Or perhaps we have exposed a fundamental flaw in representative democracy?
The courts forbid exculpatory evidence. For example if the woman bringing forward the accusation has been previously convicted for bringing false rape reports, that fact may not be presented in court.
Even certain history of the specific relationship may not be presented, depending on what state you are in.
If the accused is in a state that has Affirmative Consent Laws, AKA Yes Means Yes laws, the male will have to prove that consent was not withdrawn.
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I just want to read good comics.
EVS loves his role of taste maker. People play politics and drama to get his favour and access to his audience.
Writing a single hit comic is hard. Doing it every month is ridiculously hard.
I hope Yaboi Zack learns and Jones his craft to become a great writer and publisher. I hope that EJ gets his shit together.he is riding a few bicycles at once at the moment.
But holy fuco am I tired of all this bitchy drama.
In the west slaves had rights. Even in ancient Rome slaves had rights, including payment and the right to buy themselves out of slavery.
The people down voting this parent posts are probably doing on their Chinese smartphone. Made in a sweatshop by (effectively) indentured servants.
If they had the balls to take responsibility for the slaves they benefit from and keep them at home instead of outsourcing those slaves to third world countries, they would probably treat their slaves pretty well.
For those who dont think they enjoy the fruits of child slavery, go and do a deep dive I to coffee and Coco production. You might be surprised.
I bet most.of those kids would rather come and live with you and sleep on your couch than work on a coffee plantation for enough food to not starve.
EVS reviewed some of Yaboi Zack's Splato comics after they came out.
He was pretty disappointed. In the second outing of the Jawbreakers Zac killed them all in a last stand against a Super badguy with god-like powers.
EVS was saying "This is terrible! People want to read stories about your jawbreakers, and you have killed them all!"
Zack (later) said: "Ah, whoops. We can fix that?"
I don't know if he did, but people don't give a shit about prequels, so he had better pull something out of his ass.
At the same time EVS was reviewing the comic with art by Narwhal and colors by Zack. Narwhal, has a quick, lose style. The comic was a bit political about life in an authoritarian SF thing. The art looked more or less unfinished.
EVS said "This isn't professional level art". He was right, it wasn't.
He ponted out that he could have given Zack art reviews, corrections, etc. Help even. He also said: "People want more Jawbreakers. Just do more Jawbreakers stories!"
And he was right. Zack made a bunch of mistakes, most of which could have been avoided with advice from EVS.
That said, Zack has been literally terrorized by stalkers and has developed a severe allergy to DRAMA. EVS seems to consistently be at the center of a massive DRAMA shit-storm.
That said, EVS is really a top-tier comic artist. He actually knows his shit. Writing comics isn't easy.
Sigh.
The major effect of Body Cameras is to reduce complaints against cops by about 80%.
In general if a cop wants to abuse someone, they do what they always have. Go somewhere quiet, where they are not seen, do something evil, not file any paperwork.
Everyone has a camera in their pocket, and they have for years. Giving cops a clear record has mostly given cops a way to vindicate themselves.
This whole "both sides!" shit, is just bullshit. Mostly cops are honest and doing the job for the right reasons. There are glaring exceptions (the whole of the LA police department was on the take in the 1990s for example) but mostly cops need to protect themselves from the people they arrest.
I wish Yaboi Zac had listened to EVS rather than go and be a hermit to avoid the drama.
The issue that we are having here is that the terms liberal and Neo-Marxist are basically incompatible.
Liberals, as a movement, believe in the empowerment of the individual.
Neo-Marxists (including feminists) believe in group identities (class, gender, race) as defining traits and they believe in the use of authoritarian power (guns) to make people do what they are told.
Neo-Marxists will use liberalism, as long as the individuals make choices that they agree with. With women and feminisms, they generally do. Women use the individual power and responsibility granted by liberalism to make selfish, self-serving choices, which in general advance the cause of feminisim.
None the less, Marxists and Neo-Marxists are ostensibly working towards a revolution, at which point they will pick up guns and make everyone do what they want. At that point the sham of liberalism will have served its purpose.
Guy, do you know how many Australian Great White Sharks are left?
