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2025-01-17 at 2:46 AM UTC in Deleted posts for: YouMotherFuckers„ The key finding from my research is that even after the age of consent was raised, courts were reluctant to believe victims and to enforce the legislation fully. The Act that raised the age of consent, the Criminal Law Amendment Act 1885, received a mixed response in courts. While archival records from courts are sparse, the cases that have been preserved in the archives show that some judges welcomed it as a step in the right direction, but many others raised suspicion. The cases discussed here can best be described as cases of child sexual abuse as the victims in question were below the age of consent, often younger than 12. Despite the young age of the victims, the courts often failed to view them as victims. It appears, from the court archives, that it was often as if the victims were on trial, as much as the defendants, as the courts questioned their sexual history, character, and whether they had consented to the sexual activity in question.
In 1893, a judge presiding over an appeal of a man convicted of raping his young daughter, wrote to the Secretary of State asking for guidance on whether the conviction should stand as the case relied heavily on victim’s testimony. In the letter, the judge spoke about “young girls of her class and condition” and said, “it is very difficult in these cases to make a jury feel, as I do, the utter unreliability of the evidence of somewhat abandoned and precocious girls and the danger of acting upon it.” This quote is telling. It not only reveals the attitudes of certain judges towards women and girls who were in the courts, but it is also telling of the class prejudices that some judges showed. In most cases recorded in the late nineteenth century, both the victims and defendants were described as working-class. The class prejudices that the judges showed towards working-class girls and women are often evident in the court files and transcripts. Working-class girls were often presumed to be sexually active and even victims who were below the age of 12 were often questioned about their sexual history and medically examined for signs of loss of hymen and/or evidence previous sexual encounters.
Sexual abuse cases were, and remain, particularly problematic from an evidentiary perspective as they often rely on testimonies and other evidence might be sparse. When the girls were giving testimonies or their testimonies were discussed, their character was often called into question and they were repeatedly quizzed about their trustworthiness. Victorian rules of evidence made it difficult to prove an offence had taken place because the evidence of women and children had to be corroborated. While children’s testimonies had to be corroborated, they could be heard in court regardless of their age. Hale’s, now infamous, statement that rape “is an accusation easily to be made and hard to be proved, and harder to be defended by the party accused, tho never so innocent” was frequently relied upon in courts. While some judges had sympathetic words for the victims, there was also clearly a deep distrust in the girls’ word, regardless of her age, often based on her class, parents’ drinking, and her own suspected sexual history.
Discussion on the victims’ character and potential sexual experience was undoubtedly used to discredit their testimonies but I show in my article that it was also used to imply consent to the events. Consent should not have been an issue in these trials as in all the cases the victim was under the age of consent. To determine liability, the cases should simply have been about whether the act happened, as the victim by default had no capacity to consent. However, consent was often discussed as evidence of the victim’s unreliability or wickedness or to argue that the man’s actions were understandable. The first definition of consent in sexual offences cases in England and Wales was given only in 2003, with the Sexual Offences Act 2003. As there was no statutory definition of consent at the time, the concept of “consent”, or lack of it, was given a new interpretation at every trial. ”The following users say it would be alright if the author of this post didn't die in a fire! -
2025-01-03 at 7:49 AM UTC in Tesla Cyber Truck Explodes in Front of Trump Casino in Las VegasThe following users say it would be alright if the author of this post didn't die in a fire!
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2025-01-02 at 11:47 PM UTC in whats your upload speed and download speed
Originally posted by Jiggaboo_Johnson
"The speed cap on 5GHz WiFi, under ideal conditions, is typically around 1 gigabit per second (Gbps)"
Sounds like you bought some Temu chinesian shit
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/IEEE_802.11
a/b/g/n/ac etcThe following users say it would be alright if the author of this post didn't die in a fire! -
2025-01-02 at 1:10 AM UTC in Tesla Cyber Truck Explodes in Front of Trump Casino in Las Vegasit doesn't need to be new, just trueThe following users say it would be alright if the author of this post didn't die in a fire!
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2024-12-31 at 12:19 AM UTC in Paper Dragon Unveils Two New Paper Planes!imitation = flatteryThe following users say it would be alright if the author of this post didn't die in a fire!
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2024-12-30 at 4:34 PM UTC in Paper Dragon Unveils Two New Paper Planes!
