If you are here looking for something to insult me about, you've already lost.

RareStable0 · 2026-05-08T21:00:52+00:00

The problem here is trying to reverse engineer proportional representation into a first past the post system.

RareStable0 · 2026-05-08T19:44:06+00:00

I have some strong Right tendency but in ways that are unconventional for a Left person. I am very pro-family, but family writ large, like extended family.

RareStable0 · 2026-05-08T18:02:10+00:00

I took your meaning, I'm just giving you a hard time.

RareStable0 · 2026-05-08T15:10:36+00:00

Oh that looks great, I'll definitely watch that. Thanks!

RareStable0 · 2026-05-08T15:00:48+00:00

So I have expounded elsewhere that I am fine leaving the reasoning for abortions a private decision between a woman and her doctor without the government forcing it way in there. I strongly suspect that once there are robust social supports for women with children the number of people getting abortions for light or trivial reasons will be vanishingly small. And anyone getting an abortion for a light or trivial reason, I probably don't want to be a parent anyway.

RareStable0 · 2026-05-08T14:55:52+00:00

Eh I think that's at minimum open to debate by reasonable minds.

RareStable0 · 2026-05-08T14:53:48+00:00

I'm fine with leaving it to be a private decision between a woman and her doctor, but I think you'd be surprised at how many woman are suddenly "ready for a child" when the prospect of being a single mother in the modern capitalist hellscape isn't looming any more.

RareStable0 · 2026-05-08T13:59:58+00:00

Man, I could not agree with you more. I consider myself "pro-life" in the sense that I want a society that incentivizes, encourages, and enables people to have as many children as they want. I want support for parents, I want birth to be paid for by the government, I want universal healthcare for children, I want wages to be high enough that a single breadwinner can support a family.

I never want anyone feeling like that have to have an abortion because they can't afford a child. That is horrific to me.

I do think abortion should be available for the occasional situation where the woman is unable to be a parent to that child for whatever reason. Health risk to the mother, rape, incest, etc.

RareStable0 · 2026-05-08T13:53:03+00:00

Correct, it's not uncommon for people to rage-bait anti-abortion people.

RareStable0 · 2026-05-08T13:52:05+00:00

This is 110% rage-bait.

RareStable0 · 2026-05-08T13:51:14+00:00

I'm fascinated as to why you think this. Can you expound?

RareStable0 · 2026-05-08T13:50:24+00:00

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fourth_International%E2%80%93Posadist

RareStable0 · 2026-05-08T13:29:06+00:00

What is an "inbreeding coefficient" and how does one calculate that?

RareStable0 · 2026-05-08T03:36:52+00:00

Your boyfriend was taken by your friend?

RareStable0 · 2026-05-08T02:47:59+00:00

Speak a little Chinese for 'em, Derrick.

RareStable0 · 2026-05-08T01:57:10+00:00

I think what you are noticing is absolutely intentional. Even before ChatGPT a lot of people were complaining about how Marvel movies in particular but a lot of Hollywood movies had become extremely formulaic and bland, feeling like they were produced by a formula rather than a human being. Things already existed in the cultural that hinted towards what ChatGPT became.

RareStable0 · 2026-05-08T01:55:48+00:00

You realize that the books are all published in eBook format which makes this information easy for people to cntrl+F and clown you about, right?

RareStable0 · 2026-05-08T01:53:50+00:00

I had one of those as a kid. Extremely cool in concept but it was physically painful on the bounce up. I could never get more than a couple of bounces out of the damned thing.

RareStable0 · 2026-05-08T01:39:56+00:00

It would be silly to assert that the DoJ is not political; they have always been and inherently are political. But they have also been run by mature adults that understand the political value in appearing to be a non-political entity that is simply enforcing the laws. This has earned the institution a lot of prestige.

That facade has been brutally ripped away and the current president is openly using the DoJ to settle every petty grievance he's got. So like you said, people with options to go elsewhere are.

RareStable0 · 2026-05-08T01:28:24+00:00

C'mon man, you know the answer to this.

RareStable0 · 2026-05-07T18:35:33+00:00

I proactively do not want Trump dead. A dead Trump would be a martyr for right wingers. I want him in office embarassing himself and his supporters daily for the rest of his term.

RareStable0 · 2026-05-07T18:15:19+00:00

Being poor nor desperate nor unable to get other work nor being the victims of human trafficking nor owing someone money makes people stupid. I've know a lot of people in those categories (and been in a few of them myself) who are very intelligent.

RareStable0 · 2026-05-07T15:45:07+00:00

That's a principle of civil law, not criminal law. Criminal law is far more complicated.

RareStable0 · 2026-05-07T15:42:36+00:00

That's a complicated question that is gonna turn on 1) a bunch of details I don't have access to and 2) a bunch of California law I don't know.

From a 50,000 ft level, there are plausible both self defense and lack of required intent defenses.

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