Maybe it would help if I understood what you meant by ruined?

Social impact (both negative attention from peers, along with recurring trauma of seeing your abuser get away with minimal punishment), emotional trauma, swlf-harm, loss of ability to trust (especially bad when it was someone you knew and thought was safe), and even impacts to job/school due to the event, to name a handful I've witnessed.

Are you talking overall or only focusing on the immediate future?

Sorry, I thought my parenthetical made it clear I was talking about the immediate future

I can't say I've known a sexual assault survivor whose life wasn't wrecked for the immediate future as they came to terms with the assault and having to see their abuser walk around free.

Call it what you will, but I've helped more than one friend through it, so I'll keep it as is.

The woman's life is already ruined, so why not ruin theirs too?

(I know their life isn't ruined forever, but it might as well be for the foreseeable future)

Oh no, if it isn't the consequences of my own actions

They need to get those witches on retainer to curse the whole party

What movie?

Right, and I'm literally saying it's going to go just as well over here as it did over there

Meal Team 6 aren't soldiers tho, just larping as them

they will just blast the entire 5000 person rural town with a load of napalm and let everyone else know that any other local militias thinking of playing hero will get the same, so buck the fuck up and get in line citizens

Lol, how'd that work out overseas?

Spoiler: this is how you galvanize your resistance against you

"Government abandons attempt to electrify lighting, says it's unfair to flammable technologies"

That's copaganda 101

FTFY

Treat it like the public health issue it is, not something to involve the judicial/carceral systems

*pocket emeralds

Are people on lemmy democratic leaders or speakers at democratic conventions? Or are you 100% full of shit and trying to move the goalposts in the most obvious way possible?

"Look, I know I screwed up and waaaaaay undersentanced this diddler, but how tf you think I'm gonna change my mind now? Just change my ruling? I don't make the rulings, I just think them up and write them down! It's out of my hands"

"We're totes gonna go broke soon if you don't let us do the illegal thing that's the direct cause of us being broke!"

Man, republicans are so fucking stupid they think everyone is as dumb as they are.

Yeah, and companies aren't notorious for burying heinous shit like this in their TOS so that when they get caught doing it, some idiot will jump up to say "ItS iN tHeIr ToS"

Every accusation is a confession

It really isn't. Your comparing mainstream members to randoms on the Internet. At best you're being disengenous, if not outright lying to make a point.

Any idiot can say whatever dumb shit they want on the internet (as evidenced by the conversation above), but you can't honestly say both sides are advocating for this at the party level.

Well, not without being a liar, anyway. That never stops the right and idiot centrists from crying BoTh SiDeS to things that are demonstratably coming from the right primarily.

I just do all that after I do the grown up stuff I have to do

Nope, you're conflating party level advocacy with randos on the internet, and it's a bullshit comparison. And this advocacy has come from the party leadership for decades.

One party is OPENLY KIRKING PEOPLE IN THE STREET and there's no pushback at the party level on one side, but plenty on the other.

Your argument is the most hollow both sides bullshit.

I really wish the Democrats would fire back that they're letting pedophiles off the hook by not releasing the Epstein files (and protecting the PedoTUS).

I actually saw a lawn sign the other day in the rust belt with the orange dipshits face and the text "Pedophile pride is a Republican value" and I wish I hadn't been driving to snap a picture.