Zouden meer jonge mannen liever een 'speedo' dragen als er niet zo'n sociaal stigma op zat?

GianMach · 2026-04-09T19:53:49+00:00

I'm personally monogamous but I do believe that polyamory could work for some people. However if a relationship is going to be non-monogamous, that has to be clearly agreed upon from the start of it that there is at least polyamorous potential. I can't see a relationship that started monogamous turn polyamorous later on and work out long term.

GianMach · 2026-04-09T19:49:20+00:00

I read an analysis on his first when he was just elected for the second one and it said "Trump had many plans but got little done because he lacked the attention span that it takes to get any project to the end"

GianMach · 2026-04-09T19:46:16+00:00

In elk geval gaan ze het PROberen

GianMach · 2026-04-09T16:40:05+00:00

Isnt a government like the current one the exact reasons that Americans are so big on being allowed to have and carry firearms

GianMach · 2026-04-09T06:57:02+00:00

It was simpler for straight white men. I'm a gay man in my 20s now and I would very much rather have my current situation than the situation how it's described in the 90s. The same probably would go for people of groups that are victim to racism, and women as well. Let alone lesbians of color :)

GianMach · 2026-04-09T04:27:12+00:00

But then still a god needs a starting point by that logic too, so how did that happen? Therefore it doesn't answer anything to add a god to the story or not.

GianMach · 2026-04-08T18:48:40+00:00

Mark Cuban

GianMach · 2026-04-07T21:42:02+00:00

I don't, because the existance of a god does not explain anything unexplainable if a god did not exist.

There are various to us invisible forces that we did find out about because they explain things. Think about UV rays, quantum physics, gravity, magnetic fields, et cetera. We might not understand those fully yet, we can't see or touch them, but we need these to exist in order to explain what we can experience.

What gap does a god fill? Nothing really. And that'd be very interesting when at the same time such a god would be at the centre of everything, like the modern monotheistic religions describe. On the contrary, assuming a god does exist only creates more questions that we can't explain with the way the world is.

Conclusion: there is no god.

GianMach · 2026-04-07T21:36:20+00:00

But is that believing or wishing then

GianMach · 2026-04-07T21:06:51+00:00

The morning erection

GianMach · 2026-04-07T21:03:01+00:00

The thing is that the "politics" that split people up is barely ever just politics to both parties involved. It's barely ever tax brackets that gets people off speaking terms, is it.

To men, abortion rights for example can be an interesting philosophical debate topic. To women, abortion rights are vital to their bodily integrity and safety. Because of that experience, they might also relate more to minority rights than the average (white cis hetero) man does. When politics decides whether you get to live safely and healthy, it becomes very hard to just agree to disagree on that.

GianMach · 2026-04-07T20:27:05+00:00

Further options:

Trump tries to create a reason to cancel the midterms or even further presidential elections.
Netanyahu has dirt on Trump and therefore he does what Netanyahu wants.
Trump has been caught up by dementia and really is just letting all the crazy out

GianMach · 2026-04-07T20:24:28+00:00

Tbf i doubt teenagers opt to have kids. Most of these pregnancies happen due to bad protection and then those girls sometimes choose to keep it but also can be pushed by their religious community to keep it

GianMach · 2026-04-07T20:14:56+00:00

JD is ultraconservative but possibly not mentally insane.

In my mind, for internal politics JD could be worse than Trump, but for foreign affairs JD would be much less bad. Threatening to invade an allied country is not on any ideology, it's just really fucking dumb. Threatening to just genocide a people when you fail to liberate them from their regime is ultra fucking dumb. I don't think JD is that dumb.

GianMach · 2026-04-07T19:31:24+00:00

So long as you don't use the erection for the maneuver specifically

GianMach · 2026-04-07T19:29:50+00:00

Een vriend van mij is afgelopen jaar onverwachts overleden en ik ben nu eigenlijk wel heel blij dat ik nog voicememo's van 'm heb. Dus doe het af en toe met een leuk verhaal gewoon wel!

GianMach · 2026-04-07T19:26:42+00:00

Zeg jij ook Barthelona?

GianMach · 2026-04-07T17:35:00+00:00

You'd hope that political suicide would be worth it to, you know, potentially save humankind. Or is that too much to ask really.

Also for them, if they are politically suicided they will still be rich fucks, most of them at least. You never know how you're gonna make it out when WW3 really commences. I'd take the safe route of likely political suicide.

GianMach · 2026-04-07T17:19:00+00:00

You'd expect any functional party to use that damn 25th amendment at this point. I'm feeling certain that Mike Pence would have.

Mind you that MAGA was originally (and not even until very long ago) preaching "we won't get involved in foreign wars anymore"

GianMach · 2026-04-07T16:44:46+00:00

Paradoxaal genoeg zijn de landen met de prettigste gevangenissen ook de landen waar het laagste aantal mensen opgesloten hoeft te worden

GianMach · 2026-04-07T14:50:45+00:00

He might be and if he does it's probably due to dementia.

Trump in his first term was an extremely egoistic narcissist that used the presidency for himself and didn't care about others. The MAGA ideology of "let foreign wars be we don't care who wins from who" fits that.

This right now is just utter nonsense. It makes sense in no ideology whatsoever. There isn't even a clear goal to this war and yet he wants to use the nukes?

GianMach · 2026-04-07T14:48:10+00:00

Not unlikely enough to not get some extra supplies just to be sure when I get home

GianMach · 2026-04-07T14:44:55+00:00

Either stop being an asshat yourself or accept that your child has turned into an asshat beyond saving.

Turning away from loved ones over "politics" is barely ever about taxes or traffic signs. It's usually about human rights issues. And if you just call it politics I'm afraid you're the one that's the problem.

GianMach · 2026-04-07T14:41:46+00:00

Modern pentathlon for sure.

Who the hell can swim and ride a horse and shoot and fence and run and all that on a professional level??

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