That’s because most of us just call it what it is: empathy.

But they’re trying to make that a pejorative too now.

Why do you keep throwing away the mice I bring you? I work really hard for those, and we both know they’d overrun the place if I ignored them.

You’re being a bit rude.

The thing is, though, that whilst false reports do happen – and I’m in no way trying to downplay the tragedy and horrific consequences for victims of that, such as in the case of this thread’s OP – that’s far rarer than the much more common case of women being ignored, put off, and scoffed at when they try to report actual sex crimes.

I was groomed as a child and nobody would listen to me. Then I was kidnapped and raped for months – when I finally escaped and found the police, I was sent to a juvenile detention centre for being delinquent. Finally, after much therapy as an adult, I again tried to report my crime, and the first officer basically said I was wasting their time, and implied it was my fault.(e: I do have an open case now with a sergeant who takes me seriously, but that took some climbing of the hierarchy to find.)

This is extremely common, and part of why many, many women don’t even bother to report these crimes.

The ‘believe women’ thing is because of this, and reacting to such stories with ‘well actually I knew a woman who made up charges’, whilst true and horrible, feeds those who want to believe women are likely to make this shit up when it’s so common that 1 in 6 women will experience assault, and many are afraid to report it. That can be generalised, because it’s shockingly common.

e: people make up and falsely report all sorts of crimes – burglary is a big one. Lots of people make up burglaries when they’re in dire straits and realise they can get more for insurance than selling their things. Or arson. But when someone reports a burglary or arson, you don’t see others jumping in to say ‘well actually, my ex said I burgled her for insurance purposes.’ That absolutely happens, but it’s uncommon and irrelevant to burglary victims’ crimes. We all can see that has nothing at all to do with real burglaries. That’s a whole different crime.

Sorry, /rant, but this is personal to me.

e2: I was on a fast track for uni at a very young age, and this derailed my entire life. It wasn’t a brief but terrible thing; it ruined my whole future before I was 15. So I’m sorry for having a bit less empathy about this. Instead, my trajectory was bowling alley janitor to ‘accountant’, to short-order cook, to telemarketer, to delivery driver, to cook, to restaurant manager, to erotic dancer (no sex), to residential property manager, to cashier (retail), to assistant manager, to manager, to designer (I’d been learning design and development in my free time in the mid 90s), to teacher (of programming to state workers), to programmer, to dba, to project manager – then back to designer so I could really learn and do it. That was my last job.

I feel like you’re overthinking this. There are people who buy crystal-infused drinking cups to reset their personal feng shui. (Spoiler: it’s just glitter.)

I really wish I didn’t have morals. It’s so easy to make money if you’re willing to fleece people.

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That just makes it worse.

Going out of your way to defend trump, diddy, and epstein is not a good look, btw.

It’s like Diddy, is every other rapper a sexual predator like him then?

You must be a troll, because a serious person wouldn’t say this.

You know that real people are behind these names, right?

Do you realise that real people are reading your comments or are you just having fun here? I’ll answer if you’re serious, but I don’t believe you are.

Of all the dystopian things, this is probably the most dystopian thing I’ve read lately.

This is horrible.

Neat. Good luck protecting yourself from this.

On the other hand, I’m seriously considering opening an Etsy shop selling foil-lined clothes. I’m pretty good at sewing. What do you think?

One time? Sure.

But there are so many photos and videos of these same people at parties, many with underaged girls, and certain people are at nearly all of them.

Why would anyone defend them after all we’ve seen? They certainly wouldn’t defend you.

*autocorrect

Hey Qanon!

Here’s your deep state.

e: sorry, downvoters; you’ve been had, but it’s not too late. There are real conspiracies here.

This may be why my sister is into competitive band ‘music’ (I mean the sort schools do, with lots of brass and drums).

I just can’t fathom it. I worked in an instrument shop, and it all sounds like if a van plowed into our stock room to me.

Why use a strongly typed language at all, then?

Sounds unnecessarily restrictive, right? Just cast whatever as whatever and let future devs sort it out.

$myConstant = ‘15’;
$myOtherConstant = getDateTime();
$buggyShit = $myConstant + $myOtherConstant;

Fuck everyone who comes after me for the next 20 years.

So here’s a fun (/s) idea: she’s got so much leverage over trump, she can probably force him to pardon her.

I think she’d be crazy not to try that, and how will Magaworld react if he does?

You’re right, and who can blame them. We’ve treated them poorly.

(I was thinking about one instance, but there have been several, you’re right.)

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Same. If arrogant bastards were doing donuts in my garden, keeping me up at all hours, throwing their rubbish everywhere, and scaring away my food, I’d start sabotaging them, too.

Orcas have yet to kill anyone on purpose, and this dipshit was likely collateral damage to them, but if they literally start eating people I’d say they deserve it. Team Orca.

Orcas have been attacking and sinking yachts. Apparently, CEO Marcus Hale (crypto bro) was sailing off the coast of Portugal last October when his yacht was attacked by orcas. He drowned. Here’s the only article I can find that’s not a video or twitter post: https://www.bitrue.com/blog/marcus-hale-crypto-ceo-death

I can’t find a more reputable link, so can’t vouch for the veracity of this. The orcas have been revolting for a few years, though.

1000 agents who could have been investigating crimes on behalf of victims. Instead, they were tasked with protecting a perpetrator.

e: also, jesus christ, how much work should it take to investigate and flag one ’innocent’ person’s references? 1,000 agents? How many man-hours is that? The man-hours that could have been spent for victims is one unconscionable thing – but how many man-hours should it take to bury this? That’s staggering. I thought we mostly knew what was in these files, but I’d also think 10 agents would be more than enough. What the fuck are we missing?

No, obviously I don’t think he’s in charge. These files also contain names of others in Congress, and meetings lately have been derailed lately because of this issue. This isn’t currently slowing down their progress.