Michelle Oberman of DePaul University "drawing a connection between enforcing these laws and lowering adolescent pregnancy rates flies in the face of everything we know about why girls get pregnant...
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...and why they choose to continue their pregnancies. The problem is much more complicated than simply older men preying on younger women."
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There's a scene in the Game of Thrones where a man called The Hound finds out where an old farmer has hidden his silver. The Hound promptly robs him. There was, of course, no way to call the police. The state was not there to defend the old man's property. This was a fairly typical problem in ancient and medieval times.
In modern times if Mr Jones kept a bag of gold on his kitchen table, few would try to steal it because most peeps would be deterred by the threat of incarceration. Jones can call the cops. The state sometimes fails, but it sincerely tries to protect Jones' property rights. But even this low level of risk is too much for most people. Mr Smith prefers to keep his money in the bank. The state insures his deposits there. Official channels allow him to access his monetary assets, and he has legal recourse if there is any dispute.
The BitCoin ideology however says that the state should have no role in the financial system. So BitCoiners take their money out of legally existing institutions. They might put their virtual cash on an exchange, the crypto equivalent of a bank, but those have been collapsing as their founders simply stole the money.
So crypto enthusiasts are left trying to figure out how to keep their valuables (which are really just long chains of letters and numbers stored on a computer) safe in their own homes. It's a return to ancient times where everyone has to fend for themselves. Today it's not likely to be a nasty barbarian with a battle ax, but the chances hackers will try to get your crypto wealth thru digital trickery are very high.
If you want to spend the rest of your life trying to stay one step ahead of the hackers who would love to steal the virtual bag of cyber-gold you keep in your living room, go ahead and convert your assets to BitCoin. The vast majority of the population will not join you on your journey back to the medieval stateless Wild West of crypto-finance.
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It's a pretty simple lesson
Manufacturing Myths
The whole thing boils down to "OMG!!! Some concerned citizens asked Twitter to remove disinformation from the site!!!"
but since the target of the smear campaign was named Biden, any attempt at clearing the man's name can be twisted into "Evidence Of Guilt!!!"
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It's the same as back in the day when they all knew Hillary was a murderer because she had deleted some emails.
To The Electric Chair!!!
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They take completely normal everyday actions, reframe them as a coverup, then they use the newly formed myth of a coverup as evidence that there really was an underlying crime.
As with Hillary, there is no evidence of any underlying crime committed by Hunter Biden.
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Let's tell a story just for fun.
At a high school in a small city a 25 year old teacher fell in love with an amazing 18 year old student.
They had sex. They were super happy about it.
Some Twitter randos decided teacher-student power imbalance = RAPE!!!!
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Total strangers of course had no idea that the student had excellent grades, was near graduation, and was very popular among the faculty
She was also the principal's daughter. The principle was on the City Council
So in fact she had WAY MORE power than the brand new teacher
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So if power imbalance = RAPE!!!!
then clearly the 25 year old teacher is a rape victim here
and the 18 year old is a rapist who deserves a long prison sentence.
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I don't know who did this, but it's a pretty offensive, and hilarious, commentary on Elon Musk. 😀😀😀
#Elon #Musk #ElonMusk #AOC #Sheldon #SheldonCooper
Over 400 million people live in EU countries where the age of consent is 14, 15, or 16
so that's a whole lot of normal respect for teens' bodily autonomy.
Civilized countries don't bring the cops in to try to do their parenting for them.
Only really fucked up countries do that
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What's the name of the logical fallacy of the badly framed question?
the famous "When did you stop beating your wife?"
Willard's "When DID free speech become a right-wing value?" - The answer is "it didn't" but he has already won by framing the question the way he wants.
"When DID the right wing become a gang of child rapists?" is exactly the same bad faith rhetorical manipulation.
Lots of Twitter personalities get famous by doing this one very dishonest thing very well 25 times a day.
We've reached a point where so many people have taken so many naked selfies, that it's not shocking anymore
It's become quite normal
Some peeps will giggle at Geraldo's facial expression or make rude comments about some body part of Vanessa Hudgens'
but it's no longer a scandal. It doesn't ruin your life to have old embarrassing photos around the internet anymore
We need to #StopTheHysteria
Our panicky overreactions to them are causing far more harm than the naked pics themselves
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It's just clumsy wording
It's easy for people to mistake expanded opportunities to rake in enormous profits (satisfying natural human greed) for greed itself.
or they just write "greed" because it's shorter than "unregulated markets allowing anti-social levels of enrichment"
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Elon once spent a ton of money showing he could shoot himself into space. He did. He got 5% of the way to the moon and stayed there for a few minutes.
Let's wait 'till Elon actually lives ON THE MOON for a full year before we even begin to consider his Mars bullshit :-D
How about we, as a society, fund universities that are good at teaching, not just the ones that are good at popular sweaty man games?
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I grew up in a culture that kept saying "Be Proud. Be Proud. Be Proud." and I was really surprised when at 15 I found out that Pride is the worst of the 7 deadly sins. Everything I had seen up to that point pushed Pride as an excellent thing, and here it was on an ancient list of terrible things you can do. Western society has a schizophrenic relationship with these things. and it's logical. Some people are too arrogant and need a little humility. Some peeps are way too hard on themselves and need a shot of self-esteem. Still others swing back and forth between being too humble and overly proud of themselves day by day or hour by hour.
"Think about it a bit and the idea that a luxury sports car can save us from global warming or that the answer for the Earth's toxification is to move everyone to Mars falls apart"
Excellent insightful summary of Musk and his business dealings.
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Big platforms banning honest discussion is damaging.
When all the major media promote one side of the story and actively ban people telling the other side of the story, content consumers will get a *very distorted* view of the world around them.
https://rumble.com/v1myhv4-censorship-is-warping-our-minds-revised.html
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If you‘re old enough to get locked up at Rikers Island you are not a child. You are a young adult.
America treats its teenagers like shit, and then polices their sex lives under the guise of protecting them. It‘s horsecrap.
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If you have $300 and you spend it on a trip to Niagara Falls, the trip is over rather soon.
If you buy a beautiful necklace with your $300 you can keep it for years.
People who study happiness report that those who spend their money experiencing things are much more satisfied with life than people who spend their money buying and having things.
For me it's counterintuitive, but also my experience shows it's true. Memories of my trip to a national park make me happier than some piece of jewelry.
A story: Mr Beerbelly is French. He lives in Paris. He's almost 50. He's a bit overweight. So is his wife. He doesn't have a good sex life. He watches porn. It's mostly beautiful women aged 18-25.
The age of consent in France is 15. If it's so easy to manipulate beautiful women who are 15, 16 or 17 why on earth is Mr Beerbelly still with his wife? If the wisdom of his age gives him power over sexy young women (there are lots in Paris), his marriage must be over, right?
There are tens of millions of men like him all over Europe. They could all use their magic manipulation powers to get hot young tail anytime they want, right? And totally legally, as the age of consent is between 14 and 16. but when you talk to Europeans you find, nope.