ChickenOverlord
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ChickenOverlord
2mo ago
This actually points to a something I've never heard a great answer on. How, in a world with ubiquitous condoms and the pill are we hitting 1 million abortions a year.
I genuinely can't think of an answer to this other than "a lot of people really like raw-dogging, and a lot of women really hate the side effects of the pill, and a lot of people are just really fucking stupid and don't know how pregnancy works."
It only takes a few hundred to a few thousand truly dedicated activists to do that though. The Westboro Baptist Church has under a hundred members and was able to grab national headlines and led to tons of lawfare.
ChickenOverlord
2mo ago
See the Twilight Zone "I'M HITLER?!" meme
ChickenOverlord
2mo ago
Random question, but are you female? I've noticed that women tend to give a far, far higher signifigance to puberty than men. For most men it's just a few years of aching from growth spurts, getting made fun of when your voice cracks, and constant no reason (and yes reason) boners.
As far as I’m aware, there are only a handful of countries on earth with compulsory military service, and most of those impose the same requirement on women!
Objection, arguing facts not in evidence. Only seven countries conscript women, and even then they aren't put in roles that are likely to see combat.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Conscription#Drafting_of_women
Also almost every single country on earth has conscription or a draft.
ChickenOverlord
2mo ago
but that does not mean that everyone who didn't is a primitive economic basketcase
Ah, well I don't agree with those other posters' assessment there. I was just pointing out that Germany (and the Soviets) used far more livestock for their logistics than you would be led to believe from just seeing random photos/footage of their militaries in WW2
ChickenOverlord
2mo ago
Both Germany and the USSR primarily used horses and mules for logistics in WW2 (about 2.5 million horses were used by the Germans, about 3.5 million used by the Soviets). This is why the US providing tons of trucks to the Soviets (and tons of fuel) under Lend-Lease was such a huge deal. Both sides tended to film their more highly mechanized divisions for their propaganda videos, which is why you don't see the horses in WW2 footage too much.
I grew up in the San Diego area, and recall environmentalists opposing transmission lines from new desert solar plants into the city because it threatened some desert tortoise's habitat. Environmentalists have been this way for decades, at least right wing environmentalists like Uncle Ted and the anarchoprimitivists are honest about their intentions:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sunrise_Powerlink
https://www.biologicaldiversity.org/programs/public_lands/energy/sunrise_powerlink/index.html
Also for anyone wondering after reading the environmentalist article, given that I grew up less than a mile away from the edge of the Cleveland National "Forest," it ain't no forest.
ChickenOverlord
2mo ago
Are there any people who call you sir and treat you with respect? Or is the mere act of calling you sir disrespectful?
ChickenOverlord
2mo ago
"ma'am" is the word other people use to greet me. I'm surprised you haven't run into it before? You'd have to ask them what they mean by it, I'm not the one using it.
But sir, you said that you prefer to be called "ma'am." Why do you have a preference if you don't know what they mean?
ChickenOverlord
2mo ago
That would seem like a weird thing to say
You're not a ma'am. If you're going to continue to insist that you are, then please define ma'am.
ChickenOverlord
2mo ago
If you're going to split hairs here then how about this (in addition to what @ControlsFreak said): a FtM trans wants acne medication. The medication is known to be harmful to pregnant females. The patient is visibly pregnant. Were they biologically male, the acne medication would be the right prescription with minimal side effects. The patient's government issued id says they are male.
Can the patient sue the doctor for discrimination if they refuse to give them the prescription? If the doctor relents and her baby is born with birth defects can they sue the doctor for that?
And if you're going to nitpick about pregnancy status being different from sex, then imagine a drug that has significantly different effects on women vs. men, or that she isn't visibly pregnant. Use the "Least Convenient Possible World" to avoid easy outs and address the meat of ControlsFreak's argument.
ChickenOverlord
2mo ago
Why should the ruler stay, but not this app's restriction based on biological sex?
