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legendary_zell posted...

Why are people conflating acts with negative consequences with being trans? Stealthing raises STD and pregnancy risks, and wearing a condom IS something that is generally an affirmative or understood prerequisite for sex.

Having sex with a trans person without intending to cannot be compared in terms of risk, so there has to be some other reason why people are making the comparison.

Idk if youre talking about my post, but if you are, that wasnt the intent. Im not saying that having sex with a trans person is equivalent to being suddenly choked or gagged during sex. My point was that consent is a fluid concept that can change the second circumstances change. Just because we agreed to the idea of having sex doesnt mean that every single aspect has been signed off on, and people regularly find consensual sex turning into rape because of this. The gender identity of the parties involved is absolutely something thats taken into consideration. Not everyone wants to have sex with everyone.

That being said, I do firmly believe its the trans persons choice in telling their sexual partner. There may be consequences (or there may not be) to not telling their partner, and theyre well aware of that.

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Conflict posted...

You basically claimed they're not actually women, while trying to shield it behind "trans women are women". And the fact that you can't even counter my argument pretty much tells me all I need to know. All you've got left is just throwing out "rape apologist" because I'm not telling you what you want to hear

LMAO

I cant counter your argument? I literally did it several times by pointing out how flawed your logic is. Youre using rape apology language in order to defend the trans community.

I never claimed that trans women are not women and thats further proof that you have no idea what youre talking about. I said that trans women are women, but were never going to get to the point where everyone sees it that way, which is why people who personally feel slighted by being deceived have a genuine reason to feel so. Youre saying that they shouldnt feel deceived if the conversation never came up in the first place, which is an absurd claim to make, because we know damn well thats not how consent works. You dont have to tell a person ahead of time that you dont like being choked during sex either, but that doesnt mean that your partner has a right to start choking you because it never came up.

I dont believe that transwomen have to walk around with some sort of ID card, I dont believe that they should be required to announce to everyone they speak to that theyre trans. I dont believe that they have a moral obligation to tell their sexual partners ahead of time either. I believe in trans rights.

What Ive been pointing out however is that you cant victim blame someone for feeling wronged by a sexual encounter, which is EXACTLY what youre arguing. Youre completely disregarding what consent is and shitting on one of the most common instances of rape (when two partners consent to sex but then one person begins to engage in an act the other never agreed to).

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Conflict posted...

"It's rape because I don't think transgender women are actually women" 101

Try again bub. Ive already defended trans women. Meanwhile you sit there espousing shit straight out of a rape apology handbook.

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Conflict posted...

No, it's not a violation

You don't get to just magically determine you were violated when you made literally no effort to communicate what you want and what you don't want. Sorry, but that's not how any of this works.

If you don't want to see a dick in bed, then man up and say so

rape apologist 101

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Conflict posted...

If you feel "deceived" because you thought you were going to have sex with a cisgender women, and you made no effort to discuss it beforehand, you're basically thinking trans women are not women.

Like, there's literally no arguing around that.

If you feel deceived by the man removing his condom during sex, and you made no effort to discuss it beforehand, youre at fault. Like, theres literally no arguing around that.

Consent isnt a yes or no statement that approves everything. Its an agreement under a mutual understanding, and if one person chooses not to disclose something ahead of time, that doesnt mean that the other person cannot feel upset, regret, and feel raped when they find out.

Circumstances can change at any point during sex. People get raped during what started as consensual sex all the time.

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People saying no because you already agreed to sex are literally disgusting.

Consent is agreeing to a sexual encounter under a mutual understanding. Its not an all-encompassing agreement that means that youre signing up for everything imaginable. If a woman consents to sex with a man, does that inherently mean the man can arbitrarily decide to tie her up, choke her, gag her, to willingly remove his condom at any point? Of course not. (However, hed be able to if she makes it clear that whatever twists hes trying to introduce are still welcome)

Consensual sex can become rape at the moment one party no longer feels comfortable with the actions of the other party.

