Wasn't this the exact plot of an SVU episode?

And if that doesn't frighten the hell out of you it should.

Can we at least have rat burgers and beer?

Because she ID'ed him and testified to it. That's being left out.

> “Is there any doubt in your mind, Miss Sebold, that the person that you saw on Marshall Street is the person who attacked you on May 8 in Thornden Park?” the prosecutor asked. > > “No doubt whatsoever.”

Blame goes to the State for all its bullshit, but she, on the stand, said that Broadwater was the one to do it under oath.

Yeah, I think that was Jizzy.

He didn’t write the book, and he now has plenty of money. She is still a victim of a particularly brutal crime, and she told her story. Not his.

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We all fear what's coming.

That thing where there's cameras everywhere, hooked up to machine learning systems like hall monitors, microticketing us into compete compliance with every regulation everywhere we go, digitizing our every public moment.

What's worse is, there won't even be the three seashells.

No, not nothing. She was told they had scientific proof it was him. That along with the emotional coercion and the fallibility of memory (especially after both physical and mental trauma) added up to her agreeing to testify. Let’s not act like this man is the only fucking victim here ok?

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I think they're just using someone who's still alive but around for a few decades as an example as to how much the population has grown.

The people who should be sued are the junk scientists responsible for “identifying” him.

Why wouldn’t she blame the faulty legal system more than herself? Seriously, the victim blaming overtones here are disgusting. She was told they had scientific proof it was him - that’s not her fault.

And it’s a horrifying story from both of their perspectives there McNasty. Not just his. First she was brutally raped and then she was deceived into helping convict an innocent man. How is it not also horrifying for her?

The true question is this… are we having more kids? Or are we just living longer?…

No, it's really not, it's been paying out its obligations as promised. I get what you're trying to say, but that just makes it underfunded. There's nobody running off with all the money, it's going to people it's supposed to, so that immediately eliminates it being a Ponzi scam.

I had an ex with BPD who falsified a bunch of abuse allegations against the mother of his kid to get sole custody.

He honestly thought the ends justified the means, he decided she was just a bad person and that she deserved anything bad that he could do to her.

Makes me sick and also makes me more than a little worried the cops may still show up at my door one day. Wish I had never even met him.

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Is it free again? Did they change their mind about twitter blue being paid?

I was born and raised in the rural midwest with a crap ton of that propaganda, and live on the west coast now. Am American too fwiw.

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I recall that Giselle Maxwell or Epstein also sent a severed animal head to someone's doorstep for standing up to them.

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Money isn't money, it's permission to live in a different social class, which is extremely exclusive and pushes down hard on everyone around them to keep them out. Life's better, you have access to more resources, the people around you help you more, you're safer and more comfortable.

People who were born into it, or who were born with the resources, drive, and good advice to luck into it, feel like that life is just how the world works. Imagine being permanently outside the palace gates and desperate, but there's one thing you can do that lets you in.

How willing would you be to give up the only thing that gave you the life the people around you just lucked into? How willing would you be to give up dealing if it meant giving up having a nice home and physical and mental safety?

Rather than treating doing desperate things to make money as an addiction, we should be treating the problem of desperation. But we as a society are mostly unwilling to do that.

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