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People really get on this website and go "calling them a bad person is enough deterrence to stop them from doing objectively bad things"

The post about a small town mayor in Ohio assaulting a man with his car has 22000 notes. But it’s okay, the victim is a sex offender, a category of person that it’s okay to mistreat and abuse. You are a very good and morally superior person for cheering that mayor on.

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No, and I don't believe that's the whole truth if at all. I would accept that most do it once out of desperation and avoid doing it again after getting caught or even if they only get caught later. I imagine it would be like torturing and emotionally maiming someone which hopefully requires a rare and curable mentality to repeat. I don't know if your studies accounted properly for harsher measures simply being more effective at finding repeat offenders. I also don't know if they accounted for false accusations being more successful making harsh measures seem to increase the chance of them reoffending. Both would cause the result you described without actually causing more reoffences than would have happened otherwise. I acknowledge that violence probably makes the world a worse place, but I believe the capacity and promise of violence is the most effective deterrent we have to prevent those who don't care about the suffering of others if it gives them a good enough benefit. I acknowledge that people who want an excuse to use violence will seek to be put in positions that allow it, but I believe those positions cannot be removed from society without something to replace them for the reason stated in the sentence before. I don't hate you for wanting to solve things without violence and I hope you find more ways, if not THEE way, to solve these issues without violence, but I hope you can forgive me for being a skeptical, likely traumatized animal about it.

The post about a small town mayor in Ohio assaulting a man with his car has 22000 notes. But it’s okay, the victim is a sex offender, a category of person that it’s okay to mistreat and abuse. You are a very good and morally superior person for cheering that mayor on.

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how fucking dare you remind me of these better times!

Can confirm, it did be like this.

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"Manifesting" and "The law of attraction" can maybe work as an attitude adjustment with subconscious effects.

If you're thinking positively and projecting a can-do attitude to the world, you might be more successful socially and get over mental barriers that stopped you before.

But it's not magic, it's not going to warp reality to your will and make the universe give you what you want. A million dollars won't fall into your lap just because you wish for them.

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This is his reaction to finding out you nuked a town full of people.

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and I don't think people should be allowed to enact violence on anyone, but I understand that people don't care what I think and the most universally effective way to deter violence in a society where everyone isn't locked in boxes is to promise a reprisal they can't just avoid by breaking the rules. Even if they never planned to break the rules again, setting the expectation that breaking the rules has quick and overwhelmingly negative consequences stops a lot of people from exploiting or even just harming others for no discernable gain. In a world where there isn't a way to physically stop the average person from being violent, then at least give everyone equal access and equal expectations for the price of violence. Doing otherwise just gives those with the means to ignore the rules a temptation to exploit their advantage for personal gain, as history has shown innumerable times.

The post about a small town mayor in Ohio assaulting a man with his car has 22000 notes. But it’s okay, the victim is a sex offender, a category of person that it’s okay to mistreat and abuse. You are a very good and morally superior person for cheering that mayor on.

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If I drink that water will it give me microtrucks?

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This place is full of light and yet is as soulless as the corporation who owns it.

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The sheer emotional whiplash of anything us Americans do being considered cute makes me feel violently tsundere but in nationalism. Like, I want to pistol whip you and then nervously touch the barrels of my colt revolvers together and ask you if you really mean it and then suspiciously say yeehaw more often.

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If the owners don't want you there, then you go somewhere else and refuse to come back. That's how dealing with people who own a place works. Their website isn't public property, it's private property with an open invitation to people who follow their rules. Public property online is like a distributed cloud server network where the rules are determined by direct democracy and anyone can join the network and host part of it but if they don't like the rules then they need to ask everyone else hosting to also change the rules and then only the ones that do will just disconnect from the ones who don't overtime, splitting the community into new segments.

I'm gonna be real with you, i don't think weirdo kinksters should be considered acceptable collateral damage when banks/credit card companies enforce adult content bans on sites like patreon and ko-fi

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well fuck, now I want to rewatch DS9... and that's going to make me want to rewatch Next Gen and maybe even Voyager. Of course then I'm going to stall out after watching too much of it at once and I'm going to hate it again, not for a good reason, just because the human mind was not meant to take that much of one thing in one sitting before cursing it for making me watch so much television at once because I certainly don't have the self control to stop binge watching startrek knowing it is too pure and optimistic for humanity to be the paragons of virtue not by happenstance but because they choose to every day even when it gets hard to keep being decent people after scarcity and desperation rears their heads again.

Among the reasons why Star Trek: Deep Space Nine is the best Star Trek is that the outfits look like they were designed by a competent costume designer who had been given a pile of the world's most miscellaneous fabrics and told that if they didn't use it all up by sunrise, Rumpelstiltskin would take their firstborn child.

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Looking at the camera footage, I think the mayor was trying to be a dumbass cowboy and block him with his car to stop him from running away, he didn't go full tilt into the guy to try and put him under the car but definitely accelerated across the entire road width to keep him from escaping away from the cops. It happens in movies and tv shows occasionally where someone in the right place at the right time casually drives their car directly in front of the fleeing person to help the cops catch the bad guy who is usually some nasty person involved in drug or people trafficking. I don't know much about the "sexual battery of a minor" that the warrant was said to be about, but I generally believe any sort of sexual violence on a child calls for a ruthless response by people trained to do so, probably not the mayor. That said, I do see how what he did could easily be a botched attempt at helping prevent someone who was being at least mildly shady from running from the cops, not an attempt to enforce vigilante justice.

The post about a small town mayor in Ohio assaulting a man with his car has 22000 notes. But it’s okay, the victim is a sex offender, a category of person that it’s okay to mistreat and abuse. You are a very good and morally superior person for cheering that mayor on.

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Somebody once told me my father would cuckold me

I found him with my girlfriend in bed

They were having lots of fun and she screamed “I’m gonna cum”

As he busted a nut on her forehead

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Actually, most of America's economy comes out of the sky, from bank loans using "appreciating assets" as collateral. It's kind of funny considering how weirdly similar banks are built like castles and how even the government seems to have this confusing and not often well explained method of giving them money for effectively free. Like it's special government taxes for keeping the economy working and then they use that money to give people who own things more money... for owning things... that are mostly automated so long as you look at people you don't care about like automatons... and then they pay the loans back slowly... using the money from the automatons. EDIT: Also the loans can sometimes be made into assets because they are big and will take a long time to pay back and will pay interest until then. Then you can get a loan using other people's loans to you as collateral. Feel's like a bug in the system. Might get patched out. might also make stupid amounts of money.

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