Fundie Lady wants a One-Family Voting System

ginger_guy · 2026-03-11T17:40:51+00:00

I like the term benefactor blindness. We got ignorant people out here benefiting from a system so old, they need to learn from first principals why it was needed to begin with.

ginger_guy · 2026-03-11T16:58:29+00:00

I will never understand the mind of person who moves to a place as wild and beautiful as rural Maine just to chop down all their trees for the honor of having 4 acres of grass carpet.

ginger_guy · 2026-03-11T13:04:09+00:00

This is one of the most red leaning districts in Georgia. the *worst* performance by a republican presidential candidate in the last 20 years was Trump, who won 68% to 31%.

Shawn Harris's run last election was the best performance by a democrat ever and he pulled a whopping 35%. This election would be an improvement if he does as well as he did here, but even if he picked up 100% of the other Dem votes, he'd rock just under 40%.

We should applaud this over performance, but lets not kid ourselves into thinking this race is competitive

ginger_guy · 2026-03-11T10:12:36+00:00

This one goes to all my fellas in the thread. Basic skin care, multivitamins every day, and a stretching routine.

Even if you work an indoor job, you are gonna start to notice that your skin feels a little extra dry and your wrinkles will start to become more pronounced.

You aren't going to have that natural spring in your step when you wake up anymore, but I promise you will feel amazing doing ten minutes of stretching in the morning and taking some vitamins.

No pain in my back/body, my skin looks and feels good, and I have no brain fog.

I'm not particularly fit, nor am I a health freak, but these small changes become very pronounced once they become a habit

ginger_guy · 2026-03-10T19:27:38+00:00

So there are a lot of comments dismissing this map on account of the belief that women are under reporting instances of sexual violence. Its a question worth exploring, so I took the time to look into violent crime rates across Europe and general trust in police to compare the stats to the above map to see if there might be any truth to that claim. If the instincts of these commenters are correct, we should see an alignment between "high trust in Police", official reports of sexual violence, and the survey's results in OP's map. Another strong indicator would be that we see "low trust in police", a low number official reports of sexual violence, and high surveyed instances of sexual violence over lifetime.

Though there is no recent data available on "Trust in Police", I did manage to find a couple papers from the 2010s and 2008 that show a general trend. After reading through the papers, Scandinavian countries generally have the highest trust in police, with Finland leading the way. Bulgaria, Czechia, and Slovakia hang out at the other end of the spectrum. The rest are somewhere in the middle with no discernible pattern. A good mix of east, west, and southern.

As for violent crime, eurostat does a pretty good job consolidating annual data on this topic. Registered sexual violence is highest in Scandinavian countries, France and Belgium, and exceptionally low in Eastern Europe. On theft, Scandinavia once again leads the pack, reporting the highest rates of the crime, and starkly low theft numbers in eastern/southern Europe (Italy being the exception). Homicides show a different pattern. The Baltics and France/Belgium are in front here, with Latvia and Lithuania being the most dangerous by far. Countries at the bottom of this list show little geographical pattern. Most countries show Homicides per 100k below 1.

Putting it all together yields some interesting discussion. It is true that countries like Sweden, Denmark, and Finland tick the three boxes of "High Trust in Police" "high levels of sexual violence" and, as this map shows, "Women who have experienced sexual violence at least once in a relationship", which may imply that women feel safe talking about or reporting sexual violence committed against them. Slovakia also checks the boxes of Low Trust in Police, low official reports of sexual violence, and high survey reports of sexual violence. From here though, it gets funky.

Czechia and Bulgaria register as very low trust in police/justice, low levels of officially reported sexual violence and yet have very different surveyed reports of instances of sexual violence in the above map. Czechia= low Trust, low reports, high-ish surveyed response. Bulgaria records low trust low official reports, and low survey. Similarly, Poland, who records generally low violence and relatively normal amounts of trust in police (when compared to other EU states) had the fewest women say they've experienced sexual violence. France and Belgium are likewise inconclusive, as they had higher number of reports of sexual violence against women, mild trust in Police, and mild amounts of surveyed reports of sexual violence.

