durdenhobbes
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durdenhobbes
1yr ago
This feels like low-effort consensus building. You can't just pose hyperbolic, rhetorical questions and then ask us all to join you in your quest to slap the label of "criminal" on someone whose trial has yet to begin. That is antithetical to our justice system and to this rare sanctuary of online discourse.
durdenhobbes
1yr ago
It became equally understood that the very second of coitus (or even without it if the sperm is stollen). That absolutely an child conceived will result in the man's complete legal and financial ruin. That the legal system gains full power over every asset, skill, or income source, he has ever or might ever have, and that if he tries to evade legal """Responsibility""" (as if this something that would ever consider being applied to a citizen of one of the other 82 genders) his wages will be garnished, his assets forcibly confiscated, he may be imprisoned, and in many jurisdictions his passport might even be confiscated.
This is the part that leaves me flabbergasted. I've seen close friends have their lives left in utter shambles after being cheated on and left by a wife who decided that he was nothing more than a piggybank. Men who were allowed only a pittance of time with their children, despite having no criminal record/history of abuse/etc. That the modern, overpowered family court allows women to destroy the lives of decent men for absolutely no reason is a stain on our society, and will undoubtedly have more severe ramifications as future generations grow up saying "yeah there's no way I'm risking my life by getting married and ending up in a financial/emotional/spiritual dumpster like my dad".
It makes me physically angry sometimes that so much societal and conversational capital is spent on the most trivial "microaggressions" that supposedly-marginalized communities experience, yet massive legal aggressions with the demonstrated effect of driving men to suicide are only spoken of in hushed tones in the dark recesses of the internet.
durdenhobbes
1yr ago
And the latter are regularly censored on matters of minor corruption in ways the former is rigorously guarded against.
NPR completely and explicitly buried a story about major corruption from a presidential candidate and his son's overseas business dealings, in order to hand that preferred candidate the election. I'd challenge to to find a more-impactful example of corruption censorship from any other news media in world history.
durdenhobbes
1yr ago
"Completely" as in zero coverage. "Explicitly" as in they came right out and said "We don’t want to waste our time on stories that are not really stories, and we don’t want to waste the listener’s and readers’ time on stories that are just pure distractions”
durdenhobbes
10mo ago
The critial difference, of course being, is that if I choose to refer to my step-mom simply as "mom" (and vice versa), that's a relational identifier that the two of us have chosen to engage in based on mutual trust/love/history/etc.
No such consensual agreement exists between myself and some dude in a dress who tries to get me fired if I don't refer to him as "ma'am".
durdenhobbes
1yr ago
I fully expect this to be one of Adams’ classic hypno-rugpull antics, where he flips it around the next day and says it was all a ruse to elicit some form of reactionary learning.
Nonetheless, it’s a risky maneuver. I have to imagine his publishing agent is not having a very fun day.
durdenhobbes
1yr ago
There are also very few enslaved black people in the past few decades.
durdenhobbes
10mo ago
As an aside, I've often felt it was a blatant smear that Republicans got tagged as the "racist" party (with increasing fervor) in recent years, when the supposed "most racist" states in the South were reliably Democratic during the eras of exponentially-greater blatant racism. I've often heard the defense of "oh well the parties flipped", but I've never been able to square that argument with obvious examples like Robert Byrd being a Democratic senator a mere 13 years ago, or things like Biden's comments in the 70's about a "racial jungle".
I'm like "okay, if the parties flipped, then when did they flip?". Because when it comes to Biden (and countless others, I'm certain), they clearly haven't flipped yet.
durdenhobbes
22d ago
Agreed. I'm not sure I have the writing skills to make a top-level post, but if I did, I'd be lucky to have even a single issue on which I was both articulate and interesting enough to make multiple posts on the topic. I guess that would make me a single issue poster (which there is no discernible rule against).
