“If something cannot go on forever, it will stop” – Herb Stein (father of Ben Stein)
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Pure evil, and shame on Sheryl Sandberg:
In 2017, Wynn-Williams explains, “a confidential document is leaked that reveals Facebook is offering advertisers the opportunity to target 13-to-17-year-olds across its platforms, including Instagram, during moments of psychological vulnerability when they feel ‘worthless,’ ‘insecure,’ ‘stressed,’ ‘defeated,’ ‘anxious,’ ‘stupid,’ ‘useless’ and ‘like a failure.’ Or target them when they’re worried about their bodies and thinking of losing weight.” The company knew when a teenage girl deleted a selfie, and it would bombard her with beauty advertisements, assuming she deleted it because she felt she looked ugly.
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Flipping the script: https://www.nytimes.com/2024/12/19/opinion/gisele-pelicot-rape-trial.html
When Sandra Muller, a French journalist, started the French version of #MeToo, #BalanceTonPorc (#ExposeYourPig), in 2017, thousands of women responded positively. But the backlash arrived swiftly: One hundred women, including the actress Catherine Deneuve, signed a public letter in Le Monde condemning the movement’s perceived excesses.
France is a country that has long prided itself on a belief in “gray areas” and resistance to so-called Anglophone puritanism. This decade, it has found itself conflicted over a reputed libertine approach to sex that has too often concealed a troubling tolerance for sexual abuse, including that of children.
But Ms. Pelicot — her face painted on murals, her words plastered on walls — has changed something in France. “People will remember Madame Pelicot, much less Monsieur Pelicot,” she said. She has done as much as one extraordinary, ordinary person can to change the way a country thinks about sexual violence… “The shame must change sides,” Ms. Pelicot said.
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International arrivals decreasing: https://www.bloomberg.com/graphics/2025-trump-toll-on-global-travel/
(WordPress is preventing the upload of the screenshot of the graph showing negative traveller growth over the last 2 yrs)
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