Rick Edwards

I want to drink in as much of the human experience as I can, attempt to make sense of it, and share what I discover with the world.

[Dudes Posting Their W’s @DudespostingWs]

Men will literally risk their lives to save a random animal in distress. A fire captain jumped into rushing floodwaters to save a baby deer being swept downstream

[David Sohm @sohmdaddy]

I am just going to assume that Audie Fricking Murphy knew the best way to hold on to a Tommy Gun.

[Lisa Britton @LisaBritton]

Our education system favors feminine traits and it has for a long time. I don’t think it’s crazy to say if we want boys to succeed academically we should change up the system to work better for them, rather than just suggesting they need to be more like girls. Boys are not broken girls.

[Eric Clopper @AttorneyClopper]

@AndrewKaufmanMD Hence why it's so important that someone speaks up for the infants and children subjected to this practice.

That's why I founded @IntactGlobalinc, a non-profit whose goal is to get childhood circumcision out of U.S. healthcare through equal protection lawsuits.

[Eric Clopper @AttorneyClopper]

Thankfully U.S. parents are increasingly choosing to keep their children intact. Recent estimates say that fewer than 50% of parents have their newborn boys' genitals cut at the hospital.

But the trend is not nearly fast enough. @IntactGlobalinc's equal protection lawsuits will force states to treat male and female childhood genital cutting equally.

[Rick Edwards @CaerwynFarm]

@TheTinMenBlog I don't see any of that in this post. It can be an issue but not what OP is talking about.

[Eric Clopper @AttorneyClopper]

Make no mistake: @RepNancyMace might say she believes that no child should have his body permanently altered, but her bill conspicuously omits the most widespread permanent body alteration imposed on children: male circumcision.

[TheTinMen @TheTinMenBlog]

I hate this.

'Be glad women don't want revenge!'

It is surely one of the worst, most low-effort sloganeering forms of activism that exists in this space; not only because it is unproductive and divisive, but it is also objectively stupid.

Assuming this young woman is below the age of 35, and American, she ought to know, she has been advantaged at every stage of education, throughout her entire life.

She'll get better marks, for the same work.
She'll be treated better, for the same behaviour.
She'll have access to ~90% of gendered scholarships.

As a result –

She will be overrepresented in college, across every racial group, every year, and to a greater extent than the 'men' from the 1970s, who she now whines about.

She'll have better health outcomes than men, across all racial, ethnic, and socioeconomic groups; she will have lower mortality rates at every age; and will enjoy far more funding spent on her health, than what is given to her male peers.

In fact -

Even for suicide research, which is the greatest risk to young men's lives, she will get 33x more (!!) gendered funding spent there too.

There will be ten federal tax-funded offices dedicated to researching her health, with zero for men, and in every country on the planet, she can expect to live longer than men.

She lives during a time where she's paid, on average, more than men of the same age, even at the median.

If she ends up in an abusive relationship, she'll have access to billions of dollars of services, and support, and thousands of shelters; with virtually nothing for men.

If she goes missing, her case will receive three times more media coverage than missing men, and three times more again, if she's white.

If she commits a crime and goes into a criminal court, she'll be treated more leniently, and more likely to avoid a custodial sentence, even when committing the same crime as a man – doubly so for black men.

And that's not even getting to family courts, where the systemic advantages really stack up for her.

She will never be legally required to go to war, to be obliterated as many millions of young men have been before her; and she will not be imprisoned, if she refuses to go.

From the day she's born, her body will rightly be protected from genital cutting by law; while millions of boy babies are strapped down and mutilated, with no consent, no anesthesia, and no medical need.

She'll be –
Less likely to be homeless.
Less likely to die from drug overdose.
Less likely to die by suicide.
Less likely to be killed by police.
Less likely to be murdered.
Less likely to die at work.
Less likely to be criminally exploited.
Less likely to be assaulted on the street.

So... for what is she owed 'revenge' exactly?

And why is it appropriate for a woman like this, who has enjoyed all of the above privileges, and more, to piggyback-on and steal sympathy from women who lived hundreds of years ago, who she never met, and knows nothing about?

I imagine none of this has occurred to her.

I imagine she wouldn't believe it either.

