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TwiceHorn

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  1. I mean I kinda get it ("they took everything else now they're going to take our culture"), but your point about cultural purity is spot on. There's also a tinge or more of cultural superiority (supremacy?) implicit in it.
  2. Guy who has spent his whole career in politics, mostly as an aide to elected officials, and is only 40, can afford a $13,000/month house payment on a sub-$200k salary.
  3. Also, you know the same arguments were made about Jews? I think the vast majority of Muslims who immigrate to Western countries do share values with those countries, that's why they're emigrating from non-secular Muslim countries to the US. The dog caught the car again.
  4. I wasn't trying to contradict you, my main point was the second. I just didn't want to be accused of minimizing it. I'm not sure where internet porn, including the illegal variety, fits into all this. The reproduction and distribution machine that is the internet has increased the amount and availability of all media. It's certainly easier for the pervos of all stripes to access and share such media. I'm not sure that it represents an actual increase in the amount of child sexual abuse. It's like digital cameras, and then the internet, increased the availability of amateur porn, consensual and otherwise. I don't think it changed the rate at which people were fucking. I suspect child or underage sexual abuse probably also tracks with substance abuse rates, as well.
  5. Any child sexual abuse is a huge problem. I'm not sure the quantity of it has changed. Like a lot of things in the last few years, discovery/reporting of it may be more prevalent.
  6. Of course it is. Huffpost is a bit breathless at time but on clearly factual matters, is pretty accurate.
  7. It's not a 100% correlation, but it's strong. Those who perpetrate child sexual abuse are often the products of child sexual abuse. That doesn't necessarily mean at the hands of parents, but it probably does mean relatives or close friends. And I'm pretty sure that correlation applies to "hands-on" abuse and I would be wary of extending that to this type of thing. There's a tendency to do that that I am not sure is warranted.
  8. Sir, this is an Arby's. I didn't say institutional racism.
  9. Yep. Despite the desire to suck up to Trump, this is starting to look like the law firm deal where the optics of capitulation are just bad.
  10. This is probably going to be one of those things where systemic bias comes into play. All of those involved in the medical and administrative end are relatively upper class, the victims are relatively lower class. There's probably not going to be anything expressly saying "don't give that kidney to that dirty brown poor when we got a perfectly good white boy here." But there's probably going to be a whole lot of decision points couched in medical or sociological terms that favor the more affluent patient/recipient.
  11. I mean, he called it "cold." It wasn't "hey check this banger from the internet, glad Kirk's dead." I've been in and out of this thread, not taking data for my regression analysis. My sense of it, though, is very few condoned his death. And the above doesn't contradict me.
  12. Hardly anyone here condoned the killing of Kirk. A lot of people declared him a piece of shit. The two are not the same.
  13. Yeah, Apple doesn't sell your shit to the extent Google does, but they lock you in and make it difficult to leave. Google does the same shit, to a slightly lesser extent, and sells your shit. All of that is rent-seeking, not innovation. And what of it is innovation gets corrupted into rent-seeking.
  14. Speaking of which, those Alvarado ICE-interferers have additionally been indicted for material support of a terrorist organization. Given that the statute requires that the terrorist organization be "foreign," and there is no statutory provision for designating a "domestic terrorist organization," I'm not sure how that's gonna work.
  15. Also that chick with swords for legs in Kingsman is a pied noir.
  16. Well, somewhat surprisingly, this goes well beyond the contents of his book. He was sending Intel summaries daily while NSA to two relatives by email, yes AOL, and IM. This is, of course, crediting the DOJ with following the normal rules, which may not be wise. https://www.lawfaremedia.org/article/john-bolton-indicted-for-allegedly-mishandling-classified-information
  17. Yeah I assumed something like that was true. Just talking shit.
  18. Cancel, no, but a court might impute an income offset if he is proven to be intentionally un- or under-employed.
  19. Bitchin framerates on muh gamez, man.
  20. No. And apparently the Biden DOJ was looking into it as well. Shifty Schiff is left off and I think they're going to have a hell of a time with that. Speech & Debate.
  21. That seems to be true. Bolton apparently played pretty fast and loose with the classified information laws when authoring his book. That, of course, was not Trump's concern, but it seems to be pretty factual.
  22. Also, "house __________." You know what he really wanted to say there.
  23. Well, another thing is, I think they'd like to take women out of the workforce entirely and thereby "solve" unemployment for straight white males and also the child and elder care problems.
  24. Was he "affiliated" with the Eyes of Texas protest? On the one hand, I thought that whole thing very ill-conceived. On the other, I can't completely blame him, either.
  25. That guy is a complete fucking cunt. Gorsuch really should disclaim him if he pretends to be a better man, but he won't because he isn't.
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