I have always fucking hated jaws for the damage that it has done to these big, beautiful creatures.
Rip Curl was one of the great Australian surfing brands. Only Rip Curl and Quicksilver come to mind when I think of surfing brands that survived from the Australian 1970s surfing renaissance.
A shame to see them be reduced to a 'lifestyle brand' aimed at normies and run by that evil hag.
What do you mean "lost the console wars"?
The games console was always a transitional phase. It was a low price-point, dumbed down box with low specs to educate console tards on how to play games.
PCs were, and always have been the biggest market for games. Admittedly, it has been more profitable to charge a massive stupidity tax to sell games to mouth-breathing console tards. Console games have consistently cost a lot more than PC games, and they maintain their price for much longer, as they continue to stay relevant due to fixed hardware generations.
I guess that it has been a major advantage that console tards buy their games again with every generation of consoles? That must be nice for developers?
Now that console tards no longer burst into tears at the sight of a keyboard and mouse, they might find the strength of character to plug a controller into their PC. Selling a console as a loss leader to keep a tarded, captive market is no longer viable. It won't be viable for the PS6 either.
The big difference between Playstation and X-Box is that Microsoft has some kind of plan for the inevitable convergence of the hardware systems.
Also reminding people that the sergeant of arms (traditionally the monarch's bodyguards) carries a big, fuck-off mace that will neatly slay someone through light armor in a single hit.
Today it is ceremonial and made of silver. It used to be a very, very functional four foot tall mace.
The unsaid part of "Toe the line!" is: "Toe the line or my sergeant at arms will come over there and stave in your head with his mace."
Scholagladitoria is a retired professional fencing instructor. His current day job is a dealer of antique swords etc. He is very knowledgeable in his field.
He is still a major cuck who lives in a bubble of woke tossers and strives to please them.
Women, in general, control about 70% of the household income. As far as I can tell, they always have.
One of the primary complaints raised in the Declaration of Sentiments in 1848 was that women were first financially dependent on their fathers and then financially dependent on their husbands; with the obligations that came with that.
The alternative to men earning the money is that women would earn the money. This neatly erases the male role in a family. Women do not stay married to men who do not provide.
It is interesting to me that men's role to bring home resources for their partners and the mother of their children; and are so hated and resented for it.
The thing your (excellent) analysis lacks is the sacrifice of motherhood a girl must make to "Be a Man".
Being a Man is performative. It is shown by demonstration.
To achieve the skills and attitude, to demonstrate the male virtues a woman must GIVE UP the chance of a family and children.
Feminists idolise the virtues of capability, independence and earning-power that a good man should demonstrate. For a woman to have a career and earn manly money, she attends university (or trade school) and then develops her professional skills to advance her career.
She graduates university at 23 (after fucking like a man) and then gets stuck into her career. Nine short years later she is 32 and her time is up. Her chance of getting pregnant halves every year until it vanishes. All pregnancies after 32 are considered, medically, to be a geriatric pregnancy.
As a work-around, many women decided to sperm-jack some poor sap, or, just as bad, "settle" for a man beneath her for just long enough to have a kid before she kicks him out five years later. This dooms her to a life of (relative) poverty. A two parent household earns about twice as much as a single parent household. She can either neglect her kids and earn money, or be poor as fuck. Pick one.
Women, in general, make shitty men. They don't earn as much, they don't do dirty jobs and they neglect their biological role of mother. Even Mulan, in the movie, could not beat any of her fellow soldiers in tests of strength or speed. She was clever and resourceful, but that wasn't really enough. Her team had to carry her.
Destruction of the family is an explicit goal of Marxism and the Neo-Marxist movement of feminism.
tldr; For a young woman to pursue the male virtues and to demonstrate manly characteristics in society requires her to sacrifice her chance at a family.
Define Patriarchy.
Not kidding. Actually define it.
Christianity (specifically the protestant branch) paired with the capitalist free market has been the method to lift more people out of poverty than any other in history.
The issue is that to change society enough to deeply ingrain the cultural foundations of protestant Christians takes more than three generations.
Having given the subject deep thought, I have some ideas as to why.
