Markass
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Markass
Not the worst
23d ago
I'm amused at how gun possession is supposedly a right, and yet with all the caveats laid out here, it seems more like a privilege in practice. Meanwhile, driving is supposedly a privilege, but I'd bet a million dollars I could get a NJ driver's license and own any car I wanted in NJ sooner than I could own any gun I wanted in NJ. Driving seems to be more of a right than guns are.
Markass
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24d ago
OP's point is that if you answered this way then you win favor with the MAGA crowd but out yourself as a nutjob who believes in conspiracy theories to everyone else. So there is no way to answer "who won 2020?" without losing favor with someone.
Markass
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24d ago
I think this particular restriction came about because of one bad actor known as UnrealSkybox who spams websites with CSAM and has a seemingly endless network of residential proxies to burn through to do it. The farms is pro-privacy and allows and encourages registration with regular VPNs.
Markass
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24d ago
I think gender ideology in general is a "gotcha" question such that, no matter what you believe, you are forced to pick a side. Consider the choice of which pronouns to use to refer to a transgender individual, let's say a male-to-female.
- She: You subscribe to gender ideology and believe this person is a woman.
- He: You don't subscribe to gender ideology and believe this person is a man.
- They: You are trying to sit on the fence and placate both sides, but this is unlikely to work. In particular, progressives will notice if you keep saying "they" when a transgender person's preferred pronouns are she/her (after all, in progressive spaces displaying your preferred pronouns is normalized), and will correctly recognize you as a coward trying to play both sides, if not a person who doesn't subscribe to gender ideology.
- Some other pronoun: Same as above. If it's not the person's preferred pronouns, this is considered a transgression in the eyes of progressives.
- No pronouns: This is awkward but possible. However, people aren't stupid, and progressives will notice you doing this too and treat it as a transgression.
There is no choice you could make that means you are neither for nor against gender ideology, especially when progressives treat neutrality the same as being against. The difference between pronouns and the "what is a woman?" question is that the latter is used by conservatives to explicitly call out and expose the beliefs of the answerer, while pronouns are a way for progressives to hijack an existing social norm and turn it into an implicit belief test.
Markass
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27d ago
There's always creeps in every place. The difference between Roblox and most places is that most places ban pedophiles when they're reported.
Markass
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27d ago
The content isn't necessarily the problem, although some games may be cause for concern. The users are, and Roblox not only consistently fails to act on credible reports of pedophiles and child molesters, but also attacks anyone who tries to get creeps arrested or even publishes reports on the problem, e.g. burying Ruben Sim in frivolous litigation.
Markass
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28d ago
I interpret OP to mean that little ghetto babies are a drain on government finances in the short term, as resources need to spent raising them, but they are not a drain in the long term, as they (theoretically) will be fully grown adults who can support themselves with minimal government assistance. I don't think OP missed any words.
Well yes, we can't have 100% absolute rights everywhere because punching someone in the face (without good cause) violates their rights. But it's hard for me to see how me owning a gun inherently infringes on the rights of others. Meanwhile, I can own a car very easily despite it being just as capable of being used for mayhem and violence. Driving is a privilege that functions like a right and guns are a right that function like a privilege.
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