I’ve only watched about 15 mins of their content, and they came across to me as alt-right. Do you not want to mention the name because of that? I’m just wondering if my intuition was correct. Something, when watching videos and reading comments, triggered my nope response.

You have the reading comprehension of a snail.

All quotes from https://www.amnesty.org/en/latest/press-release/2019/04/rape-and-sexual-violence-in-nordic-countries-consent-laws/

“Social stigma and a lack of trust in the justice system often mean that women and girls fail to report attacks, and those that do, are frequently failed by callous and prejudiced justice systems or outdated laws. One survivor told us she would never have reported her rape if she had known how she would have been be treated, and her story is typical in justice systems which are stacked against rape survivors.”

Whilst the situation facing survivors of rape is not uniform across the four Nordic countries, there are disturbing parallels among them whose criminal justice systems ignore, deny and tacitly condone sexual violence against women.

That’s rape culture.

I’m a child of rape. Please don’t talk to me about it if you wish to belittle the problem. Please don’t talk to any women about it, it’s far too possible they’re a rape survivor and haven’t told you, and they do not want to hear about your ignorance.

Just shut up in general about this issue if you do not understand. We don’t need your lack of belief that this is an issue.

As a rape survivor, for my mental health, I will block you if you engage with me on this. Just shut up: my mental health is more important than your questions. Do not even post a “you must be brave” or “I’m sorry to hear it” or “I didn’t mean it”. My trauma doesn’t exist for you to score virtue points. My trauma does not exist for you to defend your government and legal system, which you think are very good. I don’t care about that - that’s your belief, and you are welcome to it. Just don’t reply. Thank you.

Every year, around 50,000 women in Finland experience sexual violence, including rape. Most of those responsible for these crimes are never brought to justice. In 2017 only 209 convictions were secured for rape.

That’s rape culture.

Norwegian authorities have not taken the necessary measures to prevent rape and other forms of sexual violence or to address the consequences when such crimes occur. Prevailing and erroneous myths about rape make it hard for rape victims to report the crime to the police or to seek medical help. They also influence the way rape cases are handled by the criminal justice system.

That’s rape culture.

Harmful attitudes will not be suddenly changed by a change in the law. A recent study found that that almost one in 10 people in Sweden agreed that gender-based violence against women is often provoked by the victim herself. One survivor told Amnesty International: ”I even got that comment from my mother. She said ’I have always tried to teach you how to dress.’”

That’s rape culture.

Rape in Denmark is hugely under-reported and even when women do go to the police, the chances of prosecution or conviction are very slim. Of the 24,000 women found by a recent study to have experienced rape or attempted rape in 2017 alone, just 890 rapes were reported to the police. Of these, 535 resulted in prosecutions and only 94 in convictions.

That’s rape culture.

In 2018, Amnesty analysed rape legislation in 31 European countries, and only eight of them have laws that define sex without consent as rape.

That’s rape culture.

https://www.amnesty.org/en/latest/press-release/2019/04/rape-and-sexual-violence-in-nordic-countries-consent-laws/

It’s hard to judge on a case-by-case basis when women are dissuaded from pursuing abusers in court. We simply don’t know, because we live in a rape culture, and it is a struggle to convict rapists.

I got permabanned from Reddit for saying that I respect trans people (temp ban), and then agreeing with someone else that homophobia in the OW community was ridiculous, as the game is pro-queer (perm ban).

Fuck Reddit.

Also, the situation where you have multiple accounts (e.g. on your phone, on a work computer, on home computer), are permabanned from a sub for a stupid reason on one, and then post on that sub with another account six months later because you forget, and then get in trouble for it… it’s ridiculous. Just ban all the linked accounts so that the user can’t get in trouble for forgetting about a ban from months ago.

It’s Scottish English. Don’t call a Scottish person English, they might take offence.

Do church leaders know that?

To appeal to children, which is an important focus of religious propaganda.

but, conversely, the cosmic timescale is so vast that it doesn’t matter to us…

I agree, stories only matter because we lack objectivity.

The point of a successful Disney media franchise is not to provide nuance and provoke thought, but instead to sell merch for profit.

This gets to the fact that all stories are lies. No one lives happily ever after, for we all die. No one is strong and wins, because strength, weakness, winning and losing are just perceptions that are eventually erased from time.

When you start to intuit that human psychology is heavily based on such soporific narrative, you start to understand how people can be so stupid, both individually and collectively.

The endless story of justification is powerless in the face of time, as time reduces all individuals, groups, bloodlines and ideologies to memory, and then to total obliteration.

Maybe we could spend less time justifying being shit to each other, as it is wholly without lasting merit, and - instead - create a world based on human decency. That won’t last, either, but at least it would be moral.

The issue with the Star Wars story is that it can’t end. This means Luke cannot have been very effective, because the same issues have to repeat historically to promote an endless cycle of protagonists and antagonists and battles that relate to the previous fan-favourites (because nostalgia sells).

Therefore Luke must simultaneously be an awesome hero, and also just some loser that didn’t really do anything that worked.

Or a nice violin.

Humanity is transient. If we go out by being queer and not having kids, it’s better than many of the other ways.

YouTube searches are also truly awful, and have been for around a year.

I just googled ‘is google my friend’ and google told me it was not my friend. Help.