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Forum: Autism Politics, Activism, and Media Representation Topic: Autistic Girls Face Three Times the Risk of Sexual Assault |
| Jono |
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Posted: 15 Feb 2024, 3:16 pm
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| The study in the following article was published in 2018, so I’m not sure if it’s come up on WP before. A recent study of 4,500 Swedish twins found that autistic girls from ages 9-18 were three times as likely to experience sexual assault when compared to their neurotypical counterparts. This stati... |
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Forum: Autism Politics, Activism, and Media Representation Topic: Autistic Girls Face Three Times the Risk of Sexual Assault |
| Jono |
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Posted: 15 Feb 2024, 3:13 pm
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| My daughter is 18 and has had male NT friends in highschool whom at least one she allowed to kiss her. When my wife and I thought she was being possibly taken advantage off she as the male involved made her feel kissing was normal, I am still not 100% sure she complied because she wanted to recipro... |
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Forum: News and Current Events Topic: [IMPORTANT] Hamas launches foot assault against settlements. |
| Jono |
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Posted: 08 Feb 2024, 3:05 am
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Replies: 2,185
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| ^Hamas leaders going into exile as part of a deal would amount to a conditional surrender of Hamas. I don't know if they'd ever be willing to accept that. |
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Forum: News and Current Events Topic: Israeli evidence of UNRWA Hamas ties Flimsy |
| Jono |
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Posted: 07 Feb 2024, 3:26 am
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| Right. I think we should defer judgement of whether these allegations are true not until the UN at least publishes the interim report of the UNWRA probe in March. That doesn't mean that I think that the defunding of UNWRA at this stage is a good idea. |
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Forum: News and Current Events Topic: [IMPORTANT] Hamas launches foot assault against settlements. |
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Posted: 05 Feb 2024, 4:26 am
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| This is why I consider settlers to be legitimate targets. I assume you mean "legitimate targets" you mean armed settlers occupying carrying weapons and not women and children who often don't have a say in what their community has decided? Women serve in the IDF. Are armed women less legit... |
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Forum: News and Current Events Topic: [IMPORTANT] Hamas launches foot assault against settlements. |
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Posted: 05 Feb 2024, 4:23 am
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| Hamas shows signs of return in Gaza City after Israel withdraws most of its troops from area So I guess after all the death toll, HAMAS is back...and they are still holding Israeli hostages They are not back in full force though. They are still weakened and the ones left are probably working in sma... |
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Forum: News and Current Events Topic: [IMPORTANT] Hamas launches foot assault against settlements. |
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Posted: 04 Feb 2024, 2:07 pm
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| This is why I consider settlers to be legitimate targets. I assume you mean "legitimate targets" you mean armed settlers occupying carrying weapons and not women and children who often don't have a say in what their community has decided? Women serve in the IDF. Are armed women less legit... |
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Forum: News and Current Events Topic: [IMPORTANT] Hamas launches foot assault against settlements. |
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Posted: 02 Feb 2024, 4:22 am
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| From Above quote / report . Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s government does not support the immediate discontinuation of UNRWA, a senior Israeli official said on Tuesday as a host of Western countries moved to suspend funding for the UN relief agency for Palestinians amid allegations that rough... |
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Forum: News and Current Events Topic: [IMPORTANT] Hamas launches foot assault against settlements. |
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Posted: 29 Jan 2024, 4:04 am
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| NBC News Live blog The United Nations Relief and Works Agency (UNRWA) has fired 12 aid workers accused of involvement in the Oct. 7 attacks in Israel, and has launched an investigation. U.N. Secretary-General António Guterres said yesterday that he was "horrified" by the allegations and t... |
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Forum: News and Current Events Topic: South Africa files genocide case against Israel at Internati |
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Posted: 29 Jan 2024, 1:52 am
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Replies: 61
Views: 39,639
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| Yesterday the lawyers representing South Africa focused mainly on the facts. Today Israel's representatives focus a lot on rhetorics. The general public is often very susceptible to that kind of tricks - blowing smoke, whataboutism and reframing the context, but I doubt it works on these highly qua... |
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Forum: News and Current Events Topic: South Africa files genocide case against Israel at Internati |
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Posted: 26 Jan 2024, 11:02 am
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Replies: 61
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| "Finally, the court ordered Israel to submit a report to it 'on all measures taken to give effect to this order" within a month'." I think this puts Israel in a corner. If they submit a report they admit the court's jurisdiction to tell them what to do. And if the measures described ... |
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Forum: News and Current Events Topic: South Africa files genocide case against Israel at Internati |
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Posted: 25 Jan 2024, 4:09 am
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| The ICJ ruling on provisional measures is expected on Friday. Let's watch out for that: South Africa’s foreign minister, Naledi Pandor, is flying to The Hague to be present on Friday when the international court of justice (ICJ) delivers its highly anticipated verdict on South Africa’s request for a... |
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Forum: Politics, Philosophy, and Religion Topic: Evidence of Israel's genocidal intentions toward Gaza? |
| Jono |
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Posted: 14 Jan 2024, 5:44 am
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| ^^ Here's the full stream of the oral arguments by Israel: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=939hSvcH0qM I notice that the previous videos posted contained only clips of the arguments for the purposes of someone else's commentary in 15 minute videos. So, since I posted full stream of South Africa's ar... |
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Forum: News and Current Events Topic: South Africa files genocide case against Israel at Internati |
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Posted: 12 Jan 2024, 9:22 am
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Replies: 61
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| Yesterday the lawyers representing South Africa focused mainly on the facts. Today Israel's representatives focus a lot on rhetorics. The general public is often very susceptible to that kind of tricks - blowing smoke, whataboutism and reframing the context, but I doubt it works on these highly qua... |
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Forum: Politics, Philosophy, and Religion Topic: Evidence of Israel's genocidal intentions toward Gaza? |
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Posted: 11 Jan 2024, 1:10 pm
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Replies: 66
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Here's South Africa's oral arguments at the International Court of Justice:
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Forum: News and Current Events Topic: South Africa files genocide case against Israel at Internati |
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Posted: 11 Jan 2024, 1:05 pm
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Replies: 61
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Summer_Twilight wrote: I am not going to bow down to this propaganda against Israel
Israel will have it's chance to respond tomorrow. South Africa presented it's case this morning. |
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