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Cake day: June 14th, 2023

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  • False reports are ridiculously and incredibly rare, even in the most generous study to rape apologetics, the vast majority of rape are perpetrated my men against women, Again I’m just thinking critically like you said to.

    The overwhelming victims of rape are women, the overwhelming number of reports are true, to the point where you do less damage assuming they are. That’s not to say you ignore a man’s claims of rape at all, you take those seriously to, men are also reluctant to report rape for many of the same reasons women are. I’m old enough to have been around when they had to pass a special law to bypass the statue of limitations so men could report their rape by catholic clergy.

    Equivocating reports of rape to false reports is just wrong. I’m sorry for what happened to you, but I’m not going to allow what seems like a horrible situation you’ve been through to color my perception of what you are doing. Which is rape apologetics. You aren’t asking us to critically think, you are asking us to respond emotionally to your emotional plea.


  • This is rape apology that ignores that cases of false accusation are such a small fraction of overall reports of rape that if you actually think critically, which you are saying to do, you will assume every woman who reports a rape is telling the truth.

    Rape is not a case by case basis, rape is overwhelmingly undereported and again, the overwhelming majority of those accusations are real. The rate of “false” reports isn’t even as black and white as you think, if you look at a study, see what those study considers “false”.


  • There’s a difference between being banned for cause and “deplatformed”. Dr disrespect kept his platform, he still has an audience, and he never really stopped streaming.

    This dude groomed a minor. You have to make a choice there as an organization whether you want to give this person the opportunity to continue to do that with the same power dynamic. Twitch said no.

    They fucked up not making it public, it was the right thing to do not to allow him to continue to prey on the audience he had through twitch. Unfortunately once that bridge is burned there are plenty of other places you can still have an audience.

    All the stuff that happened to him after were consequences of his initial action of grooming a minor.


  • She’s right to support the girl, obviously, but as a prosecutor she’s aware she has to keep those feelings private if there’s a chance she’s going to be prosecuting this case.

    Hold a gun to my head, she’s absolutely aware of that too, painfully aware after what she’s gone through previously. But as a public figure who may run for additional offices, she likely HAS to have a public opinion on this because people will demand it. It’s her opinion, but it’s performative for her potential constituency, if you catch my meaning.

    I bet she understands the tight rope she’s walking, and I bet she already knew making that statement would be a problem.




  • The damage gambling does to society in general and families specifically is horrific. It’s one of those things that hotwires the reward systems of a persons brain as surely as alcohol or opioids. And it’s so casual, gambling, especially at this level, finds the people who are susceptible, and exploits them until they are rung out like a dry cloth.

    You may be one of the people who can just casually gamble, and not understand why it’s so crazy destructive, or you could be 10 toes in a downward spiral, there’s no way for me to know.

    This period of legalized gambling is going to go have a body count at the end of it, a huge one.