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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsWhy are porn star payments getting more coverage than crimes against humanity?
Trump is kidnapping and raping babies and seems proud of it. He's a Proud Boy all right.
Why the hell is this story not the lead every single day? Why are Stephen Miller, Kirsten Nielsen, and Donald J Trump not being prosecuted for human rights violations?
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Why are porn star payments getting more coverage than crimes against humanity? (Original Post)
lagomorph777
Mar 2019
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elleng
(130,732 posts)1. Sex
Blue_Tires
(55,445 posts)2. because it's tawdry
it's something that even the dumbest person understands, and it gives networks an excuse to show a lot of cheesecake photos of the woman in question...
scheming daemons
(25,487 posts)3. Selaciousness sells
redstatebluegirl
(12,265 posts)4. Because the masses love sex and violence.
People stare at car wrecks to see the victims, human nature is a weird thing. Most Americans are obsessed with sex scandals. Not sure why but it is a fact.
DFW
(54,291 posts)5. It seems that cromes against humanity don't offend our "Christians" in congress.
Not to the point where they feel like doing anything about it, anyway.