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Cake day: July 4th, 2023

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  • The DA cited a lack of evidence as the reason for not charging him, but the article then goes on to detail that the allegations involve him making various female employees go on overseas trip with him and play the role of his wife (including sexual activity) in order to fool sex traffickers. Surely the DA could have interviewed all the women involved to verify the accusers’ testimonies, no? Makes the lack of evidence argument seem very flimsy.

    Well, the victims should sue the hell out of him at any rate. He lost his job over this and they should try to financially ruin him.











  • In order to truly understand this, you have to tear yourself away from the Republicans and start looking at conservative ideology itself.

    At the core of conservative ideology is the very American idea of “pulling oneself up by their own bootstraps.” This is essentially the idea that, no matter the circumstances of one’s birth, one can achieve anything. Historically, this was a rebellion against the classism of old Europe, which was structured around a class system. So, in that context, it was a very liberal idea. The problem comes in when you start to recognize that people are not actual born on a level playing field, financially, culturally, educationally, etc. Today, the idea that everyone can “pull themselves up by their own bootstraps,” foments the lie that we are all born into equal opportunities in life, which is demonstrably false.

    So, the core of conservative ideology is based on an untruth, and it has never reconciled this. Conservatives thus blame disparities in achievement in society on lack of individual effort, and don’t take into account differences in opportunity by birth circumstances. As such, when they see people who haven’t done as well as others, they attribute that to personal failings rather than circumstantial inequalities. When you see all outcomes as a result of personal effort, you can dismiss bad outcomes as the result of a lack of effort, and thereby justify denying the less fortunate help under the notion that it is unfair to the more prosperous because it rewards those who didn’t try as hard with the same outcomes who had to work for them.

    Conservative ideology is simply outdated and uninformed by modern sociological research.