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I'm not disagreeing with you, but media is reporting that she is broke.

Whether that means "Mike Tyson-broke", or "never had much money to begin with broke" I don't know.

 Medium of Death wrote:
I'm not sure why anybody would give money to that?

I'm sure she's quite capable of covering her own bills.

There are plenty of women in worse situations that could use that money. Donate to a woman's shelter instead.

It's possible she doesn't have health insurance, especially if her primary income comes from freelance work. Quite a few entertainment industry jobs are like that, even outside of the pr0n industry.

 Hordini wrote:

 Medium of Death wrote:
I'm not sure why anybody would give money to that?

I'm sure she's quite capable of covering her own bills.

There are plenty of women in worse situations that could use that money. Donate to a woman's shelter instead.

It's possible she doesn't have health insurance, especially if her primary income comes from freelance work.

Even then... healthcare is expensive here in the states.

She's going to be there for awhile.

 whembly wrote:

 Hordini wrote:

 Medium of Death wrote:
I'm not sure why anybody would give money to that?

I'm sure she's quite capable of covering her own bills.

There are plenty of women in worse situations that could use that money. Donate to a woman's shelter instead.

It's possible she doesn't have health insurance, especially if her primary income comes from freelance work.

Even then... healthcare is expensive here in the states.

She's going to be there for awhile.

That's certainly true as well.


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 jasper76 wrote:
I'm not disagreeing with you, but media is reporting that she is broke.

Whether that means "Mike Tyson-broke", or "never had much money to begin with broke" I don't know.

I'm guessing never had much money to begin with. Most people don't get into porn because they are already loaded.

 Medium of Death wrote:
I'm not sure why anybody would give money to that?

I'm sure she's quite capable of covering her own bills.

You must have never read or seen anything on the US healthcare system, even under AHCA.


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 Hordini wrote:
It's possible she doesn't have health insurance

Even with insurance it can still be insanely expensive.

 Ahtman wrote:

 Medium of Death wrote:
I'm not sure why anybody would give money to that?

I'm sure she's quite capable of covering her own bills.

You must have never read or seen anything on the US healthcare system, even under AHCA.


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 Hordini wrote:
It's possible she doesn't have health insurance

Even with insurance it can still be insanely expensive.

That's true, depending on the insurance and what kind of treatment she needs. When they catch MMA boy, hopefully they can make him pay for it.

 Hordini wrote:
That's true, depending on the insurance and what kind of treatment she needs. When they catch MMA boy, hopefully they can make him pay for it.

If I had to guess, he probably doesn't have much money either.

I suppose you're probably right. If he does though, he should have to pay whatever he can.

Absolutely

This entire story is horrifying.

What makes it worse is that it happens all too often to people who never get any media attention.

The title made me think it was some kind of awesome Stephen King's Dark Tower reboot with Marvel's War Machine being pursued, a bit like the new era League of Extraordinary Gentlemen updates you find.

The reality made me sad.

 Ahtman wrote:

 Medium of Death wrote:
I'm not sure why anybody would give money to that?

I'm sure she's quite capable of covering her own bills.

You must have never read or seen anything on the US healthcare system, even under AHCA.

Ahtman, baby, I love you but you have this awful habit of removing the final sentence from my posts.

 Medium of Death wrote:
I'm not sure why anybody would give money to that?

I'm sure she's quite capable of covering her own bills.

There are plenty of women in worse situations that could use that money. Donate to a woman's shelter instead.

She's a celebrity, of sorts. I'm sure there are avenues for her to get it paid or as stated by others it might well come out of Mr MMA's monies. She's not going to be left twisting in the wind.

It is a sad story and what's sadder still is that it takes some "celebrity" to have it done to them to raise awareness about it.

How many thousands of nameless women (and even some guys) are abused every day and nobody hears about it.

How about we report on THEM instead.

 Medium of Death wrote:
Ah, thanks guys.

Seems like this would just be a stunt then? I'm sure there are better equipped people to take this guy down.

I'd think approaching this guy would be a bad idea, couldn't he have his guns on him? If he's got internet access he'll know about this and it might just push him further over the edge. It's all fun and games when Dog is running his mouth until somebody gets shot because they escalated the situation by bringing it to the world stage.

Good. I hope he takes a long walk off a short cliff

 TheMeanDM wrote:
It is a sad story and what's sadder still is that it takes some "celebrity" to have it done to them to raise awareness about it.

How many thousands of nameless women (and even some guys) are abused every day and nobody hears about it.

How about we report on THEM instead.

I think most people are aware of domestic violence, its just that these are minor celebrities as you have stated and therefore made national media on the simple basis that some people know who one or the other is. If you'd like to help out, I'd recommend contributing to your local women's shelter, as well. These really are invaluable services setup to help everyday, non-rich, non-celebrity women in these exact type of situations.

I was more meaning the potential for him to attack others rather than kill himself.

 Medium of Death wrote:
I was more meaning the potential for him to attack others rather than kill himself.

I know which one I am more comfortable with

Obviously it's preferable that he doesn't harm anybody else.

