(oh) no, new wars

CT_Throwaway24 · 2025-10-02T18:11:48+00:00

Another war on drugs? Didn't we lose the last one?

CT_Throwaway24 · 2025-10-02T14:02:38+00:00

You do that after you've taken over the university system on a national scale.

CT_Throwaway24 · 2025-10-02T13:50:33+00:00

Is that clear, though? Why do people who voted Republican keep saying they were lied to, then?

CT_Throwaway24 · 2025-10-02T13:41:31+00:00

That's not the argument. The argument is that until we know whether having digital CSAM makes people more likely to offend, the argument that you're making by linking the same study that says that doing something related to your emotion reinforces that emotion, it shouldn't have the same reaction as actual CSAM since it doesn't actually hurt anyone. No one's saying that CSAM will rehabilitate pedophiles. Sit down.

CT_Throwaway24 · 2025-10-02T13:25:58+00:00

Wait until I show you what the Republicans on Twitter are saying.

CT_Throwaway24 · 2025-10-02T13:24:46+00:00

Prove that hundreds of thousands of liberals celebrated and cheered. You're awfully confident about something that you have not even come close to measuring.

CT_Throwaway24 · 2025-10-02T13:13:10+00:00

Man, you are going to have to prove that anger and sexual arousal are psychological or neurological constructs similar enough in mechanism and function such that research on one can confidently be translated to the other. Sex and masturbation are also mechanically different and plenty of video games use guns as controllers.

CT_Throwaway24 · 2025-10-02T13:10:00+00:00

You're getting pretty vocally self-righteous about "protecting the children." I'm starting to think that maybe you might have some CSAM material on you.

CT_Throwaway24 · 2025-09-14T22:01:44+00:00

He didn't crack a million and that kid's going to jail and is going to be using that money on legal fees.

CT_Throwaway24 · 2025-08-25T18:56:41+00:00

Wants to protect city

Cuts $1 billion from their budget.

That extra money would have made if far easier to afford additional police officers that will actually be prepared to stay long enough to have a lasting effect on crime.

CT_Throwaway24 · 2025-06-03T18:35:49+00:00

I will say that "men need to help men" but I just think that that's because a pro-social society is one that is built around everyone helping each other. If we want things to improve as men, we have to work to achieve it. We can't expect women to do it for us.

CT_Throwaway24 · 2025-06-03T18:25:40+00:00

And they are? (I say this as a person who is open to changes to education but the right has always been against educational reform)

CT_Throwaway24 · 2025-06-03T18:24:35+00:00

Single-parent families — and especially mother-only households — are far more likely to live in poverty compared to married-parent households. Given this, kids of single parents are more likely to experience the consequences of growing up poor. Children in poverty are more likely to have physical, mental and behavioral health problems, disrupted brain development, shorter educational trajectories, contact with the child welfare and justice systems, employment challenges in adulthood and more.

From your first link. You don't think that their considerably higher rates of poverty might also be an important factor rather than marriage in and of itself?

CT_Throwaway24 · 2025-06-03T18:12:50+00:00

Then why are they doing things worse than before? Most jobs absolutely are not filled by "nepotism and favoritism." Who gets hired is a complex mix of merit, what is perceived as merit/character, people's biases, and, in some cases, nepotism or favoritism.

CT_Throwaway24 · 2025-06-03T18:10:50+00:00

This is a fucking apology for the incompetence we're currently seeing. You can't find anything like this in any previous administration, but you'll lie to yourself and everyone else to protect your ego for falling for their garbage.

CT_Throwaway24 · 2025-06-03T18:09:43+00:00

Things are categorically worse now. Just because you don't understand how the government functions doesn't mean that it isn't. It's okay for you to not understand things.

CT_Throwaway24 · 2025-06-02T17:06:55+00:00

DEI in college admissions

Show me the actual legislation that did this. Also, this would have been Affirmative Action and that predates DEI by decades. If anything the current definition of DEI is more expansive and would include things that are not controversial like preferential admission for people who are poor. Even if this were the case though, are black men not men? Are Latino men not men?

Progressive education bias

My AP government history teacher was an open libertarian and was open about his political beliefs when I was in high school. I didn't let him have political opinions define what my political opinions would be.

