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3mo ago
They are following the AP style guide on capitalizing "black" and not capitalizing "white". The petty disrespect is official policy among those types.
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3mo ago
I work with quite a few young men. They generally have girlfriends. The older ones (let's say 30+ years old) generally have wives and own a home. A few even have children.
There's some subset of sad incels. I somehow don't personally know them. The median young man I know seems to have little despair.
TIRM
3mo ago
Satiate this with combat sports? A young man might feel generally better if he goes to a martial arts gym twice a week. I sure did.
TIRM
3mo ago
They don't show "a lot" of porn to kids in public schools. But they sometimes show a little. Like in the book Gender Queer which has been "banned" from many school libraries. It is, among other things, a book of gay cartoon porn.
I would reframe the wave of book "bans" as a wave of parents realizing that a bit of cartoon porn has slipped into the school library and asking that their tax dollars and public institutions not be used to distribute these materials to children.
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3mo ago
Yes. The foundation of Los Zetas. Mexican special forces. Trained with American and Israeli special forces. Given good equipment. Then deserted to join a cartel, taking their gear with them. Then formed their own really really mean cartel.
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3mo ago
She can get a share also. I was responding to a financial abortion post, so my response was deadbeat-dad-focused.
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3mo ago
This is I believe both inaccurate and extremely uncharitable. Guys who fuck around are probably not mostly criminal losers.
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3mo ago
It's not cool and fun when men engage in casual "fun" sex, nor is it cool when women do it.
This is a very contrarian opinion. On one hand, go off king. On the other hand you are really swimming against the tide on this one.
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3mo ago
As a taxpayer, child support is a defensive mechanism I rely on to not be indirectly responsible for other people's kids. Or at least a bit less than the alternative.
If there is anywhere a single mom on welfare and food stamps, I advocate the most coercive methods be applied to motivate the father to pay for that child. I'm willing to take a very narrow and permissive understanding of "cruel and unusual" in this matter.
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3mo ago
Percentage horniness felt by a young man. Or age across childhood starting just before puberty to adulthood.
I really made this up, so it is open for interpretation.
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3mo ago
pretty large subset of men have done something weird with their dicks at some point
I made a graph to illustrate this subset as a percentage.
It is a function that asymptotically approaches 100.
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3mo ago
During the debate the one thing Biden said that tilted Trump was Biden lying about his golfing ability. Trump was yelling into a muted microphone with responses to that one.
Trump takes golf and golfing ability seriously.
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3mo ago
They never grappled with him. They shot him from a distance from their trucks. They were quite safe.
I take your larger point about the intent needed for the legal definition of muder. I don't much care to play mind reading games, other than noticing that for people not intending to kill him, they sure aggressively acted in a way that led to them shooting him. Riding someone down with trucks and brandished firearms is very aggressively manslaughtering then and I'd even say "hunting them down". Perhaps even murdering them depending on the jurisdiction.
TIRM
3mo ago
If they weren't intending to kill him, or at least holding reckless indifference to the possibility of killing him, then riding him down in trucks with guns out sure is a special way to not intend to do it.
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4mo ago
They saw him jogging on the public street. They chased him in trucks for a bit until he got tired of running from them. When he turned on them, they killed him.
That is fairly characterized as hunting him down.
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4mo ago
Arbery's trespassing on a building site was a felony
But the building owner says he has security cameras and doesn't think that Arbery trespassed. Other people did at previous nights. Including a black guy. But as best the property owner knows not Arbery and especially not on the day of his murder.
His murderers never saw him on anyone's private property. They saw him on the public road and killed him there. And people around here argued it was justified by adding a lot of fictional information to their description of what happened.
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4mo ago
He wasn't on anyone's property. Given the private security cameras at the partway built home, we know he didn't visit there either that day.
He was jogging down the public street. Not trespassing anywhere. Maybe he had bad motivations for jogging down the street. Such as possibly taking a look at houses to remember later for burglarizing.
Given what they did, sure, you could describe it as them hunting him down.
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4mo ago
Not according to the people I argued with online about this. That was here or in the culture war reddit threads.
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4mo ago
Do the "let's unilaterally surrender" people think the beatings will stop if only we submit more meekly?
"Don't fire back at them when they are shelling us. That will only make them shoot at us even more."
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4mo ago
You are comparing apples and oranges here. The US is 15% foreign born, Canada almost 25%. There's a large difference in magnitude here.
There is a far greater difference in firearm availability.
It is popular to be excessively critical of the US. I think pretending the US is as bad as Canada is an example of that. By any measure other than how many maple leafs are on the flag, the US is far better than Canada.
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4mo ago
Canada is almost 1/4 immigrant and their gun control laws are extreme by American standards.
I really don't sympathize with pretending the US is as bad as Canada. We really aren't. Canada is our really poor and badly mismanaged neighbor.
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4mo ago
Willie Brown is a titan of California state politics. Back when Kamala was young she was decent looking. Proof for those in shock she was ever passable. She was also abandoned by her father as a young child. Willie Brown was a much older patronizing man to her.
He gave her no-effort high-paying political sinecures. And advocated for her advancement to higher office in a state in which merely being the Democratic anointed candidate near-guarantees election.
She gave him something else in return.
I've seen this sort of thing characterized as "Harris appears to be running for President of Reddit rather than President of America".
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