I Saw A Man Raping A Cow

I Saw A Man Raping A Cow

It was disturbing to say the least

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I saw a man raping a cow two days ago.

It wasn’t a subtle thing done in private, it was out in the open for everyone to see.

It was graphic. He wore a condom to protect himself as he thrust violently into the cow repeatedly, not caring about what harm he was causing this creature.

The cow was making horrible noises and there was weird, gushy stuff coming out of it.

I stared in horror for a bit as I struggled to process what I was seeing and was shocked.

My mind would like to believe it was AI, but I don’t know anymore.

I’d been trying to go to sleep, scrolling on TikTok before bed, an activity that I do often, when this graphic video appeared on my newsfeed (or “for you page” as TikTok calls it.) It was a video of a man raping a cow and made me immediately wish I could bleach my eyes.

I went to report it, horrified that something like this was on TikTok at all. There are children on the app and this video was not safe for anyone to view, regardless of age.

I thought this would be simple. Of course TikTok would take it down.

I checked my notifications the next day and it told me that there was no violation found based on my report.

I shouldn’t have been surprised. The same thing happened when I saw a compilation of people burning cats on my “for you page” as well a year ago.

I reported it for violence against animals. Tiktok didn’t care. They didn’t ban it. No violation found, yet again. That video is still up for all I know.

I will not search for or post the link to either of these videos. I can’t. It probably violates the rules on this site, not to mention that the videos are disgusting and I don’t want to see them again.

But I’m sick and tired of how social media works now that Trump and all his billionaire friends own all the social media companies.

It would be a bit different if these companies worked like 4chan or something. If there was no moderation at all. Then I could understand why some graphic and disturbing bullshit was found different places, but instead I’m seeing left wing people getting banned from the platforms entirely. While these other videos are allowed to stay.

Despite right wing people accusing the left of “cancel culture,” it’s always been republican voters who are obsessed with banning things. They will gather together on social media and mass report people just because they don’t like their political views or lifestyle.

Tizzyent made a name for himself on social media through social activism. If you’re on TikTok and left wing, you’ve probably heard of him.

He uses his voice and platform to share videos of things like racism, especially when these people commit crimes because of their bigotry. He uses the fact that he’s white and a man with privilege to hold people accountable.

He’s brought a lot of justice to the world, helping identify people who would otherwise get away with their abuse and get the police involved when necessary. He’s literally sent people to jail for hate crimes.

A lot of right wing people hate him for that and will mass report him to get him kicked off platforms.

He’s usually able to get his accounts back after this happens through appeals, as you can see in the video below, talking about how he was banned again recently, but the video ends with optimism.

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But recently, TikTok confirmed after this ban that he was actually permanently barred from the platform this time. There would be no more appeals. He was being forced to leave forever.

He said that a TikTok moderator was watching his account recently, and was looking for an excuse to permanently ban him, which aligns with the fact that the whole platform is now owned by Oracle (as arranged by Trump.)

I’ve seen this kind of thing happen a million times to trans people on social media in recent years as well.

It didn’t used to be this way. Tiktok used to be a fairly good place for LGBTQ+ people to post. It would boost their messages and used moderation to get rid of a lot of anti-trans bigotry, but then Trump “saved” the platform and hatred for transpeople spread all over the place.

He’d clearly made deals with these platforms to keep them around as long as they agreed to stop moderating bigotry and push more right wing agendas.

Now I see transphobia every day when I used to see it not at all.

After Trump called Tom Walz the r-word, everyone of all political ideologies started using it constantly on every platform.

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One of the responses to that video is this asshole admitting that the entire reason he voted for Trump was to hear him use the r-word.

They voted for hate and it makes them excited to see Trump spread it.

As a woman on social media, I’ve been threatened and seen other women threatened by men online a bunch.

There’s a reason that I love posting on Medium and prefer it over every other platform. When men have threatened to murder me on here and I report it, their posts get taken down immediately. As they should.

But on places like Facebook, I’ve seen men say they will stalk women and write in detail how they plan to rape them. I’ve reported them for violent threat and harassment.

But every report ends with the result of “no violation found.”

I’m starting to think that the reason these platforms ask what my gender is when I sign up is so that they can automatically dismiss any report I file without even looking at it. Because it has become comical the kinds of things I can witness on these platforms and be dismissed for reporting.

Mind you, Christian conservatives control these sites so heavily that when my author friends, back in the days of writing romance novels, make ads promoting their romance books with pictures of people kissing or a woman showing her shoulders, they get their ad accounts taken away from them and banned from making ads.

Because romance novels are “sinful” books made for women with positive sex messages in them. And that’s against the Bible.

They’re books about love though.

We live in a society instead where the point of social media is to be cruel and to oppress people.

If you read a lot of my posts, you know I am a fairly vulnerable person online. I write about my traumas and my struggles often.

This doesn’t change regardless of where I post, even places where I’m not a writer at all.

My words get met with mockery often. It’s always been that way because our society desires to destroy anyone who chooses honesty and trying to heal over people who choose bigotry instead.

In the past week in my private accounts, I posted comments about struggling with agoraphobia and having diabetes. All I said is that I have those things and I appreciate when they’re de-stigmatized. I got a bunch of comments in response mocking me because no one can stand when a disabled person feels a little less ashamed of their disabilities.

I was told that people only get agoraphobia if they’re spoiled through gentle parenting or because they’re attention whores. And that I’m a diabetic because I’m a moral failure. If I’d tried harder not to get sick. These ableist things were said to me repeatedly.

I can handle it. It’s nothing to me because I’ve been dealing with internet people saying this kind of stuff to me since I was a teenager. It’s why I can write like I do, but a lot of people can’t handle being treated like that. Nor should they have to handle it.

I saw a woman say she was going to kill herself over internet bullying this week as well. She was a lesbian being targeted with hatred.

It’s what MAGA loves, a world of cruelty and abuse, where hatred thrives.

I’m just sick of this shit and I wanted to remind everyone that things don’t have to be this way.

We just have an asshole as a president and his psychopathy has affected everything.

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