• lemmylommy@lemmy.world
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    “As a teenager, I was sent to youth residential treatment facilities where I endured abuse that no child should ever experience. I was physically restrained, sexually abused, isolated, overmedicated, and stripped of my dignity,” she said in her open letter. The bill will establish a Federal Work Group for youth residential programs that works to ensure facilities are implementing best practices for the health, safety and treatment of their participants. It will also support the education and training of professionals in the field and provide federal oversight about recommendations for the future.

    That sounds like she is serious about a good cause.

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      I believe her letter and her experience. But that doesn’t mean she’s some pure of heart good deed doer. Her grandfather was a CEO and she will probably be a billionaire.

      She wants power.

      “What does any man with power want? More power.” - the Oracle in “The Matrix”

  • jayk@lemmy.ca
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    22 hours ago

    if there’s one thing we need more of, it’s celebrities in politics

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      U kidding me? Look, a quick cultural history lesson—

      The English are a low, shitty culture (proof: they pillage all these cultures with good spices then none of it ends up in their food??) who were the most murderous empire our species ever knew

      And then the brattiest smarmiest techbros of the time from THAT culture, moved one ocean west & called themselves better than everyone else.

      And THAT’s the shitstain that American culture is descended from. THAT’s us. I wish were a dignified lot too but we never ever have been 🤷‍♂️