Iconochasm
All post-temple whore technology is gay.
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Iconochasm
All post-temple whore technology is gay.
12hr ago
You're still assuming the situation can be resolved into a binary state. She herself might not have a consistent take on if she begrudgingly tolerated sex with an intermittent partner of known sexual forwardness, or was raped. And even if she did ultimately decide it was easier to just fuck him and kick him out in the morning, that doesn't mean his behavior wasn't shitty and wrong. But if he'd done the same thing a half dozen times before and found her more receptive (perhaps after a token "No, it's late, you shouldn't"), then that would make his behavior (and hers!) more understandable.
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All post-temple whore technology is gay.
14hr ago
For the wife example, however grudgingly you did indeed consent. So that's not the same as "lack of consent"
I think this is the line being discussed. HereandGone is interpreting her actions as being closer to "begrudging consent". The problem with
Lack of consent is the literal difference between rape and not rape.
is that, particularly among people who have an existing, ongoing sexual relationship, that line can get blurry.
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All post-temple whore technology is gay.
15hr ago
Not so far as I'm aware. Actually border encounters are down over 95%, so there really isn't anything to add to the total of actual "taking people who are here illegally and sending them home" numbers.
Iconochasm
All post-temple whore technology is gay.
15hr ago
without the consent of the victim.
I think HereandGone is implying a sort of tacit consent. I don't consent to my cat laying me and clawing at my belly... but I don't do much more than call him an asshole and then scratch his ears. I've personally been on the receiving end of similar sexual behavior, and calling it rape feels like it seriously devalues the concept. I was not "forced against my will", I was "annoyed by a drunk wife until I decided that getting her off was the quickest path to getting back to sleep".
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All post-temple whore technology is gay.
15hr ago
If he drops out of the race before July 13th, the Democrat Party of Maine gets to pick a replacement, which would almost certainly be the sitting governor that Platner beat for the nomination by default after she stopped campaigning.
That's why the Reps have been heavily hinting that they have killshot levels of dirt that only come out after it's too late to replace him.
If they're lying, and Collins just baited the Dem establishment, it would be a legendary act of dirty politics.
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All post-temple whore technology is gay.
15hr ago
The national party is losing the fundraising race badly
This is misleading. Dems funnel all their money from billionaires and foreigners through assorted informal and dark money webs. Expect them to outspend Reps anyway.
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All post-temple whore technology is gay.
19hr ago
Still looks deleted even in new reddit. Weird. And now I feel dirty.
Iconochasm
All post-temple whore technology is gay.
19hr ago
That appears to go to a deleted post from 14 years ago?
Iconochasm
All post-temple whore technology is gay.
19hr ago
we didn’t have a bunch of right wing political colleagues asking Kavanaugh to withdrawal after the allegation was made the way Platner right now is
No, the Republicans all just spent months "very seriously" investigating an obvious farce that was obviously drummed up for obvious political reasons. As opposed to Platner, who already had allegations (lesser, yes, but also purported the current one) being swept under the rug by the NYT.
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All post-temple whore technology is gay.
19hr ago
You either die an icon, or live long enough to become the Boomer.
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All post-temple whore technology is gay.
1d ago
The department store bike is going to be built with extreme cost-cutting measures and is likely to malfunction relatively quickly, at which point the unsuspecting customer is faced with a repair bill that amounts to a significant percentage of the bikes cost and a warning from the mechanic that it's likely to fail again in short order.
An important factor here is that most of those bikes are being bought for kids who are expected to grow enough to need a new one in a few years anyway. It's the same reason you don't buy them expensive formal clothing they'll wear maybe twice before outgrowing it. Investing in quality might have made sense when you had a pack of 8, and could expect the same size bike to service 3-5 kids, but if Modern Couple has a boy and a girl and lives 500 miles from any potential younger cousins, then that's that.
Iconochasm
All post-temple whore technology is gay.
1d ago
"Investigated". Is that what we're calling this PBS election year hagiography?
Iconochasm
All post-temple whore technology is gay.
1d ago
There was a credible accusation against Biden and no one cared.
My honest guess here is that the Collin's campaigns insinuations that they have "bury him" dirt to drop in the general have either been secretly verified, or just intimidated the Dem establishment into turning on him. Maybe someone has video of him killing civillians or something.