Honesty: Merchants who deal honestly with their customers benefit both parties. The customers form a relationship and (probably) come back. The customers get an honest deal. The effect on the greater economy is vast. Something like 40% increase in overall GDP. This is on top of the social benefits of living in a society where people are not lying cunts. Honesty is closely related to the value of Justice. An honest man sees the value in a just society. An honest man does not fear judgement.
Penance and Forgiveness: With a path for rehabilitation and reacceptance to polite society, there is a way to take problem actors and allow them to participate productively. Obviously this doesn't work in every case, but in general, it is more scalable across a nation. This replaces banishment, which worked just fine for a little desert tribe or a city state. Not so much for a country that spans a continent or an empire that rules the waves. The Christian method puts the responsibility directly on the individual. You screwed up? Fine. YOU do the work to make amends. We will watch. Forgiveness isn't the same as forgetting and it has limits. Even Jesus picked up a lash and scourged those fucking moneylenders.
Work Ethic: Protestants are famous for their cast iron work ethic. They work hard and they face their community every week in church. While it isn't specifically a Christian value, it is very much a cultural value.
The free market allows immediate feedback for your actions. People who add the most value to society earn the most money. It is vital that personal earnings be tempered by social values that maximize the individuals value to greater society rather than just the economy. A significant portion of the bible is spent instructing that rich people should be held to the same standards or even higher standards than everyone else. Your obligations to god and your fellow man do not change just because you are wealthy or even very rich.
In Russia the socialist movement first tore down the church and then tore down the family. The institutions of the state were subverted and used to keep the citizens obedient and afraid.
I was raised in the protestant tradition. I didn't think much of Christianity and I certainly didn't see the point of church. Now I am later in my life I have distinctly changed my mind. Frankly it doesn't matter if God is real or not. If we act like God exists, the world is a better place. History shows this pretty clearly. The most successful cultures of all time have been from the Christian tradition, with the strongest of those being Protestant and Lutheran.
Depending on how well run your prison is, keeping a prisoner ties up a limited resource and costs $300 a day or so.
In lots of places judges must only sentence the most terrible of criminals because the prisons are literally full to bursting.
In this perspective the Singapore system of public beatings gives a distinct advantage. Offenders are tried quickly, beaten with the rattan ( a bamboo-like cane) and then deported or released.
The Singaporeans take a similar approach with hangings. Smuggling drugs through Singapore is a really dumb idea.
It is like pulling that thread on your sweater. Shortly later you have a pile of yarn and a stupid look on your face.
Holy shit, it was all connected? How did I not notice that before? It is all (more or less) the same thing?
Read my comment again. Where did I say that she wasn't a psychopath? Or that she could be saved?
BtAS Harley is a tragic character. Her own weakness and shitty choices have put her were she is. Perhaps she might be redeemed, but she wont, she keeps doubling down and making bad choices. I don't cut her any slack for being cute, but there is more to BtAS Harley than just being a quirky slut.
A shame he picked a shithouse campaign team that went out and insulted the ever-loving-fuck out of a big slice of his audience.
I am not even against DeSantis, but you could write a book on how not to run a campaign with his example.
So he isn't an alternative.
I was not typing for the benefit of the troll.
Read my comment again.
I said:
- Insulting trolls isn't making you a better person.
- They absolutely are not worth your time.
Guy. Harley Quinn got repurposed from being a tragic character with her own journey (in BtAS) to just a "quirky" slut who parades her victim status for clout and more cocks.
So yay for you for enjoying Margo Robbie in cosplay for spank material. You want upvotes for that?
You are not going to win any friends by celebrating the destruction of Batman. "BuT SHe Iz hOT thO!" is bad. You should feel bad.
Get it right. The target market of titty-streamers is twelve year old boys with their parents credit card.
The only thing twitch offers is access to a (formerly) untapped market of young males without any kind of age verification.
If Pokamane was actually doing porn or OnlyFools, she would not get any traction.
Just do a simple thought experiment and swap the genders: 28 year old gym bros flirt with twelve year old girls by the hundreds. They would be in police custody before the end of the day.
Don't undersell how disgustingly predatory this whole sordid business model is.