Originally posted by Charles Ex Machina https://www.ngaus.org/newsroom/gao-military-continues-struggle-f-35-readiness
funniest thing about the GAO report is that in the 51% 'any mission ready' rate, one of the 'missions' is AVIONICS TEST so they're counted as 'mission ready' if the instrument panel turns onThe following users say it would be alright if the author of this post didn't die in a fire! -
2024-12-29 at 11:48 PM UTC in Putin Rebuffed! - The US Demonstrate What A Genuine Bird-Inflicted Plane Crash Looks Like.The following users say it would be alright if the author of this post didn't die in a fire!
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2024-12-29 at 2:33 PM UTC in What Book Should I Read Next?
Originally posted by trippymindfuk I've been wanting to read it for years now, for the historical aspect, I'm actually not a real Nazi…..
I don't want to order it though, then I'll be on some list and they'll gangstalk me and life would get too crazy.
Too much bullshit for me to read a book…..
https://libgen.isThe following users say it would be alright if the author of this post didn't die in a fire! -
2024-12-27 at 4:03 PM UTC in Another German terrorist attack
Originally posted by Speedy Parker I don't argue against paranoid conspiracy theories. The onus is on you to provide proof of your outlandish statement.
or you could actually investigate who you're taking these ridiculous talking points from
https://www.prageru.com/presenters/marissa-streit
but that would involve actually thinking, rather than regurgitating youtube videosThe following users say it would be alright if the author of this post didn't die in a fire! -
2024-12-27 at 12:27 PM UTC in What are you thinking about....i found an interesting forum guys:
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2024-12-27 at 7:33 AM UTC in Another German terrorist attack
Originally posted by Speedy Parker Your point? Or don't you have one?
my point is it's not worth watching a video that unironically uses the phrase 'judeo-christian', made by a J*wish think-tank that's run by an israeli intelligence asset. you're retarded if you take these idiots seriously.
when J*wish influence is what drives massive, unchecked immigration into western countries in the first place.
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2024-12-27 at 2:13 AM UTC in Another German terrorist attackThe following users say it would be alright if the author of this post didn't die in a fire!
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2024-12-21 at 6:27 AM UTC in Another German terrorist attack
the full manifesto he published before the attack (4 parts) :
>part 1 :
https://files.catbox.moe/fr11vl.mp4
>part 2
https://files.catbox.moe/h0ov97.mp4
>part 3
https://files.catbox.moe/oa4e9a.mp4
>video he's referring to :
https://files.catbox.moe/yng7go.mp4
>part 4
https://files.catbox.moe/dal8a9.mp4
supposedly a manifesto he recorded just before the attack, haven't looked at itThe following users say it would be alright if the author of this post didn't die in a fire! -
2024-12-20 at 2:20 PM UTC in How can we get money off of thischild sexual abuse in victorian times:
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2024-12-20 at 9:39 AM UTC in guys i fixed the bowit is slightly bigger now:
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2024-12-17 at 9:20 AM UTC in &TOTSE/totse.com. Old Babbage Bi-Monthly articleIn a forgotten alley, where the streetlights buzzed with dying voltage and shadows swallowed the pavement, there was a bar only whispered about: The Temple of the Screaming Electron, or simply TOTSE. No one advertised it. No flyers, no Yelp reviews, and certainly no website. But if you needed to find it, somehow, you did.
The entrance was easy to miss—a narrow door, blackened by time, with no handle and a single brass buzzer below a faded sign. The letters T-O-T-S-E were etched unevenly, like someone had carved them with a knife in a moment of frustration. If you rang the buzzer, there’d be no response at first, just silence. Then, a voice—warped and distorted—would crackle through a hidden speaker:
“Shall pass no law”
The door opened inward, and suddenly you were inside.
The first thing you noticed was the sound. It wasn’t music, at least not in the conventional sense. Speakers mounted in the corners hissed static, interspersed with fragments of broken transmissions: a news broadcast from the '50s, a Soviet-era number station, the chirp of a modem connecting to nowhere. Underneath it all, the low hum of electronics pulsed like a heartbeat.
The bar itself sprawled in impossible ways. At the center was the counter, a slab of old, pockmarked steel lined with mismatched stools. The bartender, an enigmatic figure known only as “Warden”, never smiled, never laughed—just served drinks with the precision of a machinist. A pair of thick, taped glasses magnified his eyes to cartoonish proportions, and his stained apron seemed to have more burn marks than a welder’s coat.
