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Apparently, people are unaware that there is a long tradition in U.S. (and England before) of punishing "seduction of an unmarried woman of previously chaste character under promise of marriage," with up to five years’ imprisonment and a fine. The vast majority of U.S. states had such laws in the 19th and 20th centuries.
At the time, that would be the equivalent of "stringing a woman along" today, as marriage was the default assumption. While it isn't the default assumption today, it is still a category of transgression to "take advantage of a woman" in a manner that isn't rape.
What appalls me is the notion, from men and women both, that women just had zero protection throughout history and were just treated like children or property and were under the care of their fathers until marriage.
Are you people genuinely stupid? That's historical fan-fiction.
Women, especially in the American and Anglo-Saxon tradition (but also through much of Northern and Western Europe) were never treated like that. I've had to explain on here that even in ancient Rome with "pater familias," women could initiate divorce, sign contracts, and own property. They were not treated like children.
I beg you... read some history.
I've actually explained numerous times that, increasingly, women's definition of "rape" is simply any sex that they regret.
What's actually going on isn't that they don't understand what actual rape is, or that they're just evil. Rather, it's that there's a transgression that doesn't have a proper name nor social punishment, and it's broadly defined as "taking advantage of a woman."
That used to be punished in our society but we eliminated that as a concept and so now everything is unpunished unless it's rape. So, women have simply folded in the lesser transgressions into the category of "rape."
The solution is to restore punishment for the lesser transgressions of "taking advantage of a woman."
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You fucked your dead brothers wife got her addicted to crack. Then got a stripper pregnant and never seen the little girl. You’re one of the biggest pieces of shit that exists in the world….
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A lot of modern debate about the Confederacy starts with why the South seceded, decides the motive was immoral, then works under that bias to declare secession illegal and an invasion justified.
It also injects 160 years of nationalism and presentism into an America barely 70 years removed from ratification, when state and regional identity still mattered enormously.
Moral outrage isn’t a constitutional argument, and it doesn’t determine the proper remedy.
If you need competing constitutional theories just to argue secession was illegal, killing hundreds of thousands to settle the question is a pretty damn atrocious answer.
We're getting to the point where it seems inevitable that civil war 2.0 is necessary and a big part of that is people too ignorant of history to understand reconciliation so they insist on pulling apart the threads that sewed the union back together in the first place.
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When I was in 6th grade and learned about the Holocaust none of my classmates could understand how it was allowed to happen. How did so many people go along with what was so obviously wrong?
My teacher tried to explain, but I don't think he really understood himself.
Thanks to Covid and the lockdowns we all - every single one of us alive at that time - knows exactly how something like Holocaust happens because we participated in it.
Every single one of us knew on some level that what we were being asked to do was wrong and ineffective.
Anyone with a basic education - at least one from before the mid 90s - understood how silly masks were, especially when they were rarely worn correctly.
Many people spoke up, but were canceled, deplatformed, fired, shunned, unfriended, unfollowed, estranged to the point they threw up their hands and shut up.
Had Elon Musk not purchased Twitter, where much of the fake news and propaganda was distributed and where the truth was throttled, shadow banned and canceled, there was an excellent chance of it happening again.
Tatted up bozos like @ThePutterMonk are why we need to shrink the game. He went straight to blocking me for suggesting he independently evaluate his student's strengths and weaknesses. Oh the horror. No one should trust a person who can't trust themselves.
Inflation is a bitch. The golf balls I like over time:
2019 -15.95/dz
2021 -18.99/dz
2024 -21.99/dz
2025 -23.99/dz
Now 25.99/dz
9% inflation rate. To hell with the government statistics, this is the real impact.
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This is because the anti-capitalist left is not actually against people being crazy rich. They're against certain types of people being crazy rich.
Artists and athletes make sense to them because they've played music and sports and because their success can be explained by "luck" and "talent". Messi's wealth is not offensive to them because they understand Messi is much better at football than they are.
