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SuddenDownpour

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  • Spain introduces porn passport to stop kids from watching smut

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  • The ruling party in Spain is socially progressive, so they're shooting themselves on the foot with this one.

    No one wants to tell the government they’re watching porn, especially in a Catholic country like Spain.

    Spain is majority Catholic, but in terms of people having mostly secular lives, it's very similar to France. If anything, religion has more weight in institutions in relation to its social significance than it should as a leftover from our fascist dictatorship from 50 years ago.

  • LGBTQ+ orgs blast Joe Biden's "cowardly" statement opposing surgeries for trans youth

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  • A donkey will keep on banging its head against the wall no matter how may warnings you give it, huh?

    My whole argument is: "We have been doing surgeries on kids without their consent just because society wanted them to conform. If you're against trans teens receiving surgery after they ask for it after ignoring non consensual surgeries on intersex babies, you probably don't actually care about the well-being of children, but rather, have a bias against what you don't consider to be normal". Instead, you failed to understand what kind of argument I was even making and assumed you had a fight to pick. Again: work on your reading comprehension.

  • Head of group responsible for Project 2025 threatens violence if people challenge their "revolution"

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  • Project 2025 already involved implicit violence even if people didn't challenge it. So thanks for taking the mask even further off, I guess?

  • LGBTQ+ orgs blast Joe Biden's "cowardly" statement opposing surgeries for trans youth

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  • Please work on your reading comprehension.

  • Disney heiress, wealthy Democratic donors say they won't finance the party until Joe Biden drops out

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  • and is doing it likely as someone who is horribly misguided, or intentionally to try and sway our elections by a foreign entity

    And once again we come back to the liberal conspiracy theory of "We're the only adults in the room, and anyone who disagrees with us is co-opted by foreign powers". The worst part of it all is the shamelessness of pulling this bullshit when so much people knows you're talking out of your ass. Fuck off.

  • Benny 😍😍😍

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  • My condolences.

  • Andrew Tate can leave Romania while awaiting trial, court rules

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  • Any bets on how long until he makes it to Qatar?

  • Japan warns US forces: Sex crimes 'cannot be tolerated'

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  • The fact that the US protects their officials and soldiers from the weight of other countries' law is disgraceful. Unfortunately, it will not change until its allies begin threatening them with kicking their bases out.

  • Jeremy Corbyn re-elected as independent in Islington North after expulsion from Labour

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  • If someone being consistent with Labour's values is too divisive to lead Labour, there can't be Labour at all. I disagree with some of his stances, but what this man suffered wasn't internal opposition, it was political assassination.

  • The transgender community is facing a silent genocide in the U.K.

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  • You know that a lot of cis people do defend trans rights, correct?

  • Atheist parolee to get $100,000 in damages after being jailed for rejecting Bible study

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  • being jailed for rejecting Bible study

    This has a name, and that name is religious supremacism. These kinds of ideologies don't belong in this century.

  • LGBTQ+ orgs blast Joe Biden's "cowardly" statement opposing surgeries for trans youth

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  • Not that I've thought a lot about this specific issue, but I just want to mention that intersex babies have been receiving surgeries for decades in order to make them conform to the majority, far before they were capable of having or expressing any opinion on the matter. So I'm going to be really skeptical of people who oppose trans teens requesting surgery when they themselves have been asking for it, and they have the support of their doctors, as it just looks like the fact that they're straying away from normativity makes a lot of people apply an unfair double standard.

  • A lesbian couple was brutally beaten by group of men in Halifax. Police still haven't filed charges

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  • As with most issues the truth is in the middle and any immigration policy should absolutely demand that any immigrant coming into a country assimilate and fully support our values of equality for all.

    First generation migrants tend to be, in most receiving countries, less likely to commit crime than native-born population.

    http://www.antoniocasella.eu/nume/Bersani_2012.pdf

    They found that immigrant men and women were less criminally active than native-born men and women in regard to self-reported crime, being stopped by the police, being charged with a crime, and having contact with a criminal justice agency. This pattern of lower levels of criminal activity among immigrants compared to the native-born held in models controlling for key background characteristics including a variety of educational, employment, and family history measures.

    The problem comes with latter generations, if the receiving country isn't doing an adequate job at integrating them. If the parents work really long hours, aren't capable of spending much time with their kids, have trouble to pay kindergarten and have trouble teaching their kids the local language, if the kids are victimized by racist bullying at school, have less means to do well academically and land a good job, and are generally otherized by society, they're at a larger risk getting alienated and engaging in antisocial behavior and even crime.

    So, if you don't want migration to be a problem, invest in public schooling (including kindergarten), offer classes teaching the local language to adults, empower unions, protect labor, and fight racism.

  • Mildred

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  • Enough talk about trans rights, it's time to talk about trans wrongs /s

  • Britain’s election could be historic. Here’s what to know.

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  • How a Gaza 'stunt' divided Australia's parliament

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  • Contemporary governments deal with taxation, healthcare, security, defense, education, law, labor rights, minority rights, infrastructure, prison systems, regulations of industries, and so on and so on and so on. It's very unlikely to find one person capable of having in-depth knowledge of all of these areas to properly defend their party's leanings on all of them in parliamentary debates, and even if you did, those parties are still going to need experts who draw the master lines of their policy proposals, and those experts need to be paid.

  • Settlement tracking group says Israel has made largest West Bank land seizure in 3 decades

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  • Move along, this is just "Israel defending itself" (according to countless Western politicians as they justified their support for Israel).

  • How a Gaza 'stunt' divided Australia's parliament

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  • If you aren't voting for one specific person to be your representative, but rather, for the party as a whole, you generally want individual representatives to follow the party line, unless there's some sort of unusual drama that splits opinions long after the last elections.

    In countries such as the US and the UK, you usually vote for one person to represent your territory, but in elections such as the European ones, because you're voting for lists of people to represent your country, you're actually voting for a party.

    No idea about how Australian democracy works, though.

  • The government of Cuba declares itself in a ‘war-time economy’

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  • Maynarkh said that Cuba has been under US sanctions, and also that US sanctions started the Japan-US conflict during WWII. Gravitas has misinterpreted it, intentionally or not, for it to mean that US sanctions on Cuba started the Japan-US war.