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It was scrubbed from the internet, so obviously the locals put some pressure on them.

It's an abortion clinic, so they're either trying to do their part to put themselves out of business, or ensuring future clients have a first instinct on where to go after the 5th grade experimentation goes horribly wrong.

There's nothing inherently wrong with giving kids a more sensible guided tour of what they're already being fed online. The trick is making it mostly about actual sex-education instead of just a 10 day seminar on why being part of the alphabet mafia is super cool and totally normal. They should've dispelled any objections by just posting the material online. Easy solution.

They've been doing it for years so not sure whats obvious that locals put pressure on it.

Seems its making the rounds in deep right wing circles and they were probably receiving unreasonable amounts of harassments from the nut low miserable asshats in the country

I've a weird feeling that if say, Karoline Leavitt had an onlyfans acc, the right would eschew morality and self righteousness and well, bust a nut. Then claim their account got hacked if they got caught subscribing. Call it a hunch.

The grift is on.....

https://www.npr.org/2025/04/24/nx-s1-536...

On a side note, I worked for the company in question for a bit.

Prince Andrew and Epstein accuser Virginia Giuffre has died age 41 of suicide.
https://www.rte.ie/news/world/2025/0426/...

Conspiracy guys--Hillary strikes again.

After being “hit by a bus in an accident” a couple of weeks ago.

Giuffre's life was falling apart, despite all the money that the Queen had to give Andrew to pay her off (though perhaps her lawyers took most of it), and she was due for a plea hearing in a few weeks to answer a charge of breaching a family violence restraining order. She was legally barred from contact with her estranged husband and children.

The car accident a couple of weeks ago was very minor. The car in which she was a passenger braked suddenly for a turn-off and the school bus behind bumped it slightly, breaking one rear light. Although the bus driver reported it to police, there was no indication of any injuries at the time.

Then Giuffre took herself to hospital and Instagrammed that she was in terminal renal failure with four days to live, which made headlines. An old girlfriend of Andrew's said she'd bet money that Giuffre was lying. Giuffre was discharged from hospital within the week. Basically Giuffre's behaviour was becoming very erratic. She claimed the school bus T-boned her car at 60mph, which obviously wasn't true.

Despite her family's talk of her being a 'champion of the abused', there's a reason why she wasn't called as a witness against Maxwell, which is that the defence would have made hay with her because she'd lied in court depositions, mainly by claiming she was 14 at a time when she was actually 17. Additionally she wasn't trafficked into Epstein's service but voluntarily took the job as his masseuse and wasn't out of touch with her family at the time, so not 'vulnerable' in that sense (though her family may have something to answer for).

And it seems she was used by Epstein and Maxwell to recruit (or in legal terms 'procure') more girls for them. Not really her fault, given how young she was (albeit less young than she claimed), but again it made her a liability as a witness.

Just like Canada, Trump has basically cost the conservatives election victory yesterday here in Australia. Worst result for conservatives for decades. Can't see conservatives being competitive for another 2 years at least in national elections until the mid-term rout of the republicans and Trump is basically alienated away from everyone and it becomes a matter of counting down the days of his replacement (he may not even see the end of his term tbh).

Well good non American public education sucks ain’t ?

Normal people would see a woman raising 500k+ in sympathy because she called a 5 year black kid the n-word and look around at their peers and wonder if they were supporting the right side but I'm sure all the right wingers in this forum can justify why this is not only normal but a good thing.

It appears to be in direct response to the $500k+ raised for a kid who murdered his classmate in cold blood with the primary defense being racism in the court of public opinion.

Tit for tat, if you will.

Ah yes, "we are only racist because lefties are so vehemently anti racist"

Mind blowing stuff. Truly philosophical

I'd respect you a lot more if you just admitted that you kind of like the white nationalist stuff

If Karmelo Anthony didn't exist, this woman wouldn't have raised a nickel.

I don't take your last sentence there to heart because I'm pretty sure you don't actually believe that I "kind of like the white nationalist" stuff just like I don't actually believe that you think the Karmelo Anthony situation is about anti-racism.

Just a couple of keyboard warriors trading jabs. No harm no foul.

I don't know who Karmelo Anthony is, but if you think thats bad its okay to also say that this woman receiving support for calling a 5 year old the n word bad too.

