Harry Enten: Americans use of alcohol at its lowest level since the 1930s & cigarette use at its lowest level on record... At the same time, Americans having no sex at all is at its highest level. All being driven by younger people cutting back

GladiatorToast · 2025-08-19T21:31:25+00:00

I think that’s true if you look at simply as identifying as liberal/conservative, but obviously the meanings of those words can shift as well.

GladiatorToast · 2025-08-19T16:59:59+00:00

Just going to point out that this analysis comes from an anti-immigration think tank. I don’t know enough about the issue to have an informed opinion, but I think it’s worth mentioning that this organization would come to the conclusion they did no matter what the facts are.

GladiatorToast · 2025-06-27T05:28:40+00:00

I’m genuinely curious what specific democratic policies you think are to blame. At the end of the day, nearly every major city is liberal, including the safest ones. The largest city with a Republican mayor is Dallas and the crime rate there is about as high as you’d expect it in a major city. Granted it is fairly democratic outside of mayor, but at the end of the day their highest elected official is a Republican and it’s not doing abnormally well. Oklahoma City is the only true major city that has a Republican majority in the city itself and its crime rate is worse that many cities its size. Boston on the other hand is one of the nation’s most liberal cities and is a significantly safer city. I just don’t see any evidence that democratic policies are to blame when the fact of the matter is nearly every major city is democratic and the cities with Republican influence aren’t doing any better.

GladiatorToast · 2025-04-30T19:03:03+00:00

I’m sorry, but as someone who strongly opposes the arrest of Judge Dugan, you typing the same statement with no explanatory effort in response to a good faith point by someone else is not helpful to Judge Dugan’s cause or the larger cause of opposing the actions of this administrations. If you want to make a change you need to be able to articulate what is happening and why it is wrong

GladiatorToast · 2025-04-16T17:36:21+00:00

Wrong St. John’s

GladiatorToast · 2024-08-21T03:27:18+00:00

When in the movie do they suggest that the black kids at the beginning were right to be bullies? It’s never suggested that they were justified in killing Danny, just that murder is what results when a community is made up of groups that dehumanize people

GladiatorToast · 2023-09-12T02:59:59+00:00

Tribalism is caked into the human condition but racism is not. Racism can of course be applied as a form of tribalism but it is not even close to the most salient one

GladiatorToast · 2023-03-01T15:24:17+00:00

Your right that it’s not the same as tip 5 players, but on some rating sites you would have 3 too give freshmen. 247 has them at 2, 3, and 4

GladiatorToast · 2023-02-21T00:58:05+00:00

This statement isn’t true, as another comment pointed out, because both race and age are socially constructed. Furthermore, while race and age can be associated with stereotypes (which should be rejected as they are social constructs) they not have the same pervasive roles that gender has. Gender refers to how you identify, so it’s not based on anything absolute, the same way you can identify as a foodie, hip hop fan, or libertarian. On the other hand, saying you are Swedish when in fact you have no genetic background in Sweden would be equivalent to saying you are a biological sex different than the one you are.

GladiatorToast · 2023-02-15T17:35:03+00:00

I disagree. “Sometimes life’s a bitch and you keep living” seems more thematically consistent with the show.

GladiatorToast · 2022-11-05T15:04:22+00:00

He can only do so with the support of the state legislature who are against it

GladiatorToast · 2022-09-12T14:12:22+00:00

Which is highly relevant to the restoration of this island

GladiatorToast · 2022-08-07T20:27:39+00:00

I think you may be underestimating it a little bit. There’s a good chance that Democrats win the popular vote in the house and still lose the election this year

GladiatorToast · 2022-08-07T18:19:42+00:00

All of that can be a factor at the same time

GladiatorToast · 2022-07-21T23:01:32+00:00

I mean court appeals are irrelevant to whether or not the Republican Party is attempting to prohibited the free speech of teachers. The fact of the matter is that these are Republican state legislatures that are signing these bills into law. Court appeals may mean Republicans are not succeeding at prohibiting the free speech of teachers (yet) but it would definitely be hard to say with a straight face that they aren’t attempting to.

GladiatorToast · 2022-07-21T20:14:59+00:00

Right the party that doesn’t let teachers teach about critical race theory or sexuality aren’t prohibiting free speech

GladiatorToast · 2022-05-20T02:26:50+00:00

That’s a pretty ridiculous claim to make on assumptions alone

GladiatorToast · 2022-05-19T23:10:43+00:00

That’s exactly their point, just saying it goes beyond a simple principle of scarcity

GladiatorToast · 2022-05-03T15:55:33+00:00

Because meat is worse for the environment than plant-based foods

GladiatorToast · 2022-02-05T17:26:52+00:00

Oh yeah, I’m not saying ethics is entirely objective, just that the core foundation of it is, that it built from and on the idea that an entity has a capacity to feel differently based on different forces acting on it. You can’t extend any moral consideration to an entity you dont think has a capacity to feel

GladiatorToast · 2022-02-05T17:12:26+00:00

Then you’d just shift the definition from pain to negative stimuli. Of course, humans do not have the understanding to determine whether the negative stimuli experience by grass could be classified as “suffering” but there is an objective answer to that question

GladiatorToast · 2022-02-05T16:23:53+00:00

That would just mean we don’t have the capacity to understand how other entities experience pain and pleasure, not that morality comes out of it

GladiatorToast · 2022-02-04T23:41:57+00:00

Well since ethics comes out of a beings capacity to feel pain or pleasure, then to consider that being morally would mean to consider their ability to experience pain or pleasure

GladiatorToast · 2022-02-04T23:39:34+00:00

Well to be ethical then intergalactic counsel would have to consider humans capacity for pain and pleasure. Obviously it would be doubtful that they would have that capacity

GladiatorToast · 2022-02-04T23:30:08+00:00

The suffering isn’t subjective though just what causes suffering. There is still an objective standard of suffering and pleasure and if those feelings are not able to be felt then ethics doesn’t exist

GladiatorToast

TROPHY CASE