I guess they are speculating that he did? Apparently they found a folder on his computer with pictures of her in underwear that she didn’t recognize or remember taking, but she obviously doesn’t have any memory of being a part of the sexual abuse since he was allegedly drugging them.
I didn’t read the story my wife did, she was just conveying it to me so I might have misunderstood something
It was always an exciting day in band when we got to turn the vibrophone resonator fans on.
My wife was telling me about this yesterday, apparently it wasn’t just the guy’s wife but their fucking daughter, too
He started doing this when she was 60 and it went on for 10 years
The only other thing that I can think of that compares to this is Dahmer lobotomizing his victims with a hand drill to make them into sex slaves
I’m not saying I won’t vote dem, I’m simply expressing dissent against some of their policies.
People here act as if observations about a candidate are themselves votes, and if you make enough negative observations about the democrats it will directly cause their loss, but if you balance them with negative statements about the republicans, they will somehow cancel each other out. Worse, people here seem to give more weight to statements or observations about a candidate than the actual candidate themselves, as if nobody saying anything about the democrats doing something bad will prevent it from manifesting into reality.
In this instance I think anti-dem chatter on lemmy is more likely to chill youth turnout than it is to push the Democratic party leftward
Not any more than protesting or demonstrating do (far, far less, if anything). If voicing dissent against unpopular reactionary policies ends up chilling enthusiasm, it isn’t voicing that dissent that’s doing it, it’s the reactionary policies. We’re not obligated to campaign for democrats or even temper our criticism when they’re defending and holding water for Israel as while they’re slaughtering Palestinians and reducing Gaza to rubble.
I don’t claim to know what your worldview is but using a weird metaphor about forced sterilization to blame others of enabling reactionary political movements for voicing critique of - checks notes - reactionary democratic policy is certainly not in line with the life of virtue and praxis you’re describing.
That’s a bummer though, I didn’t know that. I saw they were playing in Iowa in October and was thinking about driving down there for it. The same thing happened when I wanted to see Rage Against the Machine in 2021 - I’m not sure they’ll be going back on tour either.
seems like a poor strategy to me
Not if you’re goal is to push democrats leftward. Funny how leftists are accused of virtue signaling while liberals are quite openly saying they’re biting their tongues and acting excited for a candidate they know is going to put the party back 20 years.
Did you know Bad Religion is actually on concert tour right now though? Right now i’ve got this one on heavy rotation.
Who said I wasn’t voting?
Who said they wanted cheeto man in the white house? Certainly wasn’t me.
I can already feel libs re-calibrating their ‘electability’ meters to accommodate Harris’s reactionary immigration policies and ‘law and order’ posturing.
This is a huge step to the right but libs couldn’t give any fewer fucks about it.
They both have shit in them, there’s just more of it or maybe a different consistency to the shit in the other.
If there’s a huge turnout then I guess we shouldn’t worry about people being turned off by supporting genocide, friend!
If the democrats weren’t insisting on holding water for Israel’s genocide, the green party wouldn’t even be a nuisance to them.
Say whatever you want about how crazy they are, but the one issue the democrats are actually hurting from is their genocide support. If for no other reason than to push the dems to change that policy I think the greens are a huge benefit.
What an uplifting democratic message
Minnesota will be interesting this year. There are two things that complicate this particular ticket:
I would guess that Stein and West would get those leftist voters but they just as likely might just stay home out of protest. Minnesota protestors are fairly hardened after 2020 and are unlikely to be moved by ‘incrementalism’ or harm-reduction rhetoric.
Minnesota might be the bellwether for how much of a hit Harris-Walz stand to take by their collective stance on Gaza and law-and-order posturing.
Because Israel has already proven themselves untrustworthy, even if what this story is reporting is credible on its own.
Israel has the full force of American military support against a nation and a people who’ve been systematically oppressed for 70 years. They bear the responsibility for the outcome of this conflict far more than any other.
It isn’t just that libs will find another reason to complain about protests after the election, it’s that libs won’t care anymore because they already got what they wanted.
You protest during election cycles because that’s when policy is being negotiated. You don’t go on a labor strike after the union has signed the contract, you go on strike to get them to agree to concessions while the contract is being negotiated
Lmao. Supplying arms to israel while they are currently using them for genocide is participating in genocide.
No but I can hear them say “we will”
Maybe I’m just that nagging pessimist everyone hates, but the more these complete-fucking-sociopaths publicly endorse Harris, the more I worry that the democratic platform will hold on to those voters and cling to the chauvinist policies they come with.
Sure, it’s fun to watch Trump get ejected from his party like a parasite from a rectum, but this feels like one of those ‘live long enough to see yourself become the villan’ moments that I hope I’m wrong about.