Is Cicero not out with his brothers and sister snowflakes marching?
âShe was in HYSTERICSâ read one sign
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Yes. And youâve the temerity to call someone else a bigot?
Theyâre protesting feelings.
Iâm sorry to hear you had that experience. I didnât have you down for one of those weak types though. Thatâs a bit upsetting.
Thatâs why I only date Independant women. Both financially and psychologically.
Self employed women are fantastic.
Thatâs where itâs really at.
If I was an employer of one of these fools theyâd be getting a written warning
Have asked that manyâs the time. Prepared to be labelled
I have rattled the living fuck out of a few lads here in recent times.
Itâs very amusing.
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Itâs interesting that you quoted @TimRiggins there.
Now far be it from me to put words in Timâs mouth, but I imagine that had he been around at the time of the hunger strikes he would have been ridiculing protests in support of the prisoners on them, because he would likely have ridiculed the actions of the prisoners themselves, probably along the lines of them deciding to commit suicide over not being able to wear their their own clothes, or something like that.
Whereas you clearly feel those protests were admirable.
Protests over trial verdicts are a reasonably common thing worldwide and have been for as long as the trial process has been around. Protest is the very essence of democracy and trial verdicts are not above that.
Many people on todayâs protests will have been there because they feel the trial has opened huge faultlines as to how certain sections of society treat the issue of rape and sexual violence in general. Theyâre right about that. Sure there might be some wrongheaded idiots but the nature of protest in general is that there will pretty much always will be some - try and tell me the protests during the hunger strikes didnât have such, because they did - in 1981 some of them attempted to burn down the British embassy like happened in 1972.
Personally I can just about accept the verdict of a jury who found that the burden of proof of beyond reasonable doubt was not met, much as I believe the woman has been wronged.
What I find much harder to accept is the reflex reaction of so many knuckle dragging men on social media, on this forum as much as anywhere else, who have reacted to the verdict by treating it as a legitimisation of and a victory for their neanderthal views of women, of rape and of the concept of what is consent, and who erroneously or mendaciously make out that the verdict means that the complainant was lying, and who believe it gives them carte blanche to now seek to humiliate the complainant publicly, including naming her.
And itâs hard to not think that the content of what the defence QCs said did not contribute to that. The implication that asking in desperation to âat least use a condomâ implies consent, when it categorically does not. The rhetoric that the complainant not screaming amounted to consent, when it categorically did not. The assertions that the womanâs confusion as a result of trauma in the hours after the events amounted to lies.
Itâs a sort of Trump moment as regards sexual violence in this country. The knuckle draggers of social media like @TheUlteriorMotive and @caoimhaoin and their equivalents across the rest of the internet have used this trial to spout every abhorrent idea they have about rape, about the place of women in society and bizarrely, about their read it on the back of a packet of sugar idea of âa real manâ is. Now they treat the verdict as a legitimisation of those neanderthal views.
Views like that are utterly vile and more than deserve to be protested against.
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Ultimately thatâs what itâs all about for you and other trolls.
Getting your kicks by trolling about rape.
Says a lot, doesnât it?
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Dance monkey. Dance.
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Right on cue. Read my previous post. Describes you to a tee.
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Thatâs priceless, youâre calling somebody a troll 
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What most of them are reacting to is social media outrage.
More an observation than an experienceâŚI no solipsist palâŚfor something to exist doesnât mean I have to experience itâŚ
Does that sign say Boycott is a rapist?
Social media is generally a pretty good guide to the preponderance of opinion in a country. Social media has proved that there is a widespread preponderance of neanderthal views about women and about rape in this country, as symbolised by shameless rape apologist creeps like @TheUlteriorMotive.
I recognize 4 or 5 heads there âŚthey are all insufferable womenâs lib types ⌠hairy armpits and legs to match⌠Youâd be ashamed of your life to caught up in that.
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