We don’t ‘punish and make an example’ out of children in civilized society.

We educate them, allow for reform. Until the child has a mostly formed prefrontal cortex, they shouldn’t receive ‘adult’ type consequences. They literally are not developed enough mentally to grasp all of life’s rights and wrongs. That’s not to say they don’t have a gauge of morality, or some concept of what they think Right is, it’s just not all the way fleshed out and their poor stupid neuron-developing brain doesn’t fire the way it’s going to later in life.

Prior to Gamefaqs, I myself was perusing Gamewinners.com…a similar forum site lol

Boo, “pro censorship” arguments presented as concern for others.

Parts are in central. Have a sister or bear the western edge

Being anti-‘US invades sovereign nation’ doesn’t mean people are pro-cartel.

I, personally, don’t want the US involved in this without Mexico’s express consent and agreement, with Mexico leading the charge and decisions.

You’re encouraged to shovel toxic garbage into the masses here. They said ‘Bread and Circus’ so we’re getting sucrose-brioche and 24 hours of terrible news to watch.

That’s crazy to know the Netherlands fast food isn’t exactly cheap. It’s becoming not cheap here, as well, the prices rising faster than the cost of living and only a little behind grocery prices.

You’re making tons of assumptions and then holding those assumptions as the same as fact. I’ve known a few friends and family that have gone to the military, and I say this with love to those people, they were all dumb. They all now regret having served, or at least regret having served in order to attain the benefits they now gain for having sold themselves to the US, and only one of them (of say maybe 8) has learned anything about the history of the US or the symbols often used throughout.

What ‘tells you’ he knew? Where is the ‘clearly into Nazi history’ coming from? What part of the US schooling covered the various nazi symbols? Because none of those were something I’d have recognized as anything other than ‘military, Fuck Yeah!’ tattoos as a 20 year old.

Are those from ‘fast food’ locations, where the food is meant to be cheap, mostly edible, and filled with fillers/garbage? If not, stop looking for gourmet from what is essentially McDonalds (in the picture it’s Wendy’s and Little Ceasars, a fast food pizza place that is boasted as the cheapest pizzas)

I don’t know if it’s undefinable. There’s a burger of some sort (i don’t eat Wendy’s looks like bacon or bad-lighting lettuce out of the bun), a cup of chili, French fries, and cheese bread.

Unhealthy for sure, but those 4 things are pretty easy to spot

Honestly, neither does Quistis

Please look into his politics. This latest push feels so weird to discredit the guy.

He said 'I was in the military, fresh dumb child, got a tattoo with some friends, it’s a common style, didn’t think anything of it.

Then I was told it was nazi related

AND I GOT IT COVERED WITHIN WEEKS OF BEING TOLD’

I don’t know man, that sounds like a pretty genuine attempt. Are you running for office somewhere to make things better? If not, are you advocating for candidates based on 3 click bait articles or are you actually looking into their actions and policy ideas?

Seconded. Don’t think the second one captured what the first one did.

Creep is the movie I show people when they say they like terrifying horror movies that are grounded in their premise. I love this movie, and it still unsettles me every time

I like to think of it as this super huge structure, with all these mysterious facets and faces cut into it. We found it, have no idea how to properly measure or capture it. We started as blind men, groping their eay through the dark, and now we’ve found ways to light a flame and to see the surface before us, but it’s so huge and there’s so many patterns layered over patterns that it’s uncomprehendingly beautiful and we have to continue to invent new tools and methods of processing what’s before us.

I like to think this was your brain trying really really hard to remember her name too. Put her right in front of you in the dream and just cobbled together whatever sound clicked when all your neurons tried to focus on her at once. Brains are so silly

Yeah we don’t call it that here in the states. I’ve heard ‘the r word’ but never ‘hard r’. We reserve that terminology for the OTHER hard R.

It absolutely horrifies me as an adult. Love you Shel

I think you could get more creative with your language, with that knowledge. If nothing else, reading the Bible (or catching the cliffs notes) and getting a firm understanding of ‘The Classics’ gives you an immense wealth of phrases and references to help illustrate your point that are so ingrained in Western culture and media that you’re likely to strike more points with it than without.

I’m still making my way through that herculean effort, that sisyphusian task. I struggled like Odysseus returning home to get through the Bible the first time, but once you get through all the parables and their Lot, there are some really interesting stories that make for easy metaphors and similes.

And my neighbors are rural Trumpers. I still don’t grasp what the hell it is they’re after.

Big data, plot points from individuals, statistical regressions. That’s what you need to make those claims. If not, it’s personal anecdotes, personal anecdotes from someone who lived in the geographical region, yes, but just anecdotes.

Yeah I’d agree with the idea that a society historically repressed would slingshot to nude beaches right away. I just wouldn’t make commentary on how likely a populace of oppressed people might seek freedoms and make the same mistake of assuming what their culture is when neither of us has heard what the people of said country wants.

I don’t labor under the belief that anyone operating in an area that fraught with fundamentalist religious groups controlling all key functions of society actually KNOW what their own culture is. If half your population can’t speak freely, you don’t have an accurate view of your people’s beliefs.