Throwaway05
4hr ago
Unfortunately the euphemism treadmill does not allow that, see for example "IPV" (intimate partner violence).
Throwaway05
4hr ago
Oh yeah, it's not a 100 percent thing by any means.
Throwaway05
1d ago
Thank you for making me do this google search.
Also, apparently the PC approved term is "Conflict-related Sexual Violence."
I will put that next to "non-domiciled."
Throwaway05
1d ago
Please don't do this, reacting like this just supports the arguments you disagree with.
Throwaway05
1d ago
The pundit class has been pretty significantly telegraphing that the guy is incredibly radioactive and that the republicans are just waiting for the filing deadline, and the NYT knew about this and suppressed it.
Supposedly the big thing that's being sat on is sexual warcrimes, which sounds absurd but this is a guy who said he wants his house to be robbed so he can rape the robbers*.
*Per one of his sexual assault victims.
Throwaway05
1d ago
I mean (American) football players are told to hide injury both on and off the field - margin guys and practice squad people need to seem fit and healthy otherwise they get cut.
The whole thing has a culture of anti-bitchery
Throwaway05
2d ago
I mean it's less common but it doesn't get enough censure because people are used to football players toughing things out.
Josh Allen being a human freight train when he wants to be and a granny with a broken hip when he wants to be is dumber than Neymar rolling around.
Throwaway05
2d ago
Diving for RTP calls mostly. Also Josh Allen is (to be technical) a little bitch.
Throwaway05
2d ago
The US was also using tricks with the Iranian team I recall, making them travel into and then quickly leave the country.
The US never played Iran, this is just normal immigration stuff that got signal boosted because "fuck the US" (related: Canada actually did much worse stuff but didn't get nearly as much bad press).
Throwaway05
2d ago
As someone who often is voted negative but rarely gets a mod warning, I find the voting feature rather useless.
I do find it useful in one small case - if I'm deep down thread talking to one person and im consistently getting one downvote I'll be more likely to bail, it seems rude and is highly correlated with poor productivity in my mind.
Throwaway05
2d ago
I mean he's a huge sports fan of all kinds.
Throwaway05
2d ago
*My solution to diving, which I find distasteful and unaesthetic: harshly penalize extravagantly showing pain on the field, regardless of whether there was a foul or not. Soccer players aren't inherently more effeminate than any other athletes, they're just trained and socialized to show pain, where other athletes are trained and socialized to shrug it off. The "don't be a bitch" rule will fix the problem.
Can we start by fixing basketball and QB play?
Throwaway05
2d ago
We were always the bad guy, this has just given the hatred a locus.
Throwaway05
4d ago
Yep. It's impossible not to change - when every single person you restrain shouts "I can't breath" (and all of them can breath just find) it's nearly impossible to stop listening when people shout that.
This expands into everything.
Throwaway05
4d ago
This is why progressives used to love Jon Stewart, so much that he eventually cooked their brains.
The funny part is that he more or less got one of the biggest political shows of all time cancelled:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jon_Stewart%27s_2004_appearance_on_Crossfire
Throwaway05
4d ago
And this takes as back to "a democracy can't function if people don't believe its a real democracy"
Throwaway05
5d ago
I'm going to stop you there, and I think this indicates a bit of juggling with a hidden agenda.
We need to stop assuming hidden agenda on this topic.
Like it or not lots of people can't distinguish between:
17 year old female with 25 year old male (lets say a college drop out guitarist in a band and a high school senior).
18 year old female with a 48 year old male (lets say a sleazy manager at a bar who sleeps with college waitresses for better shifts).
8 year old male with a 53 year old male (literal raping priest).
These are all wildly different but the dismissive rhetoric results in people failing to acknowledge that and putting everyone in the same bucket.
For an example of where this might be relevant - 27 year old guy goes to a club, assumes the girl he meets is over 21, but oops she used a fake ID and now he's a rapist. To me (and perhaps most of the posters here) this guy is obviously not a pedophile, but to say my mom "he should have known better, he must be a pedophile" is the obvious interpretation, and trying to engage results in a complete collapse.
