hydroacetylene
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hydroacetylene
2mo ago
I mean, they were hookers. Definitionally they did it for money.
That doesn't mean it's OK to convince 15 year old girls to enter prostitution(which is what Epstein did- there's no evidence or allegations that he made any threats or kidnapped anyone or whatever).
hydroacetylene
4mo ago
People owe the societies they live in, actually. If you want to go live in the woods with wolves and bears for neighbors then more power too you, that’s the condition for opting out.
hydroacetylene
5mo ago
Israeli hawks have said from the beginning that they were fighting to destroy Hamas root and branch and obtain lasting peace and security for Israel.
Duh, they failed in this goal. There are still Palestinians about, after all.
Israel has a way to gain lasting peace and security- occupy the Sinai, next time Gaza attacks march their entire population out into the desert to die, and tell the west bank that they are now obligated to summarily execute anyone entertaining antizionist ideologies or the entire village will be(they will likely need to make good on this threat a few times). This is not politically possible, but it is what it would take to secure Israel from attack. So Israeli security is not an achievable goal. They're going to do this again in ten years.
hydroacetylene
6mo ago
Were these pits raised by experienced and responsible owners from puppyhood? Almost every case of 'model dog owner suddenly mauled by pit', IIRC, was one where the dog had been raised in a dog fighting ring and obtained from a shelter(beasts should've been old yeller'd).
Pit bulls, like certain other breeds(and pits are not the worst offender here), are strong willed dogs and often fierce about what they want, with a potential for aggression. This renders them unsuitable for the vast majority of dog owners. There should be far fewer of them. But generally the 'he just suddenly snapped' narrative is BS and there were substantial warning signs and poor ownership practices.
hydroacetylene
6mo ago
African-Americans still haven't been assimilated after 300 years.
African-American culture has it's problems but it's American as all get out. It's basically just a shittier version of southern culture with worse 'music' and some fifties leftover ideas the rest of us figured out were bad ideas.
hydroacetylene
22d ago
and absolutely no second dates!
What's wrong with that? Finding your spouse is a numbers game. Get to the 'not the one' quickly to move on to the next. You just haven't found her yet.
hydroacetylene
23d ago
Sexual freedom is not a real thing in the individualistic sense, because sex isn't really an individualistic activity. We should judge sexual freedom by whether society's norms more easily feed into what makes people happy in the long run, not by the theoretical freedom of activity.
It's unclear by that standard that western societies are sexually freer today or in 1875 or 1950 or whenever.
hydroacetylene
26d ago
Mildly coercive labor practices+pay well above the going rate for unskilled labor has historically failed at staffing American farms with native workers. You could fly in a different set of third worlders, hold their pay in arrears until they get on the plane to go home- but you can't replace the need for migrants from shithole countries.
hydroacetylene
27d ago
I don’t care whether adult cyclists are encouraged in their hobby or lined up and shot for partaking in it. I have strong sympathy for young teens, but those mostly know that ludacris’s traffic mix is aimed at them- I make you move, bitch, get out the way. Likewise I sympathize with the poor who can’t afford cars, but, again, they understand their station in life.
I care about the sidewalks being usable for pedestrians and the road being usable for cars. Hippies should get a haircut and fitness fanatics should avail themselves of exercise bikes and the like if either of them are going to cause problems for the priority groups.
hydroacetylene
1mo ago
What did you think ‘states rights’ meant?
hydroacetylene
3mo ago
You thought 'the US spends less than a billion dollars on defense in total, yet also more than the next eight countries' defense budgets combined' passed the smell test?
hydroacetylene
3mo ago
That is not how traditional societies by and large saw the world. People in traditional societies did not see themselves as individuals with a purpose, they saw themselves as members of a community- kind of the way we see ants or bees- and that community had obligations to God or the gods. An individual didn't; Roman peasants didn't supplicate the gods in penance for their sins, personally. The senate managed the relationship between the Romans(all of them) and the gods.
hydroacetylene
4mo ago
The US is in practically no danger of a HIV running rampant, though, so it's kind of irrelevant. Yes, we'll lose some sodomites and drug addicts. We have people demanding fentanyl be allowed to run rampant for the same purpose on this very forum.
hydroacetylene
4mo ago
I don't want draft dodgers in my country. If they won't return to fight for their homeland they should be executed for desertion.
hydroacetylene
4mo ago
Agreed that we don't need bioethics to answer generally applicable questions like 'Should a pair of sodomites buy a child from a desperate woman to raise themselves?'. But in specific cases like priority for organ transplants it still has a use.
hydroacetylene
5mo ago
Israel has defeated Egypt several times before; there's very few people living in the Sinai and a border at the Suez gives them the physical space necessary for death camps.
hydroacetylene
5mo ago
Oh please. 'Ugandans will have kids who snap and carry out spree violence' is not a forseeable outcome the way that 'south asian muslims will get to raping' is.
Yes, blacks are more prone to violence. No, spree killing is still not common among them.
hydroacetylene
6mo ago
Yes, communists and their immediate descendants should be actively discriminated against unless they can demonstrate a full and genuine change of heart. Communism is the most destructive and dangerous ideology in the whole world and those too close to it should be kept from influence.
hydroacetylene
6mo ago
I’m going to echo what I posted on the fertility thread- lots of women are just fine, or at least not missing anything in an acute way, by not having a romantic relationship. In the past social pressures and general expectations and in a lot of cases actual institutions would push them into relationships anyways, but those are gone. Yes, in the long run women are happier married to Mr good enough. But that’s not apparent to single women.
And AFAICT the actual standards women have are mostly pretty reasonable even if they’re phrased badly- six feet and six figures really just means ‘makes enough to support us and taller than me’. I think, yes, women are saying that because they miss having someone else vet for them, but crucially, that vetting in the past was not an after the fact thing- as recently as the fifties it was seen as important to make sure young women were in contact with high-quality men. This is because women are perfectly fine for a while living with their parents, part time job/in school, social life with no men in it. Until they’re not.
hydroacetylene
7mo ago
Except you haven’t shown me any of these things. I’m prepared to take your word for there being a gene mutation which causes those symptoms, in this specific instance going by the name EDS. But ‘some attention-whoring women with poor mental health claiming the disease exists because of a set of symptoms nearly all attention whoring women with poor mental health exhibit’ was the evidence presented, and it is indeed a valid criticism that that’s the same thing as transgenderism, anorexia, non-celiac gluten intolerance, etc.
hydroacetylene
7mo ago
Meh, it isn’t human to prioritize an abstract law over your own flesh and blood.
Bring forth chatgpt as ruler or deal with president’s sons getting away with drug use.
hydroacetylene
8mo ago
All of those examples involve people literally getting expelled from their homes and forced to leave. There is basically none of that in the idiotic open borders policy.
hydroacetylene
11mo ago
In practice neither are twelve year olds.
hydroacetylene
11mo ago
Every time I've tried sushi, I've had them take it back and cook it. I can eat raw steak and venison and dove meat(deep backwoods east Texas thing) and bacon, but fish never seems right. I'll stick to Cajun-style seafood.
'White skin bad, brown skin good' took over the democrats+TDS.
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