[-] osarusan@kbin.social 32 points 10 months ago

being in elementary school

Consider, too, how tragic it is that this has to be in an elementary school.

Nobody was willing to step in and protect these kids from indoctrination and abuse until the Satanic Temple came along. It's depressing to even think about how commonplace this is across the country.

[-] osarusan@kbin.social 26 points 11 months ago

I would think a parent this irresponsible would do more damage to the kid being around than not being around. The fact that she showed no remorse for what she did doesn't bode well for how she'd raise the kid.

[-] osarusan@kbin.social 31 points 11 months ago

This is a "look what you made me do to you" sort of thing.

Electing Obama took us back 40 or 50 years on race relations because the racists decided they couldn't handle it. It wasn't Obama's fault, or Obama's voters fault. It was entirely the fault of the GOP.

[-] osarusan@kbin.social 27 points 11 months ago

Will the mountains be as boring as NMS?

[-] osarusan@kbin.social 27 points 11 months ago

You're saying you'd prefer the president didn't do his job?

[-] osarusan@kbin.social 29 points 11 months ago

He literally says he will be a dictator on day one, so how the fuck does the media come up with this title?

I swear the fucking incompetent and dishonest media is 100% why he won in 2016, and it's why he will win in 2024.

[-] osarusan@kbin.social 32 points 11 months ago

Snopes' take on this is really weird. They seem to be bending over backwards to invent an alternative narrative for him for some reason.

Listening to the videos, it sounds pretty clear to me that Trump did in fact say "we've been waging an all-out a war on American democracy." Not in. _In _doesn't even make any sense in the context. You wage war _in _a place, like Ukraine or Palestine. You wage war _on _a concept, like terror or democracy.

That said, I can definitely give him a pass that he didn't mean what he said. I can believe that it was very much a gaffe, because he is such a goddamned moron who rambles on without thinking. It sounds to me like he wanted to express that he is fighting in a war that his opponents are waging on American democracy, and he just said it wrong because he's a fucking idiot. It seems obvious that's what he meant to say, and he just said it wrong.

Which is what makes this snopes article so weird... why call the claim false and then defend him in this way? Why not rate this as mixture? Oh well...

[-] osarusan@kbin.social 27 points 11 months ago

It's not really hilarious if you're in one of the groups that is regularly targeted by them...

[-] osarusan@kbin.social 31 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

This kind of pedantry doesn't add to the conversation, it takes away from it. "South Korea orders Japan to compensate sex slaves" is a genuinely worse article title than the given one, and contains far less information than referring to them as "comfort women."

Yes, these people were sex slaves. The reason the term "comfort women" is helpful is because these are very specific sex slaves from a specific time, a specific place, and under specific circumstances. South Korea doesn't want Japan to compensate sex slaves, South Korea wants Japan to compensate these sex slaves.

[-] osarusan@kbin.social 30 points 1 year ago

Go back to your troll cave with this "both sides are the same" bullshit.

[-] osarusan@kbin.social 31 points 1 year ago

Yeah... this sounds like someone who is making excuses for their bad behavior instead of owning their mistake and correcting it.

[-] osarusan@kbin.social 32 points 1 year ago

This is the weirdest take I've seen on Astarion...

He's not part vampire, he is a vampire. He is definitionally an evil, undead monster.

But also, he's not a rapist. He never rapes anyone in the game, and he never tries to rape anyone in the game. When he flirts with you, if you turn him down he backs down immediately and accepts that no means no. Hell, when he tries to bite you if you say no he backs down immediately and accepts that no means no too.

You're also given plenty of chances to kick him out of your party and to even attack him, precisely because he is an evil undead monster. For Astarion to hang around, you have to explicitly allow him to do so.

Call him a monster, call him evil, but comparing him with a rapist is just so far out there and makes no sense at all.

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