Saying that its not rape because they already consent to have sex with the woman while ignoring that theres a key difference between the sex that was agreed upon and the reality of the sex that occurred, is a direct form of victim blaming and shaming. Your logic is broken and inherently supports certain types of rape.

The reality of it is simple, are trans women still women? Yes. But does that mean everyone sees it that way? Of course not, and well likely never get to the point where thats the case. So you cant just use trans woman are woman as a GOTCHA to victim shame someone who feels victimized by the reality sexual encounter changing from what was consented to.

Preferring a cisgendered partner is a genuine sexual preference, and in no way should be seen as transphobic. Is denying sex to someone of the same gender because youre straight, homophobic? Of course it isnt.

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Blame the Soviets for being the worst possible example of what Communism can be

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Cant stand future/near future shooters. We had almost a decade of those games coming out one after another between CoD, BF, and then other one off games from other devs. I wish EA wouldve stuck with older eras for a bit longer. A Bad Company game set in the 60s or 70s wouldve been dope.

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Its literally not as bad as it reads. As people have stated before ITT, thousands upon thousands of men and women alike have partaken in this exact exercise (me included) and have made it out alive. This isnt an issue with the training itself (as its designed to emulate real situations Marines have been through from WW2 to Iraq and Afghanistan. This is an issue of failed leadership. Either the DIs in charge of him were incredibly neglectful, or they werent properly trained well enough to watch out for the signs that he wasnt doing well.

I remember when I did it (in 2015) our squad had a specific DI who was doing literally every exercise with us and watching out for us. His job was no longer to make us absolutely miserable (as it was for the previous 3 months) but instead to help lead us and motivate us to make it to the end (with the only occasional use of negative reinforcement ). Not to mention, there are Navy Corpsmen at every corner of the event, watching over recruits to catch signs of heatstroke and other conditions. Ultimately every single one of us made it through, and at least from what I can tell, the whole thing is ultimately designed in a way where they want everyone to succeed.

In a way, the Crucible is more of a recruitment tactic than anything. Yes, it does absolutely freaking suck, and I wouldnt want to do it again any time soon. But in reality there are layers and layers of systems put in place to make sure as few people get hurt as possible.

So in my opinion, there was a critical failure somewhere in the execution of the exercise, or maybe even a systemic issue with the leadership that lead to too toxic of an environment that the recruits/Instructors could not identify or refused to identify the point in which the recruit needed medical attention. That is, unless the recruit had fallen ill before the event and never said anything about it (people do regularly get sick during Boot Camp and refuse to tell anybody).

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NGL I definitely LOLd when he told the chick that she still had work to do when she said dogs still bark at her

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Its pretty obvious. Canada isnt even close compared to this.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special_Relationship

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Bokothechoco2 posted...

I actually never watched the third one. The second one was already just a rehash of the first with the races swapped for all the Chinese/black jokes. Third was probably just more of the same shit again being milked for easy quick bucks.

Sounds like Goldmember (Austin Powers).

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VhQhZyNKqhM

Scene Im talking about was definitely Chris Tucker. I dont remember if it was Rush Hour though

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Is that the one with the

Who are you?
Im Yu
No, you?
Me? Im Yu?
Whos he?
Im Mi

Or something like that, where they joke about Chinese names sounding like english pronouns

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Zeus posted...

lolwut? Millennials have been the worst generation so far but, unlike boomers, they don't have music going for them >_>

Granted, Millennials (who combine the entitlement mentality of baby boomers with the lousy work ethic of gen xers) might only be the worst generation until Gen Z comes of age.

Found the boomer

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spikethedevil posted...

Because American intervention always ends well.

Historically its ended well plenty of times, its just the more recent examples in the Middle East that truly ended horribly for the local populace.

However if you dont think the US would actually attempt at leaving Mexico in a genuinely better state than it left the states it intervened in within the Middle East, youre being incredibly naive.

