Posted on 03/19/2022 9:39:49 AM PDT by Rummyfan
President Joe Biden often likes to tout his involvement in passing the Violence Against Women Act. So, naturally, the president was on hand to speak about the issue this week at an event marking the bill’s reauthorization.
With his trademark eloquence, Biden emphasized how the reauthorization took aim at revenge porn, which he described as “a new civil rights cause of action for those whose intimate images were shared on a public screen.”
“I bet everybody knows somebody,” the president explained, “that in an intimate relationship, what happened was the guy takes a revealing picture of his naked friend, or whatever, in a compromising position and then blackmails.”
True enough, Mr. Biden. Who among us, to pick a random hypothetical from the aether, has not had to face the scandalous repercussions of intimate, illicit photos surfacing after we left a laptop uncollected at a computer repair shop in the sleepy state of Delaware?
Cockburn shudders at the thought that such pictures, which could include anything from indelicate images of his sexual conquests and large appendage to his casual, right-before-bedtime crack pipe, might not only be seen publicly but also could carry potential consequences. And not just for him, mind you: that’s the thing people always lose sight of in matters involving revenge porn — when such photos come to light, it affects not just you but also your loved ones.
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” Let he who is without crack-induced nudes cast the first stone” - cockburn?!
Really?
Democrats are so good at relating to ordinary people.
Not with M&Ms. Maybe in branDUHn’s circle those pics are cool but not in mine. If you never want anyone to see it, NEVER take the pic in the first place. Fookin’ idjits!
Let me go outside and see if I can find something about fist sized.
Their policies are all about democratizing deviancy.
Why should Dionysian orgies and Satanic initiation rituals be the exclusive province of a tiny elite?
Eggs act lee!
How are you going to prosecute foreign intelligence officers trying to compromise high ranking politicians and their families.
Why should Dionysian orgies and Satanic initiation rituals be the exclusive province of a tiny elite?
Yes, I know what you mean.
But all kinds of incredibly nasty things happened behind closed doors in backwoodsy places, even long ago.
Grotesque incest, the selling of unwanted children to predators, love-triangle murders, pedophilia of every type, not new. Just more visible because of inexpensive, uncensored distribution channels. Sorry to be cynical.
There is a classic, likely real life story, in French politics that a sitting president of France was confronted with a blackmail scheme by Soviet agents. They had pictures of him and his current mistress inflagrante delecto and they came to him with the pictures. He looked at the images and said, “Wonderful! Could I get copies of this one, and this one…and this one?” They walked away with quite the lesson. Guilt and ethics is in the eye of the beholder.
Good advice.
Damn, if we had only talked 20 years ago...
I'll take that bet, sucker. Put me down for 10 grand.
You’re right, and I’m not excusing or overlooking that.
More subtle, but maybe just as damaging, is the mental and emotional abuse that happens among the poor. Nietzsche wrote, “when it rains, the poor stay inside and provoke one another’s grievances and make one another miserable. This is the true poverty of the poor.”
I think our supposed elites should act as moral exemplars instead of trashy celebrities. The fact that they don’t excuses hurtful and immoral behavior among the poor and the middle class.
JMHO (note: I’m not religious, but not an atheist or agnostic either)
Forget about it Cockburn, it is Washington DC.
Better yet, if you don’t want it to ever happen, don’t be immoral with sex. Or drugs. Or whatever it is that can be dicey.
If you don’t want it seen….you know it’s wrong.
Actually, he didn’t say “intimate relationship”.
He said “ innamin rayshunshin’.
Just to clarify.😎
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