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[natoapologistblocker]

The USSR is kind of a dead wife when you think about it

[estro-boi]

[kumkaniudaku]

And then you can’t even say shit about bc people start trying to put you in a jacket and shit. Like omg it’s so strict???

[transfemininomenon]

saddest string of words ive ever read please get some self respect baby girl

[hagiomoto]

People across all classes and ethnicities seem to lack a genuine sense of curiosity or interest in women's lived experiences. Few people want to know what it feels like to be a professional woman in any field. Even in fiction, there are very few opportunities for women to be whoever they want to be.

For example, hardly anyone wants to read about the daily life of a single mother raising a quirky child, while we can find plenty of manga and comics about single fathers, both gay and straight.

[hagiomoto]

Even many women seem more interested in imagining the experiences of male protagonists than exploring the perspectives of women whose lives differ from their own.

[hagiomoto]

Amnesty International backing down (hiding its report) when threatened with JKR's lawsuits just shows how weak the liberal human rights framework really is. It never seems to flinch when governments criticize it, but the moment an influential Westerner pushes back, it suddenly loses its nerve.

[ostensible-adult]

It likely also has to do with the difference between UK and US libel law.

In the US, true statements are never libelous (or slanderous). Further, since Rowling is a public figure, she would have to prove that Amnesty International acted with reckless disregard for the truth (with "actual malice").

In the UK, as far as I can tell, true statements can be libelous.

I suspect Amnesty International did the calculus of "How many people have already seen this? Will they keep circulating the tapes? How much will it cost us to defend this? Can we successfully defend it under UK law?" and decided that Streisand-effect-ing the report would be a better use of their time and money.

[hagiomoto]

Somehow, I don't buy that

[tobermoriansass]

i don't disagree that rights-based campaigning is liberal and tends towards stasis, but libel law and its misuses in the uk are a genuine and well documented issue that has been used to financially destroy or harrass people ranging from investigative journalists to victims of sexual assault/harrassment - and particularly on the investigative front, the uk is well known for libel tourism where billionaires use its extremely loose definitions re. libel/slander & the burden of proof lying with the defendant to prove that they were reporting the truth, to shut down investigations into corruption and human rights abuses across the world. in that regard jkr is using a tool provided to her by the law, thru the services provided for the rich to protect their interests, and must be seen in that light. in amnesty's case, the question they face is whether or not their funding reserves will withstand being taken to court by a billionaire who has publicly encouraged all the named orgs to bring defamation suits in english courts. if carole cadwallader ended up on the hook for 1 million pounds in damages, despite a court ruling in her favour re. public interest, how much more so a case bankrolled by this much money?

[ripplesonreflections]

[clavainova]

However! In UK libel law, truth is a valid and complete defense since 2013. All you need to do is prove that the content is true to win. This may have been tricky in Banks v Cadwalladr mentioned above, since the claims were along the lines of association with certain national interests (difficult to prove), but if you've read the report you can see that unlike that case, the information in the Amnesty report is quite easily verifiable. The majority of it relies on public tax records anyone can access.

It's true that historically truth wasn't a complete defense, you used to have to prove things like that the disclosure was in the public interest instead, which led to some bad outcomes. But now truth is a complete defense -- you don't need to supplement it with anything else, just show that it's true.

Amnesty International UK are not a tiny helpless charity, either. They had an annual income of £24,142,000 in 2024, and during the same year spent over £6 million just on fundraising. We don't have a more open financial record, but my cousin used to work in the London office (which she left because of racist harassement and the company having an open bar at every office party funded by donations...) , so I know that they spend a large number of those donations on school campaigns, raising awareness (not counted as direct fundraising), etc.

This would be a better use of their money and they should go for it. They can still get sued for defamation even though they've withdrawn the report, so now this is just a huge bargaining chip the gender critical movement will hold over their heads for the rest of time. Any time Amnesty want to do anything anti-trans, the same legal threats can be used to cow them into silence. So, not only have they allowed their report to be withdrawn, they've effectively decided not to pursue trans rights in the UK anymore. They're being cowards.

[shararo0]

Happy Deltarune weird route

[courtesycalling]

Thompson's new outfit

[greatmothsukk]

Rika

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[bundaskifli]

jotaro learns about pokeyman

bonus:

[ambyandony]

the magic word is 'baseball' and if you mention space mountain he steals your shoes

[scooty-patooty]

inspired by this post

[nebu3llasmemedump]

[greatmothsukk]

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[elbiotipo]

"warm, shallow seas" is one of the most beautiful phrases in paleontology and it's everywhere... these mollusks lived in warm, shallow seas... scientists think that photosynthetic life evolved in warm, shallow seas... in that era the Earth was covered by warm, shallow seas...

I wish I was resting by an antediluvian warm, shallow sea

[modernbaseball]

2 am: bedtime were meant to be broken 😈

7 am: I hope i get in a car accident