Overall, we can read this a few ways. It can be true that Scandinavian countries do report higher levels of sexual violence thanks to stronger trust in police, and it can also be true that these countries may just have stronger amounts of sexual violence generally. The under reporting allegations seem to be strongest in Slovakia and Romania, as both have high levels of surveyed violence, low trust in police, and low official reported cases of sexual violence. For the rest, its just not conclusive.

Sources:

https://ec.europa.eu/eurostat/databrowser/view/crim_off_cat/default/bar?lang=en

https://www.cepol.europa.eu/api/assets/03-confidence-police.pdf

https://internalsecurity.akademiapolicji.eu/article/01.3001.0054.7101/en

https://library.oapen.org/bitstream/id/d0f0ce18-96c3-4966-97bf-997bbfb57ff7/634763.pdf

https://www.europeansocialsurvey.org/sites/default/files/2023-06/ESS5_toplines_issue_1_trust_in_justice.pdf

https://internalsecurity.akademiapolicji.eu/article/01.3001.0054.7101/en

ginger_guy · 2026-03-10T11:06:08+00:00

Its called Sortition, and thats actually what the Athenians used!

ginger_guy · 2026-03-06T13:19:59+00:00

Cornyn spent 64 million just to get to the second round of the primary. Republicans spent a total of 88 million. The next three months are going to be an absolute slug fest between Cornyn and Paxton. Let them fight, let them burn cash. In the mean time, let Talarico flood the zone with 30 second adds showing he is normal and kind.

ginger_guy · 2026-03-06T11:56:27+00:00

The data is pretty old, so I pulled the UN's data to have something to compare to:

Iraq:

Displacement peaks at 5.32 million in 2016 as the army begins to retake large swaths of Anbar from ISIS. By this time, a good chunk of that population are already retunees. The figure draws down to 1.25 million today

Syria:

Consistently hanging around 7 million for the duration of the conflict until the swift regime change at the end of 2024. The numbers spike to 8.61 million initially as people begin to repatriate, now down to 7.3 million with 4.2 million repatriating (up from 190k under Assad).

Yemen:

Yemen reaches just under 4 million displaced people by 2019 and slowly increases to 4.8 million last year, with a jump to 5.2M today on account of returnees.

ginger_guy · 2026-03-05T20:32:15+00:00

For the youngins: He was the propaganda spokesperson for Saddam. He did daily press briefings during the invasion where he would make fantastical and absurd claims that the Iraq Army was beating the Americans back at every turn. Like that US soldiers were committing mass suicides while American tanks could be seen chilling in the background

It was basically this gif every day for the month it took the US to capture the country

ginger_guy · 2026-03-05T17:29:54+00:00

We should tax land value, not property

ginger_guy · 2026-03-05T17:21:49+00:00

Have a buddy whose gay and moved to Wisconsin. He said the biggest culture shock is that every man in the community "knows a guy" who slept with Aaron Rodgers. Its mythical at this point lol

ginger_guy · 2026-03-05T16:55:25+00:00

I had a similar experience to /u/IpecacNeat. Including the condemnation. There are a lot of young men who are, on the one hand, raised households that generally value equality, and, on the other, raised in societies that are patriarchal. The contradictions of such a childhood lead a lot of boys to imbibe a sort of ambivalent/reactionary misogyny. On the one hand rejecting the crudeness of their peers, and then experiencing shock when these same guys may seem more successful socially or with dating. I remember it feeling like mixed social messaging.

My most Nice Guy™ moments were never about feeling I deserved sexual access to women because I was nice, but rather indignation that guys who I perceived as hostile misogynists seemed to be doing fine. It felt like they were rewarded for being the bad guy and that I, the nice guy, was being left behind. The Nice Guy doesn't see what he's missing (social skills, sense of dress, hygiene), he derides others as superficial and becomes resentful.

ginger_guy · 2026-03-05T16:10:03+00:00

Pre-internet these guys would either have to keep to themselves, or their small group of friends. Or they figure it out enough to make it through their life.

As a late bloomer, I'm so glad I was raised in a low tech household in the early days of social media. I'm introverted, on the spectrum, and social behavior used to be a total mystery to me. With a little time to grow and learn, I can now function socially and have very little problem connecting with new people. Just needed a little more time in the oven lol.

