Conservatives talked a lot about the decriminalization of certain types of crime in California - it was a big theme in like 2022-2023 and still comes up. I think we also do tend to have these conversations whenever there is an event like what happened with George Floyd.

But I think it might be less talked about overall because many conservatives do live in places like Utah, Wyoming, etc., where crime isn’t a big issue, and it doesn’t seem like a national issue. When they imagine crime coming to them or getting worse, they think of it in terms of criminals making up a greater proportion of the population and moving into new places, which goes pretty well with a fear of an unsecure border.

Right - there is a desire to turn ped into its own orientation because there is a gross over-representation of gay men in this category. Of course, they are not the majority, but their offender rate is wildly disproportionate to their proportion of the general public.

It is unsurprising to many when two gay men who adopt sons end up abusing them.

THis exact same thing happened in Australia with a gay couple that was celebrated - the very famous case of Mark Newton & Peter Truong. There were some old internet clips showing some exposes in Australian newspapers lauding them as a progressive couple back in the 2000s.

We can also point out that there seems to be major issues with grooming in the gay community - one of the more interesting examples is that of George Takei and Milo Yiannopoulos who, in the same summer, both told about their first experiences. Both of them had it as young teenagers with far older male figures, and Milo made the mistake of dismissing its relevance (if I remember right), while George Takei went on to say he was disappointed because he later say that the man who touched him when he was in his early teens went on to become overweight and frumpy (lol).

Where does it say she is transphobic?

That’s funny you could not reply to it - I do not think I did anything to cause that, fyi.

… It is relevant that they are a gay couple because it immediately indicates the circumstances of the crimes they committed, and their status as a gay couple was very relevant to their public life.

It’s also potentially relevant because, y’know, what if these gay couples molest kids at elevated rates…?

Well, their specific marriage is a gay marriage, so they are a gay couple, right? I think that is the lgoic.

BTW I enjoyed the film the Outlaw Josey Wales.

It’s also a vibe thing… But then it’s enhanced by his deed, “Oh, he also expressed himself in an extreme way politically and I agree with him,” so the vibe gets put on 10…

I think the vibe thing is even stronger with women - men are very plain and predictable in comparison to women when it comes to what turns them on… While I think women appreciate a greater diversity of things, assess far more things than men do that go beyond the physical, and they are better at masking it…

That is interesting. I am actually a teetotaler who regularly rails about the dangers of alcohol - I think that it is worse than marijuana. However, I still somewhat oppose marijuana, though less enthusiastically, and am surprised by the antiquated views that many people have of alcohol being perfectly acceptable as a vice but marijuana not being so.

Weed is better for you than booze, though just like booze, it is bad in excess, though not as bad in as great of excess. If that makes sense.

I think most people treat it as a news/content aggregator service…

Much of the time the perfect comment has also already been made.

He was just caught in an Israeli honeyput from that Greenberg guy - a guy that himself ended up facing the most time of everybody.

It was just some Epstein 2.0 but with an unsuccessful front-man.

I have no sympathy for Gaetz, but it is worth noting that… Guys bang prostitutes everywhere, all the time, nonstop, it’s one of the biggest industries in both Europe and Asia. It’s an “old world” problem.

Everything that I have learned about the case deals with the 17-year old having a fake ID, something that Greenberg is doing more time for. I don’t think Gaetz was trying to bang teenagers. It just ended up happening.

Holy shit, they doxed a guy and tried to tie him to a real life murder…

Unreal.

I want more info if there is any available.

… when we all know that allowing men in college swimming is really what will bring down grocery costs.

The younger ones, the ones okay with cannabis, seem like they don’t have as much issues. But it might just be lack of being worn down who knows.

Haha are you saying that psychiatrists escape mental issues by smoking pot?

The conservative position is quite simple: nearly every murder that is done by an illegal is potentially preventable if the borders are properly secured and we are actively deporting illegals when the opportunity presents itself. There would be very few exceptions to this - the very occasional overstayed visa murder, for instance.

Of course we have to put up with the insane levels of crime in the US from local citizens, but illegal immigrant crime is also substantial, and thus it is completely valid to go after it… It’s really a two birds, one stone situation.

While I disagree with your decision, I respect that you are principled.

Thank you for a very measured and well thought out comment on a sensitive topic.

My own stance on this is not very radical at all - I think fat activism is very interesting, and shoudl probably be a very amatuer affair that focuses on destigmatizing fatness among youths who are in the school environment and face all manner of bullying at an age where they are not fully culpable for their diet and lifestyle, right…

But I would just say that, as adults, we should be expected to not bully or belittle overweight people in professional or even daily life environments, right…

If she is consulting specifically on the topic of school bullying, that is intereting, but my understanding is that it’s broader than that.

While looking, I see this particular tweet:

Oh my God.

I felt an unintentional burst of emotion and my eyes get wet, having woken up 5 hours ago to see my two year old struggling to sleep and taking out some of her little toys and playing with them…

You know, every single baby is adorable and lovable and wonderful, and thinking about the path of self-destruction that she took, that destroyed her life and those of many others, including her own parents and family, is pretty overwhelming.

A lot of people mock the “thoughts & prayers” comments, but this is all we can do, guys… People just break & go insane, and we cannot undo the past. When it is done, we must cleanse our thoughts & our minds & the matter near us with prayer and our own mental anguish, so that the matter around us can on some level be sanctified by the suffering.

The world is a sacred place because it is the arena of our joy & suffering.

These are very modern, expensive devices:

Purchasers can see the products via a touch screen. The actual ammunition is hidden from view. “These are double-walled steel, 2,000-pound machines that are always indoors under security cameras,” Magers told The Post. “(Ammo is) not sitting on a shelf, you know, like your bread aisle in the grocery store.”

To buy bullets from an American Rounds machine, customers need to be 21 years of age or older, even if state law dictates people as young as 18 can legally buy ammunition. Buyers have to prove their identity with the system used by the Transportation Security Administration at US airports. In this, the company is going beyond federal laws that don’t require ID verification to complete an ammunition sale. “We’re the only company in America that can say 100 percent, every (ammo) purchase, that there’s an ID verified,” Magers said.

It’s all made possible by the fact that ammunition is pretty expensive, all things considered.

While this might feel like a gut punch to anti-2A people since it certainly sounds very silly as a headline, it is just the result of tech bringing us to this point where such a device seems marketable.

Bros out there literally stealing souls via procreative acts like an OG Sumerian demon.

There’s bound to be dissent in a cabinet so fraught with extremism that deals in life & death matters so regularly