I'm also highly antipathetic toward governance/justice/moderation being levied based on identity. Judgment, in this and in every case, should be on the merits of the argument, not because of who posted it. Either the ball was in bounds or out of bounds; making that call shouldn't depend on whether Tom Brady or Todd Marinovich threw it. If it does, then we're playing a rigged sport here.
durdenhobbes
10mo ago
I find myself in a weird position where I don't like to be alone for very long. I can't sit at home all day, and need to be around people fairly regularly. But once I'm around people and someone starts a conversation with me, I immediately can't wait for that conversation to end, even if it's interesting. I want to want to talk, but it just feels off and I never seem to know what to say.
The only workaround I've ever found to this is alcohol, which makes conversation entirely enjoyable, frictionless, and engaging, but it comes with obvious health downsides.
Are there any healthy remedies to make sociability not feel like awkward work?
durdenhobbes
1yr ago
That's not even a criticism, though. That's just shock-gallows humor. Not to mention, people get cancelled for saying a whole lot less than "I think it's funny when they die" when it comes to actually-favored groups.
durdenhobbes
1yr ago
In fact I think it's already quite clear that Presidents as Kings is an even more untouchable standard, so long as you weren't elected against the wishes of the entrenched elite. But god help you if you were.
durdenhobbes
1yr ago
Would it be acceptable for an athlete who opposed some war to refuse to wear a camo jersey?
Absolutely, and Muhammad Ali is hailed a hero for refusing to fight in Vietnam.
To answer your first statement: absolutely! No one in my generation asked for this, no one in my circle wants it, and I think it should be the one burned to the ground. It’s pure societal poison.
As for men (or women) who treat their spouses in a "pitch-black evil" way, we've always had means of dealing with that, outside a parasitical family court machine. A strong family is a good start, for example. Something that the current M.O. has made scarce.
durdenhobbes
3mo ago
Reade appears to be an actual Russian asset.
While I haven't kept up with this story in extreme detail, this is the first I've heard of this accusation. What makes that so apparent?
durdenhobbes
10mo ago
Nope, tried it already. Had very much the opposite of the intended effect.
durdenhobbes
11mo ago
It could be the case that you simply interact in such circles that you are not exposed to such disposable men, but it both biologically obvious, and has been throughly examined from an academic perspective.
durdenhobbes
1yr ago
That's an uncharitable re-phrasing of the op comment. He simply calls it "an understandable reaction" to what some would consider involuntary capture, but then qualifies it with the observation that many school shooters appear to kill not only their "captors" but random fellow "inmates" (implying that op believes there's a good chance these shooters are simply unhinged people).
durdenhobbes
1yr ago
You don't consider the economy a plausible reason to motivate someone's political leanings? That defies belief.
durdenhobbes
1yr ago
The most shocking thing I found in that table is that there are countries that have differing retirement ages for men versus women.
durdenhobbes
1yr ago
I’m of two minds about this. On the one hand, I can say without hesitation that having kids had a severely negative impact on my life. Most of that was due to my poor selection of partner/her post-partum/outside elements that don’t have anything directly to do with the kids themselves. On the other hand, the moments of joy I experience when my children are happy and loving… it’s a higher high than any other sensation I’ve been able to find in this life. And then, egotistically, I get the satisfaction of fulfilling my belief that a reasonably-good-looking National Merit Scholar is the type of person who should be reproducing.
durdenhobbes
1yr ago
I hate to admit that I feel the same way. My disillusionment with the way gun violence cases are highlighted (or buried) in the media has forced to quit giving a fuck entirely, just for my own sanity.
durdenhobbes
1yr ago
Kinda makes you wonder about the “equality” of Title IX, then.
durdenhobbes
6mo ago
Zeiss Victory SF 10x42
Maybe it's just because I'm an enthusiast in photography and sport shooting, with their extremely pricey optics, that I expected these to be more than $3k.
I haven’t witnessed anyone on the right (or otherwise) demonizing the Scientific Method, but rather criticizing the new definition of “Science (tm)” being utilized as a consensus-building weapon against any who would question the mainstream narrative.
It’s the bastardization of “science” that invokes revulsion, not true scientific inquiry itself.
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