Mexico sues sexual predators, US elects them
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The difference between a third world country and Mexico
Gangs are illegal in Mexico and corruption is something to be fought against
ICE gets 100k salary to beat up and kidnap people with masks in US
A sexual predator in Mexico was emboldened enough to grope the president in front of reporters.
And E. Jean Carroll did sue (and won a settlement from) Trump for sexual assault.
Let's not do the "every nation is better than the US about everything now" thing.
As she should.
In capitalist America, president gropes you!
In another thread about this episode people were saying the entire incident was staged by her to distract from other news. I got downvoted to hell for suggesting that it was anti-woman to believe such a conspiracy theory rather than acknowledge that a woman got groped.
The fact that she’s pressing charges should put the conspiracy theory to bed. Why would she take it into a courtroom for more attention if it was just a stunt to manipulate the press that week? I’m sure someone will double down on conspiracy theories to come up with an answer to that question…
Sexism is believing it is okay to grope a woman and commit sexual assault.
Casual sexism is automatically assuming a woman (in power or not) who brings legal action against someone for committing sexual assault is doing so for attention or some other false ulterior motive.
Yes, thank you. It’s less overt of an assault on women then physically groping them, but it’s perhaps more insidious, because an environment of ignore-and-excuse puts ALL women everywhere at risk
And its happening right here, right now. Fucking God damn. Sexism is still rampant in 2025.
It's infuriating. A woman can be sexually assaulted, on video, in front of hundreds of witnesses, and some people will still insist it didn't happen, or she staged it, or it was her fault somehow.
This is why we still need DEI. Jesus fucking Christ.
Yep. If people don’t like DEI programs, they could always, you know, just treat women better.
I think it's that #believeallwomen is a hard hill to die on. Any internet troll is a Google search away from proof that you shouldn't blindly believe all women. It just reminds me of when Joe Biden had some allegations against him, and he got caught between a rock and a hard place: believe all women, just not this one.
Instead of belief, it's about respect. Whether true or not, any accusation should be taken seriously and avoid sensationalism. It's also about understanding your role. It's easy for me to say all of this about a situation thousands of miles away; I have an infinitely small role. If it happens closer to home, to someone you know, belief may be a part of that role, but it still needs to come from a place of respect and understand of the situation. If religion is any example, blind belief doesn't help anything but fuel division.
It’s not about blindly believing all women all the time. It’s about believing them by default, and as you say, taking them seriously. In this case they were willing to discard the evidence of their eyes in favor of some pretty far fetched conspiracy theory, and considered anyone who didn’t agree to be some naive idiot. And they paradoxically claimed to take sexual assault very seriously, while doing this. SMH
Not dismissing the idea that it might be for real, but random man being able to grope the literal President sounds kinda sus.
I'm not super into Mexican politics, but doesn't she have guard on duty to prevent just that?
I’m glad you don’t automatically dismiss that she was actually assaulted (!!!) I mean that’s pretty much the bare minimum everyone should do. This was captured on video. You can view it for yourself. Her guards did intervene, just a step too late. That does not mean she staged it for attention.
But everyone would love to feel smart and come up with some alternative theory of what happened rather than contend with the sordid facts.
She had guards with her. She was originally supposed to be driven around, but she decided to walk. Not sure how they got so close but this wasnt a planned trip.
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Fucking disgusting, the audacity of that man is disgusting.
They should send him to America, he has solid change in a government position. /s
The woman president of Mexico gets groped and Lemmy still manages to post 5 comments only about US politics. Why must you shoehorn in that shitty country into every unrelated topic on Lemmy?
They are the neighboring county and the topic is sexual predators.
it's the US defaultism, most users are from there, that bothers me too
He's already in America.
Send him to worst America
You know it was staged, right? Everyone knows it's a distraction from this. It isn't the first time she does something to distract from the current events....
I know I'm going to get downvoted for this but it's infuriating to live in México and you can't criticize our government because all of you love that an empowered woman is in control.... Most of México is a mess right now, cartels are in control, just last weekend I had a trip to my mother's inherited grandmas house and in a small town and after a 6 hour trip we just went back because they control the town.
My mom said she rather lose her childhood home than our lives....
What are you talking about?? You clearly don’t live in Mexico and just hear US propaganda/ Telemundo/ tv azteca which is the same.
- This wasn’t staged. Sadly there are men like this in Mexico
- carlos M. tragedy is begin blow out proportion by the media to decrease approval and have the elite funded parties rise again or use it as an excuse so the use can US can invade Mexico.
This shit happened way more in previous governments and never heard about it.
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As we all know, women are never assaulted and only use it for cover ups.
Dunno who said that, I didn't. Don't put words in my mouth.
"Look, a woman is using this for benefiting herself, not to get any justice." Is what you argued.
Are the federales lacking resources or intent? That assassination was clearly a message, I admittedly don’t know a lot about Mexican politics but is it possible to defeat the cartels or is it a competition of monopoly?
Morena, her political party, is very friendly to the drug cartels, AMLO (our last president) went to greet Chapo's mom for example. He's the one that created morena.
His ideology was "let them work and they won't mess with you" .
Idk why the quotations since this was never said.
Yes cartels (which are funded by the US) do have a big influence in Mexico, but no MORENA isn’t friendly to the drug cartel.
They understand that going into blood battles against them doesn’t improve it. ( which happened in previous governments) Instead they are targeting the root cause like:
- taking 11 million Mexicans out of poverty,
- increased salaries
- education grants
- infrastructure, etc.
their actual slogan is: “abrazos no balazos” which means hugs instead of bullets.
They understand that most don’t joins cartels out of fun, but need.
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Reminds me of Benazir Bhutto as Prime Minister in Pakistan.
Her PPP party bombed Imran Khan's cancer hospital a day after he announced his own PTI party.
Does she not have security crew to beat them up?
No body guards? How would someone even get this close (didn't see the video)?
That was my question after seeing the video.... and it's mexico... no bodyguards? And please notice that I mean no offense to mexico and that I'm questioning this as a latin.
Were is Rodney Dangerfield when you need him..
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