hydroacetylene
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hydroacetylene
4d ago
There is a Texas state rep who is one of the most conservative reps in the state house, with high approval ratings and strong support from the moral majority.
Thing is, he used to own a porn site. His campaign straightup acknowledged this and said it was ‘before he acknowledged Christ’ or something to that effect. He apologized but it wasn’t grovelling, he just said that before he was born again he regarded it as a business decision and now regrets it. 0 political liability running in a lane that wants to ban porn.
So yes, I believe this. Lots of people did things they’re not proud of and lots of people acknowledge that. Epstein slipped through the cracks by lying, and it’s a lie most people are willing to believe.
hydroacetylene
5d ago
I strongly suspect girls(and boys) were always idiots at 15 and that historical low marriage ages worked out mostly because the girl wasn't the final say in who she married. For some reason I don't think this guy is trying to bring that system back.
hydroacetylene
5d ago
You are aware that it is possible to have a loving relationship without having sex?
hydroacetylene
5d ago
The law mainly functions to prevent loving, family-condoned relationships between 20-something men and teenage girls.
How many of those do you think would happen in this day and age?
hydroacetylene
5d ago
I think this is bubble effects for an affluent, socially liberal stratum. Trailer trash is also dysfunctional(as you presumably know well, you post about the Irish equivalent often enough), we just expect it because they're dysfunctional poor people. I have female relatives who would claim to have similar socially liberal beliefs but they won't walk the walk- when you've lost the internalized socially conservative views you'll fall for totally stupid stuff that usually affects the dysfunctional underclass.
hydroacetylene
5d ago
Older, affluent women are, and have always been, ideological enforcers. That's true regardless of where you go. In blue tribe suburbs they're screaming at people about ICE; in the Arab world they're lecturing their (grand)daughters about the hijab.
hydroacetylene
5d ago
This seems unlikely, considering his record of managing the war in Syria....
hydroacetylene
5d ago
Raising the age of consent(it used to be, basically, the beginning of puberty) is a remnant of older laws intended to protect unmarried young women from older guys lying to them to get laid. There were a lot of these laws in the past, a high age of consent isn't an adequate replacement.
hydroacetylene
5d ago
The correct comparison to the NYT would not be Fox news, though- Fox is in a different medium, just to start with. The WSJ isn't terribly pro-Trump, but it's still an overall right leaning paper, and the National Review is somewhat more pro-Trump and also a high quality source. Fox is the equivalent of, like CNN.
hydroacetylene
5d ago
I mean Trump did campaign to anabaptist groups by claiming democrats would take away their customarily high levels of religious liberty. Vaccines falling under that doesn't seem implausible.
hydroacetylene
5d ago
Start calling the medical marijuana prescription mills and ask if they'll write a scrip for ozempic.
hydroacetylene
5d ago
Any way, I guess I’ll be looking for recommendations to for where to get grey market tirzpeptide soon.
Is it on Trumprx?
hydroacetylene
5d ago
Fifty year old upper middle class women being karens is the sort of thing that requires more of an explanation if they don't do it, you notice it from the left because of 1) lies about ICE and 2) media focus on the protestors, not what they're protesting against.
hydroacetylene
6d ago
Latin American countries are great about prosecuting corruption and insistence on democratic norms. It's totally not punishing opponents for losing.
hydroacetylene
6d ago
Yes, it's totally normal for presidents to arrest school board attendees for terrorism, run sting operations against religious groups their own FBI is telling him are innocent, and attempt to strongarm communications companies into censoring their opponents. Very common.
hydroacetylene
6d ago
This is a misunderstanding of how bodycam footage works- the storage capacity on bodycam footage is not infinite, as part of the paperwork on a police interaction officers have to outline and save their bodycam footage. Routine stops like that aren't getting reviewed by a supervisor, they're getting reviewed by an office lady who checks to see if this needs to go to a prosecutor for a ticket, the officer needs extra time to drop off an arrestee at the station, the judge on call to sign warrants needs a phone call, or if he needs to get sent over to dispatch for another call, etc.
This is pretty normal bureaucracy for running mobile operations. Bodycam footage might be saved and owned by the municipality, thus making it technically a public record, but they're probably not being viewed by police supervisors unless the arrest generated a complaint, or there's a new system being tested, etc. Police supervisors have actual jobs to do that don't entail personally watching officers do theirs(they system was set up to have officers work with limited supervision).
hydroacetylene
6d ago
Clearly JFK escaped and reinvented himself as Jeffrey Epstein.
Starting on Alexander to Actium, in the part about the malaise in Athens. There’s some obvious parallels to today, but I’ll leave it at that.
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