Yeah, the US has ALWAYS been super authoritarian in its international dealings and has gone full fascist at home and abroad.
It’s not the pot calling the kettle black. It’s the leaking barrel of nuclear waste in the municipal water supply calling candy unhealthy.
I am the walrus
Shut the fuck up, Donnie!
Also: bears and Battlestar Galactica.
Humans are pretty bad at consistently rating things on a scale
Yeah, it seems almost only professional reviewers know how to consistently quantify quality and even amongst them, it varies a lot.
Yet in these days of social media, everyone and their mother consider their own judgment superior 😮💨
I like Steam’s method of just asking whether you like it and then aggregating those into a rating
Yeah, I couldn’t agree more! It actually works!
This right here is a great example of the societal cancer that is review inflation: when perfect (5 out of 5) becomes the new good enough, every review becomes an essentially useless binary.
I’d argue that you shouldn’t ever trust a 5 star review that isn’t absolutely overflowing with specific and relevant praise, but that’s just me being stuck in the before times when they were actually useful.
It really is one of those rare flawless albums where not only is there no bad or even mediocre songs, but every single one is an absolute banger!
Doesn’t read beyond the headline
Hell yeah! Feed those fish, Pope Bob! Feed them good!
It’s the perfect day to bid people welcome to (god’s) tragic kingdom!
I don’t know where to even BEGIN adequately refuting that whole wall of nonsense, so I won’t waste any more time on you to do so. Have the day you deserve.
I don’t think you being reactionary to a far-right whose not present here, or the letter writers trying to preach to the far-right from a “corrective left” perspective of professionals in the top end of town works.
Good thing that none of that is happening, then.
It’s hot air
Back to the self-description, I see.
The far-right aren’t going to read the edicts past down from on high and see the error of their ways
Public figures tend to react to media pressure and other public figures taking a public stand tends to create such pressure. This is politics 101 stuff.
It’s a totally pipe dream leftism that assumes “being a scold” does anything but push people right.
So what do you suggest, then? Never speaking up about harmful lies and the suffering they cause? Because that’s DEFINITELY not going to convince anyone.
I mean take yourself - you couldn’t even handle my original comment pointing that out.
Again with the ridiculous strawmen. You were wrong and I pointed it out. The only one unable to “handle” anything seems to be yourself.
Look at all the time we’ve wasted here just because you had an “I’ve detected prejudice” error.
Again, not the case. It doesn’t say anything good about your point that you need to keep insisting on two or three strawmen to make it.
This is just all the stuff the left gets wrong, that feeds into the far-right populism. We need an alternative ti being scolds
Yeah, right. Telling them that they’re harming people forces them to double down because that’s how interpersonal communication works 🙄
You’re invoking this comic in spite of pretending to be a leftist yourself:
they have the statistics and data to back them up.
Then again, 69% of statistics are made up on the spot or deliberately skewed and that goes double any time governments want to justify abusing foreigners.
Your studies demonstrate the fact that immigrants are much more likely to be the VICTIMS of sexual violence than native born people
No one said otherwise! Sorry, what’s your argument? That it doesn’t count as rape if immigrant men rape immigrant women? That’s disgusting dude.
No, that’s asinine. My point is that the anti-immigant rhetoric has nothing to do with protecting immigrants from being raped and everything to do with falsely portraying immigrant men as inherently likely to commit rape.
No asshole, of course that still counts as rape
I didn’t say or even imply anything to the contrary. You can pack away your weird strawman now.
Of course that’s part of the higher amounts of SA and SV in those communities.
Immigrant women being victims ≠ immigrant men being the perpetrators. To imply that immigration leads to rape is like implying that black people existing leads to killer cops.
I don’t know why you needed to be shown studies to admit that
I didn’t. In fact, I never suggested otherwise, see above.
Of course leftist elites aren’t going to recognize that, and are going to try to pretend it’s not true - like you were doing.
Again, that’s not what’s happening here.
The “leftist elites" are objecting to demagogues exploiting the very real problem of sexual violence against women (of which none of them nor I have denied that immigrant women are disproportionately the victims) as a way to further demonize and persecute immigrants.
I take it you’re no longer claiming it’s “just prejudice” to point this stuff out
Prejudice, conflating victims and perpetrators, or both. Take your pick.
That you see a problem with not addressing increased rape stats now
Nobody’s arguing for doing that.
not addressing and contextualizing gives the far right something to gripe about?
That’s the POINT: the far right are putting it in a false context for their own disinformation campaigns and you’re doing something similar for different reasons.
Meanwhile, the “leftist elites” are simply saying that demonizing and scapegoating immigrants doesn’t help any victims and is MUCH more likely to cause MORE immigrants to be assaulted by native born people who are taught to dehumanize them.
I’m so sick of leftwingers denying problems.
Saying that the fascists are blaming the wrong people is not denying that there are problems.
It’s a politics of willful blindness and denialism
Nobody’s denying anything. At least none of the people you’re accusing of it are.
Immigrants are vastly more likely to be VICTIMS of sexual violence than perpetrators.
Conservative men have very problematic attitudes toward immigrant women and women in general, to put it mildly.
This is rather tone deaf.
Now you’re playing rehortorical games rather than responding with an argument.
That’s rich coming from someone who’s literally spewing xenophobic and politically tribal stereotypes about “good neighborhoods” and “left wing elites” in response to a simple objection to racist demagoguery.
Your studies demonstrate the fact that immigrants are much more likely to be the VICTIMS of sexual violence than native born people, which does NOT justify the “immigrants are coming to rape our women” hate speech that the women in the article are objecting to.
That’s still some xenophobic nonsense that potentially punishes men for losing their families, not to mention is some dystopian “guilty with no opportunity to be proven innocent” assholery.
It’s easy if you try
The "kissing disease“ and a surprised Jamaican person
Imagine being repetitive by repeating things
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