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World Leaders Have Moral Obligation To Act ... posted by Desdemona Despair
http://www.desdemonadespair.net/2018/10/world-leaders-have-moral-obligation-to.html
Sunday, October 7, 2018
How it Happens by Katie Wagner
I need to talk about what happened to me today. I don’t want to, but I need to.
I had just walked into the empty skate park. I knew friends were meeting me but they hadn’t arrived yet and I didn’t know when they would. It’s fenced in and gated and there is exactly one entrance/exit, a fact I was acutely aware of because as a woman who exists in this world, that’s the kind of thing you are conditioned to notice quickly.
Two men were walking along the fence outside the park and one said, “You’re gonna skate?”
What I wanted to say was, “Would I be here if I wasn’t going to skate?”
What I actually said was, “Yep...”
I regret not saying the words I wanted to.
What I wanted to say was, “Would I be here if I wasn’t going to skate?”
What I actually said was, “Yep...”
I regret not saying the words I wanted to.
I sat on the ground and opened my gear bag to change my wheels when I heard a voice behind me. “Oh, you not *skating*, you *rollerskating*.”
What I wanted to say was, “Fuck off.”
What I actually said was, “Man, it’s all skating.”
I regret not saying the words I wanted to.
What I wanted to say was, “Fuck off.”
What I actually said was, “Man, it’s all skating.”
I regret not saying the words I wanted to.
He stood between me and the one gate in, which was also the one gate out. My only escape. A fact I was acutely aware of because because as a woman who exists in this world, that’s the kind of thing you are conditioned to notice quickly. He stood so close to me that his shoe touched my leg and I scooted it away so that he wasn’t touching me anymore. He moved closer. If I had looked up at him I would have literally been face to crotch.
What I wanted to say was, “Get the fuck out of my personal space.”
What I actually said was nothing.
I regret not saying the words I wanted to.
What I actually said was nothing.
I regret not saying the words I wanted to.
He picked up one of my wheels and said, “What kind of bearings are these?”
What I wanted to say was, “Don’t touch my shit and get the fuck away from me or it’ll be a bearing that’s embedded in your skull.”
What I actually said was, “Cheeseballs.”
I regret not saying the words I wanted to.
What I wanted to say was, “Don’t touch my shit and get the fuck away from me or it’ll be a bearing that’s embedded in your skull.”
What I actually said was, “Cheeseballs.”
I regret not saying the words I wanted to.
He made small talk about bearings.
What I wanted to say was, “Leave me alone. I’m here to skate not be bugged by fuckboys.”
What I actually did was give him one word answers while I looked down at my skates and continued to change my wheels.
I regret not saying the words I wanted to.
What I wanted to say was, “Leave me alone. I’m here to skate not be bugged by fuckboys.”
What I actually did was give him one word answers while I looked down at my skates and continued to change my wheels.
I regret not saying the words I wanted to.
He said, “You got a name?”
What I wanted to say was, “None of your fucking business.”
What I actually said was, “Katie.”
I regret not saying the words I wanted to.
What I wanted to say was, “None of your fucking business.”
What I actually said was, “Katie.”
I regret not saying the words I wanted to.
He said, “You got an instagram?”
What I wanted to say was, “It doesn’t matter because I’m not giving it to you and it’s inappropriate and predatory to ask someone you don’t know for personal information.”
What I actually said was, “N-n-n-no.”
I regret not saying the words I wanted to.
What I wanted to say was, “It doesn’t matter because I’m not giving it to you and it’s inappropriate and predatory to ask someone you don’t know for personal information.”
What I actually said was, “N-n-n-no.”
I regret not saying the words I wanted to.
He said, “You got a number?”
What I wanted to say was, “Seriously? Leave me the fuck alone. I’m not interested. Go away.”
What I actually said was, “I have a boyfriend.”
I regret not saying the words I wanted to.
What I wanted to say was, “Seriously? Leave me the fuck alone. I’m not interested. Go away.”
What I actually said was, “I have a boyfriend.”
