pressure on the APA then….
I don’t understand how the troubled teen industry is allowed to exist. I don’t know if there needs to be some kind of regulation on licensing requirements or what.
The federal government doesn’t regulate; there’s so many ways for them to avoid state regulation. You’d think - the TTI typically traumatizes survivors in a way that leaves them opposed to all forms of mental health care - this needs to be a priority for investigation and research.
There also needs to be a serious push on protections and oversight of inpatient facilities. Especially with the way that the current administration is likely to use institutionalization as a tool for political purposes. I’m familiar with how inpatient facilities work in two states, and have both seen the long term damage and experienced it myself. Patient safety is a serious concern, especially considering that the most vulnerable cannot advocate for themselves.
It is probably how I’m going to get disappeared, so it is a very pressing concern.
This does bring up the other inherent issue: state licensing boards are in theory guided by the ethical code of whatever.
This is the kicker. Doesn’t matter what the APA or anyone says if your state doesn’t feel like going along with their requirements. (I don’t think any providers in Oklahoma are investigated for anything barring a rape with physical evidence).
Yeah, where the fuck is this “rules don’t apply” when it’s legal weed or college debt?
The Right’s assault on education for the past half century is a massive tantrum over desegregation. The goal is to return to whites only schools, which can be done easily with privatized education.
Controlling the universities is for control of information.
The Nazis could easily burn down the Institute of Sex Research and all it contents. Today’s fascists cannot burn down the science on queer people and global warming.
Universities have smart people who can say “hey this is the way your economic policies are harming this group of people” or “being LGBT is a normal human variation” or “the American civil war was fought over slavery” or “here are characteristics that seem to be common to every incarnation of fascism, and how they all seem to be related to what’s happening now.”
The idiot arm attacks knowledge online with Alex Jones style “information warfare” - just repeating insane falsehoods over and over again. Never playing defense, always flooding the web with lies and half truths. This is also why fascists love AI so much. (How much time do people waste arguing with bots? And the amount of bots makes these ideas seem more “normal” and common then they are…)