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It is urgent that the sacrifice of sex workers on the altar of morality cease! – Doctors of the World
License to Rape
Police states define the bodies of all citizens as "crime scenes" which can be violated by "authorities" at will:
[Cops] in Oak Lawn, a suburb of Chicago, subjected Tylus Allen Jr. to…illegal searches of his vehicle and person, including strip-searching him and ordering a doctor to [anally rape him]…on Dec. 2, 2018…co[ps decided to pretend Allen was]…concealing drugs. They searched him and his vehicle…without his consent…then called for a…dog [to manufacture]…evidence [but it failed. Next they abducted Allen] to [their hideout, where they violated his anus but still found]…nothing…[they] then called an ambulance [to take] Allen [to a hospital, even though he]…was…not in need of medical assistance…[cops] lied [to]…a doctor that they had found drugs in Allen's vehicle…and [used their magical medical degrees to]…order…the…doctor to perform a digital rectal examination and an abdominal X-ray…Approximately three hours after the initial traffic stop, Allen was charged with reckless driving, [locked in a cage all] night…and…stuck with a bill for the ambulance…
Imagine rapists billing you for your rape.
A religious-fanatic cop wants to infantilize vulnerable women in order to brainwash them at a remote and hidden ranch. Reporters think this is perfectly OK:
A Tucson [sow] is determined to return…[sex workers to] childhood…Sarah Haught [refers to her intended victims as] little girls…[and says] "I want to provide a place [to return] them to…childhood again"…Beauty from Ashes Ranch…[is] Haught['s]…a[ttempt to cash in on] the $150 billion [rescue] industry…Haught [moaned with her hand in her pants while breathlessly sharing pig fantasies like] "Pimps…can make more profit off of girls than drugs since they can sell the girls over and over"…[she also vomited] "the Johns who participate in these acts…need to be held accountable" [all over the reporter]…She and her board members…signed a lease on a 70-acre property in central Arizona (the location is undisclosed to [isolate their victims)…"I personally believe in the healing powers of Jesus Christ and we can…[force] our beliefs [on these young women because nobody will stop us]"…
A hypocrite and a cheapskate:
A Missouri church leader…tried to pay for sex on the gay hookup app Grindr…with an Arby's card…Barry Cole Poyner…[also] offer[ed] to pay for gas…a student [he approached snitched on him] and a cop [decided to decieve and entrap him]…Poyner [stupi]dly sent the [pig] a message saying he "would love to have a sugar daddy relationship"…offered to fill up his gas tank in exchange for sex…[and] said…he "might throw in an Arby's card LOL"…[the pigs then ambushed him] at [a] gas station, where he [initially] tried to flee…the Church of Christ…has made [anti-gay] comments in the past…
I'm always happy to see authoritarians feeding on each other.
Droit du Seigneur (#604)
"Peacekeeper" is just another euphemism for "cop":
United Nations peacekeeping forces fathered hundreds of children with girls as young as eleven years old while deployed in Haiti…The UN Stabilization Mission in Haiti (MINUSTAH) was i[mpos]ed in 2004 [using the excuse of]…political instability and organized crime. The mission continued through 2017…MINUSTAH peacekeepers introduced cholera…causing the infection of 800,000 Haitians, 10,000 of whom died as a result. The organization has also previously admitted that over 100 Sri Lankan peacekeepers were involved in [what "authorities" label a "sex ring"] between 2004 and 2007…MINUSTAH [troops also left many women they raped with]…AIDS…[yet the "authorities" are still trying to blame all this on]…transactional…sex…
The word you're looking for is "sired"; "fathering" requires more than spooging into some young, gullible girl you manipulated. But I'm sure hundreds of pregnant teenagers is MUCH better for Haitian society than injecting money into the local sex work economy, so Bra-vo. {slow clap}.
Imaginary Victims (#903)
As I've said repeatedly, the state's pretended sympathy for "sex trafficking victims" applies only to imaginary "perfect" ones, not real young women with complex lives:
Attorneys for Chrystul Kizer…were seeking to use a law that shields sex trafficking victims as part of her defense…[against a] charge[s of] first-degree [murder]…for the June 2018 shooting death of Randall Volar III…[who] at the time…was under investigation for child sex trafficking…The case…is slated to go to trial in February…
The Course of a Disease (#911)
A decision in favor of human rights could be a powerful blow to Swedish criminalization:
250 sex workers petitioned the European Court of Human Rights to recognize the violation of their fundamental rights to health, safety, and privacy…Faced with a government…that denies their lived reality and remains oblivious to the violence of its policies, they have decided to attack the state…Whether in Sweden, Ireland, Canada or France, we have the necessary hindsight to assert that the Swedish model implementing the penalization of clients endangers all people engaged in sex work. This is why we…give them unfailing support in the fight against France's…repressive laws…
Yet another rapist gets away with it thanks to his magic clown costume:
…a…jury [let a rapist Delaware cop go free after he orally raped a woman]…Thomas Oliver Jr. was [only] convicted of official misconduct, a misdemeanor…[after] his attorneys…[used] the ["she wanted to suck a random pig's dick on the side of the road" defense]…as…the [prosecutor pointed out]…"He had the power to arrest her, and she had no choice but to submit"…the [jury also ignored that]…after Oliver [blew his load in his victim's mouth] he threw $3 at her and [shoved] her…out of his p[igmobile]…
Uncommon Sense (#920)
Yet another large union declares support for sex worker rights:
MoveUP, [a Canadian union with] over 12,000 B.C. members, declared that it formally supports the decriminalization of sex work…The union news release cited the work of Amnesty International…[and] the Lancet, one of the world's most respected peer-reviewed medical journals…MoveUP plans to work with groups, including WAVAW Rape Crisis Centre, on actions to advance the decriminalization agenda…
Anyone who doubts that politicians are deranged megalomaniacs should be following this:
Even the Defense Department is now pointing out that the government's quest to weaken encryption lies somewhere between counterproductive and downright harmful. Attorney General Bill Barr and Senate Judiciary Committee Chair Lindsey Graham have been on a tear lately in a bid to undermine encryption standards. Those efforts culminated in a hearing…whose primary purpose appears to have been to demonize encryption by falsely proclaiming it "poses a risk to public safety." Many [spooks and bureaucrats] have joined the festivities, arguing that encryption enables all manner of nefarious behavior, from human trafficking to child exploitation as they push for the inclusion of [pig gates] in everything from routers to smartphones. Actual security experts…have long highlighted the foolishness of such efforts…[a very few bureaucrats] seem to understand the benefits of retaining strong encryption…the Defense Department's Chief Information Officer Dana Deasy…notes that all DOD issued unclassified mobile devices are required to be password protected using strong passwords, and that any data-in-transit on DOD issued mobile devices be encrypted via VPN…Deasy wrote… "maintaining a domestic climate for state of the art security and encryption is critical to the protection of our national security…Facebook sent a letter…to Bill Barr, in which the company made it clear that it would not backdoor its encrypted messaging apps at the government's [demand]…
Because obviously prohibition doesn't ruin enough lives yet:
Imagine a building where drug-sniffing dogs roam the corridors, air-quality sensors alert officials if anyone is inhaling a controlled substance, using the bathroom is a privilege rather than a right, clothing is searched in case anyone is hiding contraband up their sleeves, and those who are caught breaking the rules could face life-derailing punishments…I have just described a public school in Texas…so obsessed with stopping teenagers from vaping that they are perfectly willing to treat them like inmates…That 17-year-olds in Texas are considered insufficiently mature to vape, but plenty old enough to go to prison, is an absurd and unconscionable hypocrisy…
Disaster (#986)
Does any media outlet other than local news fail to recognize what a disaster FOSTA is?
How many of us would think being jailed is a form of help?…that's the twisted rationale faced by…sex workers, forced to endure the constant threat of imprisonment by people who claim it's "for their own good." At a time when the American political establishment is witnessing a…revolt against the waste and destruction of mass incarceration, one area of the carceral state is [still] headed in the wrong direction: the war on sex work. Not only is this puritanical crusade endangering sex workers' lives, but it created yet another justification for the over-policing of communities of color…[and] the…undocumented..and… expanding the surveillance state. Guised in the language of combatting…"sex trafficking," new measures have given law enforcement agencies sweeping powers to take down websites used by consenting, adult sex workers. Federal measures like SESTA-FOSTA…have driven many sex workers offline and…some have even died, because of the laws that were purportedly passed to "protect" them. The impact has been so disastrous that [politicians] are now pushing a bill to study just how much damage their own law did…
