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Edited by Mrph1 on Nov 30th 2023 at 11:03:59 AM
I figured. I tend not to watch those videos, I only know about them because YouTube kept forcing them up onto my video feed. If they are tongue-in-cheek they're clearly falling victim to Poe's Law in a big way.
Edited by PresidentStalkeyes on May 11th 2019 at 1:52:13 PM
Those sell-by-dates won't stop me because I can't read!No, Ben Shapiro is 100% sincere in his being an evil faux-intellectual douchebag.
They based Ben Lockwood on him as the villain of Season 4's Supergirl.
It's just that this (conservative) journalist tore him a new one because, well, he wasn't getting the usual Fox News puff piece.
It was also just basic journalism.
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I didn't say Ben Shapiro was being tongue in cheek - but the whole "Ben Shapiro DESTROYS x" meme pretty much is, as the guy is basically doing the rhetorical equivalent of shooting dead fish in a barrel.
That he completely flounders when somebody presses him even so slightly kinda proves my point.
We learn from history that we do not learn from historyAlabama bill would make false rape allegations a crime
. After failure to convict (which apparently is the case in 90% of rape accusations because it's hard to provide evidence beyond reasonable doubt), the accuser may be accused in turn of lying, which involves a whole separate trial, where the prosecution must prove that they lied "willfully, knowingly, and with malicious intent". While this sounds like a hard bar to clear as well, it all just seems designed to make rape victims hold back from accusing.
False rape accusations do exist and are primarily used against black men.
And I can tell you with 100% certainty, this would not protect rape victims or victims of false rape accusations—PARTICULARLY black men.
Jesus Christ, is no one in the Red States making non-evil laws anymore? I mean even Sauron had to have written safety bills for the orc forges on some occasion.
Edited by CharlesPhipps on May 12th 2019 at 2:50:20 AM
Author of The Rules of Supervillainy, Cthulhu Armageddon, and United States of Monsters.Also filling a false police report is already a crime, this bill just makes it so that the moment an accused is found not guilty the accuser is automatically put on trial. It’s purely about making women more afraid to report rape.
“And the Bunny nails it!” ~ Gabrael “If the UN can get through a day without everyone strangling everyone else so can we.” ~ CyranTrump believes Barr should investigate Joe Biden and his son.
This has multiple terrible implications but is another sign Barr should be arrested now.
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Considering Joe Biden is one of the top Democratic contenders for the 2020 election, it's very likely that Trump wants to start his own Special Counsel investigation to discredit Biden even though there is little to no basis on an investigation on Biden across from trying to silence and arrest his political opponents.
Edited by DarkPaladinX on May 12th 2019 at 4:46:23 AM
You know, I'd almost want him to do it. If he did, I would like to think it would dispel any reluctance on the part of the Democrats to start impeachment proceedings. I'd also like to think that one investigation won't be the equivalent of the lifetime of targeted investigations that Hillary suffered through, and that the media will see this for what it is. Not so sure on the second one however.
Sharing this from the parenting thread by recommendation.
"Am I a bad parent?" Why one woman didn't take her daughter to the ER after poison control said to.
A mother tells the story of her young daughter bypassing the child safety lock and getting into some pills. She called poison control and then parked outside of the emergency room while treating her inside their car with activated charcoal (what poison control recommended). Multiple parents share similar experiences in the article, where parents parked near hospitals and ER's but didn't go inside because they feared financial ruin due to the insane cost of care, like a $670 bandaid (100% serious about this, happened to me when I had gallbladder removal surgery).
It's extremely controversial for obvious reasons ("It's your kid, why would you risk it?"), but many parents feel that they have no choice, because treatment from a doctor could literally leave them out on the streets.
"In 900 years of time and space I've never met anyone who wasn't important."That's an issue with hospitals in general. Since the patience in their care don't really have a choice, they can put all kind of treatments on the bill, even stuff they didn't even do...ie when my mother brought me to the hospital for really high Temperature and they immediately send me to another one specialized on meningitis, I later got to see the bill which included them giving me something to lower my fever per infusion, and I knew for a fact that they gave me a pill instead. Thankfully I don't have to worry about stuff like this, because it's between the hospital and the insurance, I basically only get the bill to check it in the German system. Hence the hospitals keep they "cheats" small, stuff nobody would bother to protest about. But I can imagine that in a system where you have basically the hospitals vs the patient, the patient will end up getting screwed over every single time.
But this might be a good time to compare the possible plans for the healthcare system the different candidates intend to push...are there any information about it? And I mean more than the "medicare for all" buzz phrase.
... Such cheating should be easy to successfully sue the hospitals over, right?
Fiat iustitia, et pereat mundus.I was more thinking of organizations that are concerned with patients' rights... or do those not exist in the US?
Fiat iustitia, et pereat mundus.You can’t use a public defender to sue someone, only when you’re accused of a crime.
Helping sue someone is what legal aid groups are for and they don’t have anywhere near the money that the ‘healthcare’ industry has.
“And the Bunny nails it!” ~ Gabrael “If the UN can get through a day without everyone strangling everyone else so can we.” ~ CyranI can’t speak about German public defenders but in the US their bad rep comes down to them not having the time needed to handle the massive workload put upon them. That’s no their fault.
Also being able to choose to not use one is a privileged position, for many people it’s a public defender or nothing.
“And the Bunny nails it!” ~ Gabrael “If the UN can get through a day without everyone strangling everyone else so can we.” ~ Cyran

Pretty sure these videos were always tongue in cheeck, as Shapiro's "debating" boiled down to finding random young people not well-versed in rethorical trickery and talking fast so they couldn't get a word in.
People like him fall apart as soon as they're not going up against an easy mark.
Edited by DrunkenNordmann on May 11th 2019 at 2:49:23 PM
We learn from history that we do not learn from history