Think about it this way, the US has genuinely little stake in places like Libya or Iraq. You can show up, topple the Dictator and celebrate your victory while leaving the place in shambles because ultimately its not America that suffers because of it (other than losing a degree of international standing, however that doesnt really matter because Americas allies will always be a powerful force in the UN). Who suffers? The locals, and then the refugee crisis eventually bleeds into Europe and Asia, but it doesnt really affect America much.

On the other hand, if Mexico falls into an open state of war between cartels and the government, its America that gets effected directly due to the economic impact itll have on North America as a whole, as well as the inevitable refugee crisis America will face (that will dwarf the current issues we have at the border today).

America will be forced to handle this more delicately than it has handled anything in the last half century because the US will be directly impacted, unlike how America treated the Middle East.

I firmly believe if this turns into full scale war, you wont be seeing America the World Police intervention, it would likely be a full UN sanctioned coalition that gets involved.

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Dakimakura posted...

Mods ban the TC for no pics.

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pick4six posted...

look up Vietnam and Korea

Neither of which were an L.

Korea was a literal tie in every sense of the word, which is why the country was split in two, which is why war is still technically going on today. And before you say something like hyuck well the US still couldnt beat North Koreas barely competent army keep in mind that the US was directly in conflict with the Soviets in the air, and that the war was all but won when China invaded. There were two superpowers on the other side and they still didnt win either.

As for Vietnam, you know damn well we didnt lose that war. We obliterated the NVA and VC by almost every metric, the issue being that the US Gov headed straight into the war without a clear achievable goal. The Vietnamese didnt give a fuck about us helping them, and the American people didnt want to be involved, and an unpopular war leaves you SOL from the beginning. America pulled out of the war, it wasnt defeated by any means. The Southern Vietnamese Army continued the war until they were defeated, but we werent there for the end of the war.

Not winning a war =/= losing. Losing is losing. Winning is winning. Im sure you know the difference but go ahead and continue being disingenuous.

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Ive been having a blast with it so far. I think that they did a good job with the aesthetics and combat in a way that it feels hard to take the game too seriously. Like unlike other games if Im in a tough duel and someone runs up from behind and wacks my head off, I cant help but bust out laughing, where in other games Id rage so hard at a gangbang.

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Damn she can break me

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I assumed something in the Balkans. Bulgaria was my guess. I forgot the actual answer though.

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Theres something seriously wrong with people who want to play videogames to get some sort of lesson on politics. Why the hell do you expect a dumb game to be the best way to carry across some sort of deep intellectual thought and conversation?

If you need to learn about the dangers of fascism and/or authoritarianism as a whole, watch the news, listen to a podcast, watch a WW2 documentary, read a book, etc etc.

You shouldnt be let down when a videogame boils down to go to this location and blow shit up. Its a videogame.

Also, if youre let down by the game not doubling down on fascism bad, then youre probably already the type of person who believes that, and so youre just looking for the game to give you some sort of confirmation to your beliefs, which would mean that the game was never going to be thought provoking to you in the first place.

Games can be political, games can also be apolitical. Who gives a shit if devs promise to be apolitical, if ultimately theres a million other places for you to get your fix?

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Irony posted...

How do you even function irl?

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Thomas Jefferson

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monkmith posted...

seems odd they'd skip over john steward, he's probably the most well known one if you watched justice league cartoons.

Theyre not skipping him. They want to make a movie for him and not throw him into a TV show with an ensemble cast.

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hockeybub89 posted...

Always weird to me how the people that blame the Jews for everything also seem to love America backing them.

The Alt right supports Israel because its proof to them that an ethnostate is attainable for America. That if Isreal can be that, then you can split America into White-Black-Brown America and be fine.

The Evangelicals support Israel because bible or something.

QAnon is basically people from both of those, so logically, even if they hate Jews, they want Israel to succeed.