You don't have to do this internet trolling thing, you can express your opinions directly

You often lament that you get lumped into a group that you don't actually belong but you simply refuse to step outside of that groups messaging, which is mainly why everyone lumps you into that group

America has gone nuts it seems. Comments on that chick's gofund me were straight up neo Nazi and on that Anthony kid's, it was of the All Whites are Evil variety,
Tribalism seems to be gaining traction.

You reckon he's a shot of self defence? I don't know enough about Texas law to form an opinion yet, in a legal sense.

Anthony is a 17 year old who stabbed to death another 17 year old in an altercation in Texas. Anthony was at a school sports event in a tent which was apparently only to be used by another team. The murdered teen, Austin Metcalf allegedly either asked or told Anthony to leave, who allegedly responded with "touch me and see what happens". Metcalf then allegedly either put his hand on Anthony or else pushed him and was stabbed in the heart. Anthony then ran, ditched the knife and asked the cops if he could claim self defence and asked if Metcalf was okay.
It's doing the rounds on social media, with Anthony being referred to as a thug, typical black person (with liberal use of the n-word also) etc etc, or else the next Kyle Rittenhouse, standing his ground, while Metcalf is variously either a good kid or a white supremacist bully. Lot of misinformation abounding, including the false claim that Metcalf's father is a convicted sex offender. Metcalf's family were also the victim of a fake swatting call, shortly after the murder. The vitriol from both sides is pretty soul destroying.

Sounds like a local story thats been coopted by right wing media

Also sounds like murder, but so did Kyle Rittenhouse and that guy who choked the homeless dude to death on the train

I don't support his cause receiving money

Wow that was hard

I don't support it either, I just find it kinda troubling that America is at such a place at present. Some of the comments on both gofund me pages and on social media from all parties are truly repugnant.

To me it also sounds like murder. I personally think Rittenhouse was a reckless a-hole who had no damn business adding fuel to the fire by turning up at an emotionally charged event armed with a rifle. That said, within the context of America's weird carry laws, it was legal, even if reckless and after seeing the actual footage, I have to admit he was legally acting in self defence- he chose flight over fight initially and there was also footage of him pointing his weapon at one of the pursuers, who stuck his hands up and froze. Rittenhouse immediately points the gun away from him, once he realises he's not a threat. So I would have to disagree it was murder.

However, I'd certainly unequivocally regard the actions of Bernard Goetz as attempted murder. Yet he was acquitted.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1984_New_Y...

Not sure if Roderick Scott was justified in shooting dead Christopher Cervini, as prosecution claimed Cervini was shot in the back, indicating he was fleeing. But again Scott was acquitted.
https://www.snopes.com/fact-check/roderi...

Neither Goetz nor Scott suffered any physical assault in either incident but were still acquitted on self defence grounds. Here Anthony was allegedly physically assaulted first, even if it was a minor assault, so while it seems like murder to me personally, again I'm not knowledgeable on Texas law to know how it'll play out legally.

I'm fairly convinced that the most inflammatory comments in situations like this are bots

Most of the worst left wing nonsense that right wingers complain about are bots

A lot of the worst right wing nonsense is bots

The main difference is there is a long storied history of racism and white supremacy while there is basically no history of radical leftism

So even if you hold a view such as mine, the consolidation of "there are many white supremacists and not that many radical leftists" can still hold true

I'd agree re a lot of the comments being bots and several appear to be Kremlin based actually. I don't know if they're the majority though. I'd also agree re there not being much of a history of radical leftism in the US.
The problem is imo that social media amplifies culture war/identity politics, social issues and racial tensions to the nth degree. Something similar (and again I reckon complete with lots of bot comments) is happening in Europe re mass migration and I think it's getting more simplistic than left vs right. Again it seems to be going towards flat out tribalism and I find it worrying.

The woman slinging slurs at a disabled 5 year old black child is a deplorable in the truest sense of the word. She's taking gross advantage of her situation and should've walked away after getting the $10k she initially requested, but I doubt I'd have the restraint to do that either if I found myself in her shoes at this point.

Karmelo is a violent thug who will hopefully spend the rest of his life in prison. The fake man of faith who has adopted the Anthony family is a grifter. The family is probably responsible for how Karmelo turned out, but don't deserve to pay for his sins, nor do they deserve half a million dollars in crowdfunding.

Both GoFundMe campaigns are a disgrace being funded by racists trying to score social points. I denounce them equally.

I think anyone not admitting that being a violent thug is infinitely worse than saying racist slurs is part of the problem.

It's incredible the two things are even compared to begin with