In the past two years, the EFF has emerged as one of our most powerful allies:
…EFF fought [SESTA/FOSTA] in Congress, concerned that its vague, ambiguous language and stiff criminal and civil penalties would drive constitutionally protected content off the Internet. And we represent organizations and individuals that are challenging the law in federal court. Activists and organizers from within the sex working community made it clear from the beginning…that…it…would…deprived a community of many of the online tools they used to stay safe and to organize. 2019 has brought us the unfortunate statistics to prove that they were right. In a recent study of sex workers completed by the grassroots sex worker advocacy organization Hacking//Hustling…40% of participants reported experiencing increased violence after FOSTA became law…these grim statistics aren't an outlier: last year the San Francisco Police Department reported…street-based sex work offenses had spiked 170% since FOSTA's passage…
Rapist cops make sure they're exempted from "sex offender" registration if possible, because they know it's really an unending punishment:
A [typical and representative] San Diego [cop] who groped, hugged and tried to kiss more than a dozen women…was sentenced…to 44 months behind bars followed by 16 months of p[robation, but]…Richard Fischer will not have to register as a sex offender…he…attack[ed his 16 victims] between 2015 and 2017…some [after]…he arrested [them] and others…while responding to 911 calls the[y] made…Fo[rtunately]…he'll be…barred from obtaining another [cop] job in [California, though rapist cops often simply move elsewhere to regain the power they crave]…
Posted in Current Events, Links, Miscellaneous, Music, Obituary, Tyranny, tagged animals, California, cops, disease, hysteria, I can't breathe, illegal aliens, Minnesota, Never Call the Cops, prisons, South Carolina, Stop faking!, Uganda, video on December 23, 2019| 2 Comments »
I can't breathe. – David Glen Ward
The name of Caroll Spinney, who died earlier this month, may not be familiar, but I'm sure you'll know the names of two characters he played for almost half a century: Big Bird and Oscar the Grouch. So I can't think of a better way to observe Christmas and honor Spinney than to feature this video of Oscar sharing his feelings about the holiday. The links above it were provided by Mama Tush ("faking" & "strangles"); Radley Balko ("explain"); Anarras Ansible ("treatment"); Mike Siegel ("Kampala"); and Cop Crisis ("execution" & "umbrella").
Stop faking!
No, not to "explain" either.
Cop strangles innocent man to death.
Your rulers call this petty torture "treatment".
"His special skill is well known across Kampala".
Crime: shoplifting. Penalty: summary execution.
Cop attempts to murder man for having an umbrella.
Steinem's been peddling this since 1978; I've been mocking it since 1984.
If you're tempted to badge-lick, reread the original article of this heading.
While US media self-destructively cheer censorship, Canada gives us this.
Prohibitionist forced to admit prohibition is intended to harm sex workers.
Amateurs: a menace to public health who should be licensed & regulated.
The evil painting must be exorcised lest its sex rays "sexualize children"!
Having sex is apparently the worst thing this bird-brain can conceive of.
Man proposes to solve problem of bad sex work laws with MOAR LAWS!
I'll bet the Swedes get all butthurt if foreign countries respond in kind.
Strippers are spearheading the movement for sex worker labor rights.
Another good argument against the evil of "sex offender" registration.
This sleazy tactic spread from Canada to Scotland, England & Ireland.
I'm glad people are beginning to realize how dangerous Facebook is.
Here's more detail on Philadelphia's scam to steal citizens' property.
Cops, racism, metaphors, witches, Lindsey Stirling and much more.
Academics keep "discovering" what we've been saying for decades.
TSA's specific plan is to help DHS build a giant biometric database.
Louisiana somehow got a federal court to reverse its own decision.
Oklahoma prohibitionists claim HIV+ people emit sex rays as well.
Hey, picket-fence gays, are you ready to support sex workers yet?
It's good to see Médecins du Monde make this position official.
Another attempt by politicians to destroy the entire internet.
Cops ineptly try to regain control of a runaway moral panic.
The "end demand" strategy carried to its logical conclusion.
This is a type of surveillance the Stasi would recognize.
Cops, D&D, relationships, Tom Lehrer and much more.
They were "safeguarded", no doubt at a "safe house".
Miranda Kane on how NOT to deal with a sex worker.
Shysters chasing the "sex trafficking" bandwagon.
STOP going to see unknowns who may be cops!
The State calls this a "correctional institution".
"Environmental cost" = "public health crisis".
This us about as "dog bites man" as it gets.
My holiday schedule is all over the place.
My previous columns for December 17th.
I don't know which is more exploitative.
Why you should follow me on Twitter.
This brings the toll to 28 for the year.
The story is the same the world over.
"Youth pastors" are as bad as cops.
A talking toaster is still a toaster.
Prohibitionists call this "rescue".
Rivers & McNeill ride again.
All prohibition is the same.
In the News (#999)
Posted in Current Events, Miscellaneous, News, Tyranny, tagged Above the Law, activism, Amsterdam, Bottleneck, California, cops, dehumanization, disease, drugs, Dutch Threat, FBI, Florida, Georgia, hysteria, I Saw My Brain, illegal aliens, King of the Hill, Micromanagement, Mississippi, Netherlands, North Carolina, Panopticon, pimps, Pimps Ahoy, politicians, pregnancy, prisons, propaganda, rape, Real People, rescue industry, scams, Stop faking!, surveillance, Texas, The Cold Grey Light of Dawn, To Molest and Rape, Torture Chamber, Unsafe for Human Consumption, Vermont on December 21, 2019| 8 Comments »
We simply can't allow government officials to continue raping those in their custody. – Lavissa Stannow
Above the Law (#551)
Since the Miami Herald wants to play coy, click on the subtitle link for more on this predator's behavior:
Hialeah [Florida cop] Jesús Menocal Jr. was arrested by FBI agents…in connection with…sexually assault[ing] and threaten[ing] four girls and women [in 2015]…Menocal…ha[s] been [on paid vacation since September in reward for a years-long "investigation" which naturally cleared him of] sexual battery and false imprisonment charges…federal [prosecutors]…will [probably] charge…[him] with violating the civil rights of [his victims]…
Real People (#665)
Veteran activist Norma Jean Almodovar on leaving LAPD for sex work:
…Working in law enforcement, even as a traffic officer, exposed me to the worst elements in human beings…When I learned just how corrupt and evil…all too many police officers, judges, district attorneys and politicians were, I really got depressed…(While off work recovering from a car accident) I decided I could no longer tolerate the corruption within the LAPD and the moral hypocrisy…Whenever I was interviewed for a talk show or spoke at colleges/ universities, I was always asked how I liked doing sex work compared to working for the LAPD. I always say that it was the best job I ever had, and it truly was…[later] I ended up charged with one count of pandering…[because] I tried to help a former friend of mine from the LAPD fulfill her fantasy…in…a conversation in which money and sex were mentioned….the…woman…admitted she set me up because she wanted to stop me from writing an expose on Los Angeles Police…the judge gave me three years probation…[but] I…didn't shut up…So after a year…the DA's office decided to appeal my sentence on the grounds that my "crime" was worse than rape or robbery because I was commercially exploiting my law enforcement past…I served 18 months in prison and another 18 months on parole…[during which] I was sexually molested by one of the [screws]…
The mother allowed this disgusting pig to be alone with her daughter "to prove that policemen are good":
A [typical and representative] Lowell [North Carolina cop named]…James Blair is serving 12 years behind bars for statutory rape [of a 14-year-old, but] Blair's sister has [contacted] her repeatedly on her brother's behalf and even arranged conference calls. [Both the rapist and his sister, Kathy Baxter, denied this even though]…there are recordings of some of the calls…Baxter [claimed]…"The minor has called me"…[and] Blair's attorney claims he plans to [lurk around the result of his rape] when he gets out of prison in 10 years…"I'm not going to allow him to have anything to do with that baby," the victim's mother said. The family now wants a no contact order against Blair's sister….[and] if the court determines Blair violated his no contact order…he will face a new misdemeanor charge that may add significant time to his sentence…the [victim] is suing the [rapist], the police chief and the town…
