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AND JEWISH!

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Not 50% of the time, I'll say 9%. Or maybe 22% or maybe 1.7%. My point is there is multiplicity of opinions. But hopefully people dont realistically want to "believe all survivors" that mantra needs to go. Support all survivors, yes, but the justice system is not and should never be based on a lack of due process.

I dont know what you mean by neutral choices but laws are policies are complex things, theres no use in boiling them down to simple dichotomies

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THANK YOU!!! I have forwarded this on to my dad, who is our travel planner. :)

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We tend toward the funkier eateries ourselves but there are two "grand old hotels" in St Pete and nearby area: The Vinoy and the Don Cesar. Berns, (in Tampa proper, not St Pete) is a grand award winner from Wine Spectator, and in St Pete there is 400 Beach Seafood that made the best wine list list this year. There's a place we haven't tried yet that looks awesome, Rococo Steak, supposed to be good. Wine Spectator has noted them for four years, says our local fish wrapper.

15 years ago there was nothing much in the way of food or culture and the place emptied out at night. These days Central Ave is booming and they have been building living spaces, condos and apartments, so the town itself is really giving Tampa and the beaches a run for their money in terms of "shit to do, places to eat". I'm not sure where you draw the line between gentrification and revival of dead zones, but I'm happy to see it.

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"courtship gone awry" wtf even is that dude. Is it a broken heart or is it sexual assault because the latter is not anything "gone awry" unless you believe that women lie about sexual assault at least 50% of the time.

And that's to say nothing of how you also framed being pro or anti LGBT and being pro or anti people of color as neutral choices. People who horf about "identity politics" usually write off *any* discussion of racism, sexim, homophobia etc as "identity politics", like people are asking for special privileges instead of equal treatment.

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that's a large generalization. I think, somehow, the message needs to be sent to them that the philosophy that is preached in cyber-spaces like these is not threatening to them. I'm not saying it's not annoying that you have to refine your message, but it's pretty much politics is and always has been, and if you sincerely have a better plan for America, it shouldn't be that hard to convince them.

I read a very convincing article by a man for the American Conservative (full disclosure: I've contributed articles to this magazine) that said he was working for a civil rights organization and was pushed out when the non profit merged and the new organization said it needed to only hire women and POC, so he decided to eventually switch party affiliations because he needed to ensure his kid's future to be hired at organizations and do good. There's something there. The odds are that his kids won't face such drastic quotas, but I can understand where he's coming from.

All this stuff about intersectionality and white male privilege is more academic and macroscopic than microscopic and we sometimes err when we try to punish individuals for being white (which I think is not the intent of the movement, to be fair).

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I would say that's misframing the discussion. Most people believe that women should have the same rights as men. There are just a million smaller issues relevant to the discussion like whether there's a pay gap, whether men are responsible for the pay gap, whether more resources need to be put towards men's suicide prevention than women's prevention, whether there can be safe spaces for courtship and how men have to bear more risk for courtship gone awry since they're expected to initiate, etc. You might agree or disagree, but it's certainly not one-size-fits-all to a large number of people

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There are even many schisms among women and I personally find something in some of the ones who don't love the current state of feminism: https://quillette.com/2017/...

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Hahahahahaha you say that like being pro or anti woman is some kind of neutral choice

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Russia is known for being masters of propaganda, they proved it works in the last election. They and Cambridge Analytica, (whatever it goes by now) Are going to continue to rat-fuck. We somehow have educate people about the reality of the situation.

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He's playing to the poo-flinging monkeys, beating his chest and pretending to be one of them.Mostly so he is first against the wall when they turn violent.

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You left out the copious amounts of vomiting.

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That seems to be what the bronze age book-believers want.

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Yeah, when you talk about a tenuous toehold on civilization... I wonder if we are headed back that way?

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But then that 29th day? toke, vape ingest...

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Well yes, one of the ancestors had, like 8 kids with the first wife.She died and wife #2, had 7 kids with her first husband and 6 with him. and so on, not an uncommon thing when you had a need for many children to work the farm.

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It's a good trick.

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