Tits_Mcgruff
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Tits_Mcgruff
15d ago
Tits_Mcgruff
2mo ago
The majority of autists who are high enough functioning to (successfully) do what you’re suggesting already do so. That’s what “masking” is.
The ones who don’t mask are typically the ones who are more autistic. They’re both worse at understanding what’s wrong with how they act and care far less on an emotional level what others think of them in the first place.
The primary reason autists complain about masking (be it the ones who mask 24/7 or those who refuse to) isn’t shame; it’s that it’s a massive pain in the arse. This is to be expected; everyone bitches and moans about the annoyances in their life. The only difference is most people don’t empathise with their complaints because they find unmasked autists annoying.
Tits_Mcgruff
3mo ago
This is an unnecessarily antagonistic way of going about it; Biden can simply federalise the National Guard units and give them new orders. He can even order them to take down the wire themselves.
Tits_Mcgruff
3mo ago
Border Patrol and the Texas National Guard aren't going to get into a direct confrontation. Biden will federalise the National Guard if it comes down to it.
Tits_Mcgruff
5mo ago
Well there’s your problem, most people think crimes like murder, rape, and manslaughter should receive retributive punishment. Simply shrugging your shoulders and going “well I don’t agree” is why the types of ideas you’re preposing won’t ever see widespread acceptance.
Tits_Mcgruff
5mo ago
How is criminal law meant to tie into this? People who value retributive justice aren’t going to be satisfied with someone simply getting sued out their arse.
Tits_Mcgruff
5mo ago
I mean, what fraction of US Muslims can this represent? There are over 3 million of them. The idea that they're substantially high IQ elites doesn't really square with their lower educational attainment and income.
“Elite” might be overselling it, but there are 1.8 billion Muslims worldwide. The 3 million Muslims in America are only 0.17% of the global population of Muslims. It’s a small enough number for selection effects to have had a significant impact.
Not sure I'm following the reasoning here. US Muslims are well integrated because Whites were replaced in the inner cities? A plurality (38%) of US Muslims are white.
He’s talking about the same economic niche lots of other first-generation immigrants fill in cities. Think of the stereotypical bottle shop or grocery store run by a family of immigrants from China or Korea (“roof Koreans”). They’re saying these economic opportunities exist because the pre-existing population of working & middle class white Americans all left for the suburbs during the second half of the 20th century (“white flight”)
Tits_Mcgruff
5mo ago
During the sexual revolution, there are attempts (supported by some but no means all feminists) to reduce ages of consent or to undermine enforcement. In the UK, for example, Gillick (doctors can prescribe contraceptives to girls under 16 without the parents knowledge or consent) was widely supported by feminists on harm reduction grounds
I don’t see how this is evidence of anyone attempting to lower the age of consent or reduce enforcement? Age of consent laws in practice have never focused on minors of similar ages having sex with each other. The focus has always been on people over the age of consent having sex with those below it (with some allowances in jurisdictions with Romeo and Juliet laws), along with the occasional case of minors with significant age gaps.
The most common situation a doctor is prescribing birth control to a girl under 16 is when she wants to have/is having sex with her boy friend who’s about the same as her.
Tits_Mcgruff
5mo ago
How so? That’s how I’ve always referred to my trans cousin since they’ve come out. It seems the most intuitive way to speak about things to me. What’s your issue with it?
That level of analysis assumes there’s never going to be a genuine threat to your own civilians. This was true for the mainland USA. It wasn’t for any of the countries in Europe or asia.
If you’re a country in range of enemy bombers during WW2, any enemy planes you fail to shoot down are now a threat to not just your own troops but also your own civilians. The less enemy planes built, the fewer that can potentially get past your air defences.
Additionally, the distinction between a civilian working at a military manufacturing plant vs a soldier working in the logistical side of things is blurry, especially in a country with mass conscription and a totally mobilised war economy.
Besides even today, Civilians get contracted to do also sorts of support services for the military, particularly in terms of logistics, that soldiers also get used for. Why is the life of a 19 year old conscript assigned to drive a truck somehow less morally worthy than a civilian contracted by the military to do the same thing?
Tits_Mcgruff
5mo ago
try and shoot a police officer, or in the case of the UK, attempt to stab one and see how far the sanctity of life gets you.
Seeing how regular police officers don’t carry firearms in the UK (aside from in Northern Ireland), you’ll probably get pretty far.
Tits_Mcgruff
5mo ago
A better alternative to over relying on mail-in voting is holding elections on Saturdays rather than weekdays, as well as allowing in-person pre-polling. Mobile voting stations at places like hospitals and retirement villages also help. Mail-in voting can still be an option for those who truly need it.
