ObjectivityIncarnate

What did you think about Mike Tyson’s face tattoo? Would you judge someone with 5 lip rings, 2 eyebrow rings, and their nose stretched on both sides?

I judge people based on how they act, and nothing more. You should try it sometime.

Personal choices like elective surgery make you vulnerable to ridicule.

Only deeply flawed/insecure people go out of their way to ridicule anyone (especially going so far out of your way to collect photos of them to post on the Internet for the explicit purpose of mockery) based on personal choices they make about their own appearance.

Don’t try to rationalize this infantile behavior, who do you think you’re kidding, pretending you’re justified in the least for this?

Insulting people’s appearance isn’t a “meme”, it’s just being a jerk.

Shame on you for posting this, and anyone who joined in the hypocritical circlejerk by upvoting it.

Pathetic behavior.

Pointing out that your “of course” makes no sense, and then giving several examples of why it doesn’t, does not an “angry rant” make.

You’re projecting.

of course they wrote the article about the 25% that showed men were worse off.

What do you mean “of course”? In the vast, vast majority of cases, female suffering is given more attention and sympathy than male suffering in the media.

Remember when 11% of killed journalists being women led to a social media campaign from the UN about ‘stop targeting women journalists’?

Or when 25% of homeless being women was the focus of articles talking about homelessness?

Or when Boko Haram kidnapping girls generated massive media outrage, while them murdering boys didn’t? Even the headlines would make no effort to even mention the sex of it wasn’t female: you’d see “schoolgirls” or “girls” for the former, but just “children” or “students” for the latter.

There was widespread outrage about sexism in colleges when women were in the minority of graduates. Today, it’s men that are a significant minority, and no one gives a shit.

Suicide rates increasing faster among girls than boys is given more attention than the fact that boys are still four times more likely to do it than girls.

“Of course”, indeed.

Does it?

Because according to the data linked above, white perpetrators are less than half (~47%) of the total, while being ~62% of the general population, making them significantly underrepresented among child molesters.

Sounds like someone gets their info from ‘narratives’ rather than actual data.

“stop taxing” doesn’t mean stop taxing

calling a lie a lie is ad hominem

Fuck all the way off, pathetic liar.

Fuck off, liar. This is what I identified as a straw man:

it’s such a serious threat to the country’s financial stability that we should chicken out and stop taxing the rich.

Now quote me “spew[ing] exactly that talking point” that we should stop taxing the rich. You won’t, because you can’t, because I didn’t.

Shameless, pathetic liar.

it’s such a serious threat to the country’s financial stability that we should chicken out and stop taxing the rich.

No one’s saying this, this is a straw man.

It’s just a simple fact that there is a ‘sweet spot’ when it comes to maximizing tax revenue. It’s the same as if you’re selling a product for $10, then 100 people buy it, and you assume that you’ll double your $1000 profit if you sell it for $20 instead, but then the number of buyers went down to 10, and now your bottom line is $800 less, instead.

“Just tax them more” is not the simple/obvious solution it appears to be on the surface. Also, people don’t just not react when stuff like this changes, to protect themselves; just compare tax revenue presently to what it was when it capped out at (iirc) 91%.

And even IF ‘turning that dial’ simply increased tax revenue, it needs to be combined with that revenue being spent productively, for it to make any difference at all. Hell, I think the US already brings in more than enough tax revenue to do everything we want it to do, if it was doing it as efficiently as it could be.

Someone needs to read up on “capital flight”, this is a known phenomenon we’re talking about, not speculation.

“Daily murder” is a sneaky rhetorical maneuver, considering it’s something influenced more by raw population size, than by capita. It’s easy for there to be a “daily murder” in a country of 340,000,000 people, even when the overwhelmingly vast majority of people do not murder.

Using “few” to trivialize/minimize the racism is no better.

Shame on you for this disingenuity.

Anywhere the actual memo can be read? If it was leaked, let’s see it. Personally, I’m not interested in a given website’s ‘interpretation’ of a document I can’t also reference directly, I want to read it myself.

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Knowing that Europe literally has a problem with its soccer audiences making monkey noises at black athletes makes this particular bit of condescension all the more ridiculous.

The issue here is that the authorities are letting a piece of half-ass code (Read: AI) decide what is a legitimate threat and, worse still, acting on that determination without question.

Yeah, at the very least, the software should be passing on the statement, and context surrounding it, along with its ‘judgment’, to the authorities, putting all the responsibility for making the call that X genuinely merits action on said authorities.

Of course, that’s just one piece of the puzzle, and not a solution if law enforcement isn’t held accountable when they fuck up.

You’re assuming no woman without hairy armpits is simply making that choice for themselves.
You’re also assuming no woman with hairy armpits is simply conforming with their non-conformist social group (such as “throathole” up there in the OOP), doing it to fit in with their explicitly-defined definitions of social rebellion.

My favorite color’s pink, and one day when I was wearing a pink shirt, a friend, well-intentioned, I’m sure, commented ‘real men wear pink’, as if to compliment my ‘rebellion’ toward gender/sex norms.

But it wasn’t rebellion. It’s just a color I like. Same can just as easily apply to a guy wearing blue, who isn’t trying to ‘conform’, but simply likes that color.

Sometimes it’s just not that deep, and honestly I kind of respect it more when someone makes a choice like that based on neither conforming nor rebelling against an expectation. In a way, it’s more non-conformist to not give a shit what ‘side’ your subjective choices happen to land on.

Good, it’s a pain to shave my ass armpits anyway.

Yeah, this level of pedantry does no one any good, and just makes one come off as snotty and condescending.

The ‘dialogue’ in the OP is the same way. 99% of the people who’d say “I’m a capitalist” define it no more specifically as ‘I like capitalism’, which in turn is typically defined no more specifically than ‘supplying what the market wants = profit’ by the vast majority of people.

Talking down to people does the opposite of fostering solidarity.

Honestly, if you only have that one specific application in mind, might be more cost/time-effective for you to pay someone else to 3D print/ship the part for you, instead of getting into all that yourself just for the one use case.

So my objective person: you are saying you believe the word of ICE

Skepticism of one account does not amount to endorsement of another.

Neither should be taken at face value, but who do you think is more likely to be telling the truth?

I don’t think there’s sufficient justification to assume fully on either side, but the fact is that because it’s the popular position, people are happy to take the side against ICE regardless of the circumstances, which is why this post exists in the first place.

All I did was point out said lack of justification on that side, and try to find more information about a situation the linked article obviously wasn’t giving the whole picture for.

No emotional response from me (though plenty of people here project their emotional response onto me, since they can’t fathom someone not eagerly believing whatever benefits their narrative without scrutiny, and so the slightest bit of scrutiny/skepticism of an event they’ve attached their narrative to instantly becomes the assumption ‘you’re a foot soldier for the Bad/Other Guys!’).

That’s how objectivity works, despite your sarcastic implication otherwise.

The 2005 deportation order, issued one year after his arrival in the US, makes me think that, somehow, he might not have been a lawful permanent resident.

P.S. No admission of the deceit in acting like his girlfriend’s claim was a journalistic source of information, I see.