But when it comes to business, the anti-capitalist leftist has no framework for understanding why Jeff Bezos might be super rich since 99% of them have never ever created a product, business or service that was of value to other people. They've never taken entrepreneurial risk. They've never employed people and felt the burden of responsibility that comes with that. They've never pick up a business and given it a play in the way they've picked up a ball or a guitar.
They *literally* don't understand wealth creation. They think there is a fixed amount of money and the only thing a business does is split it unfairly.
It's why they rage at Elon and other successful business leaders. Because they genuinely don't understand why they're wealthy.
Also, and this is just as important, athletes and artists are disproportionately young, attractive, "diverse", left wing etc. Business leaders are "evil" middle aged white men whose success offends the average anti-capitalist leftist because they don't understand a) what it is they do and b) that Elon Musk has the same talent advantage on them as Messi does, it's just harder to measure.
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I understand the point, and it's worth taking seriously. Yes, you must work to live. But look at why that's true, because the reason changes everything.
The need to produce isn't imposed by employers or capitalism. It's imposed by nature. A man alone on an island must fish, build, and grow or he dies. That's not a threat from another person. It's the basic condition of being alive. Food, shelter, and clothing don't exist until someone makes them.
So when you say work is "forced" by the threat of starvation, that threat comes from reality itself, not from the man offering you a job. He didn't create your need to eat. He's offering you a way to meet it, a trade, his wealth for your effort. That's not coercion. Coercion is a gun. An offer you can refuse, even a hard one, is the opposite of force.
And here's the part the resentment hides. The employer isn't your enemy in this. He's the one who built the thing that lets you meet nature's demand without fishing alone on a rock. The men who produce the most, the ones who create the factories, the tools, the jobs, are the greatest benefactors of all, because they multiply what every worker can earn far beyond what he could alone.
That's why the moral debt runs the other way. We don't owe our lives to the takers. We owe an enormous debt to the producers, whose ability raises the standard of living of everyone beneath them. The man who gives you a way to live has done you good, not harm.
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The richest guy on Earth SHOULD be the guy making cutting edge cars and rockets instead of dudes who sell purses and perfumes or dudes who run investment firms or dudes who made Facebook.
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Dear black folks,
Okay… have a seat… there’s something we really need to discuss.
*leans in* You know… we really don’t have to stand with Karmelo Anthony because he’s black. Like, we can just either keep quiet and let the justice system do its thing, or… even better… we can side with the actual victim.
This whole “even if Karmelo is guilty, I’m gonna support him” attitude is exactly why black folks are given side eye all over the world. We have to stop making martyrs out of people who don’t deserve it.
My heroes are my heroes despite their skin color. I look up to men like Clarence Thomas, Dr. Ben Carson, and Dr Thomas Sowell not because they’re black, but because they’re great men. Let’s find more like them.
Hugs, only because I say this out of love. Well, not hugs for all of you. You know who you are…
Zeek
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Given the amount of traffic that my account has gotten recently, I'd like to clarify a few things.
First off, thank you very much to everyone who liked, shared and commented on my Stone Mountain post. I never in a million years would have imagined something that I'd say would reach that many people. Thank you to all of my new followers.
Second off, to the detractors who are likely chomping that the bit to accuse me of racism, I'm just not. Full stop.
No, I don't support slavery. Obviously. Anyone saying that about me or people who think the way I do are either uneducated or blindly hateful of us. Robert E Lee said, "In this enlightened age, there are few I believe, but what will acknowledge, that slavery as an institution is a moral & political evil in any Country. " and I agree with him.
"How can you be proud of your heritage of losers?!?"
My ancestors took up arms against an invading force that had significantly more manpower, supplies, medicine, organization, reinforcements, etc to defend their homes. My ancestors fought and died against the most powerful military in the world for four years. Despite that, the Confederates killed 360,000 invaders in that time and the invaders killed 260,000 of us. We had the greatest Generals and tactics that the world had ever seen. General Lee and General Stonewall Jackson are studied to this day. To call us "losers" is just plainly wrong.
