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Nope. We're done here.

Either you are arguing in bad faith, you don't have experience with the world, or you're actually fucked up. Whatever the case, there's nothing more to be said about you trying to justify a college-aged white scion raping his family's teenager black maid and getting away with it.

He was an adult, and she was a teenager. Hence it is rape. Of course that is kind of irrelevant since the law in 1925 would rarely if ever prosecute a rape of a black woman by a white man.

You'd have to be very naive to think that a violent bigot like Strom Thurmond going after his family's black maid during the nadir of American race relations could be anything other than rape.

Bolsonaro and his supporters are the fascists here.

Website has to follow laws, news at 11.

Jesus Christ

That isn't an answer, scriver.

Play my little games, scriver.

Yes, your average Republican politician is at least a 7 or 8 on the Boomer Scale, and as such believes they are immortal until proven otherwise.

Wait, is that scale actually some people have made and reference?

Yes, in the sense that some people are just me. I suppose I could establish the Boomer Scale in full.

Someone should make an online test for how boomer you are.

Welcome back, losers. Here it is as promised, the MetalSlimeHunt Standardized Boomerism Scale (derived in part from the Hare Psychopathy Checklist). As they say, it is not the wrinkles on your face that make you a boomer, but the wrinkles in your heart. Thus this test is designed for all ages, and millennial boomers will not be spared the rising fire. The test works as follows. There are twenty statements, which you should read and indicate for each whether you Mostly Disagree, Partially Agree, or Mostly Agree. If those categories don't fully represent your answer, just pick the one which you believe represents it best.

The statements are as follows:

1. The basic facts of life are sometimes different for different generations, even those right next to each other.
2. Sometimes hard experiences make a person weaker, not stronger.
3. Modern culture and entertainment are of similar worth to what I had as a child.
4. The government is sometimes honest.
5. Parents have to give their children a complete education of the world, even if it includes some things that are against their faith.
6. A person is free to reject an apology, no matter how heartfelt, and even if they weren't really wronged.
7. There should be a an effort made to provide a basic standard of living for everybody in my country.
8. It is wrong to use corporal punishment to discipline children.
9. There is no obligation for a person to care for their parents and grandparents.
10. The occasional outburst of anger or sadness is a serious issue in a person's family relationships.
11. Society makes it necessary for people to sometimes break the law.
12. Access to modern communication technology like the internet and smartphones have become a necessary part of life.
13. It is acceptable for the government to devote extensive resources to prepare for a future crisis, even if there is a chance the crisis won't happen.
14. People ultimately have little control over the path their life takes.
15. My country should limit itself from taking actions that cause significant social or economic problems in other countries.
16. People today are obligated to make up for historical injustices, even if all the people who were involved have already died.
17. It is good for a couple who has young children to divorce once at least one of them believes the relationship can't be fixed.
18. I should try my best not to cause any trouble for the employees of a business when I am their customer.
19. People should care if some kind of law or policy makes life difficult for a very rare minority group.
20. If I am diagnosed with a disease that is almost always terminal for people of my age group, I should accept that I will die soon and focus on palliative care.

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Once you have responded to all statements, add 0 points for each Mostly Agree, 1 point for each Partially Agree, and 2 points for each Mostly Disagree. This indicates your Boomerism Score out of 40.

This leads to the following categories.

0-5 points: Zoomer Gang Overlord

6-15 points: Doomed Millennial Usurper

16-20 points: Forgotten Survivor Of Gen X

21-25: Anti-Nixon Boomer

26-35: The Boomer Standard

36-40: Pro-Nuclear War Ultra-Boomer

And there you have it! Use it on yourself, your family, public figures, or whoever to determine how much of a boomer they are. Please feel free to add suggestions as to how my incredible and scientifically verified boomer test could be improved, unless you are a boomer.

Also, if you get over 35 you might be a future serial killer, just saying.

Now scriver, there's no way 20 minutes actually passed between those posts, that's just the forum clock being weird again.

I can find a few other studies suggesting the point, which presumably have not all been discredited. As they say, you can be right even if you did your research wrong.

I don't think this qualifies as appealing to cultural biases. Sports are incredibly popular and important in the public cultural mindset, and if anything people would have a bias towards ignoring evidence they they cause harm, such as the NFL's saga to deny that playing in the NFL will inevitably give you brain damage that might at some point in the future cause you to flip out and murder your family, or more likely just die of an aneurysm at 40.

While I don't like mass sports or their cultures and could be expected to be biased against them for that reason, I don't dislike them for no reason either, but because of what I've seen from people engaged in them. Anecdotal evidence may not be valid for publication, but that doesn't necessarily mean it's not valid at all.

I'd make the conjecture that sports might not trigger this behavior very much if we didn't live in a world full of violent bigoted drunkards...but we do in fact live in a world full of violent bigoted drunkards, and they don't seem to be going away anytime soon, so....