hydroacetylene
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hydroacetylene
6hr ago
Uh, do these women bragging about how much they read come out and say ‘yeah, it’s all porn’? I’m pretty sure they don’t and pointing it out is impolite due to the subject of conversation.
I’m also not aware of pornstars getting much adulation(as opposed to stuff- they probably do generally out earn their well behaved peers, at least when you correct for class).
hydroacetylene
8hr ago
The US is also one of a small number of countries which still execute people, although not many
Kinda irrelevant to your point, but most executions in the USA happen at the state level, and almost all of those are in southern red states. Federal executions are fairly rare, although Trump has often attempted to clear through the backlog, which makes it look more common.
Executions in the US are spread very unevenly, because it’s a culture wars issue(I suspect more to do with being the only western democracy that uses the death penalty rather than anything in particular about the punishment).
hydroacetylene
8hr ago
There’s takes of different views of academia, but this is really just an iron law story. The interests of the bureaucracy, determined by proper form, come first, and Gino was advancing the interests of the bureaucracy.
hydroacetylene
19hr ago
I said 'elected to a major office' not 'appointed to every major office'.
hydroacetylene
19hr ago
I think you're leaving out that his oldest is four. Interacting with a four year old is drastically different from interacting with a ten year old.
hydroacetylene
19hr ago
Why would you expect it to be cheaper- I'd expect them to charge the government the highest rate it's willing to pay.
hydroacetylene
19hr ago
I'm guessing the government only pays $5k/mo for special needs kids, even if they're not actually special needs.
hydroacetylene
19hr ago
If current trends continue, eventually a Mexican-American will get elected to major office while openly using the N-word and blaming the Jews for everything.
hydroacetylene
21hr ago
Well yes, it’s entirely reasonable to prefer not to personally play with your kids for hours a day(child’s play is mind-numbingly dull) but for most families adults have to do this anyways, unless they have enough kids it doesn’t matter. Complaining too loudly is at least bad form.
hydroacetylene
21hr ago
Depends on the age of the child and the market in question. For late preschoolers in red states(where there are few government subsidies to distort the market) thats very high; for younger kids- especially babies- it might be average, especially in a blue state where the government subsidizes demand.
hydroacetylene
21hr ago
Considering the history of mistreatment at the hands of danish authorities, they may not care very much.
hydroacetylene
1d ago
They don’t want to be part of Denmark now, they might want independence instead of being the 51st state but they wouldn’t want to be a danish territory instead.
hydroacetylene
1d ago
I agree with your general point, but his kids are too young to play outside unsupervised(they’ll run into the street).
hydroacetylene
1d ago
X to doubt. Walz isn’t the sharpest tool in the shed, but he knows Somali fraud is an albatross around his neck and failed campaigns for higher office don’t normally make untouchable running mates. Paul Ryan and Tim Kaine remained politically important, after all.
hydroacetylene
1d ago
I like playing with kids, always have, and I totally get it. No, he's not a bad dad- but maybe saying the quiet part out loud(kids games are usually rather dumb, even if you like being a human jungle gym. Few adults particularly like hide and go seek) is a bad idea. And I think he might want to give it a few more years, see if he likes kicking around a soccer ball with a seven year old a bit more than whatever make believe a four year old comes up with.
hydroacetylene
1d ago
A nut job on the motte, given the population prevalence of nut jobs, is not so difficult to imagine. And this guy calls himself crazy rather openly.
hydroacetylene
2d ago
How much of the increase in obesity is just population aging? It's not 100%, but it seems absurd to argue that it's not a major factor either.
hydroacetylene
2d ago
The fundamentals are actually against agricultural land becoming more valuable over time, populations are declining while productivity per acre continually improves.
hydroacetylene
2d ago
Well duh, 'you can just harass our daughters who did nothing wrong and followed the respectability rules in place in our society' resembles no historical society that has ever existed. Including in very patriarchal ones; what do you think the Taliban would have done to these boys?
There is a reason that, despite being skeptical of things like the 19th amendment, women's financial independence, women in pants, etc, I do not align myself with the faction on the motte which spits out spicy takes on women and then retreats to 'but but double standard! Boys just have to take it!' yeah, they do. Aside from the politically correct but very obvious fact that the statement 'men and boys are stronger than women and girls' does not need qualification(it applies psychologically as well as physically), you, uh, know what women do when they spend their girlhood being bullied and harassed by whatever boys want to do so? It generally looks like radical feminism; the breakdown in family formation in Latin America precedes the hyper-woke feminist wave in the region(and also the area's drop in TFR- these women appear to have retained conservative family values longer than their menfolk). Getting outraged about girls being abused and harassed with no recourse, far more outraged than in the case of boys, is a normal and healthy thing to do.
Yes, if a group of older girls doctored innocuous photos of a thirteen year old boy to be NSFW and started sharing them, this would be a bad thing and deserve to be punished. I am confident that you will not be able to find an example of this happening(you will, of course, be able to find examples of teenaged boys voluntarily sending NSFW content of themselves to young ladies who don't particularly want to receive any). The asymmetry of the sexes goes both ways. You can call be patronizing, but I'm not wrong.
hydroacetylene
2d ago
The difference is that if you're an Arab, outside of perhaps Syria and Libya, you believe things can get worse. Venezuelans absolutely do not; they believe that for very low baseline reasons, it's impossible for the situation in Venezuela to degenerate further.
hydroacetylene
2d ago
Likewise if the country devolves into a dysfunctional narco-state where the government doesn't actually control a large share of its territory.
That isn't 'devolving' it's the current state of Venezuela.
hydroacetylene
2d ago
I mean, Cuba hasn't been in a state of near-continuous famine despite its own poverty. Its capital city isn't controlled by gangs creating a murder rate worse than most of the world's active war zones. And they've been under sanctions longer and harder than Venezuela.
hydroacetylene
2d ago
Call her a slut, like you’re already doing.
Look, I may not approve of sex work but I totally acknowledge you can’t get rid of it. Women being harlots in 1900 had few legal consequences then either.
hydroacetylene
3d ago
In this case the boy children in question did something very bad.
Managing female sexuality is a sleazeball man’s game, and female pop stars are selling female sexuality- not as a product, as a fantasy.
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