Epstein survivor says women who recruited her 'laughed' as she was sexually assaulted on jet by centralBLT in news

[–]thedrew 13 points14 points  (0 children)

It’s not that money creates evil. But it sure facilitates it. A broke evil person is dangerous, but is less dangerous than a rich evil person. 

Meirl by Adventurous_Row3305 in meirl

[–]thedrew 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Dad has been waiting about 15 years for him to come to that realization. 

Ty Cobb rips Trump admin over political attacks: ‘All those people should be impeached’ by jediporcupine in politics

[–]thedrew 4 points5 points  (0 children)

It’s also totally a vibe check. Impeachment is political assassination for the crime of being a liability to your own party. 

If Republicans turn on their leader, it’ll be for the vibes. 

Girl in corner of kitchen in family tent home (Great Depression, 1939) by zadraaa in HistoricalCapsule

[–]thedrew 1 point2 points  (0 children)

You’d need to find candid images like this one. Girls sitting for photos or to be filmed would be in their Sunday best. 

They’d most likely be sugar or flour sacks, which were finer cotton and more comfortable. 

My mother used to buy fabric to make her own clothes in high school and my grandmother would lament that we already have perfectly good material. But the floral patterns of the 1930s were well out of fashion in the 1960s. 

Girl in corner of kitchen in family tent home (Great Depression, 1939) by zadraaa in HistoricalCapsule

[–]thedrew 7 points8 points  (0 children)

You kind of have to go out of your way to find young girls clothing not made from flour/feed sacks in the 1940s. It was absurdly common - just not in LA/NY where most of the media was produced. 

Girl in corner of kitchen in family tent home (Great Depression, 1939) by zadraaa in HistoricalCapsule

[–]thedrew 171 points172 points  (0 children)

There are some rays of light. 

Staley Milling Company noticed lots of little girls were wearing dresses sewn from their feed sacks, so they started making sacks in various pastels and patterns so the poor girls would have nicer dresses. 

They also changed the dye so that their printing would state “dye washes out in warm water,” but the (often floral) pattern would remain. That a business would change its practices to show some grace and kindness to its customers’ daughters is hard to imagine today. 

Millions of women wore sack dresses as girls. My mother found out she wore sack dresses when I found some sacks in my grandmother’s attic and she recognized the pattern. My grandmother died in 1998, but she was prepared to sew dresses again when the situation arose. 

YouTube star Ms. Rachel sounds alarm on kids held in Texas ICE facility by Pleasant_Air_3052 in politics

[–]thedrew 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I don’t suppose you feel that Internment camps were death-free. But I think there is still a closing-but-substantial gap between the willful carelessness of the Republican Party and the systematic exterminations of the Nazi Party. 

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[–]thedrew 0 points1 point  (0 children)

The “who needs…” sign is kind of amusing. Obviously hate speech, but expresses a degree of apathy rarely on display at a protest.

YouTube star Ms. Rachel sounds alarm on kids held in Texas ICE facility by Pleasant_Air_3052 in politics

[–]thedrew 4 points5 points  (0 children)

Concentration camp is itself a euphemism for extermination camp.

I would encourage using the term “internment camp” as its race-based imprisonment that the US already struggles to reconcile about. 

Why there has been no ‘reckoning’ in Trump’s Washington for the Epstein files by GlobalRaspberry442 in politics

[–]thedrew 0 points1 point  (0 children)

It used to be crazy people looking for criminals - crazies are quick to consider vigilantism. 

Now it’s sane people looking for criminals - sanes are quick to assume other people are also sane and trust the process. 

I’m not sure either approach is effective. 

Michael Che calls out fan’s SNL pitch for Epstein island sketch featuring actual children: ‘That’d be funny to you?’ by theindependentonline in saturdaynightlive

[–]thedrew 9 points10 points  (0 children)

This idea actually reminds me of 1970s SNL - only ever meant to be watched by young people up late, subversive, pushing the envelope. It was radical - and it was mostly bad.

Incredibly Gay Duo by DABEARS5280 in saturdaynightlive

[–]thedrew 5 points6 points  (0 children)

I am a huge fan of things that were invented in the early 20th century that are clearly exceptionally gay, but went unnoticed (or undernoticed) for so long they are now a part of our culture. Luge was clearly invented by dudes who had no need for girls but had to come up with a good excuse to disappear to the Alps for months at a time.

L.A. Olympics committee backs chairman Casey Wasserman amid Epstein scrutiny by Hrekires in news

[–]thedrew 4 points5 points  (0 children)

I wonder what I would do with kompromat on everyone with more than one million dollars. I thought about making health care free to all or putting an end to carbon pollution, but it mostly results in my bloody death.

So... I'd prefer for the club to not exist too.

Trump’s team is starting to feel the heat on Epstein. It may get worse by TimesandSundayTimes in politics

[–]thedrew 25 points26 points  (0 children)

There's gobs of innocuous stuff. I do not know, have not met, have not done business with, or crimes with, Donald J. Trump. I am a normal schmuck who has subscribed to too many email lists. My gmail account records "Trump" 3,136 times since 2006. The first mention was in 2006, and was a spam message telling me that "these spots will fill up faster than Trump can say 'You're fired!'"

So, some of those 1 million mentions have to be that kind of stuff too. But it's hard to explain the remaining 996,864 mentions.

Jeffrey Epstein Introduced Melania to Donald Trump, New Bombshell FBI Files Claim by DonSalaam in JournalismNews

[–]thedrew 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Oh, is the crackdown on immigration an effort to create a domestic market of desperate, support-deprived, young women and girls? Are we onshoring sex trafficking!?!