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The Nehor

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  1. Back when it was called the LGB community transgender and other people who now identify as queer were included. They were considered to fall under the B umbrella. The T is not a group isolated from the rest of the community. There was an early disagreement on whether it would be the LGB or GLB movement. The L was given the first position primarily due to their kindness in the 1980s for their care of the rest of the community who contracted HIV. Many lesbians were nurses since that was a career path acceptable for single women then and in the decades before. They also won the conflict to tie the movement more strongly to feminism in general.
  2. I am saying I don’t believe he is concerned with journalistic objectivity much at all.
  3. Considering the trashy news sources you have linked here and used to start threads I don’t believe this for a second.
  4. That would be speculative. We don’t know how often church policies facilitate the detection and cessation of abuse. The notoriously biased AP who are basically contract journalists trying to sell stories? Yeah, they are biased towards stories that sell.
  5. I didn’t report anyone. I have only submitted a few reports in my many years here and I think they were all sarcastic and designed to the amuse the mods. I once reported someone for heresy for drinking caffeinated soda for example. The mods might hate me.
  6. I have four. One is grumpy and taciturn and mostly just wants me to give him treats and be left alone. One is a jumpy little athlete and he likes to use me as a jungle gym. One is a warrior and defender and she lets me play with the others, she also loves climbing. Then there is the frightened one but she is getting more self-assured as she gets older.
  7. No, that is impressive. Most gliders won’t hold still long enough to get thrown like that. I am actually a little worried. They are nocturnal so this might just be stressing the little guy/girl out.
  8. The geopolitical situation is pretty stable actually. Sure, there are regional conflicts but one of the two big autocratic powers is being shown to be a paper tiger, the situation in Israel is localized, and the latest situation with the Houthi is going to end with them getting smacked down hard. Despite their social media star pirate (and he is dreamy) the Houthi are making no friends and piracy is something pretty much the whole world takes very seriously. The economy of the world as a whole runs on cheap and safe water travel. Losing that means a huge drop in the standard of living world wide and (more importantly to many) it is messing with the money of the wealthy. As one of my favorite writers quipped: “Do you want a third Barbary war? Because this is how you get a third Barbary war.” Then there is Myanmar, Tunisia, and Sudan and a bunch of other ongoing insurgencies and minor conflicts. On the whole the geopolitical situation is pretty stable. I don’t want to downplay the suffering current conflicts are causing where they are happening as they are having horrific effects but there isn’t a lot of escalation that is likely from what is going on right now. Things can always change and even change quickly but I don’t see indications they will.
  9. I heard they were abducting children and forcing them to roll pizza dough in the basements of Pizza Hut restaurants but that the children are all sick now due to 5G.
  10. What are you going to do instead? Go outside? There are SNAKES out there you fool.
  11. No, more and more reputable scientists are not doing that. Don’t give those doubting their faith houses built upon sand. They don’t last long and the feeling of betrayal when you realize theists have lied to you makes it more likely you will leave later out of sheer frustration at their deception.
  12. Not many, only a few. Other punishments for apostasy are more common such as being legally disinherited or imprisoned. Extrajudicial killings for apostasy are more common.
  13. So do we call them the “January Six”? I am sure that won’t get confused with anything.
  14. The Fall of Minneapolis was created by Alpha News. Even in the current age of journalism Alpha News is BAD. They appear to have been formed by a group of Tea Party Republicans but protect their anonymity. They publish articles but often there is no byline. Think about that. No journalist is willing to take credit or stand by a lot of what the organization is saying. https://mediabiasfactcheck.com/alpha-news/ They mostly peddle Islamophobia and conspiracy theories. They are not a reliable source and will outright lie. There are plenty of refutations of the documentary out there. Also I am tired of the “he was no angel” defense. It relies on the twin ideas that police brutality is okay as long as the person is “bad enough” and that the police somehow knew and took this person’s history into account when deciding how brutal to be.
  15. Also a thousand times this!
  16. Stones and glass houses and all of that.
  17. And you jump topics again to avoid having to actually discuss anything. You are like the anti-Mormon who throws everything at the wall hoping something will stick and when someone points out that something you said is wrong you point to the vast amount of unproven evidence you have. This is like the alleged vast amount of proof (loads of it) that there was massive voter fraud in the last presidential election. They talked up the volume of it but when they went to court they had nothing. They never published the “binders” full of evidence they supposedly had and when hauled down and forced to get to the meat of it all they had were suppositions and data that didn’t mean anything. See, I can randomly topic jump too.
  18. Most of that isn’t happening and most child sex trafficking doesn’t work that way anyways so I assume you are just dragging this in just for funsies. Also most organizations that fight human trafficking don’t make it a point to interfere in US government operations primarily for legal reasons and not wanting to get shut down and arrested. Why isn’t Tim Ballard running to the border and shooting all the bad guys? Also I suspect you are trying to drag politics in which is bad. BAD POSTER! You are going to bat for a guy whose own organization has written him off as a liability due to his sexual philandering? Oh, and look at that. Four more criminal sexual assault complaints were just filed within the last few days. Isn’t that something?
  19. I don’t think it is helpful. Based on online reactions those who watched the movie and believed the message basically cheered on the idea that paramilitary action was the key to stopping the problem. Just throw enough “good guys with guns” at the problem and we can solve it. Try to talk about mitigating poverty, trying to provide resources to assist children and the their parents, and the like as solutions and I am guessing they wouldn’t be enthusiastic.
  20. I am not denying that human trafficking is a HUGE problem. I am not sure why you think this is some kind of vindication of Ballard or this movie. It is a red herring. The movie portrayed human trafficking in an inaccurate way. By misrepresenting the problem Ballard can show that he is the solution. He wants us to think that what we need are a bunch of Rambo-style badasses out of an action movie and he is ready to play that role. The movie indirectly aids human trafficking by pointing people who see it to the wrong problem and the wrong solution. There are organizations out there that understand the problem, come up with ways to mitigate it, and do good work to help people avoid it and escape it. Then there is Tim Ballard. All the reputable organizations question his methods and see them as counterproductive. He is all style and no substance. He is trying for dramatic moments and video shoots publicity while doing little good and actively doing harm. Money that could go to competent people fighting the problem instead goes to fund Ballard’s showmanship. Tim Ballard is the equivalent of someone seeing that Prohibition has some negative impacts and decides to mitigate them by becoming Al Capone and profiting off of it.
  21. It was misrepresented in just about every possible way and set up in a way to convey that impression. Calling it ‘based on a true story’ is still a huge stretch. It is propaganda.
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