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"Family abolition means completely removing legal ties for family units and allowing all children the choice of where they live" okay. So if I see a three-year-old throwing a fit because she doesn't want to leave the park, and I go over and tell her if she comes home with me she can stay as long as she likes and then we'll get McDonald's on the way home, that three-year-old should have the ability to make that decision? The parent or guardian has no legal recourse to stop me from taking her? Cause if the answer's no, that's not abolition, that's reform baby!

"I'm done talking about what we'll do with rapists and murderers after we abolish prisons, it's all anybody ever wants to talk about!" Well yeah man! 98% of people just interpreted your words as "we're going to let murderers roam around killing people at will"! You need to explain very clearly what plans you have that will stop them that aren't incarceration or you're not going to make any headway! And if your answer involves any form of "well of course SOME people can't be allowed total freedom" - that's not abolition, that's reform baby!

I'm not even gonna touch the number of people who think we should abolish the police and replace them with what are essentially roaming squads of vigilantes dispensing "community justice", whatever the fuck that means.

"We use abolish instead of reform because the system we envision is so different from what we currently have that it's essentially a completely different thing"

Understandable, but I need you to understand that if you say "abolish prisons", absolutely nobody is going to assume you mean "switch to a model of imprisonment focused on rehabilitation and reparative rather than punitive justice". They are just gonna assume you mean what you said, which is that you want to abolish prisons.

"Well it should be obvious because of course no one is actually suggesting that we just let criminals roam around freely raping and murdering people"

There are people are in my notes right now advocating for exactly that

"I do want to abolish prisons and replace them with therapy instead"

Feels like abolishing prisons to be replaced with involuntary commitment to a psych ward until you can reprogram someone sounds like it's gonna come with a new but very similar set of problems tbh

"I didn't say it had to be involuntary commitment but increasing community support, mental health treatment, and eradicating poverty will do far more to reduce crime than prisons ever will".

I agree with you! Does not in the slightest answer the question about what we should do with people who hurt others.

"Reform is too slow and not enough, we just need to tear it all down and start fresh".

Yeah that all sounds good until you realize that you're talking about people's actual lives and not, like, a woodworking project that got away from you. Societal systems are insanely complex and designing and implementing a brand new system is not like clicking "new save file" on a video game - it's going to take just as much time and effort as reform will and you're going to encounter very similar problems along the way.

"The police won't let us reform them and that's why we need abolition instead"

Absolutely fascinated by the idea that the police won't let us reform them but they WILL let us abolish them. I'm also excited to find out what we're replacing them with that isn't a police force but also isn't just vigilantism.

"Nobody is suggesting replacing the police with roaming squads of vigilantes, you're obviously just constructing a bad strawman".

I can't remember the last time I played 4, think I had it for the PS so I'm not to up on how rough that it, other than it's bad enough that you came to tell me about it.

Which puts it about 2/3 the jet ski level of Battletoads knowing you and your vidya skills as well as I do.

Can't even render a full circlet on that boy. Compared to the pixel remaster version and its weirdly jagged sprites that feel way too zoomed out...

And finally, the PSP version. Smoooth sprites and impressively artistic animations.

search amazon, or wherever you like, sadly Rival doesn't direct anymore though, for crock pot dividers, they have 3 and 4 section ones too.

10/10 name, I've gotta say.

Let's not forget your pedo president talking about how you he could shoot somebody in the middle of the fifth avenue and not lose voters. But that's fine.

IT IS SPECIFICALL:Y NOT NATURAL

AGING IS YOUR BODY LITERALLY BREAKING DOWN AND FALLING APART YOU STUPID PIECE OF SHIT! IT CAN BE PREVENTED VIA TREATMENTS THAT YOUR BODY ALREADY DOES!!!!!

IT IS SPECIFICALL:Y NOT NATURAL

AGING IS YOUR BODY LITERALLY BREAKING DOWN AND FALLING APART YOU STUPID PIECE OF SHIT! IT CAN BE PREVENTED VIA TREATMENTS THAT YOUR BODY ALREADY DOES!!!!!

Someone explain to me why Dark Souls is paramount to one's survival? No seriously, tell me why that of all games is the key to life and death; how if you can't play and beat the game, you will magically die on the spot.

It's such a ridiculous analogy, one which I even called them on thinking they'd maybe made it in haste and realized that after the fact, but no, they doubled down and told me the analogy was sound, but provided no argument as to why.

And then he has the gall to call me privileged while he sits there complaining about how he can't play a video game. Like, what the fuck. If anyone is the last person who should be calling others privileged, it's that guy.

And quite frankly, I think a lot of men would literally laugh it off if a woman did that. 🤣 You vastly underestimate men's ability to let stupid shit like that roll off their backs.

Oh, and of course, you're a generalizing sexist dipshit. Most men have no desire to humiliate or degrade women in any way. If they did, women everywhere would likely be dressed in burkas, cuz this would mean most men everywhere view women as beneath them. A belief that would 100% prevent women from ever having gained rights in any place on earth.

Like seriously, I love when y'all contradict the shit out of yourselves like this. 🤣 If all men everywhere really were this bad, and on top of that if all men are stronger than all women to the point even mediocre men can overpower the strongest women, how would women have ever gained rights?

Also women already get to dress like men. It wouldnt really turn heads if a woman wore a suit or had short hair or...idk overalls (unless she was hot). And women say slurs to and about men all the time (not just gay ones).

Have...have they watched any mainstream television in the last 30 years? What do they think Homer Simpson, Peter Griffon, Bud Bundy, Danny Tanner, Tim Taylor, Dan Conner, or literally any guy in an infomercial are?

No one was even in any danger. The IDF wasn't going to hurt them. They just picked them up to stop them from breaking the blockade (and potentially smuggling in weapons).

Let's stop pretending Greta and Co. wanted anything decent. If they had, they would have brought more food instead of a fraction of a truck's worth (which was still distributed). If they wanted to actually help, they wouldn't have cameras on them always and wouldn't publicly announce their intention to break the law.

more of these little goobers because they're so funny to me <3

In this way, I can differentiate how magic works on the many different worlds without causing magic to appear as if it isn't internally consistent.

The issue, however, comes when I have a culture, and species, that outright denies that magic exists, to such a degree, that in proximity to them, it ceases to exist.

Think of it as the same phenomena that Orks in 40k manifest, but if the Orks were led by the philosophy the Emperor tried to instill in Humanity, but failed to do.

So, while other species, and cultures, see demons, and rightfully try to combat them in mystical and religious manners, this culture/species aims a gun and shoots them dead, or bludgeons them with a shovel.

Why? The magic qualities of the demon were rendered mundane through their proximity to these people, thus even if the demon were to try to use their otherworldly powers to fight, they couldn't, as cultural perception has rendered them little more than odd aliens.

This is also the reason this faction is unassailed by the more magical forces of the setting, while other factions are plagued by them.

I buy that if you've got one guy trying to fireball 50 of the Mundanites, the Mundanites win hands down. But if you've got 50 Mundanites invading a 150 person camp of Mages, does the magic start working again because now the cultural argument has shifted? And how does that affect the remaining Mundanites that can now see, well shit, that guy actually did manifest a Fireball!?