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It's a shame that we used to universally agree that childhood pedophila was abhorrent, repugnant, and morally wrong. Now that Donald Trump had been exposed as a child pedophile and sexual pervert towards teenage girls, one side of the political asile is alright with grown men walking in on teenage girls changing naked at teen beauty pageants.

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I was talking to an Iranian student who I currently have in class.   She is an A student and a nice person. She has contacted some of her family and friends back home.  Some of them she can not reach.  She says they are scared and confused and not feeling very hopeful.  They didn't like Khamenei, but they are not optimistic of the future.  Their infrastructure is being destroyed and they fear instability and civil war.  She is aware that the Trump administration could not care less about the Iranian people and says that only a minority of Iranians believe the propaganda about freedom and democracy.  

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13 minutes ago, Tigermojo said:

You won't have to vote again.  Trump picks who runs Venezuela, Iran, Cuba, etc.

He'll pick incompetent people and then fire them a few months later when they make him bad.  

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22 hours ago, gehringer_2 said:

I don't imagine RFK has taken the time to read this (Medscape 2/17/2026):

"As the US measles cases soar following 2025’s record-shattering outbreaks, experts warn that healthcare practitioners and parents may be unprepared for the virus’s hidden threat: immune amnesia.

The condition is pretty much what it sounds like. The virus destroys immune memory, wiping out memory B cells and T cells and forcing the immune system to rebuild its defenses from scratch.

“Nearly every unvaccinated child who gets measles can be impacted,” said Patricia Stinchfield, CPNP, past president of the National Foundation for Infectious Diseases. Rebuilding immune memory leaves patients vulnerable to new exposures, and infections, hospitalizations, and missed work and school can linger for up to 5 years, casting a long shadow after recovery.

Immune amnesia was officially recognized in 2015, but clues emerged before that. Scottish scientists in the 1700s described waves of infections and deaths in measles’ wake. When measles vaccines arrived in the 1960s, ’70s, and ’80s, researchers noticed unexpected drops in seemingly unrelated health problems. And looking back at prevaccination records, they documented higher rates of infections and deaths in kids for several years after they had this highly-contagious childhood illness.

Lots of deaths. “Half of all childhood infectious-disease deaths were related to immune amnesia caused by measles,” said Michael J. Mina, MD, PhD, an infectious disease expert and former assistant professor of epidemiology and immunology, Harvard Medical School, Boston. Mina’s landmark research, published from 2015 to 2019, helped illuminate the measles-immune amnesia link. “Before vaccines, it was difficult to see the connection because virtually everyone got measles. There was no one to compare them to.”

Depressing. And it makes me even less patient with anti-vaxxers than I already was.

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14 hours ago, Mr.TaterSalad said:

It's a shame that we used to universally agree that childhood pedophila was abhorrent, repugnant, and morally wrong. Now that Donald Trump had been exposed as a child pedophile and sexual pervert towards teenage girls, one side of the political asile is alright with grown men walking in on teenage girls changing naked at teen beauty pageants.

Sadly, I've mostly witnessed cases like this being swept under the rug-or worse, children are blamed for their own abuse. It wasn't even until the 1980s that such things as child abuse (including sexual abuse), domestic abuse, and spousal rape were put into legislation as being crimes. 

I can remember becoming glued to the tv set in the 80s, when Paula Hawkins sponsored a child abuse bill and revealed that she herself was a survivor and that it was one of her missions to fight sexual abuse. This was the type of thing that a child used to carry in silence and shame-often until death. It was the first time I realized that what had been done to me was a crime against me-and not something shameful I did. 

And yet.... most victims still will watch their abusers go free-just not as often as before.

I still hope beyond hope that this time the abusers get punished. One child abused is one too many.

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I always think of Britain’s Jimmy Savile as the textbook case of a public figure operating more or less in plain sight as a pedophile for literally decades without so much as a whiff of scrutiny or consequences, legal or otherwise, and in a country with the most powerful and salacious tabloid media on earth.

 

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