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I question whether socialism really can't work on a nationwide scale. I despise commercialism and corporatist advertising/branding. We waste way too much. American culture is poisoned by selfishness. Our culture and politics is being corrupted by news, politics, etc turning into entertainment.

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I know this is horrible and don't think they deserve to be discriminated against, but I find transgenderism absolutely repulsive and feel very uncomfortable when such people are anywhere near me.  I'm really disappointed in myself about this because intellectually I know that it's not a choice and that they're not bad for being transgender, but that's one area where I'm a rather prejudiced man (albeit one who is actively trying to overcome his transphobia).  Atlas has actually been really helpful in the sense that talking to some of the transgender folks here has, at an intellectual level, sort of normalized for me the idea that transgender individuals are no different than anyone else.  However, the instinctive, irrational emotional reaction of discomfort and disgust when actually seeing them is still pretty strong.  I honestly think some of this is because until college my only exposure to transgender people was Tim Curry's performance in Rocky Horror Picture Show which I found incredibly disturbing.  Hell, I still sometimes confuse transvestism with transgenderism.  Btw, hopefully this post doesn't offend anyone here as that's certainly not my intent; this isn't something I'm proud of by any means

You're trying to improve, and that's a good thing.

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I think desertion is a justified form of civil protest.

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- You can be racist to whites, saying you can’t is a tumblrite excuse for your bigotry and hatred.

Rip me

What a brave man, making such a bold statement ;(

Yeah I'm extremely interested in TexArkana's hard drive right now.

I have never, and would never, watch anything sexual involving anyone under the age of 18. I'm not attracted to children in any way either, as I like, shall we say, well developed women 😏

URGRHGHRURGRHHGRGHRGRH

My point was, I like thick/curvy/chubby ladies, so obviously underage children are not in any way arousing to me. I could've handled this better though.

Can you stop?

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- You can be racist to whites, saying you can’t is a tumblrite excuse for your bigotry and hatred.

Rip me

What a brave man, making such a bold statement ;(

Unpopular opinion: most AZ users (with the exclusion of Cactus and some others) are trash. I don’t understand the issue with you, like I’ve never gone after you, yet you show up randomly and jump on my case.

I think the heat makes the Arizona posters overly aggressive. They always seem to be enraged about something.

Whereas you're a dick just because.

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Antifa is a mostly commendable group.

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- Randy Bryce shouldn’t be elected dogcatcher.

^ Terrible user right here ^

Sorry fam

Child support is an extremely broken and rigged system, so that is not something that should be held against anyone.  My only gripe is that he eventually paid it off anyways, instead of taking a principled stand against the system.

What are these problems then?

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- Randy Bryce shouldn’t be elected dogcatcher.

^ Terrible user right here ^

Sorry fam

Child support is an extremely broken and rigged system, so that is not something that should be held against anyone.  My only gripe is that he eventually paid it off anyways, instead of taking a principled stand against the system.

What are these problems then?

How about this case where someone was determined to owe huge amounts of back child support accrued during time they were in prison (on death row after a wrongful murder conviction) that they were unable to pay due to the circumstances

How about this case where someone was determined to owe child support for a child that was born without their permission (after they were lied to about the usage of birth control and about genetic infertility)

How about this case where someone who was a victim of rape was determined to owe child support for a child born as a result of the rape

As long as cases like these exist, I think we would be better off as a society getting rid of child support systems altogether than to have cases like these continuing to exist.

Yes, these cases are rare, but the depravity of what happened in each of these cases is immense enough to make me think we would be better off ending the entire thing overall.

Don't abuse these people's cases to defend #IRONSTACHE being a deadbeat who only paid child support to quiet things down before a house campaign. Many (like 99% women) people desperately need child support to support their child and themselves(especially women, who are systemically pushed from high paying jobs that give the ability to be financially independant), especially in cases of domestic abuse(we really don't want abusers to be able to keep their victims hostage because they're the only breadwinner). Repealing child support would cause devastating consequences that would far outweigh the benefits of the much rarer problems it imposes. We didn't legalize rape because of lynchings. Why should this be any different?

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Don't abuse these people's cases to defend #IRONSTACHE being a deadbeat who only paid child support to quiet things down before a house campaign. Many (like 99% women) people desperately need child support to support their child and themselves(especially women, who are systemically pushed from high paying jobs that give the ability to be financially independant), especially in cases of domestic abuse(we really don't want abusers to be able to keep their victims hostage because they're the only breadwinner). Repealing child support would cause devastating consequences that would far outweigh the benefits of the much rarer problems it imposes. We didn't legalize rape because of lynchings. Why should this be any different?

Well one difference is it's usually pretty easy for a person in financial difficulty to not rape someone.

His argument was entirely based around a tiny number of systemic failures (the fixing of which would be as easy as repeal). (And pretty much none of the black men lynched for rape were actually guilty,  anyway).

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IMO the biggest problem with child support is that there seems to be no opt-out for it at all.  I don't think any person should be subject to 18 years hard labor against their will, physical or financial, male or female.  That precisely is why I'm pro-choice.

