https://nitter.net/wyattreed13/status/1699991016533545358

  • ProxyTheAwesome [comrade/them]
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    10 months ago

    This is an underlying and dark current that people don't really talk about much with this conflict. The millions of Ukrainian refugees are primarily women and children and thousands of them have been trafficked or fallen into sex work without any other way to make an income, stranded in an unfamiliar land. In the UK, there was a program where people could offer to let a refugee stay at their home and it was a bunch of middle age creeps putting women up in their house. Surely nothing untowards there.

    Part of war has almost always been the stealing of women. They are considered loot like the gold from Iraqi museums, part of the conquest of war. It's fucking disgusting, but I bet there's a non-zero amount of westerners who support this conflict and escalating it because they would get tons of vulnerable women flowing into their hands.

    • UlyssesT [he/him]
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      10 months ago

      I bet there's a non-zero amount of westerners who support this conflict and escalating it because they would get tons of vulnerable women flowing into their hands.

      There's already sex pest websites and organizations that market the idea of human trafficking as "saving/rescuing" Ukranian women. A lot of especially treatbrained sex pests and potential predators don't just want to creep on vulnerable women: they want to be thanked for it.

      • Runcible [none/use name]
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        10 months ago

        they want to be thanked for it.

        I kinda think this is a result of the part of them that isn't awful trying and failing to get them to realize this is bad, so they are left with guilt that they need their victim to absolve

        • UlyssesT [he/him]
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          10 months ago

          I kinda think this is a result of the part of them that isn't awful trying and failing to get them to realize this is bad, so they are left with guilt that they need their victim to absolve

          Main Character Syndrome at work. They can't be bad for craving what they crave and they don't want to stop, so it must be an act of heroism instead.

            • UlyssesT [he/him]
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              10 months ago

              DAE everything is a simulation so everyone else is le NPC so manipulating them and hurting them is cool and good melon-musk