Kick Names, Take Ass

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I continue to maintain that the Australian combination of compulsory voting with ranked choice voting, is the greatest advancement in democracy in centuries.

Compulsory voting shifts the onus ensuring your access to the ballot box to the government. One Citizen, One Vote, No Matter How Remote.

It's hard to restrict the vote when everyone has to vote by law, and compulsory ranked choice voting gives a better median representation of national opinion.

Related: We were at a restaurant a few weeks ago, and a mom came in with three kids, and the youngest was a girl of about 8 who had also, clearly, put a LOOK together. She had a cute little prismatic purse with a beaded strap, and the beads on the strap matched her bracelets, which complimented the color of her skirt, and I was just like "YES. YES."

Similarly, you see a lot of people saying "well religion is used to justify oppression by the people in power" and its like yes. Religion is not unique. Beliefs about what is true about the world -- ideology -- can always be used to do this and frequently is.

When there are common beliefs held by a majority of people in a given culture those beliefs will be used by the people in power to explain and justify the things they do to maintain power and control in society.

This isn't a function of religion. It's a function of power.

When people say "well, this religious rhetoric is/was used to justify misogynistic legal standards in this society" the answer is yep. And if it wasn't that it would be something else because that society had an investment in that specific kind of oppression of women. We have seen this morph into 'rational' 'scientific' explanations for women's inferiority and justifications for making women second class citizens once the cultural values swing more towards rationality and science, as well. Thats... regular.

Like... love to have a good faith convo about this with someone who doesn't get weird and reactionary about "Religious People" but sure not seeing much of that going on. Weirdly.

What do you qualify as folk rock?

so the United Kingdom just banned fictional incest in porn. this includes video games & anything that ones mind can relate to incest in a realistic fashion. fictional art of fictional characters that’s anywhere near realistic in art could potentially incriminate you.

you and your partner are into incest fantasies and post clips of content you’ve posted? aye, you are now posting illegal content that can get you several years in prison. if anyone was to own those clips? they can get incriminated for possession.

this is fucking scary and nobody is giving a fuck, or even knows this was secretly snuck in over a day ago.

there was no official press release and are trying to play it off because it’s “sensitive”. NO ONE KNOWS. THEY KEPT IT HIDDEN. — you can read the whole document here.

fictional content in the UK is now a criminal offence.

Rumination is probably the most common type of OCD compulsion, but I rarely see anyone talking about it. I've talked to multiple people diagnosed with OCD who didn't even recognize it as a compulsion.

Basically, if you have OCD you have terrible intrusive thoughts. They can be about anything, but common themes are fear of being a bad person, fear of hurting someone, fear of contamination. etc.

Rumination is when you get stuck in a spiral. Rumination is when you spend hours catastrophizing, overthinking, analyzing, telling yourself it's going to be okay.

I'll say it again:

Rumination is a compulsion.

Rumination is a compulsion, and that means you have to stop doing it.

I did ERP (exposure response prevention) for my OCD with a therapist! For 9 months! And it did help, but the idea didn't really click until I found this website a couple years later.

And Oh My God. It made things make so much more sense, and I was able to pull myself out of an episode even though I wasn't in therapy or on meds at the time.

Genuinely if you have OCD, or even if you suspect you have OCD, I'm begging you to read some of these articles.

Like this was genuinely life changing for me.

Here are some of the ones that were most helpful to me:

Defining Rumination

How to Stop Ruminating

ERP Exercises for Compulsive Rumination

So not only must the casket be plain (and able to rot) the body itself can’t be treated with any embalming or preservation techniques.

So if you commission a video or photo set from an online sex worker, or patronise a live video chat... You can go to prison for up to a year.

When sex workers say they want decriminalisation and not legalisation, this is why... Decriminalisation means that laws pertaining to sex work are struck from the legal code, legalisation creates new laws to govern the industry which can be just as violent as full criminalisation with a progressive veneer, which is how you get know nothing's bleating "the Nordic Model" in a conversation that they have never been a stakeholder in.

No longer threatening to arrest you for carrying out your business doesn't mean much, while restricting where you can work, routinely arresting and incarcerating your clients, allowing landlords to evict you for being a sex worker, allowing banks to refuse your business...

This isn't a model that promotes mobility between professions, the ability to save for other plans whatever they be, investment with your income, stable housing, stable business as a sex worker.

1) in a society that has fully decriminalised sex work human trafficking would remain a crime.

2) the issue for individuals who have been trafficked across borders is generally not the trafficking as this is usually a service they initiated hoping to advance their prospects.

The problem arises if the traffickers confiscate passports and other identity documents and make demands of the once clients and now hostages.

These people may be pressed into manual labour, domestic labour, and sexual labour (sex trafficking) etc... in decriminalising sex work, and not criminalising people for undocumented migration, you make it possible for people to report their situations of indenture without fear of deportation or prosecution.

It's also important to remember that a person who engages human traffickers to transport them across borders does so because there are barriers to safer modes of entry. Also a person who enters the sex industry by way of border crossing with human traffickers may have intended to support themself with sex work all along, and instead finding the tragedy that is indenture by those bad actors denying the would be sex worker the benefits of their sexual labour and their freedom.

Then they’re just crimes.