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The Danger of Business Coming Before Safety

So you may have heard of the Austin Jones situation recently. If not it involves a youtuber by the name of Austin Jones who was recently found to have been contacting young girls in their early teens for videos of them twerking. There's obviously more to the story but because some of it is a little more graphic than I'm comfortable speaking about right now, I'll just leave it at that. What I'm really posting this for is to point out that this is not the first time this has come to light. A few years ago another youtuber by the name of Damon Fizzy (Also known as D Fizzy) alerted managers and other authority figures while he was on tour with Jones as part of My Digital Escape. A now defunct group of alternative youtubers who performed under the guidance of interviewer Bryan Stars. Well apparently Damon told both Bryan and the owner of Warped Tour about what was going on and how he'd seen Jones partake in inappropriate actions with some of the underage fans and was

GOP Shooting - What Are You Guys Doing?

On June 14th 2017, while at a practice field, GOP members were shot at. Many were injured and the assailant is now dead while Steve Scalise is in critical condition. This is the second attack in a short amount of time with the recent stabbing incident that took place. Things are officially heading towards what I can only describe as like civil war territory. And I know that may seem far fetched, dramatic but it's really not. Things like this can lead into back and forth attacks between political parties. That's not what we need right now. When we say that there needs to be a call to action and we need to fight back, this is not what anyone meant. No one wants to see anyone get physically hurt. No one wants that and no one should want that. The gunman is not representative of what I or many other people in the left wing want in terms of sending a message. He didn't even send a message, he just caused chaos and hurt people. A man is in critical condition right now, fighting