I was mormon. Thankfully my parents paid to traffic me, so I could afford to go to college and cut them off relatively soon after I got home.
I was mormon. Thankfully my parents paid to traffic me, so I could afford to go to college and cut them off relatively soon after I got home.
I was threatened by local leaders and family if I didn’t go on a 2 year mission in another country, then when I got there, they:
I didn’t want to call it trafficking for a long time. I figured maybe God just had a weird way of doing things. But my spouse works at a recovery center for survivors of violence (including trafficking) and helped me realize that’s what it was.
A pretty big misconception is that trafficking has to look like selling slaves, and I agree that’s an egregious thing, but it can be a lot more broad than that.
There are a lot of resources at https://humantraffickinghotline.org/en if you’re curious. My mission experience checked just about every box for labor trafficking, and I’ve heard very similar stories from a lot of other people who have been missionaries.
The church in the ad is particularly harmful. I had to fight to get out of it, and only after they took 10% of my income for years and trafficked me. They want money, power, and control, not increased numbers at their services.
Surprisingly little discourse for a nearly 1:1 vote ratio lol
Is there a Lemmy equivalent of r/wooosh
Amen and I think you’re preaching to the choir on that one lol
Maybe that was the bait…
pictures someone trying to catch fridges like in some kind of video game
Poetry.
Next version of Llama:
“As an AI assistant, I am only able to provide radical conservative opinions”