There are some fucking ridiculous people in these comments lol
It would be convenient to write them off as psyops
Fun, too.
, but the unfortunate truth is that there are people on our side of the political spectrum who have bad but sincerely-held beliefs too.
Completely agree. I actually think most people who say this are real people who believe it (whether or not they picked it up from Russia propaganda originally.) I'm just saying that I don't think this blog in particular is some earnest person who just really feels strongly about NATO and BRICS, and also likes piping a very-sloppily-put-together script saying the same through an AI voice to create an overall vibe I would summarize as PREPARE TO RECEIVE MY POLITICAL VIEWS, FELLOW HUMAN.
Were you aware of this? I was not. Anyway, I edited the title; how's that seem?
Hm... maybe I am wrong. It's definitely not just a conservative talking point, it was how historians looked at early modern cities for a while, I thought. But it seems like modern historians aren't sure that's the case:
https://www.jstor.org/stable/2598176
With just a quick look around, I couldn't find anything that seemed definitive in the other direction, but also, the little preview that shows of that paper seems like it does a pretty good job of saying "Yo the reasons they said this is true are incredibly weak when you dig into them." So maybe it was just premodern science from the leeches-and-ECT days.
There's also this. Deaths are exceeding births in almost half the US, now:
https://carsey.unh.edu/publication/deaths-exceeded-births-nearly-half-us-counties-last-year
(And, of course, it's mostly in the rural areas)
This is the way it used to be. Cities didn't used to be able to sustain themselves through the birthrate alone; they were so toxic and dangerous that they would eat the populations within them, and needed a continuous flow of people from the countryside to sustain the population. Who would then, as the years went by, get fed into the maw and replaced in their turn.
Doing the whole country that way hasn't been tried before to my knowledge, but what the hell, we might as well be the first to give it a shot.
Like I say, other people might have other wordings or summaries. Honestly hair-splitting about it just pisses me off. A court proved that, by the normal-human definitions of these words, he's guilty of rape. How's that?
That's not to mention the many, many allegations of rape, sexual assault, and child rape that other people have credibly raised. That's just the time that it's been proven in court with him having every opportunity to vigorously defend himself against the allegation, and failing.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/E._Jean_Carroll_v._Donald_J._Trump
renewing her claim of defamation and adding a claim of battery under the Adult Survivors Act, a New York law allowing sexual-assault victims to file civil suits beyond expired statutes of limitations
A jury verdict in May 2023 found Trump liable for sexually abusing and defaming Carroll, and ordered him to pay US$5 million in damages.
Regarding the jury verdict, the judge asked the jury to find if the preponderance of the evidence suggested that Trump raped Carroll under New York's narrow legal definition of rape at that time, denoting forcible penetration with the penis, as alleged by the plaintiff;[d] the jury did not find Trump liable for rape and instead found him liable for a lesser degree of sexual abuse. In July 2023, Judge Kaplan said that the verdict found that Trump had raped Carroll according to the common definition of the word, i.e. not necessarily implying penile penetration.[e] In August 2023, Kaplan dismissed a countersuit and wrote that Carroll's accusation of rape is "substantially true".
The official finding of the jury was that he was "liable" for sexual assault. The rest of it, I think pretty much speaks for itself. I would summarize that as him being proven in court to be guilty of rape, other people might have other wordings or summaries. Whatever.
The man don'tbe corporealanymore center
Sounds like someone needs a visit to the MDC
He was literally proven in court guilty of rape, in the defamation case.
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