I knew he was insane after the MetaFilter drama over a decade ago (and similar antics on reddit a full 15 years ago) where he made a sockpuppet account to glaze himself and was immediately caught and outed which lead to him claiming that was his goal all along. When I have a minute I'll drop a link. He's always been this unhinged.
Cancer can return after going into remission for a while.
I agree but based on the sheer amount of and variety of sex toys it almost seems like they're in a sex shop which a child still shouldn't be inside.
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This article is pretty good, but I think it's missing a major piece of the picture here.
The rest of the picture is about sexual repression, religion, the concept of sin, self-hatred, and projection.
You know what other thing that isn't a crime that these people treat the same way, with a desire for retributive violence? That they also often put on the same pedestal as pedophilia, acting like it's just as evil?
Being any stripe of LGBTQ+. They have the same rage and violent tendencies towards them despite being any type of queer or trans not being dangerous to others and as such isn't a form of crime.
A little background story that's related. I have a trans friend, and she's been in an on-again/off-again relationship with a deeply Christian man for almost a decade. Every time they got close, they would eventually have sex, and then immediately after he would have a "come to Jesus" moment and stop talking to her and disappear and say he couldn't be her friend because she was a temptation toward sin and he couldn't support her "lifestyle." That he needed to repent. Then, eventually, he'd come back around and "temptation" would get him to do the same thing all over again.
This is the deep, deep problem here, in my estimation.
It's like how Grindr crashes when there's a Republican convention under the heavy load (heh) of traffic from closeted right wing men who want to hook up with each other while all in the same town. It's like how the most religious areas also have the highest rates of viewing transgender pornography.
It's about sexual repression, self-hate, viewing it as a "sin", and projecting that self-hate on to others, erroneously thinking that if the thing that causes "temptation" is removed entirely that they will no longer be tempted. So they want to violently remove the temptation (people) from society so they can be affirmed in their belief that they are good people and not broken sinners.
I'd argue that it's exactly the same with pedophilia. It's about the thing they hate within themselves that they want to project onto others and use as a weapon to wipe out the temptation. They think if they just kill all pedophiles it will stop, refusing to accept their own pedophilic tendencies which are driven by it being a sexual taboo, just as they see being queer or trans as a sexual taboo. It's really a gross and pathetic way to live.
I believe the article is right about it being a legitimizing tool for violence as well, but I also think it's deeply tied to sexual repression, self-hate, and rejecting their own problems, pretending only other people are the real problem. They're just tempted by sin, they're not evil, they just need the temptation to be stopped for things to be "fixed." When they make "mistakes" they want others to give them forgiveness and patience, not to be violently put down like they want for others who do the same things as them.
Periodically, yes.
...I'll show myself out.
itch.io is also a lot "smaller" than Steam in terms of the teams behind it I'd wager, and they probably have a lot less money for legal representation and probably had the screws turned to them a lot harder due to that.
Yes how little was communicated sucks, but they genuinely might have not had a lot of choice if the payment processors were really turning the screws to them. They don't have the wealth to fight something like this like Valve does, and even Valve bent over for this.
It was based on Fluxbox window manager, but pretty sure it's been discontinued for a long, long time.
No, just for different desktop environments.
Kubuntu is KDE, Xubuntu is XFCE, and Lubuntu is LXQt.
This is a valid take but also consider that the "average man" in the USA is more likely to be a Trump voter or non-voter than someone who would vote to protect women's rights. Over half of men voters vote for Republican Presidental candidates consistently. On the flip side men supporting Democrat Presidential candidates mostly clocks in at just above 40%. When you account for the size of the USA, those differences are pretty big and put arguably awful men in the clear majority.