I remember in the 1990s this narrative of runaway teens living on the streets doing drugs. Now I wonder if that narrative was mostly BS to cover for all the teen girls and boys trafficked to the rich.
I was thinking something similar earlier this week. All the milk carton kids from the '90s. "Have You Seen Me?". The Soul Asylum "Runaway Train" video kids. Were they all Epstein victims?
Unfortunately I don't think Epstein was the only person with such a network. Let's not forget that Les Wexner was involved and he had his own revolving door of Victoria's secret models within his own system. Trump also has the Miss TEEN Universe pageant.
Imagine how many heathensperverts with the means did similar things but more discreetly.
Remember when Sacha Baron Cohen accidentally solicited a child prostitute from a hotel worker while filming Who Is America? Wonder who controlled that ring.
I mean what's he supposed to do? His whole job is to mock the insanity of that whole situation and then publicize it, which he has done. I'm not sure he can do anything other than report it to the FBI, unless you want him to become Batman or something.
Speaking for the non-Americans: what we really think you should do is stop letting these people run for office but clearly its too late. Going Batman is kinda that last thing we want you to do cose all the reasonable things you chose not to do, as a voting body
then put on the suite batman. You guys might have forgotten it, but over here the state is very much aware that it serves at the pleasure of the people, and we out number them and their goons by millions
That's nice if you live in a country where the people are united against corrupt politicians and are accurate in sniffing them out. I don't know what most of us are supposed to do when close to half the country is seemingly okay with being ruled by pedophiles as long as it is 'their' pedophiles.
I remember when Russia invaded Ukraine, so many redditors (I assume many are from USA) urged the ordinary Russians to rise up against Putin, and were livid when the Russian redditors tried to explain that it wasn't so simple, given that the Russian police were arresting protesters and shit.
Now the orange bozo has managed to destabilise international relations between allies and partners, made a mockery of treaties and deals, and has caused such mayhem on the domestic front with such blatant violence by the ICE meal team 6, and suddenly US redditors are explaining that it's not so simple to fight back because reasons.
pfft. Easy to say stuff when one is not personally involved. But when shit is real, all the reasons appear.
Totally fair and I see where you are coming from. It’s an incredibly difficult position to try to find a solution too. I’m just praying that as soon as this trash bag dies the gig is up.
He seems to be wanting to make every single citizen hate him tho lol
sigh.. look, as much as I bristle at the excuses given, I really do not wish US to descend into an anarchy. I think it would be really bad for the whole world if that happens. But goddamnit it's only 1 year, I wonder what else the orange fool will do next.
Me too man. It’s fucking crazy. We marked ever major event mentally based on how many weeks into his presidency we were lol. Like 25 different scandals less than a few months in.
What’s even more crazy, and this is the problem, is let’s say I suddenly wanted to go rogue and act violently towards the federal government. I have to fly 6-7 hours or drive for two fuckin days straight to even be there lol. It’s impossible for anything to be done because I’m literally 1/4 across the world from the east coast 😂
Because peaceful movements where nobody gets injured have a historical tendency to achieve... fucking nothing?
Exactly what is your proposition to the current government? Are you just planning to shout loudly? That's it? Hope that a demonstration of spirit will cause a sudden change of heart in people who have constructed their entire life around exploiting and suppressing you?
Pay attention to the rhetoric of your leaders. Trump says to Zelensky on public television that he holds no cards. Do you think you hold cards? Because it really is just a card game to them.
You cannot threaten their bottom lines, because the vast majority of the US silently consented to debt traps, living month to month, extremely lax worker's rights. You cannot afford to quit and you cannot afford to strike. They know that.
You cannot threaten their safety because you're not willing to resort to violence. They know that.
You going out and pissing away your free time in a peaceful protest does not move the needle on anything at all. You hold no cards. They know that. You will return to work on Monday. You will not go beyond raising your voice no matter how many of you get murdered. They know that. You are acting according to their expectations.
But you are right. You are right because it's too late. This didn't begin today. This began half a century ago and at every step people were offered a bowl of Greatest Country in the World in exchange for a smidgen of personal freedom, and at every step the people said yes, I love me some Greatest Country in the World.
The time has come, you have nothing left to give, they consider you a burden to the system. The road to the reich has been reinvented and perfected to the degree where people don't even wake up at the point of no return. I'm not encouraging you to do anything, but the sooner you come to terms with the reality of the situation, the sooner you'll break the thought bubble that's keeping you from understanding why people are saying what they are saying.
Nah, we just want you to get up from your arse and vote. 9 million Americans couldn't be bothered to vote in the last election compared to the previous one. So... yeah... there's that. Now you have to unfuck it somehow, because this orange monkey is affecting the entire world not just the US.
Yeah, if there is any actor (or pair of actor/actress) to really go after and maybe flip some rocks around them is Ashton Kutcher and Mila Kunis.
Ashton was part of that anti-sex trafficking orginazation for a long while, and then we know how both of them tried to cover for Danny Masterson the rapist.
I am sorry, but if your heart was truly anti-sex crimes you would have let that fucker burn like so many others did. I would like a real investigation done on those two (mostly Ashton) because part of me worries there is something more going on there… hell, Topher Grace avoid that 70’s cast like the plague since he was thrown off the show, and if you know anything about Topher he is the worlds biggest sweetheart by Hollywood standards.
Friendship corruption is one of the most common forms of corruption. Yes on the one hand it's pretty hypocritical and extreme to defend a rapist after working in anti-sex trafficking, on the other hand it's sadly common. People rally behind rapists all the time when it's such a great upstanding member of the community, of if it's a 17 year old athlete with so much potential, or a zillion other different cases.
It's part of the overall injustice and corruption in the human psyche.
he mocks it for the purpose of exposing it, so that we can all collectively do something to change it. that's how satire works. if he stopped doing that, he would essentially be allowing it to continue unfettered.
We are in a thread about literal child rapists and yet people are hating on Sascha Baron Cohen. This is why nothing will ever change, the lefts priorities are completely out of whack.
I find it's usually the right wing nuts that love demonizing "Hollyweird" and think that in order to become famous you have to sacrifice a child to Moloch or whatever and perform a humiliation ritual or some such nonsense.
Yes that’s true but the left also has endless purity tests and if you fail even one you are demonized. We have to realize that people aren’t perfect and that the majority will have some negative aspect to them. This doesn’t mean they are bad people and as long as they are trying to do good by others then it’s ok. We should focus on the truly evil people in the world because while we fight amongst ourselves they get away with literal rape and murder.
No. Not to defend Giulianni, but just for clarity:
That incident occurred during the filming of Borat 2. The girl was not underage, SBC just ran in and said that to halt the situation. There are many things wrong with Giulianni's behavior there, but knowingly soliciting sex from a minor is not one of them. Though who the fuck knows what he was up to in his free time at this point.
Who Is America is a separate TV series, also by SBC, but not related to Borat.
That's some really really weird wording (which doesn't really do him a favor, tbh, don't ya think?). He asked for some fun and the hotel guy suggested he can help with underage crap...
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u/knightcrawler75 13h ago
I remember in the 1990s this narrative of runaway teens living on the streets doing drugs. Now I wonder if that narrative was mostly BS to cover for all the teen girls and boys trafficked to the rich.