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au_gold posted...

okay but this one was actually funny

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Didnt Kanye get a bunch of blowback for saying this exact shit on TMZ a few years ago?

The quote is stupid as hell and knowing its from a videogame does not change the fact that in America its taboo to imply slaves had a choice.

bbbbbbut slavery doesnt inherently mean black people

Stupid defense. Thats like being in London and yelling im gonna kill the Queen tonight and then getting mad when you get arrested, and argue that the Queen you were referring to is Queen Cersei from Game of Thrones.

Words have specific contexts depending one where you say them, and you cant get angry at people for reacting in a way that theyre programmed to. Its the difference between getting cheers in an Evangelical church for saying that gay people belong in hell, and the confrontation youll receive for doing the same in a gay bar.

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definitely star wars and objectively incorrect as well.

the objective correct order is

5 > 3 > 4 > 6 > 7 > 2 > 9 > 1 > 8

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pegusus123456 posted...

Also, TC, go back to Kratos' house after beating the game. There's a treat.

WTF I had no idea. Looked it up because you mentioned it, WOW

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SaltyBooboo posted...

PSNow is on the ps5 right?

Yes. Also fyi the ps3 games on it are only available to stream, but pretty much all PS4 games on there can be downloaded instead.

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1) its only the last gen version
2) theyve had a deal with Sony for exclusive content since before launch, so this is no surprise. Itll probably be the free PS+ game when they add Black Panther later this year, if not, then definitely whenever they add the PS Exclusive hero Spider-man lol

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jumi posted...

14 billion universes Dr. Strange saw and in not one of them did Thor go for the head.

Thats actually hilarious to think about. Perhaps there were millions of variables but the one constant is Thors ego? Hilarious.

Count_Babula posted...

No he couldn't

this is just 100% bad writing

Thanos could have done an infinite number of things with the gauntlet to stop Thor. Turn him into mush, stop time, etc

yet all he did was shoot a weak ass blast that Thor's hammer was tanking

It definitely wasnt a weak ass blast, but yeah when writing something as powerful as the Gauntlet youre bound to have to rely on writing excuses for why something as simple as Thanos not snapping immediately occur.

Remember, there were several obvious things that the Avengers could have done to eliminate Thanos on Titan (Strange using the Time Stone for literally anything at all couldve resulted in them easily winning), and ultimately they wouldve won if not for Star Lord getting in Thanos face to showboat (the same plot device used again at the end for Thor).

They had to rely on BS writing to get to the point where Thanos wins.

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Murphiroth posted...

The "Stark Internship" was a lie though, and there was never any implication he was getting money for that.

Tony tells Aunt May that its a grant and then Pete had to go to the Internship every day to sell it. I guess Im reading in between the lines but to me it seems like its implying that Tony was paying Peter to be on standby for Avengers work. If Tony wasnt going to pay Pete to help him, he wouldnt have told Aunt May that it was an internship and a grant, thus setting up monetary expectations.

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Darmik posted...

Wouldn't contract imply he's not on a salary? He probably gets paid when he completes a mission right?

Im pretty sure DoD contracts are predetermined salaries for predetermined lengths of time. Someone working for something like Blackwater would be getting paid their six figures by their company to go out on missions on behalf of the US Government (which essentially paid the company to give them the personnel for the assignment).

In the case of Avengers, its unclear if the DoD is paying them directly based on assignments, or if they technically go through Defense Contracting companies. Its all guesswork.

I think at one point The Avengers got paid by SHEILD. But no idea after that. I don't think it's really implied anywhere that Tony was paying them. He didn't really need to. Sure he's happy to give them resources but overall he's not really their boss.

Agreed with this.

Why would he do that when he thought they were all dead? He only changed his mind right near the end and they had no idea how that would go down.

Why would he leave EDITH to a dead child?

My point is that at a certain point before they time traveled, Tony made Peter his successor (despite him being dead at the moment) and he pre recorded messages for friends and family. We dont know what else he did in that time, and Im sure theyll keep adding things just to have RDJ have cameos and shit, also probably for Lionheart and Armor Wars.

