What shocks me is most of the people that act so concerned about the sexual abuse of children are so poorly informed on the subject. 90% of abusers are someone the child knows, trusts or loves. 30 to 40% are family members. Over 50% of females abused as children are by their biological fathers.

The stranger danger fearmongering is mostly a myth used to deflect from the ugly truth that most abuse to children is done by the very people that are supposed to love, nurture and protect them.

Yeah, those horrible “based on the novel by…” series. Game of Thrones, The Witcher, Good Omens, Watchmen, Dexter, A Handmaid’s Tale. I love how people speak as if their opinion is the definitive one. Given that Rice has sold over 130 million books, I doubt she is losing sleep at night because you don’t like her work. Comparing Rice’s books to Lumley’s is like comparing apples to oranges. Yeah, they’re both fruits, but they taste nothing alike. Some prefer apples, some oranges. Some like one, but have no like for the other and just because you don’t care for something doesn’t mean that it has no value.

Sports don’t have guaranteed outcomes. It is entertainment based on a sport. There is a difference.

Not literally. sigh

They should get together and form their own operative group named The Trade Union.

While I agree that this is heavily fictionalized and dramatized, it’s laughable to believe that the history we get from white Europeans is entirely accurate.

2 more episodes to go and the scene from the 1st episode that has yet to play out suggests a less than warm and fuzzy ending.

We must have very different notions of what it is to be a “lefty, socialist”. The US is far from “down” and is very deserving of the scorn and hatred that much of the world feels towards us. We have sown discord and created instabilty around the globe for the purpose of ever-increasing profits for our corporations. We are the single greatest threat to world peace.

Not only are we horrible citizens of the world, we have done a grave disservice to the majority of our own citizens. Our capitalist systems are deeply corrupted and rooted in racism. It’s been that way since the beginning. All the flowery promises are but lies, polished to a fine sheen that blinds most to the ugly truth that hides beneath the thin veneer of freedom, equality and justice for all.

Don’t get me wrong. I think the majority of our citizens are fine, decent people. It is our government that I take issue with, but we are complicit in that far too many are either blind to or choose to be willfully ignorant of the evil our government does.

“You’re not supposed to be so blind with patriotism that you can’t face reality. Wrong is wrong no matter who says it or who does it.”
Malcom X

“Patriotism demands the abilty the feel shame as much as to feel pride.”
Anne-Marie Slaughter

While I’m not a huge fan of ratings, they do give a pretty good idea of what the general public thinks about a show. TVMaze has a 6.7. IMDb a 5.5 from 1.7K users. Rotten a 61% audience score. That is an overall favorable rating from 3 different sites. Those numbers aren’t great, but they do indicate that there is far more than a miniscule fan base. I hate to think of all the great stories I would have missed out on just because they didn’t immediately galvanize my attention.

We see the world through very different eyes. Mine see a land of plenty where half a million people are homeless and an estimated 2K of them die every year just from exposure to the elements. A country where 50K die every year due to lack of access to adequate health care or life-saving medications. If we can’t take care of our most vulnerable when times aren’t that hard what hope is there that we would do better in a post-apocalyptic world?

“the media”? This isn’t a news story. Not to defend this in any way, but the entire history of human civilization is littered with atrocious and cruel acts.

I read a study that suggested that at least 10% of suicides coud be averted by just implementing a nationwide 7 day waiting period before buying a gun. And then we have the problem of access to mental health care in this country which is something I can speak to personally. I’m at least somewhat lucky in that I live in a county that provides health care, medical and mental, to those with low or zero income. In the case of having no insurance or income the most you can hope for when depressed though is that they will toss you some pills, but anti-depressants are an odd branch of pharmacology. There are a plethora of medications out there and it often takes a long time to find one or a combination of that helps and for some people nothing helps or at least not the ones that they can gain access to because without insurance you aren’t going to be able to get them.

Then you have the unfortunates that nothing helps and they contemplate suicide every day. My first failed attempt was at 14 and in the decades since there have been another handful of attempts, everything from pills to firearm misfire to high speed car crash. No medications help and I’ve had therapy out the wazoo, including inpatient stays that have totalled to about 5 years of my life. I have found some peace in that even though I am still often depressed, sometimes severely, I rarely think of ending it all. It’s not been all bad. There were periods that saw me happy or at least as close as I can get to that. Even more times where I was so doped up that the depression was forced to the back of my mind. When I look back though I honestly wish that 1st attempt almost 50 years ago had been successful.

I’d like to make clear that I’m not fishing for sympathy. We live in a society that heavily frowns on suicide. The current consensus seems to be that taking your own life is cowardly and selfish. I wouldn’t wish it on anyone, but if others knew how it felt to be cronically depressed I think they might stop considering their own selfish feelings and have more compassion for a loved one that is suffering in this way and doesn’t wish to do so anymore. Every time I hear of someone that has finally found the courage to kill themselves after years of torture, I’m glad that they found some peace at long last. “Hope in reality is the worst of all evils because it prolongs the torments of man.” Friedrich Nietzsche

For anyone else interested in doing so these are the 4 Monsterverse movies by Legendary leading up to this.
https://www.primewire.tf/movie/1273563-godzilla
https://www.primewire.tf/movie/1122544-kong-skull-island
https://www.primewire.tf/movie/1130253-godzilla-king-of-the-monsters
https://www.primewire.tf/movie/61407-godzilla-vs-kong

And spring of 2024 will see Godzilla X Kong: The New Empire being released. A direct sequel to Godzilla vs Kong, this time they will partner up against a new threat.
Trailer https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fIh_KQcDcnI

The problem with that statement is that while both parts are true, used together they paint a misleading picture. Human trafficking in the US is mostly adults in the forms of sex trafficking, forced labor, and debt bondage. While it is true that the US is the largest consumer of the child sex industry, the vast majority of that is child porn. Make no mistake though, there is something very wrong with far too many men in this country. The US is the largest consumer and producer of child porn in the world and US citizens are a large portion of international child sex tourists.

While I do think this is a very serious issue that we should be doing more to combat. I don’t think this movie is the best vehicle to do so for many reasons, not the least of which is that it is being used as fodder to weaponize the issue for political gain by using conspiracy theory lies to assert that it is an epidemic on our own soil being perpetrated by liberal elites and their followers. Make no mistake about it, this problem isn’t particular to any political ideology and while child sex trafficking isn’t nonexistent in this country, it is greatly overexaggerated. The other more ridiculous claims like adrenochrome and organ harvesting are just nonsense.

I don’t think this is about Jesus.

dude, the movie is about WWE wrestlers. any conversation about wrestling in these comments is framed around that basic piece of information. one shouldn’t have to state with every comment that this is what they are specifically referring to. even in the comment that you cherry picked i said that there is a difference. you’re trying to beat a dead horse when you don’t even have a stick to do so with.