zeke5123a
1hr ago
Is there a large cadre of people believing an 18 year old having sex with his 16 year old girlfriend is pedophilia? Sure the girls father hopefully discourages it but doubt many think of it as pedo behavior.
zeke5123a
1hr ago
I somewhat agree. I don’t think anyone including the 16 year olds father believes her 18 year old boyfriend having sex with her is a pedophile. Sure, maybe a cad but not a pedo.
Now if she is 16 and the guy is 25? That’s a lot more questionable (though far from having sex with kids).
I think the problem is we only have this ham fisted language of consent to separate good and bad sex. Once you have that as the only dividing line, you need to tie yourself in pretzels explaining why consent isn’t consent.
Instead, I would say pedos are people having sex with prepubescent kids. Such people should be killed. Grown men havint sex with post pubescent but young ladies should be viewed as bores. Fathers should protect their daughters from such people and society should shun them. But they aren’t rapists.
zeke5123a
1hr ago
The video also evokes Novak where police arrested the murder victim allegedly for racism while the murderer stood right there. The police actions there may have contributed to Novak’s death.
If the only way to have a multi cultural society is for the white native population to be second class citizens then why would you expect whites to want multi cultural societies?
zeke5123a
7hr ago
Since we are a Christian country I imagine you don’t mind us having prayer in schools, the prohibition of non Christians from public office, prohibition on gays, elimination of abortion, etc.
zeke5123a
7hr ago
Funny enough, one side is using a single number (ie those supporting USAID). That number ignores replacement funding and/or negative effects of USAID. Yet when Nybbler says “who really knows but net effect doesn’t appear large” you call that weak ass while ignoring the original claimants who put forth a single weak ass number that was obvious BS and ignored all of the key analysis.
zeke5123a
7hr ago
Georgia shows a lot of the claims with little evidentiary backing over time had some backing. Stated differently, people reasonably believed something was off because weird things were happening. Yes some of the claims were crazy. But the overall weirdness shouldn’t have been ignored.
zeke5123a
1d ago
No everyone was saying “if they are actually good why don’t the critics step up.” This criticism is basically suggesting the critics don’t actually believe what they are saying.
But that is a different criticism compared to “sure USAID funding was cut but the funding didn’t disappear and some of the funding supported bad stuff; need to prove on net whether things have gotten worse as opposed to looking at one part of one side of the ledger.” This is saying maybe the critics are in good faith but they haven’t really considered everything.
zeke5123a
1d ago
What needs to be considered isn’t just the lost good re USAID but the replacement spending (ie thr funding didn’t disappear). That is, Monzer is looking at only one side of the ledger.
Maybe he is right in the end but right now he ideologically is coming to a conclusion that Musk’s actions were on net bad; he hasn’t shown any work whatsoever.
zeke5123a
1d ago
I find this response puzzling.
First, it assumes that USAID spending money was effective on net. Maybe it wasn’t. Maybe the money was spent in other ways that was more effective (ie Bastiat and Broke Window theory).
Second, it assumes a moral responsibility for USAID funding to continue indefinitely when there is zero moral responsibility (ie there is no moral duty to act contra Singer; otherwise, you and pretty much all of humanity are rotten evil people). Or at minimum if there is a duty to act it seems like the people complaining are throwing stones from glass houses.
Third, it assumes because USAID did some good things it was net good. The mafia helped the community (ie did some good things). Doesn’t make it good on net. Perhaps USAID wouldn’t have been targeted if it wasn’t funneling a ton of money into lefties for political reasons instead of focusing its mission on just doing good.
zeke5123a
1d ago
Sure the Obama’s can’t solve everything but they could give away 60m and save so many lives. Why don’t they?
zeke5123a
1d ago
The idea that Trump has done anything right ever, in his life, is a baseless claim put out by his racist idiot supporters.
I think the reality is Trump is pretty mediocre but his supporters exalt him whilst his detractors almost universally degrade him in excess of what they should leading to constant defenses.
zeke5123a
2d ago
I’m not sure WKA was decided incorrectly. On the narrow grounds of the holding, it isn’t offensive.
zeke5123a
3d ago
Sure but Roberts for unknown reasons reached the constitutional issue when he needed just statutory.
zeke5123a
3d ago
If the argument that using foreigners and aliens is to clarify that children borne of diplomats who happen to be U.S. citizens as well, then that moves me not at all.
zeke5123a
3d ago
It isn’t dispositive but it is instructive. That is, if the answer is “obvious” then how did the drafter understand it to mean something else? That is at least a clue that it isn’t obvious.
zeke5123a
3d ago
Your construction makes no sense. First, the punctuation would be wrong. Second, describing diplomats as foreigners and aliens would be surplusage on top of surplusage.
zeke5123a
3d ago
Re trans and sports.
Read this ESPN article. It is a lesson in how to editorialize a purported “straight” news story (no pun intended).
zeke5123a
3d ago
And kavanaugh? Maybe that should make you pause and think perhaps your position isn’t air tight.
zeke5123a
3d ago
This reminds me of Obamacare. Everyone was told “not a real issue” as the received wisdom was “clear” but when you actually look at the received wisdom it just isn’t clear.
zeke5123a
4d ago
Isn’t that part of the point? Mr. Bennett is a weak man who married the uncouth but gorgeous party girl. He made a bad choice but never had the spine to guide her to a better path.
zeke5123a
5d ago
Well, you are also missing the category where if you are an old grizzled cop you can revoke the immunity after shooting the criminal diplomat.
Nah the logic of why it is questionable is wrong. The same logic would hold it’s wrong if you add ten years to each (ie a 35 year old and a 28 year old). Yet no one blinks an eye at that (yet he was 18 when she was 11).
I think the concern is that teenagers are quasi adults and actual adults can prey on them easily — much easier than other quasi adults.
So 18 and 17 is fine. 35 and 28 is fine. But 25 and 18 is questionable
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