AIDS is easily preventable: Don’t have unprotected anal sex and don’t share intravenous needles. Anyone who can’t follow such simple instructions doesn’t value his life.
AMSTERDAM (AFP) – Elton John joined forces with Britain’s Prince Harry to launch a $1.2 billion initiative on Tuesday to “break the cycle” of HIV transmission by targeting young men, among whom infections are on the rise.
On the second day of a major international AIDS conference in Amsterdam, the two lent their mega-wattage star power to calls for action to end the lingering stigma around the virus and protect generations to come.
“Young people are the only age group where HIV infections are rising, not falling,” warned rock star and veteran AIDS campaigner Elton John as he announced the launch of the MenStar Coalition.
“We have to do much, much more to bring men, especially younger men more fully into the fold,” he insisted.
The coalition brings together different partners, including the UN’s Unitaid and the US fund PEPFAR, as John warned that 24- to 35-year-old men were accessing HIV testing and treatment at “unacceptably low rates”.
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Long before we were urged to Make America Great Again, we were told to Keep America Beautiful. Baby boomers may remember the 1950s campaign that made littering a criminal offense, a time when offenders were targeted by Donald Duck singing “Litterbug, Shame on You.”
Did we grow up and forget the message? Or did our children never receive it? Los Angeles is filthy.
Why has Los Angeles become more filthy over the past few decades? Has the composition of LA’s population changed towards people who don’t worry about litter?
The Keep America Beautiful campaign was organized by rich WASPs and corporations in 1953 to shame Americans into not littering. (The rise of non-biodegradable plastics made litter semi-permanent.) As commenters have noted, the biggest breakthrough was the 1971 “Crying Indian” TV PSA commercial that used Iron Eyes Cody to racially shame white people into not polluting their environment.
(Okay, Iron Eyes Cody was actually an Italian-American actor who specialized in playing Native Americans, but the point is that the “iconic” commercial worked.)
The more popular way to quiet correct criticism today, though, is to furiously denounce critics as racists. Any criticism of Latinos for their propensity to litter is a Stereotype demonstrating that you are full of Hate.
There is always some kind of party/quinceanera going on. And the aftermath is trash everywhere.
I rarely see this with whites and orientals (and not much blacks around here).
Que paso, putos?”
RESPONSES:
* They are from third world countries and bring their third world manners with them.
* The Dominican Republic was the most disgusting place I’ve ever seen in my life. Bags of trash lined the sides of the road. Huge unemployment rate and these lazy fucks can’t bother to pick up their trash or even burn it.
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A series of old tweets by actor-comedian Michael Ian Black about child molestation are raising eyebrows after Guardians of the Galaxy director James Gunn was fired Friday from Disney for similar jokes making light of pedophilia.
Black’s controversial tweets are filled with sexual innuendos about children, including so-called jokes about having sleepovers with young girls and having “quick” intercourse with a baby.
Below is a sample of the actor’s tweets between 2009 and 2014:
“Went to my kids’ elementary school Halloween parade. Disappointingly few “slutty girl” costumes.”
I believe that Richard and Greg had been fighting for months. They were staying together for a few weeks. On the night in question, Richard’s GF and Greg’s GF were drunk in their room. Richard brought them water. He was holding his GF’s head when Greg walked in and had a “Why the fuck are you in here alone with the girls?” moment. There was no threesome. This moment was just an excuse for Greg to completely distance himself from Richard and to damage Richard in the most severe way possible by destroying his credibility and honorable reputation.
I’m told by a knowledgeable source: “No hotel room. AirBnB entire house. And the fallout didn’t begin there, it simply ended there. Richard was in the process of leaving Alexandria, so…at Greg’s a lot. They fought nonstop. Their stupid fights over food and editing are much more humiliating. That night at the AirBnB was just the final fight, really. I think they’d been in too close of quarters for too long. The movement had a lot of blurry lines between ‘friend’ and ’employee.’ It made it so difficult to outline responsibilities and roles. Often when Greg wanted support as a friend Richard was in need of support from an employee. It was like a family business. Same complications. Richard is a dreadful manager. I don’t think he knows what goes into cultivating a work environment or ideal employee. He hates minutiae. But so did everyone around him. Everyone wanted to be a thought leader or podcaster. Nobody wanted to balance that checkbook… Most of the fights had all those issues orbiting around. I can see why Greg wanted an out and took it. It was endless… Meanwhile, this is what Richard gets for being the waterboy.”
According to the same people who claimed Richard was sleeping with the girlfriends of his followers, Richard sleeps with many of young female journalists covering him including lady journalists at Buzzfeed, The Daily Beast, The Atlantic and one Alt Lite lady streamer the night of the Charlottesville debacle (from Matt Forney’s description this week, it sounds like Faith Goldy).
In various selfies posted online, Richard appeared chummy with female journos such as Julia Ioffe and Rosa Gray. I do not know about the extent of their relationships.
There is really an underlying issue that very few persons discuss. We focus on adults’ right to have children and we now believe that the sexual orientation of the parent shouldn’t prevent them from becoming parents. But isn’t there another issue: Do children have any rights? Do children have a right to a mother and father? If a mother uses an anonymous sperm donor (aside from the eugenics aspect) isn’t she in fact enslaving a child who through no choice of his or hers now has either a single mom or two moms.
When gay men use a surrogate to bring their baby to birth isn’t this in effect enslaving the surrogate mother. Isn’t this something done without any consideration as to the rights of the child?
If you read this article carefully there are huge holes in it. Some of the children were not included in the final study. How many were they and what is the reason they weren’t included. It appears that some of the conclusions drawn by the researchers are based on interviews with the families. Were the children present. As Oscar Robert Lopez has pointed out there is incredible pressure on the children to stay away from saying anything even remotely negative about his or her same sex parents.
These families were all affluent. All college educated. Since they were impregnated by sperm donors genetically this probably means the male sperm was selected for physical, mental and emotional characteristics which if you believe as I do are hereditable, also skews the findings.
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