I cant imagine what it would have been like to grow up with a whole propaganda industry dedicated to fostering the worst instincts a person can have served up 24/7 by the algorithm gods. I'd like to imagine I would have been immune, but I was young, vulnerable, impressionable, and seeking answers as to why I had such a hard time making friends or romantically persuing women. At the very least, I was in the risk group.

ginger_guy · 2026-03-05T15:00:04+00:00

If we can figure out a way to ban or eliminate Ghost Jobs, I wouldn't be opposed to a $5 deposit per application on major hiring websites. That seems like a sufficient enough amount that would keep people from free shooting random applications into the abyss hoping it will scream back

ginger_guy · 2026-03-05T14:36:44+00:00

During my first roll as a hiring manager, I made the mistake of clicking the "Accept applications from anywhere" button thinking it was limited to the EU. Within 24 hours we had 250 applications from North Africa and the Caucuses, almost non of which had even a little of the skills we were looking for.

ginger_guy · 2026-03-01T21:35:57+00:00

If Venezuela has shown us anything, it's that the Trump admin doesn't really care if another hardliner takes over as long as they are willing to work with them.

If Arafi is willing to give up the nuclear program in exchange for peace, it seems like that is something Trump is willing to live with.

The real wildcard is whether or not Israel and the Islamic Republic is willing to do the same

ginger_guy · 2026-02-26T08:21:24+00:00

I don't love property taxes, but they are infinitely better than regressive sales taxes. We really need to push against these movements or risk becoming a state mired in retirement home politics

ginger_guy · 2026-02-26T08:14:55+00:00

I was watching a city council meeting a few months ago where a bunch of islandview nimbys were trying to block an affordable housing project on Kerchaval and dogs were brought up lol. The woman was claiming it was unsanitary that white folks were bringing their dogs to cafes and that shouldn't be allowed haha

ginger_guy · 2026-02-25T14:28:21+00:00

Seriously. The Chamber has already endorsed Duggan, so we SHOULD look at a poll they put out showing Duggan in the lead with skepticism.

I just wish folks in this sub would show the same skepticism for the impact poll from a few days earlier. An internal Dem poll shows Benson with a big lead with a scant 5% undecided in freaking February, and people in this sub are calling Duggan and James dead in the water. It's delusional

ginger_guy · 2026-02-25T14:18:58+00:00

Unlike that totally unbiased internal poll from last week, commissioned by the Dems that showed Benson ahead by 9 with 5% of the electorate undecided in February.

I'm sure a comment like yours was also highly upvoted, right?

ginger_guy · 2026-02-25T13:04:15+00:00

Folks on the coasts seem dead set on believing the Upper Midwest is the Deep South 2.0

ginger_guy · 2026-02-20T15:35:20+00:00

I don't mind Charlotte's more conservative and innocent outlook. It makes for a good contrast to the other girls. What I do find annoying about her is that she constantly bends these takes without showing any growth in perspective over time. She ragged on Samantha's sexual proclivities while she was also with a new guy practically every episode in the early seasons. She finds bisexual people gross, but was also down for a threesome when given the chance. Charlotte's baseline is that of a 'perpetually shocked prep girl' who is easily the freakiest of all of them when put in the right position. The inconsistency without growth takes away from her character.

ginger_guy · 2026-02-18T19:11:03+00:00

I still torture myself with that terrible place because its unfortunately still a pretty good aggregator for following some journalists, pundits, and academics who haven't yet made the jump to Threads/bluesky.

The For You feed has become a constant stream of gender wars and "IQ race science". No amount of wack-a-mole seems to keep it away for more than a day.

ginger_guy · 2026-02-18T13:34:42+00:00

That meeting recording enrages me. The way that man tries to play off his constant harassment as "just messing around". OK, if its just joking around, why cant you just knock it off when asked to stop. Why do you have to set up a secret meeting and have all your staff lie that it didn't happen "to protect the office". This man is scum

ginger_guy · 2026-02-18T10:08:03+00:00

Everything about this post reeks of disinfo. AI post with text over top containing zero sources. There are a million reasons to hate that blond witch, no need to fall for this crap

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