I regret not saying the words I wanted to.
He said, “Damn girl, I was just shooting my shot. Bye.”
What I wanted to say was, “You don’t just have the right to shoot your shot whenever you feel like it with whomever you feel like it with no regard for boundaries, personal space, or any kind of respect or human decency. You are not entitled to my time or attention. Walk away and think twice about the next shot you want to take.”
What I actually did was hold my breath until he was gone and collapse in relief when he and his friend drove away.
I regret not saying the words I wanted to.
What I wanted to say was, “You don’t just have the right to shoot your shot whenever you feel like it with whomever you feel like it with no regard for boundaries, personal space, or any kind of respect or human decency. You are not entitled to my time or attention. Walk away and think twice about the next shot you want to take.”
What I actually did was hold my breath until he was gone and collapse in relief when he and his friend drove away.
I regret not saying the words I wanted to.
I don’t think I took another breath until I heard my friends’ voices coming around the corner and I knew I wasn’t alone anymore.
Guys, it is not women’s jobs to teach you how to act but here I am doing the emotional labor so please listen. LEAVE US ALONE. If we’re alone, minding our own business, doing our own thing, living our lives, leave us alone. If you approach us, block our only exit, stand over us, force us to engage with you, come into our space, touch us or our belongings, we WILL see it as threatening and predatory. You think we’re being coy when we avert our eyes and give you short answers? WE AREN’T. We are scared senseless because while you might think you’re a decent guy who’s just trying to talk to a pretty girl, to us you look exactly the same as the guy who reached up our dress at that afterparty or the one who catcalled us while we walked down the street or the one held us down in the dark. You all look the same. Do you know what it’s like to live your life not being able to spot the difference between the guy who will back down gracefully and the one who will literally murder you because you bruised his ego with a, “Thanks but no thanks.” Women are conditioned to deescalate. We are conditioned to stroke men’s egos and let them down gently so as not to anger them. We know that the easiest way to get a man to leave us alone is to tell him that we have a boyfriend because he cares more about respecting another man’s property than he does about respecting a woman’s wishes.
Every word I didn’t say burned like acid and turned to ash in my mouth.
I regret not saying all the words I wanted to say but I didn’t know where that guy’s friend was, I didn’t know if he had a weapon on him, I didn’t know when my friends were going to get there, I didn’t know if he was the kind of person who was going to hurt me for turning him down. For him, I’m sure it was just another conversation with another bitchy girl who didn’t want to give him the time of day. I’m sure he’ll tell his friend that, yeah, that girl was cute but she was a cunt. I’m sure he’ll forget about the interaction by next week. But for me, it was another time I bit my tongue to avoid maybe being assaulted. And that’s the reality of being a woman who exists in this world. So next time you want to flirt with a cute girl, maybe just shut up and keep walking.
I regret not saying all the words I wanted to say but I didn’t know where that guy’s friend was, I didn’t know if he had a weapon on him, I didn’t know when my friends were going to get there, I didn’t know if he was the kind of person who was going to hurt me for turning him down. For him, I’m sure it was just another conversation with another bitchy girl who didn’t want to give him the time of day. I’m sure he’ll tell his friend that, yeah, that girl was cute but she was a cunt. I’m sure he’ll forget about the interaction by next week. But for me, it was another time I bit my tongue to avoid maybe being assaulted. And that’s the reality of being a woman who exists in this world. So next time you want to flirt with a cute girl, maybe just shut up and keep walking.
Tuesday, October 2, 2018
Kava-naugh!
https://www.currentaffairs.org/2018/08/why-everyone-should-oppose-brett-kavanaughs-confirmation
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Small amount of nuclear material stolen last year.
https://abcnews.go.com/Politics/small-amount-nuclear-material-stolen-year-police/story?id=56623750
Monday, July 16, 2018
Check Desdemonadespair for Fascism Marketing Plan
http://www.desdemonadespair.net/2018/07/trial-runs-for-fascism-are-in-full-flow.html
Citizenship in the USA
https://www.facebook.com/notes/matt-cameron/all-possible-responses-to-they-should-get-in-line-and-do-it-the-right-way-the-wa/10155288583987693/
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Thursday, June 28, 2018
The Possible Reason for Justice Kennedy's exit from the Supreme Court
Passing this along. Don't know what to think...
