Whoa, so cool!! Yeah that top piece in particular is a beauty!

Oooh, they’re all so pretty! I love that last one that’s in your palm the best.

Lux Claridge, an Emporia High School physics teacher, was arrested after clapping during the meeting. Commissioners had warned those in attendance against disruptive behavior, including clapping, snapping or rude comments. Claridge and several others clapped in support of speakers opposing the Flint Hills Digital Campus data center. After commissioners issued a final warning, Claridge continued to clap, leading to their arrest.

“I’m glad to be out — but this is an inconvenience, really. It’s not really deterring me from speaking out or I guess, clapping,” Claridge said.

The city claims it was disruptive, but they also disallowed “snapping or rude comments”. Considering they dropped all charges with no prejudice, the city was in the wrong here.

The small town of Emporia, Kansas is fighting against its city commission and a proposed hyperscale data center project that would sit on 1,000 acres of prairie land near Claridge’s home. Claridge attended a commission meeting on July 22 and planned to speak out against the project, but was dragged out of the meeting and arrested by police when they clapped during a presentation.

Emporia held Claridge for eight hours and charged them with disorderly conduct and interfering with a law enforcement officer. The city refused to show 404 Media a copy of the arrest report and has not responded to a request for comment about the dropped charges.

After Clardige’s arrest, Emporia’s city commission moved to virtual meetings and ended public comment. The city said it was doing so “in the interest of public safety.” According to Claridge, the city commission announced that in-person meetings with open public comments will return soon. “Our mayor is ‘willing to give us another shot to act like grown ups,’” Claridge said, quoting Emporia mayor Becky Smith. They added that the city will vote on whether or not to ban hyper-scale data centers outright in November.

According to a press release from the Emporia city commission, the city will meet in-person in a special session open to the public on August 26. “Public comment is expected to resume at the regular September 2 meeting,” the announcement said. In a different press release, the city said the November vote on a data center ban hinges on a County court giving it the OK.

These small town fucking assholes. Held them for EIGHT HOURS for clapping. Clapping.

They cross over into Washington State for healthcare they actually want.

What’s good for the goose is good for the gander.

It’s a term of endearment, darling

Sure, babe

I think you’re a MAGA cultist posing as a leftist feminist woman, who has infiltrated a leftist forum and is spreading conspiracy theories about other world leaders. We all know Trump isn’t happy with them, especially his NATO allies. This way you’re both trying to normalize the behaviour of the Trump administration and discrediting other world leaders, paving the way for fascist Trump allies to take over.

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Deal with it and don’t use sexual abuse accusations as a way to make yourself feel less bad about it.

You are fundamentally misunderstanding why I made that comment. It wasn’t to relieve personal guilt.

You’re doing the equivalent of stomping your feet and putting your fingers in your ears and yelling “LA LA LA LA” to ignore the very real truths that men in power abuse it.

This quadrupling down without a shred of evidence is becoming awkward.

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Philippine President Rodrigo Duterte has confessed to sexually abusing a maid while he was a teenager, according to a report.

In a speech on December 29, Duterte said that he had confessed to a priest going into a maid’s room while she slept and placing his fingers on her genitals, the BBC reported.

The remarks were not unusual for Duterte, who has frequently come under fire for making statements that demean or encourage violence against women. Last June and July, women’s rights activists gathered in Manila to protest Duterte’s treatment of women, including his remarks that communist rebels should be “shot in the vagina.”

You’re wrong again.

I’m not talking about school shootings or police forces.

There are many rapists in positions of power around the world. Rape is about power. And people who seek positions of power often abuse those positions.

We live in a world dictated by patriarchy. This is a symptom.

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-Andrew Mountbatten-Windsor

-Sarah Ferguson

-Ehud Barak

-Miroslav Lajcak

Just to name a few that were in the Epstein files and are not from the US. And that’s just a handful of government officials.

They were all protected as well. There were hundreds to thousands of people involved in the coverup and are still working to protect these powerful people.

no evidence that the rest of the world is ruled by sex offenders as well.

You are delusional if you think there are no other world leaders that have sexually assaulted or raped others.

That hasn’t happened in the rest of the world.

The Epstein class doesn’t exist only in the US.

He’s still in an HR role. He’s been preying on women for decades. This doesn’t happen unless the culture is permissive of it.

There may be some fucked up inbred royalty in Europe, and the French have always been kinda rape-y, but even this guy is just a civil servant and not an elected politician. There is no European or Asian Epstein level scandal that I have ever heard of. Have you? Strong accusations require strong evidence. Until that it’s just conspiracy theory.

The entirety of this paragraph is dismissive. You clearly haven’t lived in the world as a woman to be perfectly honest.

Civil servants literally work for the government. To say that this guy was allowed to operate like this for decades but it’s not a reflection of the government or the country is wild.

but even this guy is just a civil servant

He’s a civil servant. Enough said.

Also going to completely ignore that Prince Andrew exists and still hasn’t seen the inside of a jail cell for rape?

and the French have always been kinda rape-y

Oh yeah, no big deal. The French are always rapists, what the fuck? THIS IS A BIG DEAL ACROSS THE BOARD. Period.