ChickenOverlord
2mo ago
While I do agree that Western estimates aren't to be trusted, Russia hasn't given us any casualty numbers to compare (other than a claim of 5,000 or so made fairly early on in the war). In war, truth is the first casualty, and we aren't going to get any reliable numbers until after the war is over. Or maybe never, given the wildly varying estimates you can still see for many historical conflicts.
ChickenOverlord
2mo ago
American citizens are arrested abroad for crimes that are not crimes in America all the time, and beyond some vague consular action that occasionally partially (but not wholly) limits a sentence the US is often fine with it.
But how often does this happen for speech made in the US?
ChickenOverlord
2mo ago
You'll find little disagreement from me here, my default assumption is that 99% of MtF are autogynephiliacs and/or mentally ill, and 99% of FtM are girls who who sexually abused and/or mentally ill. The only part I think is really undecided for me is exactly how the breakdown is for perverts vs. mentally ill vs. both.
ChickenOverlord
2mo ago
In my tiny part of the right, at least, there is still discussion of the women who get abortions. But it's not calling them sluts, it's usually calling them HR harpies who find making useless PowerPoints for $60k a year more fulfilling than motherhood. Or generally other attacks along those lines of enjoying meanginless careers, or vapid and empty lifestyles, more than motherhood.
ChickenOverlord
2mo ago
Many MtF trans have a deep seated hatred of biological women, and many even see themselves as superior to actual women
ChickenOverlord
2mo ago
Plenty of 'women' engineers with said capabilities.
In my experience, those 'women' are some of the most misogynistic people I've ever encountered.
ChickenOverlord
2mo ago
I guess one possibility is powerful women rule over men backed by T-3000 terminators and a matriarchy that provides women with government sponsored AI husbandos.
I don't see that happening without a large number of tech savvy simps making them, there simply isn't a high enough quantity of women with the capabilities (software engineering, hardware/weapons engineering, and manufacturing) to ever make that a reality.
If you want a hilarious example of this, check out Deep Blue Fleet. Basic premise is that when Yamamoto was assassinated in WW2, instead of dying he got isekai'd into... his younger self in 1905 with all of the knowledge of what would happen. He rapidly modernizes the Japanese fleet (including creating a bunch of submarine aircraft carriers, which is where the title of the anime comes from) and Japan basically dominates the world.
Absolutely hilarious revanchist slop, but a fun insight into the mindset of revanchist Japanese anime nerds.
ChickenOverlord
2mo ago
I really enjoyed Stardew Valley, but I'm not really sure what refinements it provided that you couldn't find in the Japanese-made Story of Seasons (formerly known as Harvest Moon due to complicated copyright/trademark reasons) and Rune Factory games.
ChickenOverlord
2mo ago
The Koreans dramas have a much higher international reception even in English media because the Koreans stay shamelessly pretty, and have the extensive plastic surgery to keep it up.
I distinctly remember an ad for some K-Drama streaming service that had "The prettiest people crying" as an explicit selling point.
ChickenOverlord
3mo ago
What, say, three interventions do you believe would have the largest effect on societal violence and crime, and be implementable within a little-l liberal constitutional republic under the rule of law?
Not who you asked, but:
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Forced institutionalization of the mentally ill and people addicted to hard drugs (i.e. heroin and meth, not weed). We had this in America until the 60's and 70's or so and we were definitely more of a little -l liberal constitutional republic back then. Institutionalization had plenty of its own problems, but most of them aren't inherent to the system, and it's hard to imagine it being worse on the liberty-tyranny spectrum than the current anarcho-tyranny letting junkies commit crime without real consequence is.
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Mandatory high cash bail (or no bail at all) for violent crimes where there is strong and clear evidence that the arrestee is in fact the perpetrator. Also a three strikes rule or similar for violent crime, with a mandatory minimum of 20 years or so. Most young male criminals "age out" of crime around age 40.
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Empower individual citizens and communities to police themselves. Robust protections for defense of self and property. Prior to the establishment of professional police forces this is how law enforcement was largely handled. The sheriff would deputize a bunch of locals temporarily when a more serious emergency arose that needed more manpower/force.
It technically can, if you had sex already recently and didn't urinate between then and now. So yeah, pretty damn unlikely.
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