Most people vote for the pedophiles, though. Either through the ballot or with their wallet. They're in politics on all sides. They're in business. They're on the computer they use every day. The car they drive.

And human rights. Goes out the window the moment somebody has a bad case of the sniffles. Or when brown people can be blamed for pretty much anything and everything.

It's almost as if, the main problem isn't the corrupt deranged elite, but the system and boot lickers that uphold them.

The Overton window has been busy.

Nobody can. Egomanic psycopathy isn't attractive to anyone but the most indoctrinated birds

Sometimes I think about dating again after so long, and I imagine my girlfriend wanting to wiretap our place with an Alexa in the kitchen.

1. Fear of making near friends / difficulty making the new friends
2. Actual naivety of thinking the POS behaviour doesn't matter
3. Weirdly, peer pressure from other people? For instance you might want to distance yourself from one friend and you are then peer pressured to be in situations with them more often by the other friends, told to build your tolerance of them

... 1 + 2 also applies to romantic relationships!

Edit: just realised 'best friend AND roomate' is just a way of referring to a spouse. But there it is, there's the low-down in my opinion.

You bond over other shared interests, like video games and drinking.

For which party and why? I would contend many people enjoy sex most when their partner is someone they respect, provided they've developed to a certain level of maturity. Perhaps you have an alternate rationale.

Even within dom/sub and other BDSM variations I would hope both partners respect each other because without that you've entered a very toxic and destructive space.

....would it??