Elon Musk making Teslas is not the reason why shampoo and deodorant are behind plexiglass at Walgreens
The bottom 2% makes our lives infinitely more miserable than the top 2%
@wil_da_beast630 I'm not denying that there are degrees. Being gang raped by a crowd is worse than being raped by one. But it's still rape, whether it's one or ten. It's over the goddamn line.
@Aella_Girl@distributedkv Not surprising. Confused people are confused. Keeping one foot on the platform while the other foot is on the train rarely works out.
My SIL works in a daycare. Son of mutual friends is often under her care. He was circumcised, and has been a holy terror for months because every time he pissed it goes into a partially healed wound. What function is that improving? Infant circumcision on either sex is barbaric. Full stop.
@atx_freethought@wil_da_beast630 First, aesthetics are subjective, and it's still an unnecessary surgery. Would you subject an infant to a nose job? And who is concerned with the aesthetic appeal of a child's genetalia anyway?
Further, how exactly does it improve anything?
The rule is simple. The State must convince every single juror, individually, beyond a reasonable doubt, on every element, and must overcome every affirmative defense. One unconvinced juror is not an obstacle to justice. One unconvinced juror IS justice.
My actual thoughts on Cornell is that the men are probably dirtbags and fools and having drunk sex with strange women is never a good idea...
But i'm not taking advice on morality from the "ignores Grooming Gangs, Chris Hansen is problematic, Lindsay Clancy is innocent" brigadge
The main reason Gaza looks like Gaza does now is the choice of people in Gaza.
Things are not going to get better until recognize that the people of Gaza, like Israel, are human beings with agency. And thus they need to be accountable for their own action and not be treated as dumb babies who things just happen to out of their control.
My internal reactions to “I’m a rescue pit mommy” and “I married a man I met from prison pen pal dot com” are now exactly the same. Zero risk assessment skills. Zero concerns for the ripple effects of your own choices. Malignant empathy. Lashing out at people who bring up totally reasonable fears or concerns about your choices. The insane female drive to “fix” broken dangerous things. The misplaced maternal care. It’s got it all.
Maybe I’m just not running with the “right” guys, but literally all the boastful locker room talk I’ve ever been in earshot of involves what the theorists like to call Enthusiastic Consent, i.e., “Dude, she was a DEMON, she was *all over me*, man!”
The number of Dennis Reynolds (from It’s Always Sunny) “implication” accounts I’ve heard is exactly zero.
Events like the unfortunate business at Cornell demonstrate that such rape-positive anecdotes do take place, but I never seem to be in the room when they do, and I suspect a majority of men would say the same. This leads me to believe that a disquieting number of rapists know who their fellows are and know to stay quiet about their predilections in most contexts.
The British Empire was great, actually, and many of the nations it occupied didn't deserve the good we did for them, given their present ingratitude.
"Colonialism bad" rhetoric only appeals to anti-white leftists, who see Israel as a white-coded colonial project.
Whereas the patriotic population of Britain, suffering under a leftist government, receive this as an attack on the things they love about their country.
Utterly retarded.
Any time a woman says that her situationship doesn't want to commit to her or is "always sleeping around" the first thing I ask is "well, what gets him feeling committed? What would make him want to marry you?" 99/100 times she can't answer the question. She doesn't know.
That's the problem.
I actually long for an America with demographics where the median welfare abuser looks like this and isn't some foreigner who hopped off a boat 10 minutes ago.
There’s this prevalent belief that male spaces are predominantly places where they go to bitch about the opposite sex or their girlfriends, because that’s what many female spaces are - when male spaces are mainly just to talk about cars and video games and shitposts.
The foreign born population is the highest it has ever been in the history of the country, both in total number and as share of the whole. Ever. Surpassing even the Ellis Island wave.
We are in uncharted water. The last time we approached these levels, we stopped immigration cold for roughly 4 decades, and only by virtue of intense assimilation pressure––not to mention an existing dominant Anglo Protestant culture into which these new arrivals could be assimilated––plus the crucible of World War 2, did this eventually resolve itself.
People who think our current circumstances can just be hand-waved away, or that anyone describing the trade-offs of mass immigration are moral degenerates and therefore beneath concern, are completely delusional.
This is an issue that must be addressed head-on.