Police aid, abet, and participate in corruption?? Say it ain’t so!

/s just in case

A baby can die in utero as a result of neglect and they’d say it was God’s will

and then prosecute the person whose uterus it was for “terminating” the pregnancy (even if we remove the neglect factor, also much of “neglect” is just poverty and lack of community and social support, which they promote under the guise of “nuclear family”), and the doctors involved for delivering the dead foetus, and maybe even give someone a hefty reward for reporting them.

While religion figures will often try their best to extract money, it’s still “free to play”, and I would say occupies mind rather than body.

I think for-profit healthcare is a better example in this case - literally charging you to keep your body alive (E: though capitalism a whole and its commodification of the things we all need to survive in addition to healthcare like water food and shelter would also qualify).

Bribes aren’t exactly a thing in Switzerland. I’m not saying there isn’t corruption but it’s not common.

Ba ha hahahaha… Thanks, I needed a good laugh…

Having you, a random citizen think there are no bribes and little corruption (I can’t even type it without laughing) doesn’t mean there aren’t any.

Switzerland, the country that claims “neutrality” but acts as the world’s best known financial, and physical, haven for not only the “anonymous” filthy rich like this family (who still have more influence on society as a whole than you can imagine), but actual dictators and war criminals, past and present, too IS corruption, in its entire essence. Its economical and political existence relies heavily on some of if not the dirtiest and most ill gotten money on the planet (the least dirty of which comes from wage theft on a global scale). Being discreet and polite about bribes and corruption is why. Maintaining favour with the evil people whose assets they protect will always be prioritised over anything else, including their local population (who are generally happy to look the other way as long as the dirty money keeps them in a relatively high standard of living, which is why they are kept in a relatively high standard of living), never mind the poor and or enslaved people overseas who are the ones actually paying the price.

That said they have to pay nearly a million dollars to the victims.

That IS a bribe, they’re literally throwing pocket change at the problem to make it go away. Going on their net worth of $70.8b, if they spent a whole million dollars a day, they wouldn’t notice it missing for nearly 200 years. And I say again - 4 of those years are categorically not going to be spent in prison, because they are never going to serve their entire sentence (and whatever part they might serve will undoubtedly be in greater comfort than they ever provided to those they enslave, and I deliberately use present tense because this isn’t going to stop them), which was already a corrupt and pathetic slap on the wrist to begin with.

This isn’t how you stop the filthy rich from enslaving people, this is how you put on a show for the poors to pretend to care while you continue to enable the exploiters and oppressors, because your government and economy depend on it (and because all of those “corruption scores” you see out there are based on perception, not fact).

And you’re buying the act.

Never going to happen. I’m just going to leave this here:

Blair right that a woman has a vagina and a man has a penis, Starmer says

Ok, I’ve had a proper read through now, I’ll admit there is a lot to process, but this a lot of sense (and some bits I was already doing without even realising, like trying to get space away from triggers).

I think my situation is tricky because the main person triggering me is my nibling, whose family I live with (I’ve been here since they were born and I’m often left to care for them during the day. Cuddling and playing and just spending hours on the couch watching cartoons with them used to be my escape, but for the past couple of months external stress has gotten worse, and after they “pushed me” on a really bad day and that brain switch has flipped, every time they want to be around me I feel like they’re “pushing me” and fight/flight which is the constant state of my autistic brain anyway, ramps up even more), so I can’t get away from them for any decent length of time, and they’re just a kid and it’s difficult to explain my growing boundaries (every time one gets crossed, by “hostile” or “friendly”, rationally I can tell the difference but irrationally they both have the same impact - a stricter boundary can’t help but pop up in its place, in self defence) and why I need them to stay away from me (or, if they keep “pushing”, why I’m suddenly horrible to them even though they don’t deserve it).

I don’t want to push them away, I rationally know they mean no harm and just want to give and be given love, but I also just need my boundaries respected.

The one thing I have avoided doing is reminiscing about good times because it makes me too upset that I’ve gone from that to this and I spiral in to a really dark place, but I do see how it might help, so I’m going to try my best to try it. I think some of the other advice is a little tricky for someone with sensory processing difficulties though).

Anyway, I won’t ramble any longer, thank you again, I’ve not actually talked about this to anyone else, and I feel like this exchange is a good first step to at least try and fix things.

I do wish I could find a descent therapist though… -_-

Wow, I wasn’t really expecting a reply, never mind something this through!

