durdenhobbes
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durdenhobbes
1yr ago
Professed Catholics in America have many different ethical beliefs, but a common theme is that almost all of them aren't keen on violently attacking those who mock them. I think that's less "silent stoicism" and more "ethical passivity".
Maybe they all should just go back and watch The Boondock Saints
durdenhobbes
1yr ago
It could be the case that you simply interact in such circles that you are not exposed to such disposable men, but it both biologically obvious, and has been throughly examined from an academic perspective.
durdenhobbes
1yr ago
"Your food choices could not be tied to any one social class."
My graph was pretty even among all five groups, with the highest scores in the Upper and Lower classes
durdenhobbes
1yr ago
I’m of two minds about this. On the one hand, I can say without hesitation that having kids had a severely negative impact on my life. Most of that was due to my poor selection of partner/her post-partum/outside elements that don’t have anything directly to do with the kids themselves. On the other hand, the moments of joy I experience when my children are happy and loving… it’s a higher high than any other sensation I’ve been able to find in this life. And then, egotistically, I get the satisfaction of fulfilling my belief that a reasonably-good-looking National Merit Scholar is the type of person who should be reproducing.
durdenhobbes
1yr ago
I hate to admit that I feel the same way. My disillusionment with the way gun violence cases are highlighted (or buried) in the media has forced to quit giving a fuck entirely, just for my own sanity.
durdenhobbes
1yr ago
"Completely" as in zero coverage. "Explicitly" as in they came right out and said "We don’t want to waste our time on stories that are not really stories, and we don’t want to waste the listener’s and readers’ time on stories that are just pure distractions”
durdenhobbes
1yr ago
And the latter are regularly censored on matters of minor corruption in ways the former is rigorously guarded against.
NPR completely and explicitly buried a story about major corruption from a presidential candidate and his son's overseas business dealings, in order to hand that preferred candidate the election. I'd challenge to to find a more-impactful example of corruption censorship from any other news media in world history.
durdenhobbes
1yr ago
That's an uncharitable re-phrasing of the op comment. He simply calls it "an understandable reaction" to what some would consider involuntary capture, but then qualifies it with the observation that many school shooters appear to kill not only their "captors" but random fellow "inmates" (implying that op believes there's a good chance these shooters are simply unhinged people).
durdenhobbes
1yr ago
Mea culpa, missed that caveat.
durdenhobbes
1yr ago
Um, America is not the only country that contains white Christian men.
durdenhobbes
1yr ago
I don't have much to say to your response, other than to say that it strikes me as shockingly condescending and naive. Hopefully life experience will help you grow out of the arrogant perspective you seem to have adopted.
durdenhobbes
1yr ago
I think it’s highly relevant to consider which nationalities/ethnicities you can safely criticize versus which ones you can’t, and why. Does this require further explanation?
durdenhobbes
1yr ago
Do you think you'd get fired if you wrote "Russians should all be deported"? What about "The Swiss should all be deported"?
durdenhobbes
1yr ago
That's not even a criticism, though. That's just shock-gallows humor. Not to mention, people get cancelled for saying a whole lot less than "I think it's funny when they die" when it comes to actually-favored groups.
durdenhobbes
1yr ago
That's a rather cynical way of viewing things, but you do you. So long as you can be sure not to consider any other perspectives, and most importantly to "steer clear of them in 'in real life' interactions". Something, something, "ATM machine".
durdenhobbes
1yr ago
This feels like low-effort consensus building. You can't just pose hyperbolic, rhetorical questions and then ask us all to join you in your quest to slap the label of "criminal" on someone whose trial has yet to begin. That is antithetical to our justice system and to this rare sanctuary of online discourse.
durdenhobbes
1yr ago
In fact I think it's already quite clear that Presidents as Kings is an even more untouchable standard, so long as you weren't elected against the wishes of the entrenched elite. But god help you if you were.
durdenhobbes
1yr ago
Would it be acceptable for an athlete who opposed some war to refuse to wear a camo jersey?
Absolutely, and Muhammad Ali is hailed a hero for refusing to fight in Vietnam.
durdenhobbes
1yr ago
I fully expect this to be one of Adams’ classic hypno-rugpull antics, where he flips it around the next day and says it was all a ruse to elicit some form of reactionary learning.
Nonetheless, it’s a risky maneuver. I have to imagine his publishing agent is not having a very fun day.
durdenhobbes
1yr ago
One would expect that successfully navigating business relationships/social interactions would track closely with navigating successful romantic relationships, not to mention simply being exposed to more opportunities to meet and pursue potential love interests.
durdenhobbes
1yr ago
I haven’t witnessed anyone on the right (or otherwise) demonizing the Scientific Method, but rather criticizing the new definition of “Science (tm)” being utilized as a consensus-building weapon against any who would question the mainstream narrative.
It’s the bastardization of “science” that invokes revulsion, not true scientific inquiry itself.
durdenhobbes
1yr ago
I think that's a rather dated heuristic. In many urban centers, women outearn men.
durdenhobbes
1yr ago
And not just support. In a tight-knit community, if you beat up your wife (who is also someone's daughter/sister), you can expect a dad/brother/their buddies bringing hell to your front door the next morning.
To answer your first statement: absolutely! No one in my generation asked for this, no one in my circle wants it, and I think it should be the one burned to the ground. It’s pure societal poison.
As for men (or women) who treat their spouses in a "pitch-black evil" way, we've always had means of dealing with that, outside a parasitical family court machine. A strong family is a good start, for example. Something that the current M.O. has made scarce.
As an aside, I've often felt it was a blatant smear that Republicans got tagged as the "racist" party (with increasing fervor) in recent years, when the supposed "most racist" states in the South were reliably Democratic during the eras of exponentially-greater blatant racism. I've often heard the defense of "oh well the parties flipped", but I've never been able to square that argument with obvious examples like Robert Byrd being a Democratic senator a mere 13 years ago, or things like Biden's comments in the 70's about a "racial jungle".
I'm like "okay, if the parties flipped, then when did they flip?". Because when it comes to Biden (and countless others, I'm certain), they clearly haven't flipped yet.
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