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Fourthspartan56 from Georgia, US Since: Oct, 2016 Relationship Status: THIS CONCEPT OF 'WUV' CONFUSES AND INFURIATES US!
#256151: Sep 29th 2018 at 3:41:57 PM

Which doesn't mean it's not literally done by "a relative few".

How could a "relative few" rape or attempt to rape one in six women?

That is so far beyond "relative few" that it's not even funny.

"Einstein would turn over in his grave. Not only does God play dice, the dice are loaded." -Chairman Sheng-Ji Yang
LSBK Since: Sep, 2014
#256152: Sep 29th 2018 at 3:43:01 PM

[up][up]You should let this go. Being insistent isn't going to go anywhere good.

TroperOnAStickV2 Call me Stick from Redneck country Since: Dec, 2009 Relationship Status: is commanded to— WANK!
Call me Stick
#256153: Sep 29th 2018 at 3:44:46 PM

One in six is still a minority, a large minority, but a minority nonetheless. This ignores the fact that not all the rapes are necessarily committed by different people.

... at this point I think I'm arguing semantics as much as anything. Which, to be fair, I greatly enjoy.

Aren't we drifting a bit from the main topic anyway? For that I am sorry.

[down] It's about time.

Edited by TroperOnAStickV2 on Sep 29th 2018 at 6:52:46 AM

Hopefully I'll feel confident to change my avatar off this scumbag soon. Apologies to any scumbags I insulted.
megaeliz Since: Mar, 2017
#256154: Sep 29th 2018 at 3:48:34 PM

So 200 congressional Democrats are suing Trump for violating the Emoluments Clause. x

A federal judge on Friday gave the go-ahead to a lawsuit filed by 200 congressional Democrats against President Trump alleging that Trump has violated the Constitution by doing business with foreign governments while in office.

The lawsuit is based on the Constitution’s emoluments clause, which bars presidents from taking payments from foreign states without Congress’s consent. Trump’s business, which he still owns, has hosted foreign embassy events and visiting foreign officials at its downtown D.C. hotel.

Trump has not given Congress any details of these transactions, nor has he asked Congress’s permission for them. Trump says he doesn’t need to — by his reckoning, these transactions don’t fit the Founding Fathers’ definition of “emoluments.” They are business deals, he says, not payoffs.

But the Democratic members of Congress said Trump had effectively nullified their votes by not giving them anything to vote on.

In his ruling, Federal Judge Emmet G. Sullivan agreed with the legislators, writing that they have legal standing to sue and their case can proceed.

“The Clause requires the President to ask Congress before accepting a prohibited foreign emolument,” Sullivan wrote. If the allegations made by Democrats are true, he wrote, then “the President is accepting prohibited foreign emoluments without asking and without receiving a favorable reply from Congress.”

Typically, judges are skeptical when individual legislators seek to sue the president. In this case, Sullivan allowed it, writing that the lawmakers had no where else to turn for a remedy other than the courts.

Discovery will be fun.

Edited by megaeliz on Sep 29th 2018 at 6:54:16 AM

RainingMetal (Handed A Sword) Relationship Status: THIS CONCEPT OF 'WUV' CONFUSES AND INFURIATES US!
#256155: Sep 29th 2018 at 3:59:59 PM

Anyone else look back to their highschool and college years and say "Man, I sure as hell wasn't that into adult themes back then". For me, high school was still like elementary school where I was immature and insecure, and college was like high school with all the angst. No sexual tension or relations whatsoever.

Now I can only imagine Kavanaugh's situation where it's kids trying to fuck kids. That's bad.

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Ultimatum Disasturbator from the Amiga Forest (Old as dirt) Relationship Status: Who needs love when you have waffles?
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#256156: Sep 29th 2018 at 4:01:30 PM

I'm just imagining a line of 200 lawyers arguing before a single judge,face in their face throughout proceedings

> For me, high school was still like elementary school where I was immature and insecure, and college was like high school with all the angst. No sexual tension or relations whatsoever.

Like being in a bubble,where the worst thing is detention and being summoned to the head's office,yeah I felt that sometimes

Edited by Ultimatum on Sep 29th 2018 at 4:02:28 AM

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megaeliz Since: Mar, 2017
#256157: Sep 29th 2018 at 4:05:19 PM

It’s lead by Senator Richard Blumenthal, and right on schedule:

Senator Richard Blumenthal must talk about his fraudulent service in Vietnam, where for 12 years he told the people of Connecticut, as their Attorney General, that he was a great Marine War Hero. Talked about his many battles of near death, but was never in Vietnam. Total Phony!

It’s like clockwork.

Edited by megaeliz on Sep 29th 2018 at 7:12:44 AM

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A procrastination in of itself
#256159: Sep 29th 2018 at 4:39:27 PM

Trump is really going to throw Vietnam stones? Bold move Cotten, bold move.

As for high school (well secondary school over here) I actully did the whole “get drunk and party at 13” thing, for my year at school it was find and we all had a good time, for some who came after us I know it didn’t always end well.

Edited by Silasw on Sep 29th 2018 at 11:40:25 AM

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SciFiSlasher from Absolutely none of your business. Since: Dec, 2011 Relationship Status: YOU'RE TEARING ME APART LISA
#256160: Sep 29th 2018 at 6:30:21 PM

What do you say in response to someone who says that the reason people question accusations of sexual assault is because there is hardly ever any evidence and there is only ever one witness?

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#256161: Sep 29th 2018 at 6:43:14 PM

Well, they're not wrong.

