hydroacetylene
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hydroacetylene
6hr ago
The fundamentals are actually against agricultural land becoming more valuable over time, populations are declining while productivity per acre continually improves.
hydroacetylene
1d 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
1d 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
1d 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
1d 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
1d 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
1d ago
In this case the boy children in question did something very bad.
hydroacetylene
1d ago
Because the US has explicitly committed to not invading it despite hosting Russian military bases.
hydroacetylene
1d ago
But online porn did kill the dirty movie theater. AI porn seems like it'll kill actually filmed porn but not strip clubs.
hydroacetylene
1d ago
This young lady is doing something bad, and most people will agree. If her nudes get disseminated for free nobody will have sympathy for her.
hydroacetylene
1d ago
Quokka
It's how bureaucracies often respond, though.
hydroacetylene
1d ago
It really isn't that hard to find news stories about dads beating up their daughter's boyfriends for perceived transgressions.
hydroacetylene
1d ago
I mean, I wouldn't be happy if nude pictures of me were being widely disseminated.
hydroacetylene
1d ago
It's the monroe doctrine. Basically the US is the hegemon in the western hemisphere, and Cuba is the sole allowed exception. Venezuela had this coming a long time.
hydroacetylene
1d ago
No, as long as the USA wins very fast and we don't have to fight a counterinsurgency/civil war, we're pretty happy with it. We don't want anything that will lead to a draft(yes I know objectively the US would lose WWIII rather than imposing one, but the core red tribe still expects to be conscripted if America can't raise enough troops voluntarily). Maduro needed to go.
hydroacetylene
1d ago
Venezuela was repeatedly threatening to invade its neighbors over the objections of the local regional powers(they'd been given knock-it-off notices by both left and right controlled governments in the USA and Brazil). Invading Venezuela and getting rid of Maduro is broadly popular among the rest of Latin America on 'this is what we have a hegemon for' grounds.
hydroacetylene
1d ago
I mean, this was the country which managed to sink its own ship while attempting to detain a cruise ship for no particular reason.
hydroacetylene
1d ago
That sounds right. I think anselm was a fake name he used once.
After googling, yep, that was it.
hydroacetylene
2d ago
It was something generic like ‘a boy’s life’ or ‘this boy’s life’ or something by an Anselm Wolfe or wolf.
hydroacetylene
2d ago
I keep seeing this ‘what to do’ take, but an angle that just gets left out most of the time is this- statistically, most of the young women not having children are in long term cohabiting relationships, and we know transforming those into marriages leads to higher fertility. Convincing cohabiting couples to marry is probably both cheaper and more effective than convincing unselected women to have kids/more kids.
hydroacetylene
2d ago
I mean teachers pay is politically radioactive in the US and doctors are roughly as sympathetic.
hydroacetylene
2d ago
The US has local party committees. You can get involved by going to your precinct convention, in person, and voting in the party election. These precinct elections are very poorly attended and so you can probably win a ticket to your county convention. It helps if you’ve previously volunteered with an advocacy org and block walked in the primary- you need both of these to get an invite to young republicans, which is a social club and not a political org, but it’s not necessary just to vote in party elections(and literally ‘showing up in person on a random Tuesday in the late evening’ is the only bar to clear for that).
hydroacetylene
2d ago
The events are, literally, social events to network/build camaraderie among people who are already politically involved. You earn an invitation, you don’t request one.
You want an in for young republicans? Go join a pro-life protest a couple times, then volunteer for the campaign of your local further-right Republican in the primary- look for state legislator candidates with a GOA or taxpayer-friendly endorsement. You’ll get an invite.
hydroacetylene
2d ago
Getting invited, personally, to go door to door isn’t hard, though- just hang around where young politically engaged conservatives are.
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.
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