The drinks were infamous. No cocktails with umbrellas or sugared rims here. Instead, there were concoctions named "Short Circuit," "Blue Screen of Death," and the lethal "Rootkit." Rumor had it the last one contained absinthe, espresso, and something that glowed faintly under black light. Warden would sometimes mix them without looking, as though the bottles knew exactly where to land in his hands.
The regulars at TOTSE were the kind of people you didn’t meet anywhere else. In one corner sat a man known only as “Null,” tapping endlessly at a mechanical keyboard hooked up to nothing—no monitor, no wires. Across from him, a woman with silver hair and mirrored sunglasses argued passionately with a man wearing a tinfoil hat. They spoke in riddles, throwing around phrases like “signal interference,” “crypto-lattice walls,” and “the electron is screaming again.”
Scattered booths with torn upholstery lined the walls, each one home to a different enigma. Writers hunched over notebooks, scribbling furiously. Hackers tapped away on laptops with cracked screens, the keys worn bare. Philosophers leaned over half-empty glasses, muttering about the collapse of society, the rise of machines, or the beauty of chaos.
And the chalkboard. The blackboard behind the bar was sacred. Anyone who thought they had something to say could stand up and write on it—whether it was lines of code, fragments of manifestos, or a question no one could answer. Warden would always wipe it clean by morning, but somehow, pieces remained, buried under layers of chalk dust like ghosts of ideas unspoken.
The lights above the bar flickered unpredictably, casting shadows that didn’t always make sense. Some said the wiring was shot; others claimed the bar was alive. Occasionally, the hum would shift to an eerie silence, the kind that made you hold your breath without realizing it. That’s when you’d hear the stories.
People said TOTSE had always been there, in some form or another. Before it was a bar, it was a speakeasy during Prohibition. Before that, a forgotten basement where alchemists mixed poisons and cures alike. Some claimed it was older still, built on ley lines, drawing power from energies no one could name. But in its current form, The Temple of the Screaming Electron was something else entirely—a sanctuary for ideas no one else would host.
The hum, the walls, the name itself—it all echoed a singular philosophy: Speech is power, and power must never be silenced. This was TOTSE's creed, scrawled above the bar in jagged letters:
“Freedom of speech: Enter at your own peril.”
Here, words were sacred, dangerous, and limitless. People came to TOTSE because they had nowhere else to go—no other place where they could speak without fear, where their ideas could live or die on merit alone.
Some newcomers embraced it. Others fled, overwhelmed by the raw, unenhancemented nature of it all. But those who stayed? They found a kind of freedom most people only dreamed of. They became part of the conversation—a chaotic, electric current that screamed across the dark void of silence.
TOTSE wasn’t just a bar; it was a battleground for ideas. Some were mad, some were genius, and some were both. But all of them were given the space to exist. And if you walked out those doors feeling unsettled, electrified, or forever changed—then TOTSE had done its job.
Because, as the Warden often grumbled while wiping down the bar, “Speech is free. But freedom? That’ll cost you.”
When you left TOTSE, whether it was after one drink or a lost weekend, the outside world never felt quite the same. The city seemed quieter, the air heavier, as though some unseen force had rearranged the atoms of reality while you were inside. Streetlights buzzed louder, their glow harsher, and even the graffiti on the walls seemed to watch you with newfound intent. The hum of traffic no longer blended into the background—it gnawed at your ears, sharp and insistent. People on the sidewalks moved differently too, faces down, eyes blank, their conversations muted and empty compared to the chaos and electricity you’d left behind. The world felt sanitized, muffled, as if someone had turned down the volume on life itself. You’d check your phone, only to find it frozen, or your clock inexplicably wrong, as though time had been rewritten while you were gone. And lingering in the back of your mind, like the fading whisper of a dream, was the hum—the low, pulsing reminder that you had been somewhere real.The following users say it would be alright if the author of this post didn't die in a fire! -
2024-12-15 at 7:28 PM UTC in Best & Worst User on this site (Opinions)
Originally posted by Speedy Parker Context…
https://niggasin.space/thread/76656?p=42#post-2014858
You seem to fixate on that sort of context quite a bit.