I hope she wins and Blair gets at least 6 more years added to his sentence so the child will be an adult when he gets out, and therefore safe from attempts to force him to see the monster who sired him.
Pimps Ahoy
Some rescue industry charlatans pretend to have been pimps, but this guy really was one:
William Foster…[ran] a 15-year enterprise that targeted teenage girls in foster care and vulnerable young women…[though] a nonprofit called Foster's Care, Inc., that promised "a comprehensive restoration program for victims of Human Sex Trafficking," and "protection in partnership with police and FBI"…Foster, who faces sex trafficking charges, offered women flashy sports cars and luxury designer clothes while withholding the cash they made performing sex work while under his control…he…used "deceit, manipulation and fear of physical harm to cajole women and minor females to engage in commercial sex"…[he] forced women to go on a "lemon juice diet" to lose weight, and required his "girls" to get breast and buttocks implants and undergo nose jobs, liposuction and even rib removals to shrink their already-tiny waists…he [was undone when a] newly recruited victim phoned the National Human Trafficking Hotline…
All "rescue" profiteers are exploitative, but this is ridiculous.
The PREA is just feel-good nonsense as long as screws have absolute power over their victims:
…15 years after the…Prison Rape Elimination Act….prisons and jails in the United States continue to be sites of widespread sexual…violence….much of it…perpetrated by government employees…Prison rape is a longstanding [abomination] affecting [human beings locked in cages like animals]… incarcerated women are 30 times more likely to be raped than women who are not incarcerated…[and] Bureau of Justice Statistics…put the number of people sexually assaulted in U.S. jails and prisons at over 200,000 [per year]…more than 58 percent [of formal allegations are the result of rapes or assaults by]…prison staff…Seven Days, a Vermont newspaper, published a report on…rape by [screws] at the state's only women's prison…some[times]…continu[ing]…long after the…[victims] were released…[embarrassed politicians and bureaucrats have made] several responses…[most of them cosmetic but a few real, such as] a request for a federal investigation…one [single]…prosecutor, Sarah George, [declared] that she would be reviewing the sentences of all 20 people…who were [caged] by her office to determine whether they can be released [without political repercussions to her]…
Laws supposedly intended to control government actors virtually never carry criminal penalties; it's long past time for that to change. There need to be criminal penalties for the criminal cops, screws, etc, and their victim needs to go free so the state itself has some punishment for allowing their behavior.
Feds arrest doctors for wanting to help prisoners instead of just yelling "stop faking!" at them:
A group of doctors seeking to provide [caged] migrants with free flu vaccinations…were arrested by federal [pigs]…[after] protesting outside the Border Patrol's San Diego headquarters…Doctors for Camp Closure…said…"We are licensed medical doctors…with decades of experience…immigration officials…are ignoring us and children's lives are at risk as a result"…In the last fiscal year, at least three [minors], ages 2, 6 and 16, died of influenza while in federal c[ages]…CBP [defends letting people die in cages of easily-preventable diseases by pretending]…migrants are only meant to be [caged] for a maximum of up to 72 hours [even though in reality they are often held for weeks or months]…the[y also called]…the…doctors…"a random group of radical political activists"…and [vaccines]…"drugs"…
I Saw My Brain (#960)
"Operations that purport to target human trafficking but yield mass arrests for prostitution-related offenses are commonplace in [the domain of the psychopathic Grady Judd]":
[Pigs caged] more than 100 people in a…[swinish scheme] targeting [men seeking consensual sex. Polk County fuhrer Grady Judd moronically]…dubbed [the scheme] "Operation Santa's Naughty List" [and cl]aimed [it was intended] to identify and help victims of human trafficking…"I in my heart believe that every one of these prostitutes at some point in…their life were a victim of human trafficking, if in fact they're not currently a victim of human trafficking," [oinked] Judd [while furiously masturbating right in front of reporters]…A total of 124 people were arrested, five of wh[om Judd lied] had the intent to sexually harm a child [even though the victims, some of them autistic or learning-disabled, actually had no such intent and were simply tricked by lying cops]…
Judd especially loves conducting his entrapment schemes near holidays, giving them moronic and childish titles that reference said holiday. This will continue until the majority of those arrested fight back with lawsuits, or the voters of Polk County get tired of paying the many lawsuits that are already filed against this lunatic every year.
Unsafe for Human Consumption (#972)
Next they'll tell us about fermenting grapes "contaminated" with ethanol and cane "contaminated" with sugar:
…the[se] poppy seeds are different and dangerous. The labels use code words like unwashed and raw. They are poppy seeds contaminated by opium that scientists say can have the same dangerous effects as heroin or morphine…the DEA website says that "unwashed poppy seeds are a danger to the user" and are "in violation of the Controlled Substances Act." The seeds are now clearly categorized as schedule II controlled substances just like morphine and fentanyl. "If you sell these products and don't take steps to make sure they are not contaminated, you can be prosecuted for drug related offenses," said Sarah Sorcher, from the Center for Science in the Public Interest…
They aren't "contaminated"; they are the natural source of opium and they aren't cheap. Anyone who buys these things knows exactly what he's buying, or else he's unbelievably stupid with money; of course this issue wouldn't exist if it were legal to sell drugs as what they are instead of having to hide it from violent busybodies. Oh, and CSPI has nothing to do with science; it's an authoritarian organization dedicated to promoting the latest nutritional pseudoscience, as you may be able to tell from its criticism-free embrace of prohibitionist laws.
No licensing scheme has ever exceeded a 10% compliance rate for reasons obvious to everyone but politicians:
Five major Dutch cities are concerned that a proposed law to regulate sex work nationally could have negative consequences…The mayors of Amsterdam, Rotterdam, Utrecht, The Hague and Groningen have submitted an official reaction to the new law's online consultation raising their worries. Although they welcome [more laws because they are politicians], they fear that a national registration scheme for all prostitutes and businesses involved in sex work [will fail miserably as such schemes always do]…the new…law…would criminalise unlicensed sex workers, the customers of unlicensed sex workers as well as their employers…"It could even be counterproductive, making this group further hidden from view, unreachable for care and in an even more vulnerable position"…
When you give your sensitive information to strangers, what's to stop them from selling it to fascists?
…GEDmatch was…an obscure genealogy website…[until] police…used [it] to identify a suspect in the 40-year-old Golden State Killer case…[turning] the site [into] a [surveillance] tool…[without the consent of] users…[rooting by pigs quickly and predictably grew] increasingly invasive; the site's owners tried to react with changes to its terms of service that ended up backfiring; and [on December 9th]…GEDmatch announced it was being taken over by…the [fascist] genomics firm Verogen…[which offers] DNA testing services…to [cops]…GEDmatch…users…[are] locked out until [they] accept…the new terms…[or] permanently delet[e their right to access their own] data [on] the GEDmatch servers…GEDmatch…users [recently] discovered their privacy settings [don't mean shit]…when…a Florida [pig] obtained a warrant to search the site's full database, including individuals who had opted out of [letting pigs root through their underwear]…
The Cold, Grey Light of Dawn (#991)
District attorneys running on platforms of refusing to prosecute consensual "crimes" are like jury nullification on a massive scale:
Audia Jones, a…prosecutor…campaigning to be the next district attorney in Houston, said…she would not prosecute…drug possession and offenses that target poverty. She later clarified that would include sex work. "Why are we criminalizing people for making choices with their own bodies?" she said…"I don't think it's something for the government to interfere [in]"…Harris County—the nation's third largest county—is one of the worst when it comes to [persecuting sex workers, but the incumbent, Jones's former boss Kim]…Ogg…[responded by vomiting out "King of the Hill" propaganda, calling] Houston "ground zero for human trafficking" [and adding violent nonsense about "going after the pimps"]…
The best news we've had yet about Amazon's Ring:
