@ScotlandTheGr8 @JackBMontgomery Creepy sure but that I don't think is grounds for criminality
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@JackBMontgomery The age of consent is fine where it is. The issue is the age gap, not the age of the woman. A 16 year old sleeping with a 16 year old is fine (provided they are practicing safe sex). A 30 year old doing it is creepy
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What's strange about the Russel Brand discourse is that everyone (including me) is unsettled by the idea of a 30-year-old "dating" a 16-year-old, but no British commentators are following this through to its logical conclusion to say the age of consent needs to rise.
6ixBuzzTV@6ixbuzztv
Russell Brand admits he slept with a 16-year-old when he was 30
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@JackBMontgomery This doesn't make sense. A 17 year old is just alikely to be on the receiving end of abuse regardless of the age of the other person. Romeo and Juliet laws lead to a false sense of security in my view. The aoc is based on when someone is old enough to make their own choice
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Many countries have "Romeo and Juliet" laws, where a relationship is only lawful within a certain age gap—I don't think anyone much over 21 should be allowed to pursue a 16-year-old.
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Just for comparison, an illegal immigrant who is a member of the Taliban only got two and a half years for raping a 7 year old child. But don't worry, the British regime doesn't operate a two-tier justice system, because they said so
GB News@GBNEWS
BREAKING: Man jailed for life over religiously aggravated rape and assault of Sikh woman gbnews.com/news/john-ashb…
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@LonghornSloth Because we understand that the question was intentionally worded in a way that would have people fail at logic and choose blue
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@itskahuna is there a reason you clearly took this as a highly personal insult then
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the most hilarious thing about this is that MOST female smut readers are fantasising about a world where men are good at sex and confident in pleasuring women.
MOST male porn watchers are fantasising about a world where women are just vessels for degradation and torture
lyba 🦢⋆˙🌷ᝰ.@judecxrdxn
men judging women for reading smut while being absolute p@r.n addicts themselves will never sit right with me
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@shucks42490197 @robkhenderson You need to understand that girls who get into these kind of relationships also thought they wanted it
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@robkhenderson I’m mostly serious here, but where were these women when I was in school? If I were 16 this woman wouldn’t be capable of “exploiting” me in any way I wouldn’t have wanted.
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Every few months, yet another female teacher makes headlines for sleeping with an underage male student. Why do these women do this? What I’m about to explain has less to do with predatory impulses than with something far more unsettling: robkhenderson.com/p/what-female-…
New York Post@nypost
Substitute teacher, 27, charged with 'improper relationship' with students trib.al/VP3SMut
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@GroundhogStrat @TallowFan @waitbutwhy Pushing blue kills yourself, it's such a dumb option. You aren't saving anyone.
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@TallowFan @waitbutwhy Pushing blue doesn’t punish red-pushers. Pushing red kills blue-pushers.
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Everyone in the world has to take a private vote by pressing a red or blue button. If more than 50% of people press the blue button, everyone survives. If less than 50% of people press the blue button, only people who pressed the red button survive. Which button would you press?
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@PhDPersuasion @waitbutwhy The options are between definitely living or maybe lots of people dying. Just pick red, everyone lives.
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@waitbutwhy Lol at all the red button pushers trying to justify their argument. They not only lost but will now forever be known as assholes who tried to kill as much as half the population. Who's the winner now?
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@irish_news The Irish know their history better than they do. The English are so confused they named Cromwell one of their greatest people, a wannabee dictator financed by the Continent who cut a king's head off and tried to install his son on the throne. Pathetic.
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Stephanie Chase: Why the Irish still have to explain England’s history to the English irishnews.com/opinion/stepha…
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@Junkcom @DanielJHannan I really wish many more people understood this. The correlation of the increase of illegal boats and leaving the eu is staring you in the face.
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We must be mad, literally mad. It is like watching a nation busily engaged in heaping up its own funeral pyre.
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How many women kill their partners when their partner says no sex? Because women get killed by leaving and turning down men. I just saw a video on Instagram, where a woman refused to give a guy her number and he slammed on the ground and stomped on her head and walked off. Yeah I think men are worse at it.
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Stop giving jobs to women. Problem solved. (Nobody finds this acceptable because they are all implicit or explicit feminists, so instead all attempted solutions are designed to fix the problems of sexual liberation by giving more freedom to women).
