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For a change of pace, here’s a stange little story of the saga of #Him Too
Him Too: How Pieter Hanson's mother made him internet famous
It all began with a post from a concerned US mother on Twitter.
Speaking to the BBC about his newfound internet fame, Florida resident Pieter Hanson answered the question on everyone's mind.
"I'm not afraid to go on dates!" he joked. "It's my mum just being a little silly, I wouldn't put too much thought into it."
A "little silly" maybe but the parodies soon appeared, with everyone's favourite pop star/meme icon Rick Astley becoming one of the most popular recreations.
Others soon followed, with a parody of comedian Nathan Fielder
proving a particular highlight - but credit must go to comedy writer Emlyn Crenshaw for her creative effort.
The "current climate of false sexual accusations" in the original tweet may have been referring to controversy surrounding the appointment of new Supreme Court Justice Brett Kavanaugh in the United States. US President Donald Trump has since labelled sexual assault claims against Kavanaugh a "hoax", with conservative commentator Candace Owens popularising the hashtag #Him Too to defend the judge. The issue has become so divisive that it was perhaps unsurprising when 'Blue Star Mom 3' faced a backlash on Twitter. But few on social media paid much thought to the person in the photo who was swiftly becoming the face of #Him Too. So he set up a Twitter account to set the record straight, complete with a recognisable pose.
Here’s a few more that I like
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The thing is, the CNN article is quoting several Democratic politicians who have less than kind — sometimes outright caustic — words for Avenatti over the subject.
You messed up the quoteblock markup.
Edited by MarqFJA on Oct 9th 2018 at 4:24:46 PM
Fiat iustitia, et pereat mundus.That's mostly false, she didn't drop anything but she did decide not to pursue it in the court of law. Probably because the poor woman has suffered enough, she absolutely did not say that that the Democrats should not impeach him.
"Einstein would turn over in his grave. Not only does God play dice, the dice are loaded." -Chairman Sheng-Ji YangI mean. It's hard to pursue justice in a court of law against someone who can potentially appeal a verdict all the way to himself if need be.
As is so often the case for rape victims, any effort to bring Kavanaugh to justice is likely to be very expensive materially, emotionally, and personally for Ford while ultimately achieving nothing. The law is, as always, on the side of rape.
Edited by TobiasDrake on Oct 9th 2018 at 8:06:22 AM
My Tumblr. Currently side-by-side liveblogging Digimon Adventure, sub vs dub.Avenatti believes he's waging a war for America's soul and the only thing that matters right now is attacking the Republicans at every juncture because otherwise, the country is fucked.
This has pissed off a lot of people.
However, the thing is that the Republicans fire both barrels at every opportunity and if he doesn't, his clients will be ground down. Putting their opponents on the defensive is not the worst strategy because the only other option is to remain silent.
Author of The Rules of Supervillainy, Cthulhu Armageddon, and United States of Monsters.As is so often the case for rape victims, any effort to bring Kavanaugh to justice is likely to be very expensive materially, emotionally, and personally for Ford while ultimately achieving nothing. The law is, as always, on the side of rape.
Exactly. There are scumbags using that it was "political" all along and thus false but they were going to say that anyway so it doesn't really matter. Just Republicans not caring about sexual assault #24306.
"Einstein would turn over in his grave. Not only does God play dice, the dice are loaded." -Chairman Sheng-Ji YangPutin's leash on the oligarchs is not the thing which people wanted. Mostly, he persecuted and prosecuted a number of oligarchs for bullshit reasons to make it clear they weren't allowed to influence politics.
He also restored some of the social safety net which existed before, which he could afford to do because of oil prices.
But the oligarchs were put down to solidify his power and most of them got the memo....switching to unchallenged support of Putin. Which they were allowed to continue with full state support thereafter.
Author of The Rules of Supervillainy, Cthulhu Armageddon, and United States of Monsters.It’s both, more or less. It’s probably half to gain favor and half “veiled comment” style orders, but there’s both a culture of murder and Putin and his inner circle’s fingers everywhere.
They should have sent a poet.That's part of my thinking; that Trump got Haley to resign so that Trump can appoint someone to be the replacement, to get Democrats to fight the appointment, to keep Republican morale high for the Midterms.
I'm going to be honest, you're giving him far too much credit. It's more than possible that she resigned because she's an ambitious Republican and doesn't want to be tied to a sinking ship.
"Einstein would turn over in his grave. Not only does God play dice, the dice are loaded." -Chairman Sheng-Ji Yang![]()
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Local politicians are typically involved in more garden-variety corruption, not with murdering Kremlin opponents. Some of the incidents in the past have been tied to operatives of various varieties, some to hired guns, and more than a few with no culprit which seems to indicate operatives again.
Like I mentioned above, I’d say it’s half “suggestion” from the upper echelons and half initiative.
Edited by archonspeaks on Oct 9th 2018 at 8:57:33 AM
They should have sent a poet.Would the UN ambassador even be able to say or do anything without getting Trump's approval first?
Fiat iustitia, et pereat mundus.It's starting to seem like the only way to cut down on sexual assault is teaching more women to defend themselves, because the men that feel like they can do that shit don't listen to anything. I also don't see a way we can actually increase punishments or convictions for sexual assault, because so often there's very little proof save the victim's testimony, which isn't enough. What do you guys think?
Edited by Friendperson on Oct 9th 2018 at 9:37:45 AM
I'm positive that this wouldn't make things better. Focusing on telling women to defend themselves just puts the responsibility onto the victim, obviously teaching self-defense is good but if the power structure is aimed against you then knowing judo or something won't help.
Furthermore, I take issue with the idea that this is the only way to address it. That just seems rather preemptive and defeatist to me. We know that Toxic Masculinity
drives sexual assault and thus reducing that will reduce sexual assault, so there absolutely is something we can do.
Edited by Fourthspartan56 on Oct 9th 2018 at 12:47:21 PM
"Einstein would turn over in his grave. Not only does God play dice, the dice are loaded." -Chairman Sheng-Ji Yang

I don't think that it was. Due to there being other accusers it made her more believable, and at least one of the accusation was backed by a witness remember that people talked about it back in the day.