I was mormon. Thankfully my parents paid to traffic me, so I could afford to go to college and cut them off relatively soon after I got home.
I was mormon. Thankfully my parents paid to traffic me, so I could afford to go to college and cut them off relatively soon after I got home.
I was threatened by local leaders and family if I didn’t go on a 2 year mission in another country, then when I got there, they:
I didn’t want to call it trafficking for a long time. I figured maybe God just had a weird way of doing things. But my spouse works at a recovery center for survivors of violence (including trafficking) and helped me realize that’s what it was.
A pretty big misconception is that trafficking has to look like selling slaves, and I agree that’s an egregious thing, but it can be a lot more broad than that.
There are a lot of resources at https://humantraffickinghotline.org/en if you’re curious. My mission experience checked just about every box for labor trafficking, and I’ve heard very similar stories from a lot of other people who have been missionaries.
The church in the ad is particularly harmful. I had to fight to get out of it, and only after they took 10% of my income for years and trafficked me. They want money, power, and control, not increased numbers at their services.
Cries in Linux
Surprisingly little discourse for a nearly 1:1 vote ratio lol
Is there a Lemmy equivalent of r/wooosh
Amen and I think you’re preaching to the choir on that one lol
I would fucking hope their plan to change their company involved some fucking changes. No fucking shit, Sherlock.
Feeling a smidgen of rage. Pardon my outburst.
pictures someone trying to catch fridges like in some kind of video game
It’s not my job. If it’s vital work, someone can pay me for it. Otherwise it happens on my own terms.
I downloaded all my comments before I deleted the data, and I’m slowly putting all the stuff that was actually important in places where I have a bit more control over how it’s used (i.e., the fediverse, my own websites, etc). Not a perfect solution, but if Reddit wanted to keep it forever they should have treated us better.
Poetry.
Maybe in certain nsfw communities but c certainly not here lol
Corporate America and its constant need for fucking validation
Mormonism has a long history of these cases. They are all tragic. There is a database of abuse incidents at floodlit.org, but I’m glad mainstream news has started covering this issue more.
If it’s Boeing I’m not going
Next version of Llama:
“As an AI assistant, I am only able to provide radical conservative opinions”