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Unseen wrote:
It’s looking to me like Trump’s “base” consists of a bunch of one-issue voters: immigration, discomfort with people who can’t define what a woman is, inflation, foreign entanglements, abortion, general anti-liberalism, etc. * Looking at LGBTQ+, what are people who don’t even know what “Q” means in that designation supposed to mak…

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Bill is right. The myth of American exceptionalism born after WW2, when most of the rest of the economic world was destroyed. Most of the Trumpers I know have never left the country and are in debt with little hope of a healthy, wealthy retirement. The types who actually think they know everything. Clueless in comprehending the vastness of what…[Read more]

The test is really simple. Would I want someone to treat me this way? Do I want to be a slave? Do I want my 8-year-old self to get bung-holed by an adult priest? Do I, as a women feel good not have voting rights? If not, don’t do it. 

There’s no god needed, no ethics of the day. This shit is timeless. Every critter with a brain from a rabbit to…[Read more]

Unseen wrote:
@ Robert You talk about right and wrong like they are facts and not artifacts. You don’t seem to know the difference between facts and beliefs. Cultural values are not facts subject to verification and proof. If they evolve over time, like our beliefs about homosexuality, they are not and cannot be facts.

You are speaking about c…[Read more]

Unseen wrote:
@ Robert
You treat “normal” as if normality is a fact and not a judgment or standard. That is what we disagree about. For you, the ancient Greek men who diddled around with boys were violating some sort Truth handed down by God or perhaps built into the fabric of the Cosmos, and not simply a strongly held value and belief of a cer…

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We are talking about adults who desire having sex with underage children. Has nothing at all to do with consenting adult LGTBQ+ people. They have normal sexual preferences, whereas pedophilia should never be considered to be a normal sexual preference and is rightly a criminal offense. That is the entirety of my point. Do you disagree with me? And…[Read more]

Any efforts to paint child predators as the victims here is disturbed. I am not giving pedos and predators any excuses by calling them mentally ill.  I would even call it psychopathic behavior and reiterate that they must be removed from society. If it was your 5-year old daughter who got “diddled” as you lightly put it, she would likely have…[Read more]

Mental illness doesn’t change someone’s basic personality: it couldn’t turn someone into a paedo.  It’s an act of sexual preference, but not a “normal” one.

Sorry, that’s not logical. If it’s not normal, it’s abnormal, aka an “illness”. Of course, mental illness can change your personality. I think these guys feel powerless in the adult world…[Read more]

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_Robert_ wrote:
Because they get off on it being “bad” or wrong. They get off guys abusing and using women. From the safety of mommy’s basement, of course. It’s like legalizing weed. Half the heads I know barely even smoke anymore since granny can run down to the dispensary and pick up some shit stronger than anything they had bef…

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_Robert_ wrote:
Would not surprise me if all this fakery results in sophisticated analysis tools to determine what is real vs what is AI-generated. AI will leave certain detectable markers for now at least. May even raise the market demand for genuine media dealing with anything from news, politics and pornography.

I’m not sure w…

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Would not surprise me if all this fakery results in sophisticated analysis tools to determine what is real vs what is AI-generated. AI will leave certain detectable markers for now at least. May even raise the market demand for genuine media dealing with anything from news, politics and pornography.

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_Robert_ wrote:
It’s a fucking war. What part of that seems to elude?

I’m aware it’s a war. What about the rules of war? It’s not a valid excuse to commit genocide that the other side has bad guys in it.

Oh, they travelled to Egypt and Jordan, LOL. Who want nothing to do with “Palestine”.

So what? Is there an argument in there so…

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A Refugees International team traveled to Egypt, Jordan, and Israel in January 2024 where they interviewed key stakeholders in the aid response, displaced people inside Gaza, and people who had recently fled the conflict. Our research makes clear that conditions inside of Gaza are apocalyptic.

Well, that was 6 months ago, and the apocalypse will…[Read more]