The NulledCast is a podcast livestreamed to Discord…in which hackers take over people's Ring and Nest s[urveillance] cameras and use their speakers to…harass their unsuspecting owners…hack[ing]…software churns through previously compromised email addresses and passwords to break into Ring cameras…le[ading] to a recent spate of hacks that…have been covered by local media outlets. In [Georgia] a hacker shouted at a sleeping woman through her hacked Ring camera to wake-up. In Texas, a hacker demanded a couple pay a bitcoin ransom. Hackers targeted a family in DeSoto County, Mississippi, and spoke through the device to one of the young children…
The cops already have at-will access to Ring camera video and can do whatever they like with it, including keep it, masturbate to it and distribute it to their buddies. This is no different except that the hackers aren't likely to try to frame the camera's owners for crimes, and the more often this kind of thing happens, the less eager the hoi-polloi will be to install surveillance equipment controlled from outside their homes.
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In all sexual matters, the line between legal and illegal…should turn on the willing participation of those involved, not the tastes of whoever shouts the loudest. – Elizabeth Nolan Brown
A [cop] in Texas was arrested…[for molesting]…at least six women in 11 days [under the pretext of "performing strip-searches"]. Floyd Berry…was re[warded with a paid vacation]…after several [women complained about the sexual assaults]…between Nov. 24 and Dec. 4…
Whimsical Notions
Here's an interesting article on the official prostitution system developed by the South Korean government to cater to occupying US troops; long-time readers may note its resemblance to the similar "comfort" system Japan organized to deal with the same occupying force a decade earlier. Before you read the article, you really should click on the subtitle link to read the original column of this name, from six years ago. And after you read it, consider that this is what the full development of "legalized" prostitution looks like; then perhaps you will understand why every sex worker with an opinion on the subject prefers decriminalization to this nightmare of confinement, control and abuse.
Another rescue industry scam intended to exploit sex workers captured by cops:
…Cynthia Luvlee-Austin found herself [a new scam] in 2018: [profiting from hysteria over] human trafficking [with yet another exploitative "training program"] to [force sex workers into after cops destroy] their own businesses and…financial independence…"As long as I can speak, I will [speak over people by claiming they're] voiceless," she says…"I'm [practiced in] disrupting [people's lives to make a profit while pompously promoting myself]…She started Shyne San Diego, an organization that provides [her with income from grants based in] trafficking [hysteria]…
Lack of Evidence (#800)
NSWP on state surveillance and harassment of sex workers who travel:
Sex workers face many barriers to migration and travel, and are often subjected to arbitrary questioning, biased visa refusals and surveillance and discriminatory immigration checks after entering a country. Sex workers' movement can also be restricted under measures purporting to be "anti-trafficking"…some…avoid travel altogether because they are afraid of being denied entry, deported or of being identified as a sex worker. Barriers to sex workers' mobility also make it harder for them to engage with civil society and political spaces, and impede their right to associate and organise. This Policy Brief explores the travel restrictions faced by sex workers…
The Pro-Rape Coalition (#889)
This article in the Daily Dot is a perfect example of how the inane "wing" model, which teaches that all political thought can be neatly divided into two and only two completely different and opposite camps, leads those who embrace it down the road to Moronia. It starts by talking about the recent surge of porn-censoring zealotry among Republican politicians and pundits, then declares this a disease of the "right wing", ignoring that the current "porn as public health crisis" rhetoric is rooted in the anti-porn "feminism" of Gail Dines, and the very concept of "public health" as meaning something other than disease control is a staunchly progressive dogma. But the idiocy doesn't stop there; author Ana Valens then declares libertarians "right wing", and attempts to rectify the obvious contradiction by declaring that their opposition to the censorship that both Republicans and Democrats want (though sometimes for somewhat different things) "tore the right-wing into two camps". Do yourself a favor; skip this exercise in Procrustean navel-gazing and read Liz Brown's article on the topic instead; it's based on facts and won't make you stupider as Valens' article seems intended to do.
Signs (#912)
Most of this article is just the typical rescue industry garbage, with busybody white ladies claiming to have seen "sex trafficking" everywhere they looked; this particular brand of snake oil comes courtesy of Mar Brettman, one of the smelliest turds produced by the collective Seattle anti-whore arsehole. The only noteworthy aspect is Brettman's iteration of the dusty old "pimp classification" silliness. Normally the second type is "gorilla", because he uses brute force and violence to control a woman. But in Brettman's scheme it's "guerilla", presumably the kind of "pimp" who stalks women in Ikea or Target and then jumps out of his white van to "sex traffick" them out of the parking lot.
Full of Themselves (#931)
Puritanical language is an intrinsic part of any story about cops raiding massage parlors:
[Pigs collected] dirty tissues…[from the garbage of] a South Carolina massage parlor…[then described their goodies as] "evidence of sexual nature…containing biological samples namely semen, and used female yeast infection medication capsules"…in August, a…[cop was sent to rape one of the masseuses and described the rape as]…illicit sexual services…[at] a house of ill fame…
Normal people do not use words like "illicit" or "house of ill fame", or go digging through people's trash for used tissues and medicine. Cops are deeply twisted and in dire need of professional help, not given power to destroy normal people's lives.
Blunt Instrument (#942)
The government's latest sleazy trick: attacking with civil suits rather than criminal charges, because the burden of proof is reversed:
[New York] city is suing to shut down an…Asian mass[age parlor]…after…two [lying] cops made separate visits on July 5 and 13, during which each [sexually assaulted]…a woman…and…[claimed otherwise in reports]…One of the cops returned on July 23 and [raped the masseuse, then called for]…a…raid…The [cop's victim] was also arrested and charged with prostitution…the city…is also [trying to rob the owners by a court order] seeking [loot] of $1,000 for every day the [spa] was in business…a lawyer for landlord Elias Kalimian said [because of disguise cop threats to prosecute them for "pimping"] eviction proceedings were underway against the tenant who's been renting the…space for more than eight years…
Your government is trying to increase efficiency by letting screws deport people after beating and raping them:
Florida is poised to deputize [screws] as federal [pigs] at a state…prison as part of a [crusade]…to "[frame and deport migrants by pretending they] pose a risk to public safety in Florida"…the program…is the latest effort by the DeSantis administration to [weaponize racism]…in the state…including a ban on so-called sanctuary cities…Florida would become the fourth state to have its [human-caging] department enter into a…[fascist] agreement with the federal agency. Arizona, Massachusetts and Georgia are the…other [three]…
Once in a while the pigs make an example of an unusually-awful rapist cop:
[Rapist cop] Daniel Wilkey has been indicted on 44 criminal charges, including 25 felonies…he [is also the subject of] at least four separate lawsuits involving traffic stops…and…[was rewarded with] paid [vacation] since July. Charges include six counts of sexual battery, two counts of rape, nine counts of official oppression, extortion, stalking, assault and others…
Officials love bloviating about a nonexistent "oath" to make rapist cops seem like outliers when they're actually typical:
A [cop] who [was about to be turned loose in a school to brutalize kids]…rap[ed] a 12-year-old girl [in] Texas [and] has been sentenced to 10 years in prison…Jorge Luis Bastida…met [the girl] online…raped [her] multiple times and filmed it on his cellphone. "He swore an oath to protect children," Harris County District Attorney Kim Ogg [lied]. "He promised to protect and serve one of our most vulnerable populations"…Bastida…took [the girl]…to a motel…[and] despite her telling him that she is only 12 years old and did not want to have sex…Bastida pushed her down on the bed and held her by the neck [while he raped her]. The following morning, Bastida…th[rew]…money [at her "for candy"] before leaving the motel [to go to] work [with his fellow rapists]. After Bastida left, the girl called her mom from the motel and was [taken] to a hospital…
A woman who [pretends] she was the victim of sex trafficking in 2012 and 2013 at multiple hotels in Oregon and Washington is suing six major hotel chains in federal court, saying they neglected trafficking happening "openly on hotel properties" and failed to [stick their noses into the guests' business]…The suit…names Hilton…Wyndham…Marriott…Choice Hotels…Extended Stay America and Red Lion…all…of [whom bloviated, postured and vomited out "sex trafficking" propaganda in response]…


