Botond173
1mo ago
If you argue that porn was banned in the USSR or is banned in Iran for example, than my cursory knowledge of the matter will compel me to agree with you, because in these cases state control of the media and the country’s borders was sufficiently thorough that whatever level of cultural presence illegal pornography had was bound to be marginal. If your argument is that it’s banned in South Korea, a late-stage capitalist cyberpunk hellscape where I imagine a large segment of the population is addicted to the internet, a society that is usually said to be overall conservative but where the cultural heritage of ancient Korea has zero significance, I’ll not assume that whatever law it is that is technically on the books regarding this matter will limit porn use to any significant degree.
Botond173
1mo ago
According to this fantastic animation about the history of division in Congress, the turning point was sometime during Reagan's 2nd term.
Botond173
1mo ago
For clarification, Brian Kilmeade suggested killing the mentally ill homeless.
According to the article linked to by the OP, very specifically mentally ill (implicitly criminal and socially dangerous) homeless who refuse help from social services.
Botond173
1mo ago
I'm gonna be honest, I'm fairly distressed over this. This is how Pogroms work. In the famed Jewish Pogroms of 1881, 40 Jews were killed leading to a mass emigration from Russia. I wonder if we'll hit that number in Virginia the next 4 years.
Czarist Russia did not have something like the "Big Sort". The US, on the other hand, does.
Botond173
1mo ago
I'd guess he feels Dems are more comfortable supporting Pol Pot rather than Bin Laden.
...indeed; which is precisely the reason for my question.
Botond173
1mo ago
Is this the same Klein who supported (and probably still supports) the Californian YMY / affirmative consent law? Because yeah, it doesn't seem so bizarre to me.
Botond173
2mo ago
Anyone care to explain why he switched bin Laden with Pol Pot of all people in his texts from the original?
Botond173
2mo ago
The male perpetrators of "petty" political violence during the '70s were anything but "low status, violent men who have not much to lose".
Botond173
2mo ago
I wonder about the extent to which all this is driving the 'black fatigue' phenomenon popularized on certain segments of US social media.
Botond173
2mo ago
Good point. Now that I think of it, the white underclass is rarely seen on public transit or in inner cities.
Botond173
2mo ago
This was, as far as I can tell, indeed the reason why it has been since WW1 mandatory for soldiers to shave daily.
Botond173
2mo ago
What constitutes a “serious attempt to resolve” this situation? Does it involve public disavowals by the leadership? Cancelling any streamer stupid enough to say something edgy?
Those are pretty much the most basic level of standards the Blue Tribe routinely expects of its opponents.
Botond173
2mo ago
To be fair, there are/were indeed a handful of rightist/alt-right hardliners who dismissed Kirk as a cuckservative Zionist shill and did/do advocate for political violence and spread hate; if it were any of them who got assassinated, this sort of leftist reasoning would at least have some legs to stand on. But in this case, it really doesn't.
Botond173
2mo ago
I'm rather confident that there's virtually not one cyclist anywhere in the world who leaves the bike unlocked in any town or city with a known reputation for having bike thefts.
Botond173
2mo ago
There are political parties advocating for cracking down on such violent men but curiously single young women are precisely the demographic least likely to support them.
Botond173
2mo ago
I'm pretty sure the underclass is normally confrontational and loud everywhere it lives.
Botond173
2mo ago
The liberal will look around and see endless amounts of people using rhetoric that is wholly inconsistent with their actions, especially over time, and be puzzled. How could these people just lie when we're all trying to solve the same problem?
What exactly are you referring to here please?
Botond173
2mo ago
"Failing to defend their own"? I find that to be a rather bizarre interpretation. The SS and SA units were already active at that point so it's not like the party could conceivably be accused of failing to take preventive measures. Also, the only people whose political assassinations invited any cheering and jubilation in the Weimar Republic were the communists and the signatories of the Versailles "Treaty", as far as I know.
To the extent that this is true, and I think it largely is, it mainly is so in my view because it's interpreted as another male problem in general. Take note that the female consumption of pornographic literature is reaching unprecedented levels at the same time but without inviting any negative reactions from the mainstream media.
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