Here's nearly 200 instances of you either using the word "cock" or quoting a post with it:
https://niggasin.space/search?q=Cock&search_type=posts&author=Speedy+Parker&p=9
Given your post count, one can only imagine how many other times you've posted gay material on this site with other words.The following users say it would be alright if the author of this post didn't die in a fire! -
2024-12-05 at 3:54 AM UTC in Do you guys like my new profile pic?Oh I thought it was just pink but I see the hat now! I love it 🥰
Ok hold on I got one!The following users say it would be alright if the author of this post didn't die in a fire! -
2024-12-03 at 6:48 AM UTC in Lebanon Paused, Syria Restarted - WHAT MEANS!!!The whole Syria conflict is confusing as shit because there are way too many foreign proxies operating. The groups themselves are more or less the same as they were 5-10 years ago when the conflict was mostly frozen, but everyone's changing sides now.
Background to the current conflict - israel and Lebanon apparently signed a very contentious 'ceasefire', and immediately after it went into effect, HTS (Hayat Tahrir al-Sham, effectively Al-Nusra/Al-Qaeda on its 100th rebrand) broke the 2018 truce with the Syrian government which effectively confined them to Idlib and began attacking Aleppo.
israel and Lebanon
israel invaded South Lebanon at the beginning of October in an attempt to stop Hezbullah from shutting down north and central israel with constant rocket fire. The long-range weapons they were using were typically inaccurate and not especially lethal, but they forced the evacuation of the entire northern region, then expanded in scope to shut down Haifa, and even began striking various targets in Tel Aviv, which, for the most part weren't causing casualties but completely shutting down industry and civilian life by forcing people into bunkers several times a day - even if we assume that the majority of strikes were either shot down or didn't strike vital targets (as israel claims).
Similar to the 2006 war, israel was never able to progress more than a kilometer or two past the border. After three months, around 60 soldiers killed and 1000 seriously injured (admitted - casualty ratios are usually around 1:4 killed to wounded so numbers are likely significantly higher) as well as the loss of 50+ tanks, a very strange 'ceasefire' went into effect. US and French representatives spent around a week in Beirut supposedly negotiating a truce with the Lebanese government on behalf of israel. On the 27/11, israel, the US and France declared that a ceasefire had been reached, and both sides suspended military operations. Strangely enough, to this day (03/12) no official statement has been made by the Lebanese government or Hezbullah, but they appear to have suspended operations altogether. Western media consistently reports on the US/israeli side but has had nothing at all to say regarding Lebanon or the actual text of the ceasefire agreement aside from vague statements about the Lebanese army replacing Hezbullah in South Lebanon and israel 'reserving the right to respond'.
The full text of the ceasefire agreement has supposedly been leaked, but I have no way to know whether it's legitimate as neither side has commented on it to the best of my knowledge. If it's real, it's a terrible agreement for Lebanon:
- As per UN Res 1701, Hezbullah is to move all of their personnel and hardware north of the Litani, where most of their arsenal is outside the range of israel proper. The (much weaker, barely operational) Lebanese army is to replace them in the South.
- israel is not to attack Lebanese state forces, infrastructure or civilians, but may still attack non-state groups such as Hezbullah (or ostensibly Amal, or the Christian militias).
- All Hezbullah infrastructure in the South is to be dismantled.
- A US-French 'peacekeeping force' dubbed the 'mechanism' is to be formed and deployed in the Southern territories alongside UNIFIL to ensure that Hezbullah is fully removed.
The fact that Hezbullah and the Lebanese side appears to be adhering to the one-sided requirements (even though France clocked 51 israeli violations in the first day alone) without openly agreeing to them indicates that the israeli side likely has some sort of leverage over them.
Syria
Immediately after the agreement went into effect, HTS began attacking the Syrian goverment forces, most directly in and around Aleppo. As a small primer, the main factions operating in Syria are as follows:
- The Syrian Arab Army under the control of the state, and by extension the heavily demonised President Bashir Al-Assad.
- Various Arab militias, such as Iraqi PMUs, militias organised by the Iranian IRGC, and relatively small numbers of Hezbullah fighters.
- The 'SDF', or Syrian Defence Force, which is the main US proxy in the country, comprised primarily of the Kurdish YPG/PKK (Kurdish separatists from Turkey and Iraq. The YPG is effectively a rebrand of the PKK, which is a proscribed terrorist organisation in Turkey).
- Hayyat Tahrir al-Sham, which is effectively a rebrand of the Al-Nusra Front and primarily comprised of foreign fighters from North Africa, Europe, Turkey and Chinese Uighyrs. It has historically been a Turkish funded and controlled group with some degree of influence from the Gulf States, but as they were effectively granted sanctuary and control over Idlib for the last five years, they've absorbed many of the smaller groups and large numbers of members from competitors such as ISIS/DAESH.