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A Deep Dive into Short Stories: A Workshop for Readers
Writers' Workshop Program: January 10-14, 2023
Great literature engages the reader on three levels: aesthetic, intellectual, and emotional. In this class we'll see how this engagement works. We'll talk about what makes dialogue authentic and why we empathize, how a story creates an emotional landscape as well as a physical one, and how a story might change our minds. We'll discuss character and language, style and structure, velocity and intention, conflict and change—all the elements of fiction.
The short story form is demanding. A short story is like a fish: it must be perfectly shaped in a smooth continuous line from nose to tail; it must be perfectly frugal, containing nothing inessential or extraneous; its surface must be seamless; every word must overlap the next without a break, like scales; it must appear jointless—the liquid unfolding of a solid.
We'll make our way through a school of these glittering creatures, hoping to understand the mystery. We'll spend time reading and discussing Chekhov, Wharton, Munro, Pritchett, Hadley, and others. You will be sent a list of short stories to read (with links and/or attachments) before the beginning of the workshop.
This is a workshop for readers who want to deep dive into the work of master short story writers and does not include submission or workshopping of students' writing.
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De vreemde vogel is het zevende verhaal uit de reeks Dag en Heidi.  Het verhaal verscheen integraal in weekblad Ohee nummer 311 op 29 maart 1969. Het werd uitgegeven in albumvorm door Saga in 2014 als vijfde nummer in de Collectie Stribbel.

