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[theancienttrack @Lupercal90]

@Rivaini776 @9mmsmg And fascination w/ Japan specifically is not related to crime as Japan isn't even uniquely safe for an east Asian country. They are plainly fascinated by ideas of Japanese culture, and not law and order.

[theancienttrack @Lupercal90]

@Rivaini776 @9mmsmg No one is saying there are no crime differences. What I'm saying is the modal American is not afraid for their life at night, and if this describes you then you are probably just neurotic. Most crime in American cities is relegated to a few identifiable blocks

[arctotherium @arctotherium42]

TV watchers have their brains fried on this stuff 12 hours a day.

[theancienttrack @Lupercal90]

@9mmsmg Much of the fascination with Japan is just leftover stereotypes from the 80s and early 90s, and anime. Most Americans who live in Japan for any length of time become quickly disillusioned

[theancienttrack @Lupercal90]

@9mmsmg Your modal American tourist in Japan is probably not from French Quarter NOLA, or the bad neighborhoods in American cities. Unless you're a woman or horribly neurotic, I don't believe most white Americans are genuinely afraid of walking around their city at night

[theancienttrack @Lupercal90]

@cloutsalt14 @emkenobi At this point, it's been confirmed it fake because the "Jane Doe" is definitively not the Asian girl in the telegram gc she posted, but she still hasn't retracted

[theancienttrack @Lupercal90]

The people making this point were born yesterday.

Group sex is not common at all, and American culture is unambiguously more prudish today than it was in the 90s and early 00s.

[Rikki Schlott @RIKKISCHLOTT]

Why isn’t anyone talking about how the Cornell story is also a part of the pornification of our culture? It’s not actually normal for college kids to throw bukake parties, consensual or not. Growing up with porn has warped their sense of what’s sexually normal.

[AnechoicMedia @AnechoicMedia_]

In the wake of a national moral panic, as they come to terms with the fact that their target has committed no actual crime, Progressives rush to re-brand some load-bearing feature of the law, such as "stand your ground", as a "loophole" that impedes prosecution of the wicked.

[theancienttrack @Lupercal90]

@RIKKISCHLOTT Get a grip, you people are so neurotic and prone to moral panics. Young people are not having orgies and gang bangs left and right. They're not even interesting enough to do that

[theancienttrack @Lupercal90]

@RudyTakala @TexitLiberty5 @RIKKISCHLOTT It's unusual today as well. So unusual that it turned into a national controversy.

[theancienttrack @Lupercal90]

@cremieuxrecueil My ancestor 🙂

[memetic_sisyphus @memeticsisyphus]

Pro-killing insurance workers btw, just not killers.

[theancienttrack @Lupercal90]

@mtracey "I am Jane Doe"

[theancienttrack @Lupercal90]

@cremieuxrecueil With that being said though, annoying missionaries is not the most cited gripe you see online. It's usually something dumb about their beliefs like "magic underwear" or multiple wives or becoming god of your own planet in the afterlife (honestly based)

[theancienttrack @Lupercal90]

@cremieuxrecueil Well, I was raised Mormon myself, and I genuinely like Mormons but few people like missionaries knocking on your door, and 99% of the time that happens, it's a Mormon.

[theancienttrack @Lupercal90]

@sprachspiele Really unfortunate way of putting it, but it's obviously true

[theancienttrack @Lupercal90]

@CharlesFLehman @nicolegelinas "capital punishment is MORE expensive" as though this is some metaphysical claim that can't be changed, and not a result of deliberately obstructing the gears

[Jack @tracewoodgrains]

It is exceptionally bad for state-funded organizations to bring legal cases against whistleblowers for speech.

Shameful behavior from Belgium.

[theancienttrack @Lupercal90]

@emkenobi Well, it's now been confirmed the Jane Doe is not the lady in these screenshots.

[Robin Hanson @robinhanson]

"closure of the Internet occurred in two distinct phases: 2015-2019 and 2020-2022. Almost all of the technical & organizational infrastructure and conceptual justifications were built out in the first phase, which successfully decapitated & destroyed the previously-independent, but by definition fringe, online ecosystem of ideas. In the second phase, the same weapons that previously targeted heterodox online discourse were turned against opposition to the COVID measures du joure & mainstream conservatives. The scale of censorship has no precedent; tens of millions of accounts suppressed or banned, billions of posts removed." https://t.co/WskiuQbDKS