So if shortly before time traveling, Tony made plans for the Avengers upon their return, it wouldnt have been unbelievable that he wouldve left a fund to be used for returning Avengers.

I don't think it's implied anywhere that Peter Parker is now rich and he would be the first on his friend list to pay.

Its not confirmed that hes rich, but he was literally on a salary the whole time. Remember the Stark Internship? He was getting paid by Stark to be an Avenger.

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Kloe_Rinz posted...

I think Thor could kill Thanos 1v1 with no stones involved or the axe

No stones and no axe/hammer and I think Thor likely wins, but its hard to tell. We never saw their original fight so its hard to know if Thanos used the power stone or not.

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pauIie posted...

Thor probably would have killed him with the new weapon if Thanos didn't have the gauntlet

Thors new weapon cut straight through Thanos trying to blast him with a fully loaded gauntlet. Literally the only way Thanos wins that fight is by snapping Thor away, which he didnt even think of in the time it took Thor to defeat him. Thanos literally barely survived only because of Thors decision to let him live so that he could talk shit to his face. Its Thors hubris that ultimately caused the Avengers to lose.

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Falcon working DoD contracts alone would confirm hes making six figures at least. Even if he didnt have any income for 5 years, he would have proof of that salary for at least the last six or so months since coming back. Pretty much any bank seeing that kind of income would be like oh okay and give you money, especially if they knew you were a superhero on top of that lmao.

In any case, even if he had all of his pre-blip assets liquidated, it would still make sense that Tony wouldve created a fund for previously blipped Avengers in case he didnt make it back. He literally left tons of contingencies behind (pre recorded videos and the message to give Spidey Edith, meaning he planned on their mission being a success even if he died in the process).

Im not suggesting that Tony wouldve likely had an Avenger salary that he was paying everyone prior to Civil War (although its pretty obvious that the Avengers were making a decent living considering Black Widow owns foreign exotic sports cars), but I do think he wouldve made some kind of fund for those who have been gone for 5 years so that theyd have enough money to survive their return.

So the Falcon not having money is stupid at almost every perspective.


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Loki and Gamora have super strength and access to alien/asgardian weaponry which is obviously more durable than your standard materials on Earth. It should be no surprise that they could theoretically hurt Thanos if given the right circumstances. Thanos could tank hits from Hulk (as well as those two obviously) but if Hulk was swinging an axe like the one he had in Ragnarok, he couldve decapitated Thanos.

Its not an inconsistency.

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Same tho

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Pretty much all of the above. His tory arc in Daredevil S2 was better but if you enjoyed him in that, youre definitely not going to be disappointed with more of him.

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1337toothbrush posted...

No, but warmongers will make the claim and idiots will believe them, thinking it's part of "human nature" (which is why PTSD is so common among veterans, right?).

Literally anybody can get PTSD for literally anything. Thats natural.

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I usually just tip whatever the third suggested tip is (the most expensive tip).

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BeantownHero posted...

Didnt Hitler have France sign a declaration of surrender in a train car?

Yes, the same train car in which Germany was forced to sign their surrender at the end of WW1

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Better than Asylum but not Knight.

City > Knight > Origins > Asylum

Theyre all great, but Asylum holds up the least

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~900 miles

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Tool is garbage edgelord shit and their fans are the worst. Ive never met a Tool fan who wasnt a total douchebag that thinks theyre the greatest band to ever exist with the most intellectual lyrics imaginable.

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I liked the music and the way they made Sub Zero basically an unstoppable terminator for most of the movie. But other than that, Scorpion was lame, Cole was awful, Jax felt rushed, etc etc. Some of the combat was pretty cool but ultimately they didnt make enough use of the sort of insane supernatural powers and stuff the characters have in the game.

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No

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Free all nips

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Fuck Imagine Dragons

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