I'm saying that turning this into a media circus when he has access to that media is probably a bad move.

A MMA fighter beating up an adult entertainer was never going to be anything other than a media circus

 TheMeanDM wrote:
It is a sad story and what's sadder still is that it takes some "celebrity" to have it done to them to raise awareness about it.

How many thousands of nameless women (and even some guys) are abused every day and nobody hears about it.

How about we report on THEM instead.

The same reason Justin Bieber getting driving fines or George Michael getting done for DUI makes international news. That's life.

 TheMeanDM wrote:
It is a sad story and what's sadder still is that it takes some "celebrity" to have it done to them to raise awareness about it.

How many thousands of nameless women (and even some guys) are abused every day and nobody hears about it.

How about we report on THEM instead.

If only da wimminz were armed or took a class in Lorena Bobbit style conflict resolution.

Medium of Death wrote:I'm not sure why anybody would give money to that?

I'm sure she's quite capable of covering her own bills.

There are plenty of women in worse situations that could use that money. Donate to a woman's shelter instead.

There are some so obsessed with "adult entertainment" stars that they actually go to conventions, follow them on Twitter and Facebook, etc and the most obsessed of those would gladly give money to her in this scenario.

It's not that unlike these guys donating money to watch gals play video games on TwitchTv...

jasper76 wrote:I'm not disagreeing with you, but media is reporting that she is broke.

Whether that means "Mike Tyson-broke", or "never had much money to begin with broke" I don't know.

Google search is suggesting her net worth is around $500,000. She is fairly popular, but has only been involved in the business for a couple of years according to Wikipedia. She's only 23. Talk about an insane life to have lived already. Damn.

Easy E wrote:This entire story is horrifying.

What makes it worse is that it happens all too often to people who never get any media attention.

Yep and for some reason it's the exact same scenario. The women stays with the abuser until he finally snaps and kills her or beats her half to death.

It's probably worth noting that this is probably a good lesson for young ladies who think its desireable to date a person who chooses attempting to beat another person unconscious as a hobby or career, generalizations be damned.

 jasper76 wrote:
It's probably worth noting that this is probably a good lesson for young ladies who think its desireable to date a person who chooses attempting to beat another person unconscious as a hobby or career, generalizations be damned.

I'm not sure that has much to do with anything. I'm in no way involved in a violent profession, and I could still quite easily beat my girlfriend half to death if I ever flipped. A persons career has little to do with the fact that men tend to be bigger and stronger than their partners.

 Ketara wrote:

 jasper76 wrote:
It's probably worth noting that this is probably a good lesson for young ladies who think its desireable to date a person who chooses attempting to beat another person unconscious as a hobby or career, generalizations be damned.

I'm not sure that has much to do with anything. I'm in no way involved in a violent profession, and I could still quite easily beat my girlfriend half to death if I ever flipped. A persons career has little to do with the fact that men tend to be bigger and stronger than their partners.

One should marry your equal. I'm good with a chainsaw. She can run me over with a van. True love.

I feel lied to by the title of this thread... this is truly upsetting, hope war machine gets whats coming to him.

War Machine is headed to South America where he's gonna hide out in the favelas and make a living in underground fighting.

 Frazzled wrote:

 Ketara wrote:

 jasper76 wrote:
It's probably worth noting that this is probably a good lesson for young ladies who think its desireable to date a person who chooses attempting to beat another person unconscious as a hobby or career, generalizations be damned.

I'm not sure that has much to do with anything. I'm in no way involved in a violent profession, and I could still quite easily beat my girlfriend half to death if I ever flipped. A persons career has little to do with the fact that men tend to be bigger and stronger than their partners.

One should marry your equal. I'm good with a chainsaw. She can run me over with a van. True love.

Don't worry man. We all know who's in charge in your house, and it's not a human

 Ketara wrote:
I'm in no way involved in a violent profession, and I could still quite easily beat my girlfriend half to death if I ever flipped. A persons career has little to do with the fact that men tend to be bigger and stronger than their partners.

I'd guess that if violence is your hobby or career, there's a better chance of violence being part of your domestic equation.

Its not like domestic violence rap-sheets are uncommon for boxers...I'd imagine same pattern may be true for competitors in MMA sports.

 Ketara wrote:

 jasper76 wrote:
It's probably worth noting that this is probably a good lesson for young ladies who think its desireable to date a person who chooses attempting to beat another person unconscious as a hobby or career, generalizations be damned.

I'm not sure that has much to do with anything. I'm in no way involved in a violent profession, and I could still quite easily beat my girlfriend half to death if I ever flipped. A persons career has little to do with the fact that men tend to be bigger and stronger than their partners.

But if your career does involve violence, and has a culture of violence built in, it seems to bring out the violent tendencies latent in people. I think there is some validity to what jasper76 was saying. If your significant other bashes in heads for a living there is an increased chance that your head will get bashed in at some point. I am absolutely not saying that Ms. Mack is responsible for what happened to her, but acknowledging that some occupations carry that risk should be done.