#oh snap

[samgatinho]

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[siryouarebeingmocked]

Canadian Newspaper Globe And Mail: Conservative Leader wants harsher jail sentences for repeat offender auto thieves.

Nora Loreto, self-described Socialist: Stealing cars is a victimless crime!

Loreto: Also, most people in our jails are innocent!

Loreto: As long as you use the extremely technical definition of “jail” that means “a place where people are usually held before trial and are therefore legally innocent”, which is not how it is generally used.

Loreto: I say this while ignoring how car theft means there is a victim, by definition.

Me:

Some idiot also claimed the real issue was car manufacturers making a ‘defective product’, and the “logical step” should be the government going after them for obvious collusion with insurance companies.

The intellectual titan agreed.

Even though about five seconds thought would go “wait, wouldn’t having an insecure car reduce sales? And don’t insurance companies try to avoid paying out money? And isn’t car insurance mandatory anyway?”

She has a substack post about it, and it’s, uh, special. As in Ed. (archive)

>For me, I understand a victim to be someone whose life is irrevocably impacted, negatively, by forces they cannot control.

>You’re not a victim if things can be made well through consumption.

If someone spills my drink in a bar, I'm still a victim even if they or I buy me a new drink. It doesn't un-spill the drink.

Even if I get a new car, that’s a lot of trouble to go through.

>You’re a victim if you’ve experienced something that means that you’ll never again be the person you were before.

Because no one's ever been permanently traumatized by someone using force to take their stuff. Even leaving aside the times where the thief assaulted and seriously injured the car owner.

>My immediate, half-serious reaction, that jailing people for a victimless crime is ridiculous, caught a lot of heat.

Ah, yes, the classic "I wasn't serious (except when I was)" dodge.

>Thousands of men told me how much they love their cars, how their cars hold them at night and make love to them. My emails and direct messages filled up with lots of “if you steal my car I will kill you”s and “where do you live so I can steal your cars”es. The people were mad that I could assert such a thing.

Along with the classic "let's make this a gender issue, for some reason" and "talking about the harassment so I look more like a victim while ignoring the actual criticism".

>It’s the formulation that this object is so premordial that anything that may befall a car, whether a jacking or an overpacked highway, is a personal attack on the car’s owner. It’s silly.

And naturally, a red just starts making up entirely new arguments for and assumptions about the critics from thin air instead of addressing the actual criticism.

A carjacking is a violent theft of an occupied car.

Which means the operator must a) be removed, by force and/or threat of force, or b) become a hostage of the 'jacker. Sometimes both.

It's amazing that this intellectual titan can even type while she's staring so hard at her navel. Or...another body part. From the inside.

[colbertt]

BEEF (2023-) - 1x04 "Just not all at the same time"

[nowritingonthewall]

Oscar Isaac as Gomez Addams The Addams Family (2019)

[ilovemesomevincentprice]

Oh, snap!

Vincent Price and Patricia Cutts

The Tingler (1959) dir. William Castle

[moneynow777]

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[kaliicoo]

another post before school ☹️ for the ermm john dory fans out there in the worldd…. he needs to be thrown in the microwave RIGHT NOW. (he looks microwaveable)

[cherubinhell]

"I assume the reason you're sharing this news with me is because you expect me to take on the full time care of Vera." "I'm sorry. But, yes. Not forever." "And why should I help you?" "Because… you know what it's like not to have maternal feelings."

Robina Chase » World on Fire 2x02

[siryouarebeingmocked]

A lot of people can't tell the difference between "a right" and "is right". They think people should only have the right to do Good Things™.

banning hate speech gives minorities more freedom to express themselves

They already had that freedom, same as anyone else, whether or not someone else was a dick about it.

Also, if they're minorities, you're reducing the freedom of the majority of people, which means that there's a net loss in freedom.

Also also, attempts to curb hate speech have also affected minorities. Like when Youtube tried to suppress far right videos, and somehow ended up suppressing LGBT creators.

>countries with HS laws don't rank worse when we look at results

Which I'm sure you're about to provide a citation for any minute now, which will totally not be from a left-wing statist organization that made up definitions to measure.

> banning even the tiniest amount of speech means there's no free speech 

>if there's any restrictions on free speech, that means the restrictions I want are automatically okay

There's a slight difference between "will directly cause harm to others" (like inciting violence) and "doubleplus ungood crimespeech about certain identity groups".

“Hate speech” is just the latter, and it's been used to censor things which are objectively true.

Also, state censorship has frequently used to shut up minorities, especially political ones.

[pinketine]

Tubbo: "Cause when I find him [Fred], it'll all be resolved. And I'm willing to do whatever it takes."

[druidberries]

🪐Xylithe Vega⭐

Sooooo I lied 🤭 (well partially) Xylithe IS an aspiring actress but she's from a bit farther off than San Myshuno, more like Sixam, and her parents aren't astronauts, just your friendly neighborhood Sixam residents.

lil xyl backstory under the cut !

Xyltihe's parents were never interested in Earth and encouraged Xyl not to be either- not because they were against it, but because they rathered Xyl always be close to home. She, however, didn't feel the same, she loved her home but was fascinated by all the items the Earth Researchers would bring back from their trips. More specifically: magazines, movies, posters, and all things involving celebrities. She loved the glam life and wanted more than anything to live that life herself and she knew she could do it too! Being in disguise was the perfect way to practice acting AND not be found out as an alien, two birds one stone! So off she went to San Myshuno to live her dreams! The only problem would be learning Earth's social skills 😅

[campwillowpeak]

"Carl did a great renovation job, bro! Thanks for sending Carl! I gave him a huge tip!"

"Ayyyye nice! Lookin real good fra-

Hol up

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THAT BASTARD TOLD ME HE WAS OUTTA THE CLOUD LAMPS"

[ilovemesomevincentprice]

Vincent Price and Patricia Cutts

The Tingler (1959) dir. William Castle