Yes it is accurate, how can you ask that in the context of Ukraine, a country where too many refugee women have been pushed into the legal sex trade or pornography in western countries out of desperation?
Do you have a source for that? Not that I don't believe you because I do, but I'd actually like to educate myself about their situation.
Still, just because there are victims being pushed into the legal sex trade does not mean that everyone or even a majority are being pushed into it (any more than all workers are pushed into wage slavery). Obviously no one should be pushed into it.
One model which is palatable even to libs is decriminalizing the lower levels of the sex trade and providing people real opportunities in life, infrastructure, subsidized education, while deconstructing the industry itself.
That should be a red flag! Of course it's palatable to liberals! It's a milder form of the same paternalism that views the State as a legitimate arbiter of the sexual practices that consenting adults are allowed to enter into. We can, should, and must provide real opportunities and infrastructure and subsidized education to sex workers as well as everyone else. We can do that without harassing sex workers or people who want to go to them.
Like do we really want to trust sexual morality to the States and the capitalists that national governments serve? I say "HELL NO!" They are the very last people on the face of this godforsaken planet who I want to consult about sexual morality.
That is why I framed the UN's inclusion of sex trade managers in the category of sex worker as a threat
Like saying coal mining in apartheid South Africa had "some respiratory issues" or "some disaster issues"
Is that an accurate comparison to the porn industry now? Because consent is much more important (but not important enough!) in the current porn industry, since sex workers have fought for their rights. Yes, there are absolutely still abusers in the porn industry, but my understanding is that things have gotten better for porn actors.
Yes, I am saying pornography is not magically exempt from the colonial structure of the sex trade because a camera provides a legal pretext.
Neither am I. But that doesn't mean we should legally ban pornography. Just because pornography currently is a part of the colonial structure of the sex trade does not mean that it has to be that way.
Does pornography actively enable human trafficking? Certainly human trafficking enables certain types of pornography (i.e. CSAM, bestiality, and other forms of nonconsensual porn), but it doesn't go the other way around.
Like I'm not completely blind to the fact that the existing porn industry has some consent issues and issues with patriarchy and reinforcing other existing hierarchies...but so does art, music, and a whole bunch of other stuff, and we don't need to abolish all of that. Conversely, like art and music, porn can be incredibly liberating when done with consent, even under a capitalist system.
Yeah. They definitely are biased towards the cops, probably because that's where they get most of their information from when writing the scripts.
I watch them anyways, but with a healthy dose of skepticism. I really wish there was an explicitly anti-cop true crime channel.
Ironically I usually end up leaving those videos still irritated at police for failing to do even the most basic detective work. But I also used to watch COPS as a kid because even back then I was like "what the fuck are these pigs doing, what a bunch of monsters" but then I later found out that it was supposed to make cops look good? Like really?!? 😆
A documentary film called "We Gave PM_ME_VINTAGE_30S@lemmy.sdf.org $6,942,069, Here's What He Did With It". And then it's just three hours of me talking about linear algebra while constantly ordering pizza and soda 😆
I mean that would definitely make me at least a million dollars.
Trump's not the only one in those files. There's gonna be lots of powerful people from both parties. If they ever get released, it'll be long after all the perpetrators have died.
It is grassroots action like this that genuinely makes me proud of my country neighbors
Your country is the mythical idealization of the State that oppresses you and your neighbors. Nationalism is a mind virus and patriotism, even "liberal" patriotism, is a manifestation of the nationalist mind virus.
Then do it. I never said anything about not planning or a blaze of glory.
You said "Buy a gun and sacrifice" but without any discussion of what to actually do with those guns. Maybe I read too much into your words, I'll cop to that, but it felt like you were implying that buying guns and nebulously "sacrificing" are the solutions. My point is that we need to actually do stuff with those guns and our sacrifices.
And strictly speaking, I did not say that you said those things. By your logic, I could accuse you of putting words in my mouth...but it's more likely you are just trying to read the subtext of what I said, which is absolutely reasonable.
People standing for humanity don't give a shit about your political system or nation.
Okay fine boycott us I literally don't care, I fucking hate this country...but to do accurate climate research, you need climate data from across the globe, right? I mean sure you could interpolate the missing data, but would that be physically accurate? Probably not.
The way you people talk your talk is just as bullshit as the methods of the right.
No lol, leftists are incredibly rare in this country so even when we do go out and do stuff, it gets drowned out by liberals and liberal media. Like there are absolutely people arming themselves, doing mutual aid, protesting, doing direct actions, etc., but the culture here is working against us.
Like the Mafia boss ain't shit if he's alone. Under that metaphor, there just aren't many mafiosos around here.
Like I literally do not disagree with your commentary about US-American culture and I am perfectly willing to let you vent at me about my neighbors and even myself, but you're missing the forest for the trees here. This isn't a W for you. It just sucks for everyone.
No? Everyone else doesn't deserve access to US-American climate data? Because even if US-Americans all unilaterally deserve the worst, then what about the innocent people the empire has damned to a climate-related death?
Buy guns and sacrifice.
This is individualistic thinking. I absolutely support armed insurrection against the US government, but we gotta organize, we gotta gather support, we gotta get the masses involved in their own liberation.
Individualistic tactics by those with high risk tolerances need to be complemented by collectivist actions.
It's just not as simple as "buy a gun and go out in a blaze of glory".
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Wait bottom mathematican is using j=√-1 instead of i and not the engineer? Because I'm EE gang, and all my homies use j.