Fourthspartan56 from Georgia, US Since: Oct, 2016 Relationship Status: THIS CONCEPT OF 'WUV' CONFUSES AND INFURIATES US!
#256162: Sep 29th 2018 at 6:47:09 PM

I would argue they're wrong on both counts, witness testimony is evidence and in many high profile rape cases we're seeing multiple accusers.

I would say a far greater reason is that people vastly overestimate the commonality of false rape accusations either out of ignorance or misogyny.

Edited by Fourthspartan56 on Sep 29th 2018 at 9:46:36 AM

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CharlesPhipps Since: Jan, 2001
#256163: Sep 29th 2018 at 7:02:33 PM

Innocent before proven guilty is greatly important.

However, you should also take such accusations with great seriousness.

A female relative of mine is a victim of sexual assault as a child and had severe issues with the way Michael Jackson was treated because it felt like the whole thing ruined the treatment for everyone (she believed he was innocent and horribly railroaded).

Edited by CharlesPhipps on Sep 29th 2018 at 7:05:38 AM

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Draghinazzo (4 Score & 7 Years Ago) Relationship Status: I get a feeling so complicated...
#256164: Sep 29th 2018 at 10:37:29 PM

What do you say in response to someone who says that the reason people question accusations of sexual assault is because there is hardly ever any evidence and there is only ever one witness?

Well, strictly speaking, they are correct. The reason why sexual assault accusations seem strange to many people is that we are raised with the idea that someone making claims should have some form of tangible evidence to support them. This is, broadly, a standard of fairness that is applicable to many situations.

However, as I've said in other occasions, conventional ideas of fairness often aren't very applicable to a world that is not fair. I made a post earlier talking about why it's important to take them seriously.

Edited by Draghinazzo on Sep 29th 2018 at 1:41:14 PM

TVRulezAgain Since: Sep, 2011
#256165: Sep 29th 2018 at 11:36:35 PM

Some levity: Someone made a mashup of Samuel L. Jackson's famous scene from Pulp Fiction and the Kavanaugh hearing.

Silasw A procrastination in of itself from A handcart to hell (4 Score & 7 Years Ago) Relationship Status: And they all lived happily ever after <3
A procrastination in of itself
#256166: Sep 30th 2018 at 2:02:18 AM

What do you say in response to someone who says that the reason people question accusations of sexual assault is because there is hardly ever any evidence and there is only ever one witness?

I’d point out that that’s true of many crimes. Street mugging tend to have little evidence and only a single witness, yet if someone says they got mugged we don’t get an entire boatload of people questioning them.

People only bring up the scarcity of evidence when it comes to rape, most crimes have fuck all evidence to start with, that’s why we have police, to gather evidence, which includes eye witness accounts from the victims.

“And the Bunny nails it!” ~ Gabrael “If the UN can get through a day without everyone strangling everyone else so can we.” ~ Cyran
Wyldchyld (Old as dirt)
#256167: Sep 30th 2018 at 3:34:06 AM

Does anyone know if Politizoom, Daily Kos or @TopRopeTravis are reliable sources of news? An American friend put an 'exclusive' on their news feed a couple of hours ago; these sources are claiming Dr. Ford's father isn't publicly supporting her because he's worried he'll lose his position on a local (Republican) country club.

I'm not linking directly to it because I don't know if it's reliable. (The big red flag for me is that the source claims the statement was made to the Washington Post, but the WP isn't reporting it at all. In fact, no mainstream news source is.)

Edited by Wyldchyld on Sep 30th 2018 at 11:41:28 AM

If my post doesn't mention a giant flying sperm whale with oversized teeth and lionfish fins for flippers, it just isn't worth reading.
SeptimusHeap from Switzerland (Edited uphill both ways) Relationship Status: Mu
#256168: Sep 30th 2018 at 3:50:48 AM

"For a successful technology, reality must take precedence over public relations, for Nature cannot be fooled." - Richard Feynman
SecondKaitenhammer Since: Jan, 2015
#256169: Sep 30th 2018 at 4:48:35 AM

Trump fell in love with Kim Jong Un

I was really being tough and so was he. And we would go back and forth. And then we fell in love. No really. He wrote me beautiful letters. They were great letters. And then we fell in love.

The reality has become weirder that The Onion

wisewillow She/her Since: May, 2011
She/her
#256170: Sep 30th 2018 at 6:24:21 AM

Could we just be careful not to disregard the commonality of sexual assault? Kinda feels like a few people are trying to minimize how pervasive and damaging it is.

Silasw A procrastination in of itself from A handcart to hell (4 Score & 7 Years Ago) Relationship Status: And they all lived happily ever after <3
A procrastination in of itself
#256171: Sep 30th 2018 at 6:33:40 AM

Not sure where you are getting “a few people” from, it’s one person who has admitted to arguing without a reason.

“And the Bunny nails it!” ~ Gabrael “If the UN can get through a day without everyone strangling everyone else so can we.” ~ Cyran
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I'm sorry Tien, but I must go all out.
#256172: Sep 30th 2018 at 6:50:37 AM

Okay, I'm shocked that I'm shocked, but Trump saying he "fell in love" with Kim Jong Un did it. I'm genuinely flabbergasted. I don't, and can't, even right now. I wonder if Putin is jealous.

thatindiantroper Since: Feb, 2015
#256173: Sep 30th 2018 at 6:58:35 AM

...My brain just broke a little.

I'm out jogging and now I can't remember how to get home.

Euodiachloris Since: Oct, 2010
#256174: Sep 30th 2018 at 7:12:22 AM

I doubt Putin is all that jealous. Look, Trump is the worst of the clingiest and most unfortunate flings you could ever want to remove with a pry-bar, and we all know it.

megaeliz Since: Mar, 2017
#256175: Sep 30th 2018 at 7:21:03 AM

I’m just going to bring this out again.


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