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Or Windex.

You might be missing the context, which is that an Australian childcare worker, who is a man, and who was in the industry for about a decade and had access to over a thousand children in that time, was recently arrested on child sexual abuse charges relating to a number of those children.

This has prompted a lot of editorial inches on the myriad problems in the for-profit childcare industry and how they compounded to allow this situation to occur for so long. I haven't seen any coverage that blamed men, but there have been a few talking about the prejudice against men who want to work with children and the suspicion directed at them, especially right now.

Nobody sensible is actually suggesting that the solution is to vilify men who work with children, that's just a side effect of the revelation that a man who worked with children was a child molester. This piece is simply trying to redirect some of that reflexive distrust toward reforms that could actually make childcare and similar industries safer for children.

There were definitely backlashes to big popular artists of prior decades, like Elvis and the Beatles. Partly it was couched in that "They're corrupting the youth" conservatism, but also anything that's popular with tween and teen girls tends to catch a lot of flack regardless of whether or not it's deserved. Think Twilight or One Direction. I don't care for either, but they both became out-sized hate figures for weird adult men. There was no shortage of enraged nerd hot takes when that sparkly vampire guy was cast as Batman.

I think Coldplay is kind of on the same page. Which is obviously faint praise, but they have a sort of inoffensively palatable sound which is both the reason they're so successful and the thing people dislike about them. But it's probably not worth getting angry about.

The for-profit childcare system in Australia is profoundly broken. They're chronically understaffed and the pay is awful to boot, so there's tons of burnout and staff turnaround as people move around trying to get hours at different locations, etc. I don't know that 27 different gigs over a decade is actually that unusual in the sector.

If you're interested, ABC News Australia did an article on it:

• In Australia's childcare centres profit comes before safety - ABC News

Fair warning, there are some pretty unpleasant descriptions in the article of things that have been done to kids in the system.

Occasionally they take the "investigation bungled by police" angle, but that's the exception rather than the rule.

I'm not even really trying to scold folks who pirate, I do it too, I just don't bother to grandstand about it. BFD I'm pirating 30 year old video games. Y'all think if I bought a 200 dollar used one on Ebay the original studio sees a dime of it? C'mon now.

Right here is where you're essentially in agreement with the meme. You recognize that walking into a used game store and shoplifting their copy of the game is objectively worse than downloading an additional copy of the game, where you haven't harmed somebody else to get yours.

I don't think the argument is that "Piracy is completely and entirely victimless in all cases," but that it's a false equivalency to equate piracy with theft. They're not the same thing, is all.

You should read her words rather than just the intro to the article quoted in the OP.

'I made that choice. And now I'm watching my dad suffer because of it,' she responded.

She has admitted it. That's not a free pass to make bad decisions, but most of the quotes in the article are about her trying to change and do better.

'I'm learning everything I unlearned,' she said. 'And I'm going to fight for people who don't have a voice.'

'The guilt I carry is heavy, but I won't stay silent anymore,' she added.

'We all make choices,' she said. 'But we can make better ones next.'

I definitely have conflicted feelings about this: it's like when some former white supremacist changes their mind, gets the swastika tattoos removed and speaks out in support of anti-racism. They don't deserve a medal for saying "Whoops, I fucked up" after fucking up extremely hard, but is telling them to fuck off serving the greater good, or just giving us an opportunity to feel superior?

Also he was primarying Andrew Cuomo, who previously resigned in disgrace over a slew of sexual misconduct allegations and an impeachment. There's plenty of reasons to vote against Cuomo that are completely unrelated to Israel.

Yeah, he was reportedly conceived in a casual encounter. His parents weren't in an ongoing relationship and the father didn't remain very involved in either of their lives.

That is not how a bastard works. To be clear, all of this is archaic, I'm not actually calling anybody a bastard, but the definition of bastard is "a child born to parents who are not married to each other." He matches that definition because his parents were never married.

Affairs don't come into it, it's just some old bullshit cultural and religious ideals about which types of relationships (just the one: heterosexual marriages) children are "supposed" to be born into.

I don't think he's anywhere in the line of succession regardless. He's the son of the Crown Princess (by marriage) but not of the Crown Prince. i.e. His mother had him as a result of a prior relationship, then married the Crown Prince, making him the stepson of the man who will one day be king, but not really anything on his own account. Besides a rapist.

This doesn't belong in Not The Onion, the Betoota Advocate is extremely satirical. OP ate the onion and then posted it on Not The Onion.