Catsnakes_
1mo ago
Remedy: Execute the prosecutor.
Catsnakes_
1mo ago
The 2015 deal didn't lift sanctions that prevented US firms from doing business with them afaik, so no. Here the private investment ostensibly is the deal. (assuming it happens as presented, which is doubtful)
Catsnakes_
1mo ago
It's access to invest in a market that is otherwise illegal to access. It's money lying on the table.
Catsnakes_
1mo ago
Ah, there you have it. "The US agrees to develop a plan for its companies and those of its allies in the gulf states to privately invest 300B in Iranian industry" is not quite the transfer of 300B into their government's pockets that some are hyperventilating about, and it's a major economic incentive for further cooperation between the two nations.
Catsnakes_
1mo ago
It's an agreement to develop a plan for US and it's allies to spend $300B on reconstruction/economic development. The details and how to execute the plan comes later. It's not at all obvious to me that's 300B directly into their pockets vs spending 300B in some circular fashion back into our own industries or some other paper shuffling exercise.
Catsnakes_
1mo ago
I'm pretty sure this is both a total non-sequitur and historically inaccurate. Go derail the thread with nonsense elsewhere.
Catsnakes_
1mo ago
They had a society that was designed for the well-heeled and gentile yet also knew how the real world works, and they psyopped themselves into giving it up. They gave their brains and balls away along with the rest of their colonial possessions.
Catsnakes_
1mo ago
Sounds like Nowak accurately identified what kind of guy he was dealing with (a coward who wanted to think he was hard, worthy of ridicule) and his only mistake was being drunk enough to verbalize it.
Catsnakes_
2mo ago
I figured that was likely to be the case.
Catsnakes_
2mo ago
You wrote a great reply so apologies for responding to the smallest detail first:
I think it matters less in PA most of the time
Hang on, are you also in PA? Just how much of this board is located in PA? One could be forgiven for getting the impression there are like 2 Indians, an Irish woman, and everyone else here is from Pennsylvania.
Catsnakes_
2mo ago
Why on earth do you think it makes any sense at all for the "official" test to come after the divorce is filed, rather than before? One would think you'd want to have that sorted out formally and then decide to file based on that result, not file for a lark and then find out.
Regarding the "at-fault" thing: justice is its own reward. It's not going to be a secret you got cucked either way, obviously.
Catsnakes_
2mo ago
Having legally established that you'd been cheated on and tricked into raising somebody else's kid isn't going to be a relevant factor in the following divorce case?
Catsnakes_
2mo ago
You can't think of why a married man would want to legally establish he'd been cheated on and duped?
Catsnakes_
2mo ago
That seems like a strange thing to have such a strong reaction to, and although you're getting a few comments in agreement I do believe if you go outside you'll find most men are either indifferent or enjoy it to some degree. Seems like a weird autist thing to get disgusted by painted nails.
Catsnakes_
2mo ago
Yeah, though I think it's not really a spectrum and more two separate things divided by a gulf, with a bunch of confusing language layered over top of it to make it seem like they're a spectrum. (complicated by all the sort of "orientation-washing" going on with bdsm/kink stuff as a way to launder straight relationships as queer or to launder really out there fetishes as identity which actively benefits from those two things looking like ends of a spectrum)
Catsnakes_
2mo ago
If you think of yourself as a basically obligate "straight male sub", which is the kind of person urquan was talking about, then a) telling on yourself, b) you're sufficiently outlier enough not to have a clear view on the topic at all. I get the impression that's not the case and you're just talking about it being hot when your wife is sexually aggressive, which is not at all the same thing as was being discussed in the parent post.
Catsnakes_
2mo ago
Pleading to the Gods of the Copybook Headings in support of housing transgender offenders in women's prisons is a ludicrous move. What do you think sin is?
Catsnakes_
2mo ago
Looking at the history of it, I believe BDSM as an edifice is some kind of ersatz replacement for roles that naturally exist in straight relationships but not outside of them, and which progressivism has been doing its best to stomp out. You don't need to figure out who's the dom and who's the sub in 99% of straight relationships, that's been sorting itself out for thousands of years. All the wacky Red Pill stuff and most war-of-the-sexes discourse is clumsily rediscovering what every boomer knew but didn't teach their kids: guys being confident and capable and taking charge is hot, being a doormat/simp/whatever, even for your girlfriend/wife, is not. That applies in daily interactions and in bed, without needing a bunch of crazy roleplay. YMMV, NAWALT, NAMALT, etc, etc, etc.
It seems fairly obvious to me that a ratio that resulted in the total normalization of multiple women sharing one man would result in even more winner-takes-all type outcomes in the sexual market, not some kind of utopia where every man gets two concubines.
(Legally enforced monogamy is a social technology that makes life better for males because it papers over the worst outcomes of unmanaged natural sexual competition. This much should be obvious given the last hundred years of western civilization. In the present day we're still operating on the fumes left over from those norms, and clearly there wouldn't be anything like them left in 3:1 world.)
Catsnakes_
4mo ago
Society seems to have lost the middle ground options between hating something + banning it and allowing it + enthusiastically supporting it.
It never had it because "legal but we hate it" isn't a stable state of affairs. Sometimes something stays beneath broad notice long enough to remain legal even if those in the know consider it shameful, but if you actively try to position something as legal-but-shameful, society is inevitably going to creep toward one of the poles. Either everyone hates it enough to ban it, or people are indifferent enough that a dedicated fringe movement can work to remove the stigma. I'm not even sure it warrants pointing out the many, many examples of this at play over the last many decades.
Catsnakes_
5mo ago
most (or all) Republicans refuse because they understand that when the Democrats say "fascism" they don't mean the Nazis, they mean them
I'm sure they would understand the veiled message, but I don't have the sense that they'd fall for the bait in quite the same way. I'm sure you could construct a situation where it would work, but "stand if you hate fascists" isn't going to trick anyone on the right.
Catsnakes_
5mo ago
inherent politics of his act is pro-Puerto Rican independence
That's a definitionally anti-American sentiment, so "Puerto Rico is not America and celebrating Puerto Rican culture is un-American" sounds like an accurate summary and the intended takeaway if your statement is true.
Catsnakes_
5mo ago
He's saying that he's not culturally American in any meaningful sense: "He has zero American values. He does not speak English."
Catsnakes_
5mo ago
I find it hard to believe you don't "get" this.
Is this obnoxious implication of bad faith accomplishing anything useful?
Ignoring the report and just asking about the number at face value: why do your priors tell you that ~14,000 victims of organized sexual crime a year in a population of 70mil is so unbelievable?
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