Personages
 Dag
 Heidi
 Inga
 de koekoek
 de uil
 kapitein Sven
 de professor
 Jörgen
 Helga
 Christie

Verhaal

Kapitein Sven wil dat zijn pleegzoon Dag het verder schopt dan gewoon matroos en heeft hem daarom ingeschreven om lessen te gaan volgen bij een zeekapitein op rust. Met tegenzin stemt de jongen in. De nacht voor zijn vertrek wordt hij gewekt door een vreemd geluid. Als hij gaat kijken blijkt er gezucht uit de koekoeksklok te komen. Als de koekoek naar buiten komt, begint deze plots te praten tegen Dag. De vogel vraagt om hem los te maken zodat ze jaar jong kan gaan opzoeken en belooft hem in ruil de kunst van het vliegen te leren. Dag gaat hiermee akkoord en bevrijdt de koekoek. Prompt haalt de koekoek enkele magische takjes die hij in een fles wijn dropt. Als Dag zich hiervan een glas uitschenkt en ervan drinkt, wordt hij zo licht als een veertje.

Na wat oefening heeft Dag het vliegen onder de knie. Hij volgt de koekoek naar de vogelvergadering geleid door de wijze uil. De vogels zijn niet erg opgezet dat de koekoek hun geheim om te vliegen aan een mensenkind heeft verklapt. De uil draagt de vogels op om van Dag een complete vogel te maken zodanig dat hij de volledige ervaring zal krijgen van een vogel te zijn. Enkel de liefde van een andere mens kan Dag weer terug doen veranderen. De uil wil Dag vooral een lesje leren en hem doen inzien dat als mensen ook zouden kunnen vliegen zij volkomen weerloos zouden worden. Sommige mensen vangen immers vogels ondanks dat de vogels insecten en ander ongedierte schadelijk voor de mens opeten.

Dag beseft al snel dat het niet gemakkelijk is om als vogel door het leven te gaan. Hij gaat op zoek naar het schip van kapitein Sven in de hoop dat zijn oom hem zal herkennen. Hij is echter zo groot dat hij iedereen schrik aanjaagt. Er is ook een professor aan boord die hem maar wat graag wil vangen. Als de kok overboord valt, redt Dag de man. Als dank krijgt hij een stuk brood. Dag vliegt na gegeten te hebben weer weg uit vrees dat de professor hem zou opsluiten en hem tentoonstellen als een curiosum.

Terwijl Dag voortsukkelt om aan voedsel te komen en zich soms de woede van de mensen op de hals haalt, zijn Heidi en Inga ook op toevallige wijze achter het vlieggeheim gekomen. Ze kregen die nacht dorst en dronken van de fles wijn waarin de koekoek de magische takjes had gedaan. Ze komen op het eiland terecht waar Heidi en Dag vroeger hebben gewoond met hun vader. Ze ontmoeten er de koekoek die hen de hele geschiedenis verteld van Dag die in een vogel is veranderd. Heidi wil haar broer zo snel mogelijk vinden, want haar liefde kan hem weer meteen in een mens veranderen. Een nachtegaal brengt de uil op de hoogte van deze nieuwe ontwikkelingen en besluit de meisjes niet te straffen omdat ze ongewild in deze situatie zijn terecht gekomen.

Ontroerd door de liefde van de meisjes voor Dag krijgt Dag door toedoen van de uil in diverse omstandigheden hulp van de andere vogels. Zo geven ze hem brood dat ze van de mensen hebben gekregen en bevrijden hem ook uit een val die de professor had gezet. Als Dag op een nacht zich in een stal in het zachte stro te slapen legt, wordt hij gewekt door boer Jörgen. De boer schrikt zo erg van deze vreemde vogel dat hij Dag bewusteloos slaat. Hij kan echter tijdens zijn verdoving horen dat Christie, het dochtertje van Jörgen en diens vrouw Helga ernstig ziek is. De dokter is aanwezig maar heeft het medicijn dat Christie dringend nodig heeft niet mee. Hij wil het aanstonds bij de apotheker gaan halen, maar zijn paard heeft een van zijn benen verstuikt. Dit is de kans voor Dag om te helpen en vraagt de dokter om het recept dat hij dan naar de apotheker zal brengen. Uiteindelijk verkrijgt hij het medicijn dat aan Christie wordt toegediend. Het meisje wordt snel beter en wordt goede maatjes met Dag.

