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WhiskeyGrinder

(25,840 posts)
19. .
Thu Jun 9, 2022, 08:33 AM
Jun 2022
Is it because we're a large country that we seem to have excessive depravity?
Nah, twas ever thus. It's just easier to hear about it now.

We have millions of kids in foster care because they have abusive parents.
It's actually less than half a million on any given day, and increasingly, kids are put in foster care because their parents are incarcerated and there's nowhere else to put them, or things like unemployment, leaving kids with an older sibling to work, or other small infraction is treated as a reason to take the kids out of their home.

A population that loves guns so much that thousands of deaths are acceptable so they can carry their guns around to threaten people—and some of them to murder people.

A population where many believe LGBTQ have no right to live and should be executed.

A population that believes that women have no rights to their own bodies and must be controlled by ignorant politicians.
These are all minority opinions in the population.

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Good on the restaurant employee, but I ... Whiskeytide Jun 2022 #1
He's a stepfather. COL Mustard Jun 2022 #2
He looks the part malaise Jun 2022 #3
Why wasn't the mother charged? She allowed it to happen if not participated. alphafemale Jun 2022 #4
. WhiskeyGrinder Jun 2022 #6
Good. alphafemale Jun 2022 #9
I thought she pled ot Gulity True Blue American Jun 2022 #20
Practicing his "badass" look for his fellow inmates, I see. Buns_of_Fire Jun 2022 #5
I am not advocating any kind of prison violence, which I find abhorrent, and just stating fact... Raster Jun 2022 #11
And make sure they do. Women will despise her,too. True Blue American Jun 2022 #21
I think that is altered mental status due to drugs, actually alphafemale Jun 2022 #12
And yet banning legal abortion means more of these cases. Novara Jun 2022 #7
Yes. Delphinus Jun 2022 #15
He abused the older child she'd had with another man. He didn't abuse the one they had together. thesquanderer Jun 2022 #26
A Marvel Kid Berwyn Jun 2022 #8
Oh, Delphinus Jun 2022 #16
Profound jmbar2 Jun 2022 #23
Thank you for offering the antidote Easterncedar Jun 2022 #25
Good on the restaurant server MaryMagdaline Jun 2022 #10
Is it because we're a large country that we seem to have excessive depravity? Lonestarblue Jun 2022 #13
. WhiskeyGrinder Jun 2022 #19
Pieces of shit. Apologies to shit. twodogsbarking Jun 2022 #14
+1 2naSalit Jun 2022 #18
They look pleasant. gibraltar72 Jun 2022 #17
May they receive everything they deserve. niyad Jun 2022 #22
2nd that emotion. Dark n Stormy Knight Jun 2022 #29
I hope they each do 200 years. BobTheSubgenius Jun 2022 #24
K&R Blue Owl Jun 2022 #27
Was he going to school? If so, did any adult there file any earlier report? n/t pnwmom Jun 2022 #28
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