I don't think she should've been shot at all. She was elderly, overweight, and looked frail; she didn't pose a threat to any of the officers there. I was extremely shocked when the cop opened fire, why didn't they just loiter around and wait for her to tire?
I'm always baffled how American Cops never even try to aim at non-vital organs to de-escalate and shoot to kill whether threat is puppies or old people having a mental health crisis.
Just saw the phrase “dead men can’t rape” which made me think of “dead girls can’t say no” which made me think about the zizek rant about “perfect sex” which made me think maybe the “perfect sex” is two people laying dead beside eachother without tension or pressure
I imagine if Christianity never spreads, European paganism morphs into a sort of Hinduism - intellectuals agree "yes obviously there is ultimately one Supreme Being" but folk worship of deities continues to this day.
Perhaps not that different from irl saint veneration
@ScipioAlpha If Michael Orthodox trооns out for real I’m deleting my account, detransitioning, and becoming a Benedictine monk in a remote Swiss monastery
It cannot be stressed how much the Chinese liberal elite views themselves as “temporarily embarrassed Americans” and how corrosive this is to Chinese society. Probably the greatest issue facing the CPC, far more dire than the birthrate issue or any other similar crisis.
Tbf in this regard, Mainland China's super rich aren't too different. They also move assets abroad because of fear of sanctions that will prevent them from buying latest Ferraris, as well as resenting having to stay in their penthouses for a few more days to stave off a virus.
Yeah, dude. Derail the Acela, a civilian train that’s also a lifeline for the densest region of the country. See how quickly you can get National Guards going door to door in New York and Philadelphia detaining radical intellectuals with a 90% approval rating
@gfaunaa@Dewposter@hellspatisserie Ya you're right, the actual topic being discussed here is anti-public mass violence, not merely terrorism. There was no backlash to Kirk because the target wasn't the public but individuals.
Furries are already a lot more mainstream than people think. Saw someone in an actual fursuit promoting the Canadian marines at Canada Day celebrations yesterday.
Furry stuff is probably going to become a new anime phenomenon on a smaller scale, wherein it becomes a mostly acceptable past-time that used to get you extremely socially ostracized in real life (even moreso in the case of furries when compared to weebs).