“Ukraine’s intelligence service says it thwarted a Russian plot to blackmail a local teenage girl into blowing up a police building by threatening to make public intimate pictures on her phone.”
Now that is fucked up.
it’s also pretty typical russian behavior
I’m not sure saying its typical of Russians is helpful. I know two Russian people and neither of them are blackmailing kids into performing terroristic acts.
I’m not defending Russia’s government nor the attitudes of many of the country’s civilians. I also have my own biases and prejudices that I’ve been working most of my life to extinguish.
I just don’t think it’s helpful to go on the internet and write “typical X, X’s are all the same” in essentially any situation.
Typical of the Russian state tactics is maybe what they meant and what you are saying. It’s hard to separate the government and normal people sometimes in times of war.
yeah, no, of course. I get it, I just think statements like that are completely unhelpful
That’s Russia!
It is kind of interesting how that blackmail tactic becomes less effective as we get older
Now that I’m 44, if they tried that with me I’d rather people see my dick in private photos than go to prison for blowing up a building
When I was much younger and far more insecure I’m not sure how I would have handled it
The problem is this mostly only works on girls. Guys willingly send dick pics.
Ooof mate, are you suggesting that boys can not be extorted? Because some individuals send pics to specific people? And girls do not sense nudes…? What the fuck. How do you even think those pictures came to be?
Hell, some of us make our stuff public on purpose. ‘ooh herp derp, look at me, I’m so evil, I’ll re-upload all your pictures and videos that were already posted to your [redacted] channel.’ please, you aren’t hurting me - you’re just making me harder. Oooh, so scary, upping the stakes and threatening thermonuclear war? Bitch I’m a millennial. End my existence daddy uwu. Go on, push the button. PUSH THE BU
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Hopefully AI will change this. In the future, when anyone claims to have such pictures you can just say it’s AI-generated nonsense 🤷
The world will have to go back to actually verifying claims.
We also need to teach our children about porn, damnit! Even if someone posts a thousand naked pictures of you to the Internet it will be lost in the sea of naked pictures. Very few will care or notice and no, future employers won’t go looking and even if they hear about it why TF would they even care? You can still do the job.
Anyone who does care that naked pictures exist is obviously lacking moral character and probably needs to re-think what’s important in life.
