Post a controversial opinion

i've thought about hanging out with "ace" folks from time to time but i don't feel much of a drive to join a group where the only commonality is a shared personal disinterest in a certain activity.

On another topic, for any crime greater than simple assault and less than public mass murder, the US justice system gets the wrong result far more often than it gets the right one. This is true for everything from apprehending and convicting the correct perpetrator to proper sentencing.

Do you have objective evidence for that or is it just *waves hand in direction of prison system*

well a great deal of those cases are resolved via plea bargain resulting in a lesser sentence

This ain't the "defend your thesis" thread, it's the "controversial opinions" thread.

The US justice system was built for white men only. We all know this.

Probably most people who are charged with crimes they did ought not be convicted of them, both by the letter of the law and as a matter of justice.

Re: asexuality/queerness, people need to get over the idea that penetrative sex is the only type of intimacy that matters.

otm.

Ya but asexuality is one thing most people care the least about unless a sexually incompatible couple have to deal with their partner’s asexuality

Western civilization was built by white men for white men, and its attendant systems of 'justice' are simply a means of alleviating the need for constant force in maintaining those parameters.</trenchant>

(By complete coincidence, 'The Funky Western Civilization' just popped up on my iPod while I was typing. Resonant.)

at the same time its not had a bad run of success in a crul world up until idk liberal arts degrees became popular n'est pas

Peeing pants is ok sometimes

yerac otm

Neanderthal otm if a bit conservative

Never letting u sit on my couch

Exceedingly sound policy, that.

my buddy said pissing ones pants at music festivals was the american dream. kinda felt weird hearing that

I mean not an on purpose thing but my bladder failed me in Times Square once

well it feels weirder knowing we'll never get a pension of pay off our houses so deal with it xp

I don't care who anyone else is fucking. Or not fucking.

There was one year where every time I sneezed I kind of peed a little. I thought I hit menopause way early or something.

I have questions better left unposted

gesundheit

'Beyond a reasonable doubt' is weird.

it is, but what could replace it that would be less weird and say what is required to convict? Doubts can be manufactured out of spider silk and a puff of smoke, but they are on such an attenuated basis that they are not reasonable. You could say "plausible", but that word is too abstruse for most jurors to understand and would not really add any value not contained in "reasonable".

You think that's weird? Try Not Proven.

arthur brown's kingdom come were a way better space rock band than hawkwind

Lots of asexuals, really. It's a not uncommon long-term side effect of antidepressants, even after discontinuation. Fortunately for the pharma co's, we'll never get out of our murk to start a class action.

Yeah, I kind of consider myself asexual. Lots of that is antidepressants for 15yrs, but even before that I was never really a sexual person. It's not something I'd describe myself as, but if pushed, I guess.

Most people have nothing to say. They beak off about random bullshit but it ends up as nothing. If you’re saying something to effect change for a group that needs it, good for you. But most people I’ve heard spit up vile banalities and wait for friends to go “ok”. We are out of touch in the western world, even a 30 K salary a year trumps the wages of someone in the east. Yet we bitch endlessly about how our peanut butter farfait wasn’t big enough or there was two few croutons in our kale salad from whole foods for 20
Bucks. We’re lost. Insert witty Ilx comeback here
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No wonder so many of you hate yourself going to sleep at
Night - you hate yourself
But your wealth shows you got
No reason to

adam bruneau lives on in our hearts (and posts)

Ah fuck that was an embarrassment post. Swear my assholery is done. Live n learn

oh man is Adam gone??

I hope so. That dude is/was a gaping asshole.

Harsh.

little feat: still yacht rock

America's Sweethearts is a legit 10/10 comedy

Badfinger's version of "Without You" is the only one worth keeping.

Jesus

I hope so. That dude is/was a gaping asshole.

― grawlix (unperson), Friday, August 10, 2018 10:21 PM (one week ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

What a nice thing to say about someone who posted here for over a decade and was for the most part open minded and civil

it’s true he was the only person here open minded enough to love terminator genisys

godspeed you turrican of the last jedi thread

I’m not saying I was a major admirer of everything he posted, just that “gaping asshole” seems like an extremely graphic and over the top way to describe someone who was at worst sometimes irritating

That gaping asshole was one of the most valuable contributors to the video game thread, every gaping post he made was otm and I hope that asshole comes back

Yeah his posts there really offered a spread of info that revealed a deep knowledge. In that thread he is rightfully Greatest Of All Time; Simply Excellent

Tempting to fp unperson but meh - I once made a comment about kidjos remain in light shitting on the original and got fped so it would be hypocritical. But Adams cool, hope he comes back

EVAN LOL

he’ll be back. they all come back