- ISIS/DAESH, the premier 'scary black flag' group from the previous war was also the most brutalised. As a result much of their membership bled into HTS even though they technically feud with each other, mostly on ideological grounds. ISIS has typically been a cutout for the Gulf States, primarily Saudi Arabia, and have drawn their membership from 'extreme' Wahabbi mosques that KSA has set up around the world.
- 'New Syrian Army' or 'Free Syrian Army', a much smaller group of fighters similar in composition to the other two but originally created and led by SAA defectors. Effectively a US proxy.
It is always worth noting that generally speaking, none of the anti-government groups are 'Syrian' in that over 80% of them are foreign fighters and mercenaries.
HTS has been the primary workhorse in the new attacks against government forces, and Erdogan has specifically denied that he had anything to do with planning this latest attack. This is a strange claim to make given that HTS has historically been primarily supported by Turkey, that captured HTS fighters have broadly spoken of being trained inside Turkey, and that a large chunk of their more capable combat units have been comprised primarily of Turkish nationalists such as the Grey Wolves and pro-Turkish Chinese Uighyrs. It also does not make sense for Turkey to support open military action against Russian forces given their tenuous balancing act between Russia and NATO, but Erdogan is a dangerous retard with no concept of the future so who knows.
israel and the US' fingerprints are definitely all over this operation, and it appears to have been planned far in advance given the equipment they've been using and the amount of training required, as well as the PR and media tricks they've been using to exaggerate their advance and successes. On a relatively small scale, SAA radios exploded in the same manner as the Lebanese pager/radio attacks in late September. It's being downplayed, but both Turkish and Ukrainian sources admit that Ukrainian intelligence officials have helped train HTS on the use of FPV drones in tactical combat, and may have supplied or secured drones and parts for them. There are hints that HTS have been given drone/surveillance data on SAA deployments and positions, but there is no hard data on this.
In regards to the other groups, ISIS has been very quiet, but an interesting development has been that significant numbers of Kurdish YPG fighters have rushed to reinforce the SAA. This is almost certainly not on behalf of the US, but them independently coming to the realisation that Assad is not going anywhere and it's better to fight with the State than with the pro-Turkish 'rebels' who intend to wipe them out in order to secure a future inside Syria.
WHAT MEANS!!!
The whole situation is extremely confusing because there are obviously major things happening that we aren't privy to. First the israel-Lebanon ceasefire - when it was first signed I argued with many 'resistance' supporters who saw it as a victory for Lebanon on par with israel 'declaring victory and leaving' in the 2006 war. It is incredibly strange that there was zero public response from one side in a ceasefire agreement, and even stranger still that israel repeatedly violates the terms without any response. It appears as though the ceasefire was imposed on the Lebanese government with no real input from Hezbullah, and the primary negotiator on the Lebanese side was ostensibly Nabih Berri, a man with deep ties to Hezbullah - it appears to me that israel holds something over not just the Lebanese government (ie. if you don't accept this we'll just bomb more apartment blocks and towns - see the Dahiyeh Doctrine) but Hezbullah itself, but we have no way of knowing what that might be.
As for opening a front in Syria, we don't know what israel/the US' greater goals are there either. Western analysts variously believe that israel is either trying to split Hezbullah's forces (encouraging them to deploy to Syria in order to weaken them for further attacks in Lebanon) or mean to sever weapons and supplies to Hezbullah (Syria is the primary transit country for weapons and aid from Iran to Lebanon), but neither is practical - Hezbullah is only sending small numbers of regional forces to Syria, and HTS has no hope of completely toppling the Syrian government with Syria and Russia having total air superiority (HTS has a supposed strength of 40,000 and over 1,000 were killed in the first days of their attack. Assuming 4,000 were seriously injured, 10% attrition in 2-3 days is not sustainable).
The assumption here is that israel is attempting to play for time, but to what end? They could be trying to create chaos in the wake of Trump's inauguration, but even in that case, what could he offer to change the dynamic of the war? He's already stated there will be no restrictions on the weapons the US will provide to israel, but it's not like there were any real restrictions in place to begin with.
Are we looking at guaranteed, direct US involvement?The following users say it would be alright if the author of this post didn't die in a fire!
