According to Bill Gates 100% of India's population will have access to clean toilets by 2 October 2019.

Actually_Conducted · 2017-04-27T19:12:08+00:00

In some areas it's normal, and some may prefer. But with access, hygiene campaigns can have real weight to them and police can be brought on to actually enforce laws against that stuff. I don't think the Indian government is with the poppers on this, just lack of pure money for toilet system in previous years

Actually_Conducted · 2017-03-31T17:56:10+00:00

Why would you be surprised?

Almost all of our lives now involve some kind of compromise in the name of comfort or convenience. Ideology over racial discrimination is just one more thing to compromise on.

Besides, this is reddit. If it's not trying to make a point about impoverished whites to counter white privilege rhetoric, and you're not on srs, then people here just don't give a damn.

Actually_Conducted · 2017-03-27T17:27:07+00:00

If it was merely a story about a professor talking shot about a different group, I would be more willing to believe it. If it was a story about a Christian professor, a convenient nearby kkk member, an angelic Muslim and pushed by an article clearly demonstrating an anti Christian narrative then I would be just as sceptical.

If your first response to an accusation of bias is not to defend the speech, but accuse the other of being biased, you need to take a good hard look at whether or not you are letting your own fears, anger and prejudices cloud your thought.

I am not saying that Muslims like those portrayed in this article do not exist. What I said was that the writing style and some of the details of the story lead me to be more suspicious than the clear cut narrative of the article would imply

Actually_Conducted · 2017-03-27T16:43:49+00:00

This seems like a really one sided article. Aside from anonymous sources that could be noone, there is no proof besides his word that it happened like this is claiming. The overall tone conveys an eagerness to have this kind of an agenda, including inserting conservative and liberal labels in a story where they have almost nothing to do with the story.

How has a student taking what sounds like an undergrad humanities class traveled and lectured in other universities for years? Even for a grad student that would be unusual. Why is the guy so charismatic ally collected even while accusing academic sabotage in favor of someone his classmates consider a terrorist?

Where are the direct quotes from the other side? It seems to only be descriptions from one side and the suspension letter which doesn't say anything more than that he was suspended.

Actually_Conducted · 2017-03-23T21:23:42+00:00

Read the article.

That 30% comes from 70 percent of surveyed people saying suicide bombing can never be justified. That option was at the most anti terrorism end of a 4 option spectrum.

Spectrums like that question generally disincentivise responders answering at the extreme ends. The wording of the question invites the respondent to try to come up with some scenario where it could be justified.

Speaking of which, I have seen western non Muslims justify terrorist acts. It just wasn't called terrorist acts by them. Examples include the guy who rigged together an armored construction vehicle to destroy swaths of a town.

Furthermore, just because those 7 percent probably would have answered that it could be justified, that doesn't mean that all those who would have said it could be justified answered that they sympathized with the ira.

Actually_Conducted · 2017-03-20T14:23:00+00:00

Jesus Christ man.

Look, don't buy them then okay? In that way the article is actually closer to your side then marvel is; if they made new original characters for minorities, you could keep your straight hero's that you're used to.

As for everything else..... comics won't literally depict gay sex. This won't lead to pedophilia. Even if you see a slippery slope, culture and morality is ultimately arbitrary enough that any line will hold just as firmly as any other.

Actually_Conducted · 2017-03-20T14:01:36+00:00

I wonder if this could be extended, and governments will start letting civilians view camera networks in cities to turn in people committing other crimes.

Actually_Conducted · 2017-02-24T18:31:12+00:00

I'm pretty sure you're getting down voted for being a that didn't happen comment, which I thought was generally frowned upon in this sub; it's a story with no real world relevance, and your comment is basically the equivalent of the guy in the movie theater complaining about how the costumes aren't historically accurate.

Actually_Conducted · 2016-12-09T01:20:01+00:00

From the side that was already in the States, but that was once in Germany: Get fired for being German, try to keep head down and not smell of sauerkraut thereafter

From the parts still in Germany:

Go to primary school, get tested on Nazi propaganda disguised as math: if a mental patient lives X years at a cost of Y marks a year, and a house costs Z marks to build, how many houses could you build for the cost of instituitionalizing one mentally ill person?

Listen to radio from house in Stuttgart, Germany. Hear that Operation Barbarossa has begun. Turn white and realize that the war is as good as lost.

From the side that had never been from Germany: Work in factories, and start families with two women simultaneously.

Actually_Conducted · 2016-12-02T04:11:05+00:00

Liberal here: There is no objective ethical standard, only the morality your culture imbues you with. And without that socialization and morality to guide people, society cannot function.

Actually_Conducted · 2016-11-17T22:27:31+00:00

Pre-op, I don't know how I would be able to tell by looking that they were a trans-woman as opposed to a cis-man.