The South IS America. When people think of American culture, they think of the South.
Almost all of the founding fathers were Virginian. This includes George Washington, Thomas Jefferson, James Madison, George Mason, and many others. Virginia seceded, along with the descendants of those people. The Confederacy fought for the cause and purpose of the original founders. Notably, I bet the people who hate me, also hate them.
I don't believe in violent revolution in the modern day. I simply want the South to be removed from the boot of DC tyranny. I want the South to be allowed to have her monuments to honor and celebrate her heroes. I want to be able to proudly bear her flag again.
The Confederates were not traitors. In the laws of the time, the states were allowed to peacefully secede, which they did after it became clear that they had no place within the Union. 👏NO CONFEDERATE LEADER WAS CHARGED WITH TREASON 👏
This is about all I'm sure anyone will probably read to. I'll sum it up with I love the United States of America. There's nowhere else I'd rather live. I just want to be proud of my history again. I'm sick of being told I'm evil and my ancestors were evil.
I may add to this thread later if I think of more things to say, so I'll just leave it at that for now. Thank you for your attention to this matter.
Deo Vindice.
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Jefferson predicted this in Notes on the State of Virginia, and noted that even letting in French and German migrants would alter the character of the American people for the worse because of the political cultures from whence they came
Now we have Armenians, Turks, and more, and all he has been proven right many times over
He said:
But are there no inconveniences to be thrown into the scale against the advantage expected from a multiplication of numbers by the importation of foreigners? It is for the happiness of those united in society to harmonize as much as possible in matters which they must of necessity transact together. Civil government being the sole object of forming societies, its administration must be conducted by common consent. Every species of government has its specific principles. Ours perhaps are more peculiar than those of any other in the universe. It is a composition of the freest principles of the English constitution, with others derived from natural right and natural reason. To these nothing can be more opposed than the maxims of absolute monarchies. Yet, from such, we are to expect the greatest number of emigrants. They will bring with them the principles of the governments they leave, imbibed in their early youth; or, if able to throw them off, it will be in exchange for an unbounded licentiousness, passing, as is usual, from one extreme to another. It would be a miracle were they to stop precisely at the point of temperate liberty. These principles, with their language, they will transmit to their children. In proportion to their numbers, they will share with us the legislation. They will infuse into it their spirit, warp and bias its direction, and render it a heterogeneous, incoherent, distracted mass. I may appeal to experience, during the present contest, for a verification of these conjectures. But, if they be not certain in event, are they not possible, are they not probable? Is it not safer to wait with patience 27 years and three months longer, for the attainment of any degree of population desired, or expected? May not our government be more homogeneous, more peaceable, more durable? Suppose 20 millions of republican Americans thrown all of a sudden into France, what would be the condition of that kingdom? If it would be more turbulent, less happy, less strong, we may believe that the addition of half a million of foreigners to our present numbers would produce a similar effect here.
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Gonna try to explain this to tech CEOs again: Young Americans are pissed. They feel betrayed. Half have embraced the far right & want to cut off your access to cheap foreign labor. The other half have embraced the far left & want to cut off your head. One side will win. Choose.
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I mean this sincerely: Chirayu Rana, who fabricated the entire thing, deserves life in prison. Someone who is willing to ruin another’s life in the most egregious and damaging way has no place in polite society. How awful for this lady and her family.
Bombshell sex harassment suit against Lorna Hajdini, JPMorgan branded 'complete fabrication' as John Doe unmasked trib.al/lwsWCbT
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A Harvard Business Review finding showed that mandatory race training in workplaces produced higher levels of racism in the end, similar to the white bear suppression effect.
We were so close to a colorblind society… then all the crazies ruined it with performative politics.
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occasional reminder that the reason women took on heavy duty, necessary, dirty jobs during ww2 is that the men temporarily moved to heavier dutier, necessarier, dirtier jobs.