Roman Helmet Guy@romanhelmetguy
I’m convinced that all these guys who come up with proposals to “fix the fertility rate” have never talked to a woman. They treat it like an economics problem they can optimize, or even worse they just tell women to have kids to “save civilization.” If you actually spend time with women who aren’t having kids, you’ll find they almost all fall into one of five buckets: 1. Dating problems. They were in some 5+ year relationship (or a series of relationships) that stole their youth and left them so jaded that they’ve given up on finding a man who could be a good father. 2. Family problems. They come from such a dysfunctional home that their own childhood holds few happy memories, and they’re terrified of recreating those conditions with their own children. 3. Health problems. A ton more women than you think have conditions like endometriosis or PCOS or other health complications that can affect fertility and make having kids more dangerous or harder to do. 4. Career goals. They’re convinced that they have something huge and unique to contribute to the world either professionally or creatively, whereas “every woman can have a kid,” and so to them, having children sounds like a waste of their potential, like giving up. 5. Lifestyle goals. They’re really into traveling and being independent and getting into “adventures,” they want to explore the world and experience everything, and the idea of giving all that up to sit at home and raise kids makes them want to die. If you really want to fix the fertility rate, and you’re not addressing at least a few of these, your solution is useless.
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@romanhelmetguy You also need to fix men. I don't know why that gets overlooked so much
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I’m convinced that all these guys who come up with proposals to “fix the fertility rate” have never talked to a woman. They treat it like an economics problem they can optimize, or even worse they just tell women to have kids to “save civilization.” If you actually spend time with women who aren’t having kids, you’ll find they almost all fall into one of five buckets:
1. Dating problems. They were in some 5+ year relationship (or a series of relationships) that stole their youth and left them so jaded that they’ve given up on finding a man who could be a good father.
2. Family problems. They come from such a dysfunctional home that their own childhood holds few happy memories, and they’re terrified of recreating those conditions with their own children.
3. Health problems. A ton more women than you think have conditions like endometriosis or PCOS or other health complications that can affect fertility and make having kids more dangerous or harder to do.
4. Career goals. They’re convinced that they have something huge and unique to contribute to the world either professionally or creatively, whereas “every woman can have a kid,” and so to them, having children sounds like a waste of their potential, like giving up.
5. Lifestyle goals. They’re really into traveling and being independent and getting into “adventures,” they want to explore the world and experience everything, and the idea of giving all that up to sit at home and raise kids makes them want to die.
If you really want to fix the fertility rate, and you’re not addressing at least a few of these, your solution is useless.
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I honestly don't believe women by enlarge are upset with what she said or the fact she meant it, I think women by enlarge are more upset that she spoke out loud, what a lot of them do, how they think regarding men etc.
It's the "trade secrets" aspect women don't like, not that she used a guy or strung him along for years making him BELIEVE her feelings were mutual.
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This podcast has done so much damage to the image of women. At this point it’s just feeding into the toxic narrative men already have about us.
Blaise ⛧@wydblaise
Hilary Duff revealed that she didn’t want Matt at first because he was “too nice” and she wanted something “chaotic” even after just experiencing a divorce “He was too nice, I was not ready to accept all of that, I needed chaos first “
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@ilovemiku444 It can actually stop you from killing yourself. One of the listed side effects of anti-depressants is suicide for that reason.
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@7c_y_c7 @tinkady2 @cremieuxrecueil You still aren't finding the cause. We don't even have a correlation with anything. A sudden, upward ,almost perfectly steady, linear trend
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@tinkady2 @cremieuxrecueil the average person has more access to all sorts of food these days, and they often aren't capable of eating in moderation. that's my guess, anyway
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Fun fact:
Sugar consumption only became associated with bad outcomes after healthy people started taking the government's advice to avoid sugar.
The harm signal is a result of selection based on differential uptake of the belief that sugar is bad!
Cary Kelly@CaryKelly11
Sugar should shoulder a large part of the blame for our health problems but something else is promoting obesity. Do you know what it is?
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@DrCraigEmerson @uisce_carouse8l Apparently nurses can only be trained in other countries?
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@uisce_carouse8l No more nurses or aged care workers? No tradies?
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How to debate immigration without a culture war thenewdaily.com.au/opinion/2026/0…
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