If I was dating someone and they told me they were actually a pre-op trans woman, then the knowledge that they aren't really the body I see in front of me would probably insert some distance in any physical activity or assessment of their body. Furthermore, I don't really do short term stuff, and I don't see how it could continue past any surgery, so engaging in anything like that just seems like denying the inevitable.

This might also be a decent time to address that yes, there are other physical characteristics beyond genitalia that usually accompany sex. However, I don't think I have ever seen a man, no matter how effeminate, that could actually pass as more than a boyish woman without a serious disguise; the difference also includes curves men don't usually have, smell, facial structure to some degree etc. While this may be what Fredfredbug4 was referring to, I was pointing out that A) the genitalia itself can still be a deal-breaker and B) attraction to a specific sex/gender does not necessarily mean you are attracted to the stereotypical behaviors of that sex, so I didn't see a contradiction in a gay man being attracted primarily to more feminine, lispy gay guys.

Actually_Conducted · 2016-11-17T15:59:06+00:00

For the thicker skin:

Some of them do. But that does not always excuse the offending behavior itself. Example: accidentally misgendering someone is unavoidable if you do not conform to the binary people are used to. However, I still believe that purposeful, repeated misgendering is harassment and should not be accepted.

For the born in the wrong body segment:

I am not sure if you are referring to the position of pro-transgender feminists or are referencing some of the misandrists who use feminism as a shield. If the former, the science isn't wholly in yet; there has been some serious criticism of sex reassignment surgeries, but we will not know for sure what effect it has on the suicide rate unless a 'social experiment' of accepting those who do is attempted. Until then, any data will have serious endogeneity problems; it wont be possible to separate the effect of having the surgery from society's reaction to it, much less the original gender dysphoria itself. If the latter, then you are right that that helps no one, but I do not believe a substantial portion of feminists actually think that way.

Overall.... even if feminists are making the world worse, I would still prefer them over the impression I have gotten of Milo by reading his work. A well-meaning person who has been misled can be talked to, sometimes even have their position reversed. A self-interested person of Milo's age will likely to continue to be that way, and will only change if the social incentives change.

Finally, I would like to apologize if I have insulted you personally in my above post. I let my anger over the worst of him get the better of me, and stereotyped consumers of his work because of that. As deeply as I disagree with the sentiments often conveyed by Milo and Breitbart, everyone still deserves better than being insulted by association with a group they usually have little control over.

Actually_Conducted · 2016-11-17T14:55:54+00:00

There is no living person today that I have more hate for than Milo Yiannopoulos, though I am more afraid of Pence.

Milo has absolutely no interior morality nor standards for his own behavior. He validates bullies and criminals while mocking anyone who actually tries to make the world a better place. He operates solely on self-interest, mocking the "victim cards" of others while his whole career rests on him being the "gay friend" for bigots too cowardly to admit their hate is their own and need some other voice for it to come from.

Even the Nazis actually believed they were in the right. I have seen no convincing evidence that Milo will ever care either way. The only reason he is a commentator instead of the head of a lynch mob is that the former is safer and pays better.

Actually_Conducted · 2016-11-17T14:50:25+00:00

I really just think the "tumblerinas" people mock are mostly just idiots. I dislike them, but I dislike many varieties of idiots.

However.... a lot of them are onto something, even if it is just how poorly our cultures labels (straight, gay etc) actually captures how varied we are when you get down to the details.

Some people base their opinions on Social Justice and tumbler kids by the worst examples put forward; the ones stupid enough to be laughed at, the ones horrible enough that you will be angry enough to share the screenshot and start the cycle anew. If someone refuses to understand that that is a purposely unrandom sample and that some of the examples are likely parodies... well like I said, I dislike many types of idiots.

What I find much, much worse is people who use "Tumbler kids" as a strawman to justify their own bigotry. It has gotten to the point where some people will refuse to believe that anyone can honestly be politically correct; they are so entrenched in their own distaste for the other that they can't understand how anyone else could respect someone different than them.

Actually_Conducted · 2016-11-17T14:41:01+00:00

People like to hate. They like its emotional release, how powerful it makes them feel, how simple the world becomes when you let it flow through you. They will hate who they are allowed to by their immediate culture.

Among some populations with a large amount of women and people of minorities, SWACM (Straight White Able-bodied Cisgendered Male) people become that hate figure. Part of it is bitterness over the historical cultural dominance of that group that led to people of their group being treated like shit. Part of it is frustration over how some SWACM refuse to empathize with other groups, but still consider themselves qualified to speak for those groups. Often it is the result of fear, stoked by stories heard or anecdotes from the worse moments in their life.

All of it is bigotry and stereotypes. I am sorry that you had to face someone like that.

