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TSG_Asmodeus (he, him)

@ TSG_Asmodeus @lemmy.world

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  • Should Election Day Become A Federal Holiday? Weighing The Benefits And Drawbacks

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  • At the same time, we can’t expect every grocery store worker, police officer, air traffic controller, and truck driver, and everyone else, to be off simultaneously on the same day.

    Here in BC, in Canada, you're just guaranteed four hours off to vote. I think that with easier mail-in-voting (also easy to do here) would help you guys a lot.

  • 'We are all Gisèle': French women rise up against 'rape culture' during Gisèle Pelicot trial

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  • Personally, I would imagine that the real issue with THIS ARTICLE is the picture they chose to forefront it. Why would they choose that one

    A woman was raped over decades by 51 men and your issue is the article has a picture you don't like as the opening image?

  • 'We are all Gisèle': French women rise up against 'rape culture' during Gisèle Pelicot trial

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  • Well the idea with protests like this is to shine so bright a light on it that we force governments to act. If we do that enough, we can make this happen less and less to everyone.

  • 'We are all Gisèle': French women rise up against 'rape culture' during Gisèle Pelicot trial

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  • And so, what’s the course of action? To give all men some sterilization treatment?

    Who the hell said that?

    The case has put into the spotlight a growing problem with rape in France. The number of sexual assault victims in France increased by 33% in 2021 and nearly doubled from 2017, according to a government report. Women made up 89% of rape victims, while 96% of sexual violence perpetrators were men.

    But out of almost 35,000 rapes recorded that year, just over 10% were prosecuted, and fewer than 5% resulted in a conviction. And the vast majority of rape or attempted rape victims − nine out of ten − never even file a complaint, the report found.

    The plan is to make it so the system actually helps the victims. That's the idea. These protests bring light to the issue.

    And, I promise you, the real numbers are probably scarily equal, just like with domestic abuse. Because men are definitely taught to never come forward with those.

    Cool guess, stats say you're wrong.

    But even if the true ratio was 1:50, what’s the solution?

    See above.

    Seriously this is fucking embarrassing, you're creating constant strawman arguments without any basis of anything reported.

  • 'We are all Gisèle': French women rise up against 'rape culture' during Gisèle Pelicot trial

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  • Sorry you're getting this reaction. I am a man who was abused by women and all the support groups lead to me taking to a room full of women about it. Do men come forward less often? Yes. It would have to be like 1 in 100 men coming forward for it to be equal. I've had one other male friend who has been assaulted, but over half of the women I've been friends with have.

    If it helps anyone with that being anecdotal, you have to look at the statistics of who is doing it: people in power. Just that alone means more men simply have the opportunity. Add to that that men are told sex is power, and that men who have sex often are virile, whereas women who do are slut shamed. It's getting better, but still far off.

    Anyway I'll take the downvotes, but every statistic we have shown is that men are the primary antagonist in the vast majority of sexual assault against both men and women.

  • Let's do something and help each other.

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  • Don’t forget: even if you’re the lowest of the low, nobody can take away your whiteness, so as long as you’re a racist, you’re not actually at the bottom of the ladder - the black dentist is still black, and thus worthless.

    This also applies to their misogyny. You may be the poorest of the poor and white, but you're a man, so you're better than all women.

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    Am I Legally Allowed to Get Married in Israel?

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  • And news articles like this really aren’t helping anybody.

    Gods below that link is brutal.

  • Officials' grim request for those riding out Helene in Florida: Mark your bodies so we can ID you

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  • I'm sorry you're going through that, man, that's awful.

  • You should really just relax.

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  • The same hallway for 75% of the shots.

  • A Plan

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  • I tend to believe people don’t really change but they do tend to show their true colors eventually.

    A drunk action is a sober thought.

  • A Plan

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  • Congratulations on your positive change :)

  • Caitlin Clark’s Instagram Account Flooded With Negative Comments After She Liked Taylor Swift’s Endorsement of Kamala Harris

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  • Lots of negativity towards AI lately, but consider:

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  • Yeah I was thinking to myself "how can we make being a teenager even worse for kids?"

  • which level are you at?

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  • Well, I recently lost, like, 50% of my credibility as an intellectual as I stopped smoking.

    Hey, congrats!

  • TIL Black Americans were developing the Afro-Futurism/Black Sci-Fi genre of literature as early as the mid-19th century. Titles such as 'Blake' (1859), 'Iola Leroy' (1892), 'Imperium In Imperio (1899)

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  • I feel like a certain poster here is conveniently and transparently overlooking the word "DEVELOPING" in the title.

    I notice the wikipedia article is still un-edited, too. Put your money where your mouth is if you're so confident.

  • TIL Black Americans were developing the Afro-Futurism/Black Sci-Fi genre of literature as early as the mid-19th century. Titles such as 'Blake' (1859), 'Iola Leroy' (1892), 'Imperium In Imperio (1899)

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  • No sci-fi wasn't an official thing, yet the title of this is 'were developing the Afro-Futurism/Black Sci-Fi genre...'

    I'd say a fictional story about slaves successfully rebelling and taking over a country, narrated by a scientist, who does science things, counts.

    It is ridiculous how much hair-splitting is done when it's Black culture, and I'm quite embarrassed by the attempt to claim entire wikipedia sections are 'wrong' like this.

    (Not saying you're saying that, I understand we're on the same page.)

  • TIL Black Americans were developing the Afro-Futurism/Black Sci-Fi genre of literature as early as the mid-19th century. Titles such as 'Blake' (1859), 'Iola Leroy' (1892), 'Imperium In Imperio (1899)

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  • So looking up the Blake story it’s not really sci-fi at all?

    You should edit the wikipedia entry then, because it disagrees with you.

    "Samuel R. Delany described it as "about as close to an SF-style alternate history novel as you can get.

    Further, while it incorporates elements of the fugitive slave narrative, Blake's narrator is also a scientist, whose focus on data collection and research stand in repudiation of the racial science of the day.[10] In fact, this reflects one of Delany's major themes: that Africa and its contributions to science and math were foundational to the Western world.[12]"

  • Dear America

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  • “10 percent of any population is cruel, no matter what, and 10 percent is merciful, no matter what, and the remaining 80 percent can be moved in either direction.” -Susan Sontag

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    America's Smartest Man Finds Something Interesting

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  • Sadly in this day and age, it is not obvious sarcasm.

    RIP Irony.