Gillitrut
Reading from the golden book under bright red stars
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Gillitrut
Reading from the golden book under bright red stars
8mo ago
It is good when abusive parents lose custody of the children they are abusing.
Gillitrut
Reading from the golden book under bright red stars
2yr ago
Whose rights?
How about the constitutional rights of people on US soil to not be arbitrarily seized and transported by agents of the state? The asylum seekers themselves have rights, which are the ones that were violated.
Gillitrut
Reading from the golden book under bright red stars
8mo ago
In fact if your child had cancer in their penis or breasts then not cutting them off may very well be abuse.
Frankly, comments like this decrease my sympathy for men who have issues getting a relationship substantially. It seems little different from the incel fantasizing about the "day of the rope". The sexless men will rise up! And take what's theirs! And all the Chads and Staceys who have wronged them will get whats coming to them! Yawn.
SO there is a certain...manner of speaking that certain men adapt when talking about thing that are difficult, or challenging, or make them feel a feeling that they dislike etc. They want to position themselves as a serious intellectual but also someone who is wrestling with some kind of inner demons, making them even more intelligent and mysterious. it is particularly pronounced when they are trying to position their own pain or discomfort as the most important thing in the world while using very flowery language, the kind one might find in an overwrought fantasy novel.
Overworked vocabulary? Centering their feelings? Thinking they are smarter than they are? Can you imagine Rastling Majere from Dragonlace saying exactly those words?
Dying Wizard.
Gillitrut
Reading from the golden book under bright red stars
2yr ago
Fraudulently induced to take a free plane ride to a rich city. Which, can still be a tort. Defrauding someone to travel somewhere is still a tort even if the place you're defrauded to go is really nice.
Gillitrut
Reading from the golden book under bright red stars
4mo ago
I would probably remove such a person, if I intended my group to be trans-friendly. Though I am inclined to extend some grace to someone dealing with that kind of trauma.
Gillitrut
Reading from the golden book under bright red stars
2yr ago
The tweet in question:
Twitter has had a massive drop in revenue, due to activist groups pressuring advertisers, even though nothing has changed with content moderation and we did everything we could to appease the activists.
Extremely messed up! They’re trying to destroy free speech in America.
Has he considered the possibility that it is not due to "activists" and, perhaps, is related to the fact that Twitter now has a CEO who shares easily debunked conspiracy theories?
Gillitrut
Reading from the golden book under bright red stars
2yr ago
What do you think is required for you to be "seized" within the meaning of the fourth amendment? From the complaint:
Particularly after the individual Plaintiffs had boarded the airplanes and were in mid-air, Plaintiffs were not free to leave, and were induced into that condition through false promises and misrepresentations. This constitutes a governmental termination of Plaintiffs’ freedom of movement through means intentionally applied.
Gillitrut
Reading from the golden book under bright red stars
8mo ago
The state, obviously. They're the ones who pass the laws defining abuse!
Gillitrut
Reading from the golden book under bright red stars
1yr ago
I think conscription is bad, also.
Gillitrut
Reading from the golden book under bright red stars
1yr ago
Was it bad when whites and white men were over-represented in media? Did that make it difficult for you to enjoy a piece of media?
Gillitrut
Reading from the golden book under bright red stars
2yr ago
I am curious what proposition, overt or covert, you take the depiction of interracial or LGBT families to be propaganda for.
Literally every single book my 3 year old daughter got for Christmas is either packed to the gills with LGBTQ "families" or interracial families mixed to a degree that I'm pretty sure is genetically impossible. Like I don't think White Woman + Latino Man = 1 Asian Child, 1 Black Child and 1 tan baby.
I suspect most people are not thinking about the plausibility of genetic relationship between depicted family members when buying children's books. For one, people can have family members whom they are not genetically related to. For two, children's book authors are known to take creative liberties with reality for the purpose of telling an entertaining story or imparting a moral. For example, they may depict an animal doing something it is quite unlikely for it to do in reality (like a caterpillar eating chocolate cake) or imagine entirely new creatures which do not exist (like large furred horned hominids or dragons).
Gillitrut
Reading from the golden book under bright red stars
4mo ago
I think what Darone did was weird but as long as she was up front about it and other group members seem broadly ok with it then I don't see the issue. As to (3) I would be interested in seeing the objections. I can imagine them taking forms for which I would have a problem with their being kicked out and forms for which I would think it was fine.
Gillitrut
Reading from the golden book under bright red stars
8mo ago
Yes, as a general matter people have to be tried in the jurisdiction where the alleged crime they committed occurred. What should the DOJ have done? Wasted a bunch of money prosecuting another 200 cases it wasn't going to win?
Gillitrut
Reading from the golden book under bright red stars
8mo ago
Maybe you should also read the Wikipedia article?
In late November 2017, six people charged with rioting went on trial. Prosecutors alleged that these six people were taking part in DisruptJ20 protests and vandalism. A jury trial found the six defendants not guilty on all counts in December 2017. On January 18, 2018, the U.S. Justice Department dropped charges against 129 people, leaving 59 defendants to face charges related to the DisruptJ20 protest. By early July 2018, federal prosecutors had dropped all charges against all defendants in the case.
The reason the DOJ dropped the charges is because they lost every one they brought to trial.
Gillitrut
Reading from the golden book under bright red stars
10mo ago
Then let me clarify. I do not think literally everyone who talks about fairness in sports is only using it as a stick to beat trans women. But I do think there are a lot of people out there who do see fairness in sports as a stick to beat trans women.
Gillitrut
Reading from the golden book under bright red stars
1yr ago
Sure, but the degree of portrayal of interracial couples in media is not anywhere near that density.
Gillitrut
Reading from the golden book under bright red stars
1yr ago
What shows or stories are obliged to change their casting decisions in response to other shows casting decisions?
If there was a murder mystery series and it turned out the murderer was a Jew 75% of the time, and it wasn't set in Israel, it wouldn't be wrong to infer that the writers must have something against Jews.
This works in the context of a particular series. I am not sure it works in the context of many different sets of writers on many different series.
Gillitrut
Reading from the golden book under bright red stars
2yr ago
They seem like the result of fairly organic social phenomena to me, but I confess I had not heard of "black girl magic" until this comment.
Gillitrut
Reading from the golden book under bright red stars
4mo ago
I agree, the Trump White House should not have put pressure on social media to suppress the Hunter Biden laptop story.
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