4doorsmorewhores
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Definitely. If you scale physical and mental harm either linearly or on some sort of curve, these are within 1 rank of eachother at the furthest (and I think roughly equivalent)
5: murdered
4: permanently maimed (legs amputated, blinded)
3: injury with long recovery (broken hip, ruptured tendon)
2: injury with short recovery (sprained wrist, strep throat)
1: painful injury with no loss of function (slapped very hard, wasp sting)
0: nothing
5: total pariah (exiled, stripped of all social status)
4: fired and shunned (harvey weinstein, permanently life and livelihood altering, sam bankman-fried)
3: humiliating disruption (acrimonious divorce, demoted and forced to change careers, star wars kid?)
2: mild in length or severity of mockery (that lawyer who couldnt turn off the cat-effect on his zoom trial, a local clergyman leaves his microphone on while he uses the toilet)
1: typical bullying (a schoolmate who calls you a fag every week, mean-spirited gossip)
0: nothing
both of these are clearly in the 1-2 zone at worst. Obviously the world is very large and people have different goals, social realities, pain tolerances etc. But I'm quite confident in my assessment. By a week or 2 your bruises from your beating will heal, and everyone will forgot about the party where you got called a fat-slut and ran out crying.
4doorsmorewhores
8mo ago
Yeah and it's OK that we recognize gendered solutions are appropriate. If a man in a social setting is being aggressively unpleasant you will threaten to hit him and then follow up on it, if a woman is doing the same you will call her an annoying bitch and that everyone thinks she's fat and ugly - it will inflict roughly equivalent damage.
4doorsmorewhores
8mo ago
An Iranian expat has told me recently (with regards to the Women's rights and other major protests), that suggesting these (albeit sometimes large) protests will lead to regime change is the same as if Chinese or Cuban state media portrayed the BLM or Occupy Wall Street protests as possibly toppling the US government. The state there is powerful and entrenched, aside he has no love for the regime and is an anti-Islamist.
I don't really want to tone police and maybe this fails the building consensus rule but for the love of god can we avoid writing "unalived" and "graped" like tiktok retards?
4doorsmorewhores
8mo ago
Merry Christmas Mottlers
4doorsmorewhores
10mo ago
Wow, $500,000 for TheMotte? Great work man.
4doorsmorewhores
10mo ago
My understanding of polling is that the bellwether effect here isn't that Dems won NYC and other urban areas, it's that you can track over time election margins to determine the relative change in how a party or candidate performs. People who follow these things closely seem to believe that these results are indicative of a bad environment for the GOP. I don't know of any obvious proof of fraud that I've seen, however there of course could be.
4doorsmorewhores
11mo ago
Pornography is a great example of my favourite question for politicians, "What is a real problem in society that you don't believe the government should do anything about?"
Your desire to reframe the issue in your favour suggests that I am more correct than you are comfortable with admitting (Beat up becomes violently assault, "Call a bitch" instead of "Verbal assault, harassed and bullied). These are roughly equivalent because they likely cause temporary harm quickly, and don't have much lasting effect, a quick "Smarten up" if you will.
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