Jörgen wil echter van de extra mond die hij te voeden heeft af. Dag verlaat hen en denkt dat ook Christie niet van hem houdt, dat ze enkel met hem wil pronken. Maar daarin vergist Dag zich, want Christie mist haar vogel heel erg. Dit beseft hij als hij zijn veren begint te verliezen en zijn kleren weer verschijnen. Hij verandert weer in een mens. Hij wordt uiteindelijk weer verenigd met Heidi en Inga. De uil zorgt er ook voor dat het vliegen van de kinderen wordt stopgezet. Dag verzaakt niet langer aan zijn plicht om te gaan studeren en stuurt ook nog een bedankbriefje naar Christie.

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Stripverhaal van Dag en Heidi
Stripverhaal uit 1969

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There is a fear. A fear that they will arrive poor, needing to be taken care of. That they'll be ignorant of our customs and culture. That they will take our jobs, or be dependent on our charity. That they'll bring disease and violence, that they intend to do us harm. That our own hard working residents will have to support them with welfare, and what is ours will be stolen. That once they cross the water, they'll never go back.
And yet, this week we give thanks for a time when hundreds of undocumented immigrants flooded to this land. They failed to assimilate. They scorned the dominant culture. They spoke their own language and refused to adopt the language of the land they had entered.
They brought disease. They brought violence. They brought terror. They were dependent on the social welfare handouts of those who had worked hard to get what they had. What wasn't freely given, they stole. They refused to go back to their own country. But we celebrate them each year on Thanksgiving day.
So which is it? Do we honor immigrants or revile them? Do we value helping those in need, or is it a sign of our weakness? Do we share what we have, or do we hoard it in barns? Do we welcome the stranger or do we send them packing?
I suppose our answer simply depends on which side of the border we find ourselves.
A month from now, there'll be another holiday. One that also celebrates a refugee. A Middle Eastern child whose undocumented parents smuggled him across a border to keep him safe from the slaughter that was happening in their homeland. This Holy Family fled to Egypt, where also there had once been a baby that was hidden in a makeshift boat to escape violence and oppression.
We are a Church whose history is filled with refugees who have been the pillars of our faith. Indeed, we pray to a God that does not heartlessly tell us to "go away," but says instead tells us "welcome home." We are foreigners that have been welcomed into God's Sovereign State. Will we not offer others the same?
You cannot honor the Thanksgiving story and slam the doors of the country at the same time. Are we a 'nation under God with liberty and justice for all?' Or do we imprison and abuse? Do we say "Give me your tired, your poor, your huddled masses yearning to breathe free" or do shout in the face of Christ "Not this Man, but Barabbas."
There is a fear. A fear that if we open our arms, it will destroy who we are. But we should be more afraid of what happens if we won't.


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Bassa est un nom propre qui désigne notamment :

Prénom
Bassa est un prénom féminin désuet en Europe.

Sainte chrétienne
 Bassa de Rome († vers 256 ou 257), avec ses compagnes Agrippine ou Agrippina, Paule et Agathonique, martyres romaines sous Valérien ; fêtée le 23 juin.

Ethnologie

les Bassa, peuple bantou ;
 Bassa, langue bantoue ;
 Le Pays Bassa; zone géographique traditionnellement occupée par les Bassa

et
 Bassa, langue kroue ;
 , peuple krou ;
 Alphabet bassa, système d'écriture utilisé au Liberia et autrefois par les Brésiliens d'origines bassa ;

Bassa, peuple bantou ;

Patronyme

 Maria Gràcia Bassa i Rocas (1883-1961), poétesse et journaliste catalane.

Toponyme

Bassa, village de l'arrondissement de Njikwa, dans le département de Momo et la Région du Nord-Ouest.

Comté de Grand Bassa, un des 15 comtés du pays.

Bassa, localité de l'État de Kogi ;
 Bassa, localité de l'État du Plateau ;

Références

Voir aussi
 Basa
 Al-Bassa, ancien village palestinien, maintenant situé au nord d'Israël ;
 Cahora Bassa, lac artificiel du Mozambique ;
 Bassa Sports Club, équipe de football d'Antigua-et-Barbuda ;
 BASSA, acronyme de la .


