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Guess who is exploiting and taking advantage of my vulnerability and trust? My uncle. He can use any of my mistakes that he finds to justify bullying and mocking me. I don't even have money to pay for his liquid petroleum gas for cooking. I am really sad, and no one cares. I am still a student with so many debts that I can't pay. It's around RM50,000. What does he expect? Taking advantage of me? Using my inability to pay his bills and for LPG, and when I'm at my worst, it's time for him to kick me out of his house. I am actually homeless. But that terribly destroyed house doesn't count. My father wanted me to stay at my uncle's house for stable electricity. #FamilyIssues #Struggle #Support #Homeless #StudentLife #Debt #EmotionalAbuse #Bullying #Vulnerability #Trust #Hope #Vent #MentalHealth #IAmTheProduct #MutualAid #NoOneCares

This is simple bully tactics. Lead with ‘I have power now & I can hurt you’. Follow with ‘if you are nice to me I’ll only hurt you a bit. Anyone who resists with be punished’. Everyone is cowed & falls in line. There must always be a scapegoat to be an example to others, everyone knows that any day it could be them.

The dynamic is so familiar to anyone who experienced bullying in school. I wonder if this is how the sad man who is driving this was parented? He has clearly learned that being the one running the protection racket is the only way to be safe.

Our cultural acceptance & normalising of #bullying & #CoerciveControl in families, schools, relationships, business & governance enables these abuses.

abc.net.au/news/2025-04-09/chi

ABC News · China slaps 84 per cent tariff on US goods as EU announces retaliatory leviesBy Patrick Martin

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#InternationalDayOfPink #LGBTQ #AntiBiasEducation #Bullying #Education #Edutooters @education @edutooters

Anne #Dyer - the Scottish #Episcopal Church's Bishop of #Aberdeen and Orkney- has given a radio interview in which she says she's trying to "rebuild trust" with her diocese. She returned from suspension last October when the denomination's procurator decided there wasn't enough evidence for a #church trial over #bullying accusations, and despite 4 of the other 6 bishops calling on her to step down
#Scotland
#religion
bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cn8v92

Anne Dyer in gold clerical garb with a Mitre on her head and a mic, speaking to various people who we cannot see properly but who are also in clerical robes.
BBC NewsAnne Dyer: Bishop accused of bullying wants to rebuild trustThe Right Reverend Anne Dyer returned to work after suspension and says it is time to move forward.
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"I’ve said before that Trump does not think of policy the way most of us do, operating instead like a low-level mob boss running a protection racket. Unfortunately, a bunch of rubes decided to give him another bite at the apple, and now the entire global economy has to pay up."

~ Marlon Weems

#Trump #tariffs #mob #MobBoss #sanctions #extortion #bullying #stupidity #incompetence
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thejourneyman.substack.com/p/h

The Journeyman. · Here Comes the PainBy Marlon Weems
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"The only legible purpose of the tariffs is for Trump to arrogate more power to himself: so that nations and corporate leaders and labor unions come begging him for relief, and so that he can shake them down."

~ Brian Beutler

#Trump #tariffs #mob #MobBoss #sanctions #extortion #bullying #stupidity #incompetence #Putin #PutinsPoodle
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offmessage.net/p/fighting-mean

Off Message · Fighting Means FightingBy Brian Beutler
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“Vladimir Putin bet his life that American voters would be weak and decadent enough to return Donald Trump to the presidency. He was right. …

We have a deeply stupid government—from our economically illiterate president to our craven and foolish secretary of state," (continued in /4)

~ Jonathan V. Last

#Trump #tariffs #mob #MobBoss #sanctions #extortion #bullying #stupidity #incompetence #Putin #PutinsPoodle
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thebulwark.com/p/the-american-

The Bulwark · The American Age Is OverBy Jonathan V. Last
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"Trump’s son Eric appeared to confirm that the tariffs are a shakedown when he posted: 'I wouldn’t want to be the last country that tries to negotiate a trade deal with [Trump]. The first to negotiate will win—the last will absolutely lose. I have seen this movie my entire life.…'”

~ Heather Cox Richardson

#Trump #tariffs #mob #MobBoss #sanctions #extortion #bullying
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heathercoxrichardson.substack.

Letters from an American · April 3, 2025By Heather Cox Richardson

"It is not at all surprising that Trump sees the appeal in sanctions. It is no different from a mob boss moving into town and sending his thugs to every business on Main Street, roughing up the proprietors and asking for protection money so they don’t get pushed out of business. … It’s a mentality fit for someone repeatedly linked to organized crime."

~ David Dayen

#Trump #tariffs #mob #MobBoss #sanctions #extortion #bullying
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prospect.org/economy/2025-04-0

The American Prospect · They’re Not Tariffs, They’re SanctionsStop trying to place coherence on a policy that’s really just a mob boss breaking legs and asking for protection money.

When I was getting punched in the face during the nineties, my anxiety would often vanish simply because my “enemy” wasn’t in the room with me when I got home. Today, kids get beaten up or humiliated and are sent a video afterward, posted for the whole world to see.

arnel.bearblog.dev/adolescence

SharanAdolescence: Healthy dose of fear for better parentingI watched a show called Adolescence. It made me want to puke and hug my child at the same time, preferably not to puke on her