At least that’s how we handle elections in Australia. But we also have mandatory voting (which is a whole separate topic I won’t get into), so the government aims to make sure the only legit reasons for not voting are things such as misadventure or medical incapacity.
Tits_Mcgruff
5mo ago
the right to various outdoors industries—fishing, timber, etc.
What’s this even mean exactly? That the government can’t ban these industries? They can’t regulate them? Everyone’s allowed to conceal carry fishing rods and chainsaws?
It wasn’t that long ago that Aella’s question would’ve been taken as an edgy “tits and beer liberal” style joke. I’m pretty sure I recall some mid 2000s maybe early 2010s hospital sitcom/drama with an episode with the same basic premise, just the kid was asking the doctors rather than make a wish.
Edit: I was thinking of “The Good Doctor” s3e7. A 12 year old kid that’s about to have his eyes surgically removed gets taken around by his doctors to do some bucket list stuff.
One of the things he asks to do is to see some IRL titties while he still can. So the doctors take him to a strip but the bouncer refuses entry cause he’s a minor. So one of the doctors in sympathy flashes her tits at the kid right before his surgery.
This actually came out way more recently than I was thinking, it first aired in 2019.
Tits_Mcgruff
5mo ago
Well then you and @OracleOutlook have been, at least in part, talking past each other. His original comment and the studies he linked are about stepparents not adoptive parents.
Do you mean adoptive parents instead of stepparents? The alternative to having stepparents is your biological parent(s) staying single after they get divorced or are widowed.
The only way you’d end up being raised by just a stepparent is if both your biological parents died after at least one of them had remarried. Even then, stepparents don’t have any inherent legal rights as parents to their stepchildren. For a stepparent to be recognised as a legal parent of their stepchild requires the involvement of the court, just like any other potential guardian of an orphan. Such children often end up living with another biological relative like a grandparent, aunt, or uncle.
The court would consider a bunch of factors to determine if leaving the child in the care of their stepparent is appropriate. Things like the child’s age, their relationship with the stepparent, the feasibility of the stepparent being able to provide for the child by themselves, whether the stepparent is suitable to raise kids in general, the amount of time the child has spent living with their stepparent, the stepparent’s interest in caring for the child, etc. This would all have to be stacked up against any potential biological relatives caring for the child.
Tits_Mcgruff
5mo ago
Look at the note where she's calling her targets faggots. The handwriting is all over the place. The letter formation isn't consistent from one word to the next, let alone inside words that have multiple of the same letter. The letters that stick up or go below the line are often smushed to the point of looking like a completely different letter.
It's legible enough to understand if you slow down a bit. You can still tell what's being said due to context. But in no way would I call it neat, especially for a girl. Girl handwriting can get almost font like. As I said, my handwriting is way worse, but I have appalling handwriting even for a guy. My handwriting is often not legible to anyone but myself unless I slow down to an impractical pace.
Tits_Mcgruff
5mo ago
That's not what I'm referring to. I'm talking about how the letters are formed and how consistent they are. Look at the note where she's calling her targets faggots. It's all over the place. The letter formation isn't consistent from one word to the next, let alone inside words that have multiple of the same letter. The letters that stick up or go below the line are often smushed to the point of looking like a completely different letter.
None of this makes it completely illegible. You can still tell what letters they are based on context. But that doesn't mean it's neat. Girl handwriting is almost always clean and consistent. Their neatest handwriting gets close to looking like a font.
Tits_Mcgruff
5mo ago
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Most of it looks like chicken scratches. Would 100% earn “you’ll be a doctor someday” jokes. I’ve met very few women with handwriting that shit. For a guy it’s not the worst in the world, my hand writing is way worse, I’d say it’s just a bit below average for boy handwriting.
Or am I out of touch and all teenagers have garbage handwriting now?
Tits_Mcgruff
5mo ago
Well, the hand writing certainly looks like it was written by a boy…
Tits_Mcgruff
6mo ago
I think you’re downplaying how familiar people are becoming with American accents from consuming American media.
Tits_Mcgruff
7mo ago
DP/DR?
Tits_Mcgruff
1yr ago
Get them working good honest blue-collar jobs out of high school, married to their childhood sweetheart, and having babies by the time they're twenty.
This reads like a greentext post lamenting “this is what they took from us”.
That hasn’t been true for decades. The Geneva Conventions don’t permit summary executions of anybody. Unlawful combatants are considered to be civilians and so fall under GC I-IV article 4. This means that any combat they engage in can be considered a domestic crime, no different than if you decided to run around shooting at the military right now.
But, just like any other civilian, unlawful combatants are still afforded the right to a fair trial. If they’re found guilty, then sure, you can execute them if that’s the prescribed punishment for what they’re convicted of. What you don’t get to do is line people up against a wall like you’re the German army in 1914 executing “Francs-tireurs”.
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