This chronic victimhood complex pulls at the fabric of society in ways we cannot even comprehend, driving a wedge between us, and only serves to keep swinging the pendulum of equality, for eternity.

You are not owed 'revenge'.

You are already the beneficiary of far more than 'equality', in many ways that you don't even know.

[Dan Wolfe @DanWolfeKBJR]

BREAKING: A quickly-growing wildfire has broken out in Two Harbors just north of Betty’s Pies:

-Highway 61 closed between County Hwy 2 and Loop Road.
-Deputies helping nearby residents evacuate.
-Several structures potentially in danger.

Via Lake County spokesperson. #mnwx

[𝕛𝕒𝕪 🇺🇸 @JayyClears]

Hit him directly in the numbers into the boards. It's clear who the NHL's sweethearts are

[Michael Wolfe @wolfeynhlutah]

Your eyes (and the rule book) tell you that this is boarding but Avs fans want you to ignore that.

Dirty hit.

[I,Hypocrite @lporiginalg]

God Hates The Tips Of Little Babies' Dicks by Trevor Moore

[recusant#☕ @neorecusant]

You guys have no idea how weird the average guy working in the SCIF really is

[Rick Edwards @CaerwynFarm]

@TheTinMenBlog Just make the argument that the child has not expressed their gender yet so you might be cutting a little girls penis. Shrodingers FGM.

[Bryan Bischof fka Dr. Donut @BEBischof]

too real

[Louis vil LeGun @LouisvilleGun]

"You tell him... you tell him we will shoot machineguns, both belt fed and SMGs! We will have all manner of BBQ; ribs, sausages, texas smoked brisket and piles of wings 3 feet high! We will see monster trucks and WWE!"

"The Anjin invites you to partake in a cultural exchange program."

[Shadz @Shadzey1]

Current state of the timeline after weeks of angry blackpilling.

[4nt1p4tt3rn 🏴‍☠ Appalachistan Wolf Lodge #47 @4nt1p4tt3rn]

While everyone's once again on the whole "USAA is garbage" warpath (they are), it's time once again for me to share a little story from 2013:

As some of you know, I do computer security stuff. Not just professionally, but for fun.

One day in December 2013, I got some spam email. It was a phish. Purporting to be from USAA. Since I was taking 2 years off from working (voluntarily; I'd just gotten married and wanted to focus on me for a while), I had ample time on my hands.

So, I started digging.

Long story short: I located the threat actor -- full name, address, photo, front door, and all his infrastructure. I infiltrated that, and obtained full details of every USAA customer he's successfully tricked into handing over everything: PII, credentials, account details, credit/debit card info, the works. Along with his other campaigns running, pretending to be other banks.

I packaged this all up professionally and approached the appropriate people in USAA about it. Explained who I was, that I'd done this professionally for decades, that I'd been a long-standing customer of USAA, etc.

I was told, in no uncertain terms -- in fact, in these exact words -- "It's our policy not to pursue fraud".

I was a bit taken aback. I had to have them repeat, and then explain that. I couldn't've possibly heard that right.

Here I was, a security professional, handing them a fairly large threat actor on a silver platter, along with a decent-sized list of USAA customers that either had been victims of fraud, or were about to be.

And they not only said they weren't interested, but that they intended to do quite literally nothing. Absolutely nothing.

Earlier that year they'd stopped underwriting motorcycle policies, so I had already pulled my auto and bike insurance from them.

So, I spent Christmas Eve night that year (because I wasn't about to wait) sitting in the office of a local bank opening new accounts, transferring everything out of USAA.

The following week we took it to the State Police. They were interested, but had no idea what to do with the information, even after I politely suggested various avenues to pursue. And I was talking with the officer who was in charge of "all the computer stuff".

The report remains on file.

The threat actor remains at large.

His victims remain screwed.

USAA doesn't give two shits about you, and hasn't for quite some time.

[Gino Hard @GinoHard_]

The Blackhawks give Matt Boldy the business and the Wild do NOT take kindly to it 😳🫨

[WuTangFund @WuTangFund]

@mattforney @USAA I’ve been with you for 16 years. I’ve watched the service quality, competitive pricing and product portfolio degrade during that time. As soon as I find a non-woke replacement, I’m gone.