Ik seriously. Gay, not gay, closeted, not closeted. Guess what? Still a fucking piece of shit murderer.

I’ll never understand people’s strange obsession over bucketing other people’s sexuality. People MUST identify as something.

I get that identifying your sexuality can help, but it’s just morphed into this bizarre obsession with some people.

Recently made a friend at work, and told them I went on a date with a guy (I’m a dude.) Immediately conversation went to “Oh so you’re Gay? That’s cool” and I just said, “well I guess if I have to identify I would be bisexual, but I don’t really put a label on myself”. Of course the questions flood in:

“Oh ok so like what percentage gay are you? Have you had a threesome before?” And suddenly in 1 hour the whole office knows I’m bi. I got women coming up to me, calling me “brave” for coming out in the office (even though it wasn’t my intention). I have people who have literally introduced me to other people “Hey this is ____. He’s bisexual”. Like the 2nd sentence out of their mouths is my sexuality. Now my entire being has been reduced to my sexuality and nothing else. I’ll forever be known as the “bi” dude in the office from now on.

I swear I think there’s going to be a 5 hour HR meeting on this next week, in the weird, corporate “we support you” kind of way.

Most people truly do mean the best, so I can’t be mad at anyone. It’s just so……weird? It’s just the biggest fucking deal to some people

Is the “insulted American” in the room with us now?

It’s more than just “a man within range of vision”. Obviously we don’t have the full story here, but even in the text, there are specific behaviors that would, arguably, make a reasonable person suspect they were in imminent danger. Depending on the state, that is enough to trigger self-defense definition.

They had legitimate reason to believe they were in danger. Not assault at all. Unlikely to be assault.

Edit: Guess I shouldn’t say “definitely not assault”. Don’t have all the information here, so can’t come to any definitive conclusions.

There are….others??

Upvoted both of you

Typically I value comments based on argumentative strength and/or whether information provided adds value to discussion.

Strong arguments will be upvoted even if I disagree with the overall conclusion. And part of what makes arguments strong is civility and open-mindedness (in my opinion).

One can appreciate a strong argument, even if it goes against what they themselves believe.

I mean I think it’s the adults responsibility to make due diligent efforts to check, but if the minor continues to lie, is it really on the adult anymore? Unless there were glaring red flags that a reasonable person could suspect, I don’t believe the adult can be held responsible.

I have no idea how the law handles this, but from my understanding, “mens rea” (guilty mind) is required to prove criminal wrongdoing. There would be no “mens rea” proof here since the adult had to have willful intent to commit a crime.

I’m a fence ded

Reward system activates when helping other people. Why does brain not give dopamine for helping myself 😫

False dichotomy. Doesn’t have to be one or the other. It can be “more” under one party than with another.

How is it that SO MANY people literally can’t see past a false dichotomy logical fallacy? I swear every other fucking comment is like “Yuhh WELL it wouhda been the same under the LIBS” like some sort of “gotcha”.

The amount of people that desperately need a course in basic informal logic is beyond astounding.

I’m American. I’m so disappointed in my fellow Americans. And I’d wager around half of us feel similarly disgusted by these results.

Just know not all of us voted for this fascist. I have been trying to organize more and get my friends to organize against this. Clearly civil disobedience is needed, so I think organizing and donating to organizations that support anti-fascism would help.

Ah yes, the ol’ “if I don’t know something, then it MUST be X” argument.

Substitute X for whatever ya like! Demons, ghouls, demon ghouls…the possibilities are endless!

TF you on? Just because there weren’t immediate, drastic regime level changes doesn’t mean they went “exactly nowhere”.

There have been many changes at smaller levels not being reported in mainstream western media. Public pressure called for MANY local officials to step down along with changes in law that have already started effecting everyday life, and at least in Thailand, some pretty major changes in how public officials are held accountable via more expansive auditing channels, thereby increasing transparency.

Not everything is a fucking hollywood movie wherein you have some Hunger Games style uprising against the elite.

In fact, it’s fucking insulting hearing people who haven’t an ounce of global exposure beyond whatever 2 or 3 media sources they shove their heads into saying “those protesters got nothing accomplished”.

Never let anyone tell you protesting doesn’t work.

Tf is this shit

I’m a giant media conglomerate.

I have two facts that I intend to share in a neutral manner (and, for the case of this hypothetical, we will assume that “sharing knowledge in a 100% completely neutral, fact-based manner” is even possible).

I will call these Fact A and Fact B.

During the Super Bowl, I denote 30 seconds of airtime to Fact A, and denote only 5 seconds of airtime to Fact B.

Question: is this propaganda?

Can’t wait till AI can just learn and utilize my consciousness on my behalf. That way I don’t need to exist.

Bruh you do understand House Repubs were the ones who passed the bills that prevented Biden from stopping arms to israel right?

Also false dichotomy. Just because one side is “pro-something” doesn’t mean the other side is automatically the opposite.

I mean it’s possible yeah. But the point is that the professor should know this and, hopefully, modify the instructions for those with this specific accommodation.