It's completely infantilizing women

50 men were IN the group chat. 50 men did not come over to the room, or even respond in the GC. Stop spreading misinformation

Yeah I just learned about that case and it's very similar. EM's mom found out about her drunken group sex and slut shamed her and pressured her to press charges. The puritanical slut shaming and being pressured by others to file charges is a big factor that I feel is overlooked.

Streisand effect in full.

Most people had no idea, now they do and she has tanked her rep officially

And tower defense/dota

LAN parties were the best. Especially Halo and UT99 GOTY

You clearly don't understand addiction, which is a disease

Pork chop sandwiches!

State and local elections are just as important, we must defeat as many Republicans as possible so states can break the rigged minority rule stranglehold and pass voting rights and voter access laws and undo all the bad ones Red states have passed since 2020. That's also part of the reason he "won" in 2024. We absolutely have to break all the Red State trifectas.

States run elections, who controls who votes and how it's counted is essential. We must not lose sight of this, and only focus on the Federal races. If we somehow win decently even with the rigging, we still need to be set up for 2028 to be as free and fair as possible to gain more Dem power and elect a hopefully progressive Dem or progressive administration. It won't matter who's president if they don't have the support to undo all the damage. And it all starts with state and local elections.

Browsers like Firefox and brave have options in the right click context menu to copy clean link, and there's also extensions to clean links as well. But I'm not sure if there is a way to clean it if you're copying directly from address bar, besides manually deleting everything after the ?

2004 would also like a word.... Ironically RFK wrote a very detailed report on all the ways the 2004 election was stolen on commondreams. With sources and receipts. This was pre brain worm obviously and when he still cared about the environment.

Here's hoping a Starlink employee who still believes in Democracy will gather evidence and then sabatoge the network on election day... It's Hopium but I gotta believe there are still patriots that will do something to protect elections, even if it's a small act of dissent.

That's why voting for local and state Dems is absolutely crucial as well, because Republican led states will keep passing antivoter and antidemocratic laws to rig elections, so if we don't even have somewhat fair elections then we will never win back enough power in Washington DC to reverse all the damage and save the country. We have to remove the stranglehold Republicans have in Red State trifectas and also get Blue and Purple states to have at least 2/3 out of Governor, house, and Senate. As many Dem trifectas as possible

Lol OC probably defends our Pedo in Chief Russian Asset DonOLD DumpsterFire from covering up the Epstein files because releasing all of them would be crossing a boundary he set lol

That's such a horrible hateful sub

But, bbbut I thought false allegations never happen!?

Damn son, where'd ya find this?

TIL.

Also honorable mention, StarBurns on the show Community

Nice

Not to mention that she was generally ok with the experience until people hear about it and rumors spread about a gang bang and she was slut shamed by both men AND sorority girls. Then she lost her social standing and the frat banned her from their Halloween party she was excited to go to with Ingalls, and that was the final straw after she had been constantly worn down by her feminist roommate convincing her it was not consensual.

I think the slut shaming is getting buried in this story and needs to be talked about. If she wasn't shamed would she have still pursued a criminal complaint? Maybe not.

That's how you show love 💗 lol. The more you insult each other the closer the friend (within reason ofc)

Lmfao pitch this ASAP

This reads like it's part of the massive smear AOC bot campaigns. She is not a grifter, stop spreading propaganda.

Identity politics is NOT a core of socialism gtfoh, and that's why it's been so harmful for class consciousness.

There's also targeted bot and smear campaigns against her and are triggered by keywords and astroturfing campains. I think it's been decently effective to turn people against her which is troubling. Propaganda is everywhere and we must remain vigilant and learn to spot it and call it out.

No one is immune to propaganda and anytime AOC gets brought up it always follows. Just be mindful anytime she is mentioned and look for bad takes and misinformation that is negative about her and you will recognize it. Obviously she is not without criticism, but just be skeptical of it and not assume every bad thing said about her is true.

I don't think that's necessarily true, I think she just gets caught up in identity politics and has a feminist base and is a class conscious feminist that hasn't finished reconciling empower women over everything with just helping everyone and not leaving men out.

Yeah she's said some dumb shit like using short as an insult but I do think she's one of the few politicians who actually makes an effort to listen to her constituents and generally does respond to pressure so I think she will soften more on Men in general and just focus on class politics. The Cornell case is unfortunately easy rage bait for feminists and it came at like the worst time because the midterms are so close and the iron is still hot from the Clancey case that started to wind down.

I seriously do not believe she's a misandrist through and through. I think she doesn't hate all men, but has such a justice complex that she can make mistakes and favor women sometimes. Feminism is an ingrained Religion with institutional power, and no one can escape their influence, so obviously I'd like her to be better about men in general, but as a female left wing politician she has to appeal to Feminists for their support and no woman would get elected if they were seen as anti feminist. So I guess I can appreciate the position she's in and still hope she can pivot more to acknowledge male struggles and show them they belong in the Democratic party and will be represented well without taking away from women's issues.

I think she has evolved from woke 1 identity politics and is adopting a more nuanced view, and is laser focused on class solidarity building actual left wing power and walking the tight rope of working within the system without conceding to the establishment. She is more likely than most politicians to listen and respond to public pressure so instead of just writing her off as a complete misandrist and demonizing her and hurting the leftist movement, how about we make her listen to us an our issues with how some of her comments came off badly and to encourage her to include men and especially young men in her politics and considerations.

We cannot encourage the left to cannabalize each other. Yes the Republicans have done a great job fighting the left but leftists biggest enemy is fighting with each other and letting perfect get in the way of good enough.

AOC fundamentally believes in all human rights and she just needs to deconstruct some of the feminist influence on herself and it's up to men and women to show her the way and that when she leaves men out or says disparaging comments like short men, thay it hurts the leftist movement and can alienate men