Re: the timing of Justice Kennedy's exit.
"Deutsche Bank, the only bank that would lend to Trump after his multiple bankruptcies, the bank that paid $630 million in fines for organizing $10 billion in sham trades that could have been used to launder money out of Russia, the bank that was fined $41 million by the US Federal Reserve on Tuesday over failures to screen billions of dollars in potentially suspicions transactions ...
That bank took on key recruits to handle's Trump transactions, including two from Goldman Sachs. "Justin Kennedy, a trader who arrived from Goldman to become one of Mr. Trump’s most trusted associates over a 12-year spell at Deutsche, is the son of a Supreme Court justice." Justin ran Commercial Mortgage-Backed Securities for Deutsche Bank.
Deutsche Bank is currently under investigation for possible ties to Russian money laundering in the Trump campaign.
But it's not just the Deutsche bank connection. Justin Kennedy is also tied to Trump through his company LNR real estate, which oversees the mortgage on Kushner’s very-troubled 666 5th Ave. Essentially, through its holdings, Kennedy’s company bailed out 666, which Kushner bought for 1.9 billion at the height of the market in 2007. So it would not be an exaggeration to say that Justin Kennedy's financial fate is directly tied into the financial fortunes of Kushner and Trump.
But it's not just Justin & Deutsche and LNR/Vornado/666 ... that tie the Kennedys to Trump …
Justice Kennedy’s other son, Gregory, benefited directly by an appointment at NASA as a Senior Financial Adviser after Trump was inaugurated. ProPublica reports that he’s part of a so-called “beachhead team” that Trump installed at the space agency to keep an eye on how things are running. No information on whether or not Gregory Kennedy will have any involvement in the development of Trump’s announced “Space Force”.
Justice Kennedy’s other son, Gregory, benefited directly by an appointment at NASA as a Senior Financial Adviser after Trump was inaugurated. ProPublica reports that he’s part of a so-called “beachhead team” that Trump installed at the space agency to keep an eye on how things are running. No information on whether or not Gregory Kennedy will have any involvement in the development of Trump’s announced “Space Force”.
Gregory Kennedy also went to Stanford Law School with Peter Thiel, the only Silicon Valley mogul who backed Trump’s campaign and serves as an advisor to Trump on technology issues. Thiel is a close friend to Robert Mercer, co-founder, with Steve Bannon, of Cambridge Analytica. An employee of his company, Palantir, aided Cambridge Analytica in its scheme to skew the elections by stealing data from Facebook to target 50 million FB users with opinion, disinformation and lies via memes and posts. Kennedy and Thiel served as back-to-back presidents of the Federalist Society, and Kennedy’s firm, Disruptive Technology Advisers, has worked with Thiel’s company Palantir Technologies.
The new SCOTUS, with now two Trump appointees will weigh in not just on various civil rights issues of enormous consequence, they will also weigh in very shortly on a question critical the Mueller investigation – a question of double jeopoardy. When crimes fall under both state and federal jurisdictions, they may undergo separate trials, even with separate outcomes, much as this can happen with civil and criminal cases. The POTUS can pardon those charged in federal crimes, but not state crimes. So if the newly-skewed SCOTUS rules that this constitutes double jeopardy, one of the most potent quivers in Mueller’s arsenal will be broken in half.
The new SCOTUS may also in due time be asked to rule on whether or not a sitting president can be indicted on criminal charges.
If this is all beginning to feel a little like a “fix” to you … well, you’re not alone."
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Trump Rages About Cohen Raid: 'It's An Attack On Our Country'
Trump Rages About Cohen Raid: 'It's An Attack On Our Country': The "attack on our country" already happened. We are trying to fix that situation.
Saturday, April 7, 2018
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