@ColonCaretCapitalP's banner p

ColonCaretCapitalP


				

				

				
0 followers   follows 0 users  
joined 2022 September 06 01:13:57 UTC
Verified Email

				

User ID: 779

ColonCaretCapitalP


				
				
				

				
0 followers   follows 0 users   joined 2022 September 06 01:13:57 UTC

					

No bio...


					

User ID: 779

Verified Email

Pushing multiple complex issues to the voters in a single election may not lead to wise policy decisions. Without a strong opposition campaign, they are inclined to approve anything that sounds good. It should be some solace then, that these measures were not like California propositions in that they were not proposed through direct-democratic means, but have already passed both houses of the legislature by a 2/3 majority. It only takes a simple majority of voters to approve amendments to the Texas Constitution. I feel partially absolved of responsibility knowing that the voters are not the part of this process that is most able to prevent bad amendments.

Yes, I found the rate limit on Saturday and then not again.

Much of the backlash to the thread was that other commenters responded with sympathy. The stories had convinced many users that some cases were in a moral gray area. This was connected to a feminist opposition to rapists being allowed to communicate with the general population in an affirmative space, and some disgust at hearing the stories and the misogynistic views implied by them.

[The psychiatrist response] (https://old.reddit.com/r/AskReddit/comments/xf5c2/reddit_are_you_aware_how_dangerous_the_askarapist/) makes an overly-sophisticated point (contrary to the more commonsense opposition described above) that was eaten up for some reason. Arguing that rape is about power and that raping a conscious person means you get off on hurting or horrifying people (I'd argue that this is partially true but is itself sexual), he claims that the rapists in the thread were getting off on horrifying an imagined audience.