But, I also believe that childbearing should be universally discouraged.  That's what puts me at odds with most people, I think.

I don't know about child support but alimony should be banned completely. No one owes you anything after a relationship ends

I mean, it prevents trapping someone in an abusive relationship because they have no way to provide for themselves.

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Some people are so bad they deserve to have slurs aimed at them. I'll call OJ Simpson the N word, because he's so evil he deserves a terrible label.

Oh f**k off.

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Our society has a massive problem with treating children like their parents property.

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I'd prefer if most districts were inside of the R+5 to D+5 range, and as square-shaped as possible.

Those two goals heavily contradict each other.

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Both parents deserve access to options to cancel their parental rights/responsibilities during the course of a pregnancy, regardless of what the other parent wants to force upon them.

Why do you only care about deadbeat dads?

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CPS needs to check on kids of all middle class/rich parents without warning and often. Not vaccinating, accepting that mental health problems are real and deserve sympathy, or respecting their lgbtq+ kids should all be grounds for taking all of the kids into foster care.

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Jordan Peterson is wrong sometimes but is generally a good psychologist.

This is the dude that actively refused to respect his trans students pronouns because "free speech".

[Since I'm the mad scientist proclaimed by myself]

Jordan Peterson is wrong sometimes but is generally a good psychologist.

This is the dude that actively refused to respect his trans students pronouns because "free speech".

Note that this refusal is within contexts of debates about the issue itself and is otherwise hypothetical.  No one claimed he called them the wrong thing.

So he swore he wouldn't respect any trans students but its okay because...

He doesn't have any trans students. Try applying this logic to the N word or something.

[Since I'm the mad scientist proclaimed by myself]

Jordan Peterson is wrong sometimes but is generally a good psychologist.

This is the dude that actively refused to respect his trans students pronouns because "free speech".

Note that this refusal is within contexts of debates about the issue itself and is otherwise hypothetical.  No one claimed he called them the wrong thing.

So he swore he wouldn't respect any trans students but its okay because...

He doesn't have any trans students. Try applying this logic to the N word or something.

Peterson's point is that the government shouldn't force people to use certain words, regardless of whom is being addressed.  He is not required to address a female student using female pronouns, nor a male using male pronouns, and it is entirely within his rights to refer to anyone he chooses by the word "it."  But he chooses not to, because that's outside the given norm.  He's even said that he would use the preferred pronoun of a particular individual if that person asked him to, rather than the state.

He is wrong on singular 'they' as that debate's pretty much been settled by grammarians, but having the state force people to use the silly pronouns (zir/zem/etc.) is just absurd.

Except he claimed these things about a bill that doesn't even mention gendered pronouns. Personally, I don't trust a person who starts unsubstantiated fear mongering about a bill to protect trans people from discrimination and hate crimes to not be transphobic.

https://medium.com/s/story/a-field-guide-to-jordan-petersons-political-arguments-312153eac99a

[Since I'm the mad scientist proclaimed by myself]

Jordan Peterson is wrong sometimes but is generally a good psychologist.

This is the dude that actively refused to respect his trans students pronouns because "free speech".

Note that this refusal is within contexts of debates about the issue itself and is otherwise hypothetical.  No one claimed he called them the wrong thing.

So he swore he wouldn't respect any trans students but its okay because...

He doesn't have any trans students. Try applying this logic to the N word or something.

You mean if someone wanted to be called the N word?    No, I'd refuse.

No. If someone refused to not call someone the n word.

[Since I'm the mad scientist proclaimed by myself]

Jordan Peterson is wrong sometimes but is generally a good psychologist.

This is the dude that actively refused to respect his trans students pronouns because "free speech".

Note that this refusal is within contexts of debates about the issue itself and is otherwise hypothetical.  No one claimed he called them the wrong thing.

So he swore he wouldn't respect any trans students but its okay because...

He doesn't have any trans students. Try applying this logic to the N word or something.

You mean if someone wanted to be called the N word?    No, I'd refuse.

No. If someone refused to not call someone the n word.

Comparing being called the wrong pronoun to being called a racial slur semmes rather hyperbolic...

It's a difference of degree, not kind. Misgendering is still quite bad and hurtful.

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All rap sucks and is incomprehensible.

Truth

"i don't understand it so it must be bad"

Nope, it just sucks.

White guys from Uber white states hate rap. Shocking.

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All rap sucks and is incomprehensible.

Truth

"i don't understand it so it must be bad"

Nope, it just sucks.

White guys from Uber white states hate rap. Shocking.

Since when is Florida uber white???

I was talking about benburch and massguy.

Though Sanchez is a glass-closet racist so...

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I was mostly being snarky BTW.

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Claiming "Communism is bad and doesn't work" entirely on the results of marxist-leninism inspired dictatorships is dumb.

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Any reasonable justice system would charge sessions and many immigration judges with first degree murder (or at least manslaughter) for their disgusting treatment of asylum seekers, and additionally sessions would get mass child abuse and manslaughter for his children in cages s##t.