Vox has a great article about “cancel culture” that pretty much sums it all up at length. https://www.vox.com/culture/2019/12/30/20879720/what-is-cancel-culture-explained-history-debate

I’d 100% like to see him held accountable under whatever revenge porn laws or something there are. Blackmail and nonconsensual distribution of nudes and stuff are bad. However, I think it’s weird to criminalize someone for wanting media of a demographic they are literally part of; it feels like an over-application of…

That’s solidly fair. I suppose most people, by definition just about, shouldn’t and can’t be qualified for that kind of responsibility. I’m probably playing devil’s advocate a little too hard here. :P

General purpose retraction: There’s another article now that shows he didn’t learn a single thing since he was 14, like apparently he choked his GF in 2019 for not agreeing to a threesome? This has gone from “ugh” to “holy shit no” at light speed now.

Since we’re just philosophizing into the ether now, while I would like that too when someone is older, I also think most people would get flustered and mostly be like “what the fuck, that happened ages ago, shut up I already feel humiliated enough that you dredged up my past from when I was literally too young to be…

Yeah, I’m just philosophizing into the ether. Right now, I agree: no to the political position.

There was another article somewhere that mentioned he did something when he was 14, and I was like “welllll 5 years is a long time, he shouldn’t have run for office, but I’d prefer to see how he’s like as an adult and if this whole revenge porn temper tantrum is a pattern.”

“On the otherhand, if you find that you repeatedly misunderstand humor/hyperbolia for seriousness (eg you have ASD)“

Accountability and apology is good. When he gets 35, though, if he hasn’t done anything else unfortunate, I would rather this get overlooked. If not, if this is a constant pattern in his life, that’s a whole other beast.

I’m not sure who a 14 year old boy would be attracted to if not girls his age, so I’m not willing to call that child porn. He’s not a child molester. He was a teenage boy being interested in teenage girls.

I am generally willing to forgive people of anything they did in their teenage years, because teenagers are fucking idiots and also assholes. Just because the Mean Girls and mundane bullies didn’t do any revenge porn doesn’t mean they weren’t fucking evil, and I’d imagine some of them grow up to be respectable,…

We would soon enough if any group took over. The idea is to have no one group have overwhelming power.

No group of humans handles power much better or worse than any other. If white people weren’t the overwhelmingly powerful demographic in many areas of the world, the atrocities would just move to what group ended up in that slot. It’s like how when people say “the world would be better if women ran it, not men,” I…

Ellen is a challenge to the LGBT community to not see things in black and white. “Ellen the shitty boss” can and does coexist with “Ellen the trailblazer for LGBT folks in celebrity media.” We should not let one erase the other in either direction.

It doesn’t matter how put together Biden is, Trump can say blatant lies and people will believe him. He can say Biden flubbed the speech and people will disregard video evidence.

I won’t lie that I am not the demographic I’m giving advice to. I’m a woman, and on top of that I’m a woman who does the asking-out first, so I am kind of handing dates to men on a platter. I also met my partner in college, which is Dating Easy Mode compared to being an adult.

Yeah it’s like “okay...I could do that if I sacrificed all of my existence to doing that. But I have a job, a social life, and hobbies that keep me sane. I’d go mad trying to do that.”

That too! It’s like how you can’t just wander up to the peaks of mountains and expect to have the lung capacity of cultures that have literally evolved adaptations to handle life at low oxygen.

I’m on your side here. Get the douchebros to at least pull their weight instead of being shitheads all the time. Similarly, they need to learn that their obsessions make them really easy to manipulate.

Good lord, man, take a fucking supplement at minimum. You’re not even doing meat right. Carnivory isn’t “live on ground beef and chicken.” You eat a wide variety of meats and fats. And, if you want to live, you take supplements or once in a rare while eat some damn fruit. I don’t even like most veggies and I eat them…