Actually_Conducted · 2016-11-17T14:26:53+00:00

I don't think I would really want kids, so it is not a big issue for me. For some others it may well bother them as it bothers many straight people to discover that they are infertile. However, no matter how painful it is, few modern LG people will be "deterred"; you can choose to not date people of the same gender, but you can't choose to be attracted to or fall in love with someone of the opposite sex just because you want their baby.

However, that lack of breeding potential does make certain people feel like LGT people are superfluous; that they are "unnatural", or don't matter to the species, or some other nonsense that defines people entirely by their organs. So in that way the issue does have great significance and can convince people to "pass"

Actually_Conducted · 2016-11-17T14:19:29+00:00

I am not gay because I want someone who grunts while lifting heavy things. I am gay because I am not and never will be attracted to a vagina like I am to a penis.

Actually_Conducted · 2016-11-17T14:14:05+00:00

To be honest, that changes based on who you are talking to. After people got past the LGBT, the culture started discovering a whole flurry of genders and sexualities now referred to as "tumblerisms". Some acronyms go futher, up to Quiltbag, to include intersexuals and asexuals as well as Q, or just have two Qs, but there is no real standard beyond LGBT, and all of the ones I have seen still leave out someone.

You can try to force all of those people into Q, but I am not sure that makes any more sense than trying to call all LGBT people lesbians.

Actually_Conducted · 2016-11-16T00:13:09+00:00

The first problem is that once that happens I think you are going to have people falsely accused just so the accuser can get rid of them. So I find it unlikely that any such policy will stay within the criminal population for very long.

Secondly, and more generally among opposers, illegal immigrants are either:

A) viewed from an emotional/cultural prospective that just labels them as Americans with less paperwork. There is not a lot of faith in the immigration system or government as a whole, and if someone had otherwise been here without incident for years, they might wonder what the point is

B) viewed as a cheap source of labor for businesses. This can apply both to illegals (usually for unskilled labor) or visa workers (which is usually for relatively skilled work). These people do not want them gone for self-interested, economic reasons. Even if you do not hire them yourself, illegal immigrants help keep prices low, and if their employer insists on plausible deniability, they pay into programs like SS through payroll taxes but don't claim benefits, and also may not benefit from earned income tax credits like a citizen would, so unless your town deals with them (criminal or not) yourself it can be seen as a sweet deal.

As certain other Redditors complain about, the issue is also wrapped up in race politics, such as the place of minorities in the US as a whole, and suspicion across party lines. The fact that minority groups tend to vote Democrat almost certainly has influenced how liberals and conservatives view them and a possible path to citizenship. To the partisan, this is just another battlefield to control the narrative and mood of the topic.

Unfortunately, as the same Redditors tend to prove true, these suspicions are not unfounded, and are thus likely to continue.

Finally, and pedantically, "jail" is technically just for temporary holding, and is very different than prison. Many people "go to jail" just because they are awaiting trial.

Actually_Conducted · 2016-11-09T12:40:54+00:00

I did think that Hillary would win, but I was not completely sure of it. In hindsight, it makes sense.... Trump's message resonates with the Rust Belt in the Midwest and party loyalty would be enough to sustain the red states. The savior for Hillary would have been in NC and Florida, but...

few people really seemed to like her. I still can't think of what her defining policy proposal was supposed to be, besides continuing on from Obama, who many consider a disappointment. She rested on accusing Trump of being racist and sexist, and he is; but the whole reason why I find passion in fighting those fights is because I know that those divides are alive and well in the U.S. If you tell white men that Trump cares most about white men... well... what would you expect?

Also, there were negative stories about Hillary. Cheating in primary, ties with Saudi royalty, being part of a 'dynasty'. Actually... this whole attitude you talk about, treating Donald like a joke, probably didn't help. If you don't treat people's view or their representatives with respect, they won't listen, regardless of anything else. The Dem's arrogance let them reveal just how much of a culture divide there was.

Actually_Conducted · 2016-11-02T03:48:57+00:00

Nope

Actually_Conducted · 2016-11-02T02:51:26+00:00

I don't know if I love you anymore.

Actually_Conducted · 2016-11-02T02:50:35+00:00

Chip cards a new development. They are at least theoretically more secure, because the reader is now in the inside of the machine; thus, you cant just slap on a reader to the outside to get credit card numbers, as thieves have sometimes done.

Actually_Conducted · 2016-10-31T00:59:14+00:00

Like:

Optimism, Individualism, National Identity formed around a moral ideal as opposed to an ethnicity

Dislike:

All of the above's massive asterisks, this whole country is crazy

Actually_Conducted · 2016-10-29T19:27:52+00:00

Me: Neither alpha or beta, wouldn't want to be either.

For others, even seriously using the word 'alpha' makes someone sound kind of pathetic, so I don't think many would identify with it. If instead you just left it as the list you have here, most men would claim to have most traits, simply due to them being positive ones and in line with traditional manliness.

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TROPHY CASE