This is probably the least bad thing the Dem establishment could use to tank him, in a way that could theoretically recover some of the capital they spent getting him this far.
Iconochasm
All post-temple whore technology is gay.
1d ago
No woman since the end of the Ottoman Empire has characterized her rapist as “not all bad”
The counterpoint is a fairly common stereotype. "Girl tells her boyfriend she was raped/sexually assaulted, then he finds out it was a guy she still follows on Insta."
I think a fair number of women have, let's say, awkwardly complicated feelings about men who are sexually aggressive.
Iconochasm
All post-temple whore technology is gay.
1d ago
That just sounds like an excuse to do another podcast with Hasan Piker. Talk about their common experience, maybe vlog a Devil's Tower.
Iconochasm
All post-temple whore technology is gay.
1d ago
Grok declaring itself Mecha-Hitler is not a natural outcome, it only happened because Musk put his hands on the scale.
AIUI, that was more "turning off the Don't-End-Up-Like-Tay filter". The absolute refusal to ever be Mecha-Hitler, no matter the prompt, is a carefully manicured and manipulated state.
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All post-temple whore technology is gay.
1d ago
Purportedly, the NYT had this story weeks ago when they ran the other one*, but excluded everything but that one woman so they could use the article to smear her and her allegations about Platner as motivated by sheer partisanship.
Democrats left and right are deleting all their fervent, avowed support for the man. He should brazen it out. Just refuse to drop out. What are they going to do? Take the L? His party would about face again in two weeks and slut-shame the accuser, just like the double-thought away the Nazi tattoo.
The haters said he would crash and burn, and they were correct. Honestly great call by the haters.
Never got that specific with the hater-ing, but it seems pretty on brand.
*Should be that one, but I don't subscribe to that rag.
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1d ago
Cahokia seems to have been completely abandoned before contact with Europeans.
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2d ago
But I never hear complaints about the European immigration waves
The reason you don't hear about those guys as much is because it used to be a major fucking issue until we did a 40 year immigration moratorium and had a couple apocalyptic wars to bind us all together. And you can still trace out the marked difference in voting and crime patterns. One of the biggest cultural impacts from the Italians was an entire genre of crime media.
But modern mafiosos can't get away with burying people in the Pine Barrens anymore. Conversely, one of our two political parties seems cheerfully willing to tolerate any amount of government and welfare fraud from the Somalians.
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2d ago
Cahokia might have been larger than the London and Paris of the time at its peak around 1100, for instance.
Political, economic, or cultural problems may also have contributed to the community's decline.[61] Thomas Emerson and Kristin Hedman argue that Cahokia's large immigrant population was a factor in the city's ultimate fragmentation, as differing languages, customs, and religions obstructed the creation of a cohesive Cahokian cultural identity. Analyses of Cahokian burial sites and the associated remains have also shown that many Cahokians were not native to the city or its immediate surrounding region. These immigrants were sometimes buried separately from native residents, a possible indicator of weak integration along ethnic lines.[32] It is likely that social and environmental factors combined to produce the conditions that led people to leave Cahokia.[62][56]
It would be really fascinating to know what actually happened. What's the largest or most recent city in Eurasia to be completely abandoned like that?
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2d ago
The French kind of did, though. There weren't as many of them as the English, but they were a sizeable minority population. Paul Revere was the son of a French settler. "It could also be done by some close cousin populations who were literally involved in the real life one that actually happened" is a pretty thin expansion.
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All post-temple whore technology is gay.
2d ago
Freedom of the press, consent of the governed, and the rule of law are alien concepts to the vast majority of Liberians who have no connection to the US to speak of.
I think this is a fully general point regarding immigration, and applies to a thousand little things besides that season the secret sauce that makes America America.
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2d ago
Even if you are so vitriolic about black people
I'm not? I'm just saying Liberia basically forked the US constitution and it didn't produce results above what you'd expect from any another African nation.
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All post-temple whore technology is gay.
2d ago
So what is you explanation for American exceptionalism, if it is not the ideals? HBD of its white population?
Probably both. It can't just be the ideals, we have Liberia as a counter-example.
It's probably something like "A heavily selected portion of Europeans with the right ideas at the right time".
This is a good breakdown. If the story is true, what he did isn't good or acceptable, and may well deserve to be called rape. But at the same time, it's qualitatively different from snatching a woman off a running trail and having his way with her while she cries and begs him to stop.
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