Assume a poster has ill intent makes it much harder to actually engage with the substance.
Throwaway05
5d ago
Then what was the pretext for the investigation? Surely if you had something on the level of probable cause, you could share it with the rest of the class?
Again, there were a large number of complaints and many of them were dismissed on weird procedural grounds. Legal? Probably? Sketchy? Definitely. Damaging to the framework of democracy? For sure.
And I think there is merit to this argument. But it's the one people settled on after the most of the initial hopeful flurry of explicit stolen election claims faltered.
A mix of complaints were tossed out from the get-go, people who didn't buy those complaints focused on the weakest ones (as it always in an argument).
I'm sure someone here remembers all of the details of election complaints, I sure as hell don't. What I can do is reflect is that I hated what Yassine was doing and I found it to be radicalizing (away from him). I'm sure some others feel the same.
Throwaway05
5d ago
Thanks for the follow-up.
I've also heard the accusation that some of the "DEI" type stuff was likely used by the CIA etc to pay off assets in a way that didn't get many questions. Much harder to prove obviously.
Throwaway05
5d ago
I mean if an investigation was never done why would evidence miraculously appear later?
Standing issues, the mainstream right hating Trump (especially after Jan events) and other factors left much of this not addressed.
Even with all that that didn't one of the Georgia cases result in something? I've never seen it posted in the MSM ("because ancient news!!") but people have mentioned it.
Everyone moving on is part of why we don't follow-up. When you add on the Trump teaming being incompetent...
That's just for the traditional malfeasance. Personally I believe that the election was stolen in the following way - if you restrict access to the public sphere (COVID restrictions) and censor the private replacements (all the tech companies uniting to oppose Trump) then you don't have a "free" election. I know lots of people feel this way and lots of people don't, but much evidence has come out after the factor about how a variety of organizations that shouldn't have been involved tried to impact the election results without touching ballots.
Throwaway05
5d ago
I remember a lot of exchanges like this.
"None of the complaints had any merit." "Well this example had merit, but it was dropped by the judge because of standing." "Well if it didn't have standing it didn't have merit."
Many of the complaints were not investigated because of legal mumbo jumbo. Now that legal mumbo jumbo exists for a reason, but appealing to it instead of on the grounds of merit is not especially convincing.
Throwaway05
6d ago
Hold on, I remember leaving the discussion from a few years ago with the "knowledge" that USAID was just a sneaky sketchy activity slush fund with some legitimate charity on top for optics purposes.
Was that a conspiracy theory or did not enough people hear about this?
Throwaway05
6d ago
Elon isn't Elon anymore.
By all accounts the combination of family drama, widespread social censure, and depression with unconventional treatments have all rotted his brain. It's not clear if he could come back but he 100% isn't the same guy he was before unfortunately.
Throwaway05
6d ago
I feel like that might be overstating it, though I have no real strong argument for anything else being a more important thing other than maybe AI being the one most important thing behind the future death of [all nations].
My pitch here is that the worst about Trump is and always has been the way that people respond to him. The response concerns about elections created an cavalcade of disasters - selling out objectivity and professionalism to oppose Trump, BLM Riots and the inequality in response to Jan 6, accepting the way that tech and public health put fingers on scales (and that includes governmental agencies messing with the election), media collusion, the tremendous failure that was the Biden administration (and the way that the administration should be the biggest scandal in the history of American politics and just isn't). All of these things are about Trump, but second run is the place that most generated some of them.
America in the mind of many isn't really a democracy anymore after that election and I think it's going to be a long time before the loser accepts the results again.
I mean I don't know for sure, it sounds like they may have additional sex crime allegations of various kinds. I was hearing from journalists months ago that "everyone" knew about these accusations and that some of them were being held onto or quashed (in the case of the NYT).
Most of the people who were saying that are saying more stuff is left in the tank.
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