You know what? Instead of just down voting you, imma explain. You highlighted exactly why people do not understand abuse.

Sure, leaving your abuser is the obvious answer. But the ability to leave your abuser is much more complex. If you were being savagely beat, but if you left your child starts to get beat, and they have restricted access to your child, how do you leave then?

Do you think victims want to keep being abused? No. Many times they can’t find an escape because so many things are controlled by there abuser. Money, communication, social lives, health. People dont leave countries for the exact same reasons. A lot of us know one language, and do not have enough time to learn another. What about those of us who have to take medication daily? How am I supposed to get that medication across the border and find a doctor to prescribe it. Hell, how do I even know if the medicine I take is available in that country? Research it? Can’t. Don’t have the time.

Critical thinking requires you to test aspects supporting and dissenting from your original understanding. Instead of “why x reasons won’t prevent you” in this scenario, find a single reason that could.

I can guarantee you that there is a long complex list of reasons why people are unable to leave the abuser just like they are unable to leave a country.

You know what, I hadn’t even thought about that.

1300 kids have parents trying to claim them. There is no way they couldn’t have significantly reduced those numbers through maternity/paternity testing. Which doesn’t take that long to do anymore.

The ones you’d be left with are the guardians , probably aunts/uncles or older cousins and siblings. Siblings you could probably test for.

At that point, what can you do? Even if we put everyone involved in separating the children in jail for the rest of their lives all the way up, it will never reunite the families they separated.

The saddest part to me is that it often makes me think that people somehow forget what it’s like being a child. Like they just purposefully forgot their childhood, not because of trauma, but because they deemed it a hindrance to hold on to.

Or a bladder problem.

Maybe get your prostate checked too

First, I love the name “little pinks.” Seems way more insulting than tankie. I’m gonna call em that now.

Second, online Chinese nationalists have always made me chuckle. They get bent so out of shape about the atrocities the Japanese committed against them, but if you mention the millions of Chinese killed through the many actions of the CCP they break and end up with a mashup of “those were justified for peace and safety” and the Japanese have and always will be cruel because of what they did.

I like that idea better

But this is Lemmy we have a lot of cat people

I’m pretty sure the US is only interested in doing that to protect US assets in Israel. There’s a shitload of money and intelligence there,

But the part that bothers me is that Israel already has an insane missile defence system why the fuck do they need the US resources on top of that?

1948 is a big stretch for me to agree with “isn’t new.” No one alive today would have been influential then, and many countries have significantly changed in that region of the world since 1948.

Now if stuff like this happened in the 80s, then I’d say yeah, 100% this is up their alley.

Man if I ever get comments on my appearance it goes to my head and I cant think straight for days.

Thankfully that’s only happened like twice.

There’s a bit where some time travel shit starts happening and these really freaky time demons show up and they will sit in your nightmares for a while.

Other than that it’s pretty cool

So like an indoor sandbox?

If something happened to my kid, and I was never reunited with them? Never given contact with them, never provided communication with their care takers?

You can bet violence would be the inevitable outcome.

1300 children havent been reunited because of incomplete documentation - that was by design - and now the government has the responsibility to protect the children from nefarious parties and verify identities of non-us citizens and their parents?

That’s the parents of 1300 children who are slowly losing their wits because they sought safe refuge from a country where if they didn’t escape, death was already inevitable.

Now, what do we all know about Facists? They need and enemy. Their entire existence is based around having an enemy. It’s easy to point to powerless minority groups and stoke nationalism through that, but invasions don’t occur to save lives or conquer land. They occur to give purpose to iron fist policies.

Especially useful is when the Enemies attack you. Unfortunately for the Facists the iron fisted policies enacted after 9/11 had the consequence of restricting the effectiveness of already radicalized groups, reducing their numbers and the usefulness of the Enemy. So what did Trump do? Instead of working on producing false flag attacks which is a hard sell to even his most devoted followers, why not create home grown enemies!

The absolute sick fucks they are. The people I see with a Trump sign on their lawn show me how many of these people there are. The way they dehuminize others really starts to make me think that there is an actual physiological difference between them and the rest of humanity.

They are fine with physical and psychological torture of humans. I wouldnt be surprised if it turns out they have reduced, damaged, or lack entirely the part of their brains that should house empathy.

Wait like the Actual UN?

I get that the UN has no real teeth, but the peacekeepers do have teeth.

The fuck is going on anymore. Like I get they have all sorts of freedom to fuck around because they have weapons given to them with no control over their use, but this seems to me they are truly beginning to test their fate.

No see that’s half the fun! I didn’t get in shape and enjoy acting on a small stage to let the talent go to waste!

Plus the acting isn’t the difficult part for me, don’t need weird camera techniques either.

Three is sort of the limit for me. My parents had 3 for a while. My brother has 3. 2 is better if they get along. 1 is by far the easiest since I’m home a lot and enjoyed playing with me more than the cat that stayed with my ex. The amount of cleaning up is far, far, far less with one.

I like cats, a lot.

But that is too many cats.

Right? I don’t have time for that. Between being a parent, working full time, hobbies, chores, etc. I don’t have the energy left for dating finding victims!

Ahhhh. So the serial killers who target documentary directors are the ones who we don’t hear about

Why is it always “if you want my sex tape” and not “if you want to make a sex tape”

Ok honestly that was funnier in my head, but maybe someone else can see where I was going and make it funny

Here, here!

What’s even better is that this is really him. Not a character, not adapting to the political race.

Minnesotans are sad to lose him as governor, but he’ll be great as VP and definitely qualified to step in if something happened to Harris.