It’s past 2am here, so my brain can’t take it all in right now, so I’ll give it a proper read tomorrow when I can better process it and reply accordingly, but I just wanted to say I really appreciate your effort, thank you!

the behavioral pathway will flip and the calming trigger will start causing anxiety instead because that’s when you’re doing it most

You might have no idea, but since you bring it up I might as well ask - any way of reversing this once it’s happened? Recently my stress levels have been so heightened that that switch has flipped on some of the things (and people) that gave me most comfort and instead now they just cause me rage, and I’m struggling to find a way back (am autistic too which I understand can make this even harder)…

Making the racist the butt of the joke is still openly airing and giving a platform to racism on tv, and as your anecdote proves, some people (those it’s actually aimed at) don’t see it as a joke at all because they are that person, and being the “star” of a tv show only emboldens them (and those who the bigotry targets are still the ones actually being targeted, whoever the butt of the joke supposedly is).

Also, that isn’t the case for this show, where it isn’t the bigot who is the butt of the joke, but those calling him out.

Either way, it was garbage then, and it’s garbage now, trying to make it ok somehow is completely missing the point (that both examples exists to pander to bigots, full stop).

At this point, no, this is international.

E: ok, so right after posting I realised you said international not intentional, but I’m leaving my original reply as is, for those who might not know:

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For example, the board of the review, that didn’t include any trans people (because “bias”), did include at least 3 (that we know of) members of SEGM(so called " Society For Evidence-Based Gender Medicine", but really just a transphobic org), as well as being commissioned by an openly transphobic government.

It was always intended to be anti-trans.

Ok, that still doesn’t make the situation any less ironic.

If only, but sadly there are enough people out there who want this kind of content, many tv execs among them (I don’t doubt for a minute that many of them see themselves as “Douglas” - the potential victims of “the woke agenda” and feel it’s their mission to “educate” the public on why cancelling bigots is the worst thing happening in the world today). It’s basically a self portrait of those in charge…

While them getting a jail sentence is good, the term is a joke, especially since they’re not likely to actually serve it all or even any of it (house arrest, time served, “good behaviour”, bribes, they aren’t short of ways nor money to get around it), and are probably the most likely to re-offend out of anyone who has ever stepped foot in a jail…

I would be much more excited if they were made to pay their earnings for the duration that they kept slaves, to the people they enslaved (never mind all the other people they have and continue to exploit to get to be the richest people), and were then kept under constant supervision to make sure they don’t start doing it again as soon as they possibly can. (I am well aware this will unfortunately never happen)

Nothing, and never let them make you think otherwise.

Sure, and I never said otherwise, but still find it deeply ironic coming from someone writing an article about exactly that (having a modern “blind spot” some are comfortable maintaining)… ¯\(ツ)/¯

Really don’t know that I would classify this as a comedy, maybe a joke, but definitely not funny…

The only people I could imagine liking this are the kind of “anti woke” gammon who fanboy for trump or Pierce Morgan. 🤢

This is an interesting read and it makes some good points, but I find it ironic that the author can see that our modern issues with nudity didn’t always apply to humans (or our close ancestors/other hominids), yet makes claims like:

Because human babies require a long period of care before they can survive on their own, evolutionary interdisciplinary researchers have theorized that early humans adopted the strategy of pair bonding – a man and a woman partnering after forming a strong affinity for one another. By working together, the two can more easily manage years of parental care. Pair bonding, however, comes with risks. Because humans are social and live in large groups, they are bound to be tempted to break the pact of monogamy, which would make it harder to raise children.

Which fails as soon as you go beyond the theoretical (we have not only historical evidence, but live examples still existing today that demonstrate the origin of “it takes a village to raise a child”) and is supported by a piece of research that frames the opposite of monogamous “pair bonding” to be “promiscuity”. 🙄

They are doing the exact same applying modern morals and constructs as they’re criticising others of doing with regards to nudity, only with regards to the idea of the “nuclear family” and “monogamous fidelity”, which I guess is something they aren’t ready to break down yet…

The truth is that while what she said was undoubtedly problematic, white male politicians from both sides of the circus have said, and more importantly done, much much worse, and have kept their jobs, and probably even got a pat on the back from the establishment.

The problem isn’t that she was suspended, it’s that others doing worse aren’t - she was 100% suspended because she is a Black woman.

Assuming you’re saying that you’re a woman who enjoys sex with men (not the only option of course, but probably the only one “milder” in the eyes of a bigot than homosexuals), answering yes to all of those still makes you an enemy of the patriarchy:

you shouldn’t love men - you should be subservient to them, you shouldn’t enjoy hobbies - you should be constantly pregnant and carrying at least one more child on your hip while making sure the house is tidy and your husband is fed, you shouldn’t enjoy sex - especially not the kind that isn’t for making babies, they save that for the “whore” (in their eyes) that they cheat on their wife with.

So not as scary to them as a potential cock up the arse (because they truly believe the gays are after their dirty buttholes), but really just about as threatening to their “traditional” way of life as homosexuals are… I’d wear it as a badge of honour lol

I’m in this meme and I don’t like it.