TIRM
5d ago
You are listing 90s and 2000s culture war topics. It just needs some "preserving marriage" talk.
In 2025 no one is getting a struggle session for DND.
TIRM
5d ago
Agreed. A single instance of tit for tat is impressive. Almost all the way there.
"devil worshipping" DND? I wasn't aware of a sentiment against it around here.
TIRM
5d ago
I'll bet the crime rates in my local major city are really quite low. Open drug selling and use is not prosecuted. Homeless shantytowns are allowed. Car break ins and retail theft are common but cops don't care. It's not even the cops' fault. Prosecutors won't prosecute so there would be no point in pursuing such criminals.
Indeed, if they decline to arrest and prosecute such criminals, then (convicted) crime rates must be low. My perception of property crime rates is rather higher since I see broken car glass on the sidewalk and many locked up items in stores. I bought a jacket and they were all locked together on cable locks. The employee explained that an organized theft gang rushed in and stole large numbers of coats, so now everything is cable locked. Grocery stores now have locked sections for not very expensive product. Who is stealing detergent? Anyways, I bet a review of local conviction rates would not reveal any of this.
TIRM
5d ago
I don't know how to reconcile those insistences with the stark change in my daily life.
Lack of prosecution artificially reduce crime stats. "Crime rates are down, actually" -> our local progressive prosecutor has declined to do their job, so unprosecuted crimes are now much more common.
TIRM
4d ago
an onlyfans star writing about this on her substack might have motives other than sincerely seeking a solution to a problem
So that's now two onlyfans performers who determined that a substack is a good way to advertise to some potential clients. Aella and this one.
TIRM
4d ago
an unregulated free market privileges large corporations over workers. I assume that most of the commentariat here is already familiar with this analysis.
Familiar sure. And also understanding it is false.
TIRM
4d ago
Ad hominem? You severely misread my comment and are angrily arguing against claims I never made and don't hold.
TIRM
4d ago
A young woman may go to college in a town other than the one she grew up in. And later graduate and get a job in some third town. No reason to think she has a local brother or father ready to punish you for not committing in the way she prefers.
TIRM
3d ago
On Friday a butcher exposed his wife to Sale in Smithfield Market, near the Ram Inn, with a halter about her neck, and one about her waist, which tied her to a railing, when a hog-driver was the happy purchaser, who gave the husband three guineas and a crown for his departed rib. Pity it is, there is no stop put to such depraved conduct in the lower order of people.
The Times (July 1797)
Huh. Never would haven't guessed that.
I was aware of the more common colonial practice of a man skipping town on his wife and her later getting a legal divorce due to abandonment.
TIRM
3d ago
Is he a boy and is fucking any significant part of the motivation for his actions? >He's a fuckboy.
Sure, but then fuckboys are everywhere. Given a broad enough understanding of "significant part of the motivation", most men are.
TIRM
1d ago
I don't know about all Asian countries, but, my wife grew up in China and had to cram and apply to get into a good public high school. Not going to high school or going into a less selective low ranked one were the alternatives.
I've seen 'bugmen' is a racist slur against Asians. But Bronze Age Pervert uses it in a non-racial sense as a slur against regular people. Asserting people you don't like are similar to bugs.
That didn't last long.
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