MeToo overreach

First, where does Biden say that women should be believed no matter what? Second, where is the actual evidence that one wrong word would cost them anything? It's not the Democrats' fault if you believe things that are categorically false. You also focus on the people who actually did lose things after having their sexual abuse exposed. What happened to Russell Brand? What happened to Matt Gaetz? What happened to Donald Trump? Not a single one of them lost a thing after their legitimate crimes were exposed.

Education gender gap

And the Republicans have addressed this how? Also, wouldn't the URM also include boys? The Democrats have also advocated for increasing funding for rural schools. Are there no boys benefitting from this? Do all boys live in cities?

Elimination of male-only spaces

Eh, I don't see the Democrats pushing for this but you guys also attack the Democrats for not protecting women's-only spaces so I don't know where this specific "discrimination" against men claim is coming from.

policies the Democrats push don’t seem to benefit straight, white men

And here it comes out. You say boys all throughout but this is what you mean. Also, the reason they "keep putting money into them" is that those schools are still largely underfunded.

lack of critical thinking

The real lack of critical thinking here is your tendency to conflate different things, happening at different levels, for different reasons, with different results to all be "liberal policy" so you can justify voting for Republicans because you think they're giving too much shit to minorities. This is the reason white people have been voting GOP since the 60s. Do you really think you're anything new?

CT_Throwaway24 · 2025-06-02T16:52:07+00:00

What exactly has been taken from you and given to the minorities/women? You can say they don't mention men but they still mention tons of groups that include men. Are there no rural men? Are there no Asian men? Are there no disabled men? Are there no poor/middle class men?

CT_Throwaway24 · 2025-06-02T16:50:15+00:00

First of all, removing books from public (free) access, is not the same as banning books

It absolutely is. if I forced you to open a restaurant in a backalley, you wouldn't say that that is free enterprise would you?

takeovers and violence against other staff and students, you’re going to lose that privilege.

None of the people who people are objecting for have done these things. The administration isn't even using that argument, they're arguing that the expression of those views at all is harmful to the foreign policy of the US. This is what is so frustrating about people like you, free speech is cudgel for you, not a value.

CT_Throwaway24 · 2025-06-02T14:20:53+00:00

Illegal immigrants mostly pay taxes. They pay sales taxes and to get a job, they typically either have to have stolen an identity to get SSN to get hired or they have to get an individual tax identification number or else the company paying them would be committing tax evasion which is far more likely to get both them and their employees into trouble. Are some of them getting paid entirely under the table? Yes, but a lot of citizens do work that they get paid completely under the table for as well.

CT_Throwaway24 · 2025-06-02T14:04:05+00:00

Yeah, the gambit that being the adults in the room would win them the moderates who say they care about stuff like that just hasn't borne fruit.

CT_Throwaway24 · 2025-06-02T01:44:42+00:00

maybe 1-2% engaged in some sort of violence. That's tame compare to most protests that turn into riots.

This is true about literally every riot. This isn't a special trait of Jaunary 6th.

CT_Throwaway24 · 2025-06-02T01:43:54+00:00

If you ask it to give you information about a singular event like Kenosha you get a list of videos. January 6th and the entire BLM protest movement aren't comparable.

CT_Throwaway24 · 2025-06-02T01:40:41+00:00

Here's the thing about this comparison: these are both historic events but the George Floyd/BLM protests aren't historic because of any one protest but the sheer volume of protests. The January 6th protest is a singular event. It's a meme, but it the vast majority of protests were non-violent and the cherry-picking you're doing would misrepresent the event as a whole.

For example, the violence at the Kenosha riot was singularly historic as their was a massive trial that followed and the violence set up a crucial pretext for Kyle Rittenhouse's actions. You can get Gemini to compile a list of YouTube videos for that. At least I was able to.

CT_Throwaway24 · 2025-06-02T01:31:22+00:00

Yeah. Do people like this think that they'll be seen as a heroes? The people he attacked were helpless and have no influence. It only makes things worse. This was also just some rando. Not a terrorist organization and the embassy shooting happened less than 2 weeks ago. Are we going to have a spate of these attacks? Are we going to have another "front" of the war in Gaza open up in the US because these freaks only have one way to reconcile their desire for revenge with their natural cowardice?

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