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Advertising Design @ SC4 Research Guide
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Vintage Ads - Blog
Vintascope - Blog
The Museum of Vintage Commercial and Advertising Art
The mission of this site is to provide a high quality view to often overlooked art from the past via a virtual art museum with a focus on commercial art from the 19th to mid 20th century. With the accelerated development of cheaper and better quality printing processes during this timeframe, inexpensive print media came within the reach of the masses. Talented artists and printers pushed the envelope in different printing processes such as lithography and developed ever-improving techniques. Distinct styles emerged, which popularized different print media such as posters, post cards, trade cards, product labels, magazines, etc. and in some cases they helped inspire entire art movements.
Vintage Radio Advertisements & Similar Ad Resources
Prof. Mire indicated that old & vintage radio advertisements would be useful for some of the work going on in class. What follows are a few links to freely available web resources with audio recordings of vintage radio advertisements for various products. Remember that items found on the web still need to be cited appropriately.
Ad*Access Collection at Duke University
AdViews Collection at Duke University
American Memory Collection at the Library of Congress
Ads Museum
Library of American Broadcasting
The perpetuation and growth of the Library's historic assets – its extensive collections –serve our main mission of making the past and present of broadcasting accessible to the world at large. The breadth and depth of LAB collections are indicated by its 8,000 books, more than 6,000 audio tapes, 7,000 pamphlets, 300 periodical titles, 8,000 recorded discs, 2,000 scripts and a growing collection of video and film material. Among the more recent acquisitions is the Broadcasting Magazine Photo Archive, with more than 300,000 photographs dating from the 1920s to the present, one of the most historically significant collections in the nation and put to daily use by broadcasters, media and scholars.
Emergence of Advertising in America: 1850-1920 Collection at Duke University
The Emergence of Advertising in America: 1850 - 1920 (EAA) presents over 9,000 images, with database information, relating to the early history of advertising in the United States. The materials, drawn from the David M. Rubenstein Rare Book & Manuscript Library at Duke University, provide a significant and informative perspective on the early evolution of this most ubiquitous feature of modern American business and culture.
Lürzer's Archive
Claims to be the world's biggest Advertising Archive. Allows to search by client or various creative positions. Online archive of print publication. Heavy presence of foreign corporations and brands.
New York Public Library collection of digital images; some are simply portrait or photographic work, but also includes a great deal of historical advertisements.
Old Time Radio Commercials
Amateur History Project website with good textual information. No Audio files appear to be present, but some good history on the early days of commercials on radio
Selling Stuff During the Golden Age of Radio
Contributed by Danny Goodwin
As mentioned in our Old-Time Radio: The Golden Years page, the first radio broadcasts of the human voice were made in the early 1900s. Early political broadcasts were heard by 1918. Radio broadcasting at that time was still an experimental/private undertaking, and remained so until 1920 when the first commercial stations with regularly scheduled broadcasts were heard.
Although commercial stations were broadcasting at this time, commercials (as we know them) were not allowed. The first commercial was broadcast in 1922. Today, we might call that broadcast an "infomercial", since it purportedly claimed to give information (rather than a direct sales pitch) about New York's Hawthorne Court apartment complex.
The Pop History Dig Madison Avenue Page
The Pop History Dig is a website about contem- porary culture and popular history. What you will find here is a collection of stories that focus on the history and power of popular culture – its people, its politics, and its business.
One goal of the site is to use the visibility of pop culture events and famous personalities to engage readers on topics ranging from civil rights history to the economics of entertainment. Stories about rock 'n roll music, Hollywood celebrities, and famous sports stars are part of the mix here, but so are stories about big business mergers, presidential election politics, and Madison Avenue advertising. Biography, business history, and nostalgia are found here as well. Some stories on business and public policy are serious and detailed, while others on music, film, and sport offer lighter fare.
Prelinger Archives was founded in 1983 by Rick Prelinger in New York City. Over the next twenty years, it grew into a collection of over 60,000 "ephemeral" (advertising, educational, industrial, and amateur) films. In 2002, the film collection was acquired by the Library of Congress, Motion Picture, Broadcasting and Recorded Sound Division. Prelinger Archives remains in existence, holding approximately 5,000 digitized and videotape titles (all originally derived from film) and a large collection of home movies, amateur and industrial films acquired since 2002. Its goal remains to collect, preserve, and facilitate access to films of historic significance that haven't been collected elsewhere. Included are films produced by and for many hundreds of important US corporations, nonprofit organizations, trade associations, community and interest groups, and educational institutions.
Vintage Radio Commercials
Resource from the Internet Archive. Includes MP3 audio files of many vintage radio commercials.
These vintage radio commercials from the 1920s thru the 1950s are great fun to listen to and tell you more about American culture than you would ever realize! Filled with catchy jingles, great products, many of which we still used today, and outrageous claims abound! Most of these where sponsors on the old time radio shows. I hope you enjoy this collection.
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The term self-confidence affects humans a lot in all aspects of life. It is not just another term that you use now and then. It is essential and the most necessary part of your daily life. Self-confidence is needed when you are trying to achieve remarkable things in your life such as appearing in an interview, auditioning for a talent show, meeting with business prospects, or going on a date with someone for the first time. Thus I am going to reveal the five secrets about building self-confidence only a handful of people know.
Your self-confidence is an indirect way of showing your personality to other people. If you have low self-confidence, then chances are people might think of you as a shallow person. No matter how much educated you are or how high are your qualifications but if you fail to show the self-confidence, then you might lose the opportunities in your life.
On the other hand, self-esteem is a different term than self-confidence. You might mix both of the words as similar terms. Self-esteem is related to your self-worth. The more you have self-esteem, the more you will become self-confident. When you realize your worth and understand your value, your confidence rises accordingly.
It is crucial to building self-confidence and self-esteem both. Not only build but to maintain a considerable amount of both is also very necessary. You can gain self-confidence by your looks, gestures, etiquettes, body language, and language.
Here are the five secrets about building self-confidence.
The first impression is the last impression.
Your dress, shoes, and hair make a significant impact on people whether you believe it or not. In fact, you also will feel better if you groom yourself decently. Your overall looks will create a feel-good factor in yourself. Thus it will help you boost your self-confidence.
Another critical factor that plays a vital role to show your self-confidence is your posture. The way you sit, stand, and walk can also be a signal that speaks about your confidence.
For example, when you have to appear for an interview, then you have to be careful with your body language. The interviewer is not only looking for your qualifications and degrees but also observing how you sit, how you walk, how much you maintain the eye contact. It is because the company needs employees who are confident and who can be a great asset to them.
Sometimes what happens is when a person is confident but not polite then people might think of them as arrogant or overconfident. It doesn't make a good impression with others. Being polite doesn't take much, all you have to learn is to say "Sorry," "Thank you," "You're welcome" at a proper time.
If you be helpful to people, then you will get the same in return. People like you for your kind language, and thus you will get the confidence to socialize. Your politeness will become your strong quality.
You can represent yourself in a much better way if you pursue good education about the topic or subject. Do some research, prepare yourself for what you will say, and how will say. If possible then gather some information about the people whom you are going to meet or with whom you are going to stay. It is good to know about their general interests, likes, and dislikes. It will give you an idea to dress, speak, and behave.
For example, if you are switching to a new organization in a new place, then it will be beneficial for you to understand how that organization works, how are the coworkers, where do they belong. So if you know about such details, then it will be easier for you to adjust in the company and the new place.
Making perceptions is the killer of your self-confidence. Your mind can lead you to make assumptions about unnecessary things which might not exist. You should not overthink about situations because it might lower your self-esteem. Try to be as open as possible to get ready for all outcomes.
When you make perceptions, you start developing fear about "what if." You may lose your self-confidence due to such non-existent fears. Do not let this happen. Instead, keep telling yourself "why not." It is going to help you build self-esteem and self-confidence both.
Instead of saying 'what if', keep telling yourself 'why not'.
Remember, self-confidence and self-esteem are both dangerous when they are either lower or higher than required. You should learn to maintain a balance. A self-confident person is likable by everyone, accepted by people quickly, and get success in life. I hope these confidence-building tips help you become a smart and successful person.
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