it feels truly insane that it’s not

Andy Craig@andycraig.bsky.social · 4d ago

I know there's a lot going on but I feel it should probably be more of an above-the-fold story that members of Congress released a thoroughly documented report directly accusing the president of the United States of being a serial rapist.

Of course republicans don’t have solutions for any of our problems—cause they aren’t problems to them. THIS is exactly what they wanted—unregulated markets & unmitigated power. Like all bullies and crooks and grifters and rapists, they just want to TAKE. There is nothing else.

It’s a subject that makes a lot of people uncomfortable and calling them corrupt and evil is easier. But the truth is that Republicans have a rape problem—one that they celebrate.

penbucket.bsky.social@penbucket.bsky.social · 6d ago

Extraordinary. I can't believe your story may be the first time the Republican's acceptance of the rape and abuse of woman and children has been spoken of in such clear terms... considering how goddamn long it's been going on.

every day we’re reminded in some new, humiliating way that the federal government is now just a public jobs program for mediocre failchildren

despite what your local fb community group may want you to believe, there is a public threshold for watching r*pists & r*cists get away with heinous crimes—most folk don’t want to be aligned with a movement that hurts people

I wrote about Cornell, and the grim discursive cycle in which everyone says that they hate rape, but nobody does anything to stop it. www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

The horror of the Cornell rape case is how ordinary it is | Moira Donegan

Many men rape; many men giggle encouragingly, or shrug indifferently, when their friends rape. Many men rape, and few seem to think that it’s a very big deal

theguardian.com

every day I’m reminded all of this suffering is because a few disaffected men wanted to say slurs and hurt women without consequences—as if there was ever a reality in which they couldn’t do that

For me, the hardest thing about stories like the Cornell gang rape case isn’t reading the initial details—although that is hard. What’s even harder is when men online, especially the journalists and pundits, start trying to combat the feminist outrage by purposefully seeding doubt and victim-blaming

I literally don’t know a single woman who hasn’t been raped, stalked, groped, harassed, or sexually violated in some way at some point in their life. If you choose to doubt and dox survivors, just know every woman in your life is disgusted by you.

What about her future? What about how hard she worked to be there? What is to become of her life now? What process of justice could possibly right these wrongs? And how much more will she lose in the process of trying to get it? How much more of this are we all supposed to tolerate?

every year for work I have to sit through no less than 5 training modules on SA & title 9–meanwhile the upper echelons of cornell are basically sanctioning r*pe on campus so long as you write an “I’m sorry you were offended” essay about it later

No no no its just a coincidence everyone suddenly has opinions of how to make our justice system less punitive when its a rapists being discussed and no other times

January 2025: I’m a trad wife who thinks women who work should be burned at the stake, please ignore the $50,000 I make on insta posting butter I had my servant churn Today: did you know women are people? I promise never to sell you gals out again unless its convenient

going to an ivy league university is a privilege not a right—and maybe it’s a privilege we don’t extend to fucking r*pists anymore???

every man who upholds the systems that not only protect men who hurt women but promote them too is culpable—we all have to share this world together and if half the population is making it unsafe for the other half, that’s obviously a huge problem

really don’t want to hear from another unfuckable loser about how feminism isn’t needed & how the sexes basically equal—you are directly responsible for a truly staggering amount of violence perpetrated against women & I hope one day that guilt buries you

there’s nothing particularly special about a r*pist getting into the ivies—it’s a longstanding norm

the unfortunate thing about SA is that it’s usually mundane—not perpetrated by a secret cabal but by some young boys never told “no” who grew into some young men who have never faced any consequences for their bad behavior

i really can’t bring myself to care about AI anthropomorphism debates. “is AI thinking?” i don’t know. is a calculator calculating? questions for the philosophers. what’s important is that we put sam altman in prison.

the manosphere’s great success is convincing enough folk that unfuckable losers are an oppressed class—it’s a huge contributing factor to the global fascist ascendancy

Every day is exhausting when the stupidest people alive hold all the power—and boring. It’s the same bigoted slop on repeat.

We started a trade war with these people because the president, who has some sort of degenerative brain disease with visible bruises on his hand's injection site that the press doesn't talk about, was bored.

Mark Carney@mark-carney.bsky.social · 2y ago

On 9/11, the people of Gander stepped up. They showed the very best of Canada.

no one cares about the name of some stupid lake—they care that they can’t afford groceries or gas and if you’re a news outlet, THAT’S what you should be focusing on since this administration clearly wants you distracted from it

republicans will say to your face that you & everyone you love should be eradicated and your establishment dem representative will respond by calling for a bipartisan compromise—then wonder why you want to vote for a progressive candidate to take their place

“Did those progressive’s 2021 tweets prove woke 1 went too far?” asks the TV presenter as Donald Trump murders people indiscriminately and posts video of himself dancing on their graves

rn there’s a “democratic strategist” trying to convince some poor schmuck candidate that they’ve gotta court the “sunscreen truther” crowd to win their primary

More cops have been arrested for using flock cameras to stalk women than there are transgender athletes in youth sports.

A caucus of violent, drunk ex-husbands controls three branches of government and both chambers of Congress.

The Bulwark@thebulwark.com · 3mo ago

Rep. Max Miller: "My former wife has claimed that during a custody exchange at my home that day, I assaulted her…If I had assaulted her, would she have offered to cook me dinner six days later?"

groundhog day but every day we’re just relitigating something else from 2020 that made your no-contact relative somehow even worse

I think the root of many problems is that there is a sizable contingent of folk who RESENT being asked to consider anyone but themselves and have made it their business to make it illegal to ever have to be a considerate, compassionate, or empathetic person