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Quote from: Criptfeind on October 27, 2022, 07:24:21 am

I'm not sure if you could really call a thread that gets a dozen joky meme replies and then dies as it's buried under a mass of other spamed out threads "lively".

The brightest candles burn

So do the dimmest :p

Interesting article on the uptick in vasectomies in the US after Roe v Wade was repealed.

https://www.bbc.com/worklife/article/20221024-vasectomy-the-us-men-embracing-permanent-birth-control

As an aside to the more serious parts of male contraception the article considers, it would amuse me if an unanticipated side effect of the repeal would be a reduction in the already low birth rate, increasing how quickly whites are “replaced” as the majority, but I’m a prick (pun mostly intended) so I would think that.

It’s not as impressive as your inability to note that Grim Portent was quoted :p

His colleagues are the ones that put him in position though? He was also most popular among his party colleagues the first time round.

The party members are probably not happy about it though.

It's not just fear. Some people really do believe that certain behaviors are abhorrent.

I think there is danger both in incorrectly identifying what behaviors are socially and individually destructive and in abusing power when people behave in an "unacceptable" manner.

Basically - society will suffer if it accepts things that shouldn't be accepted (either in what is accepted without "punishment" or if excessive punishment is accepted) and if it doesn't accept things that should be accepted.

There's also a massive shift in the concepts of individual vs. collective "acceptable" behaviors.  Basically the whole needs of the many vs. the needs of the few, or the needs of the present against the needs of the future types of arguments.

Therein lies the problem: the two parties fundamentally disagree on what’s acceptable and what isn’t, so when one gains control of the reins, the other excoriates them as the bearers of chaos and destruction that will bring about Armageddon, which basically means that “anything goes” so far as politicking.

Which is sad because the Republicans are much better at doing that than the Democrats.

I wouldn't trust these people to run a fucking bake sale and they're in charge of the damn country.

For two more years.

Therein lies the problem: you assume he thinks Ukrainians are human beings. It’s fairly typical of nationalists to think less (sometimes much less) of everybody else.