4grams

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[–] 4grams@awful.systems 21 points 1 week ago

Show that to a republican and they will just say it’s proof that the dems get away with it.

[–] 4grams@awful.systems 2 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (1 children)

Christ man, you are still lawyering this away.

Yes, the power dynamic of old dude and young women are part of tape culture. Yes, sex work is part of rape culture (it’s nuanced but in this case YES). I’m not anti sex-work, but I am against a system that makes it illegal, and creates a black market like this.

You can come up with all the hypotheticals to make it right, it wasn’t. You are defending rape culture.

Rape culture is a culture that makes excuses for and enables rapists. Look who’s in the government right now. We ALL know gates is creepy as shit yet he still attained a position of extreme power. Look at the president, all his friends falling out of the emails. There is a major problem with this kind of behavior in our culture.

Edit- look, we’re missing each other because I am arguing a larger cultural issue, you are arguing specific laws (why I say you are lawyering). I do not care how legal this might have been and I am not given to charitable interpretations of obvious evil behavior.

[–] 4grams@awful.systems 0 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (3 children)

Dude , you are still explaining away an adult man fucking an underaged girl in an extreme power imbalance. He knew what he was doing, he knew she was underaged. That he had people help facilitate the rape does not make it less of one.

A 40 year old who needs to ID the woman he’s paying to have sex with knows EXACTLY what he was doing.

[–] 4grams@awful.systems 6 points 1 week ago

Anyone else feel like this is nature fighting back against the horrible farming practices and shit eating habits? I love me a good steak, and definitely eat too much red meat, so, if I wind up with one of these tick bites, I guess I’ll have to chalk it up to karma.

[–] 4grams@awful.systems 59 points 1 week ago (7 children)

Growing up, I heard so many from my parents generation saying things about having to work against your impulses. I heard so many express worry about denying attractions and fears of the same sex being attracted to them, worried about finding themselves in a situation after too much to drink…

To the point where I briefly wondered what was wrong with me, that I never felt these temptations. I even tried making out with a guy once just to see the reaction. It wasn’t for me, I just don’t have that attraction in me.

I realized VERY young that the gay/straight thing was a whole lot easier AND a whole lot more complicated than it had been sold.

[–] 4grams@awful.systems 21 points 1 week ago (6 children)

^*ladies and gentlemen, the result of the rape culture we live in.

A powerful, older man took advantage of a young, desperate woman, but because he did not physically assault her, it’s not rape.

Rape is about POWER, not sex.

[–] 4grams@awful.systems 58 points 1 week ago

The irony is that THIS is the deep state the fuckers have been looking for. Just the the 2nd amendment folks though, their rhetoric is just that, rhetoric and was NEVER going to lead to the solutions they preached.

The only value that side shares is bootlicking authority.

[–] 4grams@awful.systems 124 points 1 week ago (1 children)

The irony is that THIS is the deep state the fuckers have been looking for. Just the the 2nd amendment folks though, their rhetoric is just that, rhetoric and was NEVER going to lead to the solutions they preached.

The only value that side shares is bootlicking authority.

[–] 4grams@awful.systems 20 points 1 week ago

This quote has stayed with me for years now:

“The salient fact of American politics is that there are fifty to seventy million voters each of whom will volunteer to live, with his family, in a cardboard box under an overpass, and cook sparrows on an old curtain rod, if someone would only guarantee that the black, gay, Hispanic, liberal, whatever, in the next box over doesn’t even have a curtain rod, or a sparrow to put on it.”

[–] 4grams@awful.systems 32 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (2 children)

There is no such thing as a good billionaire. There are billionaires who might be temporarily aligned with you but make no mistake, none of them will love you back..

[–] 4grams@awful.systems 19 points 1 week ago

So, what you are saying is that the only actual thing trump and Jesus have in common is that they both have been inside of teenagers.

[–] 4grams@awful.systems 5 points 1 week ago

But 89% more in total.

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