Fuck, I might be terminally online.

Is this the “Don’t be such a silly little boy” green text?

What do you mean by “appealing”?

I’d say average about -5. Verbal, physical, and emotional abuse was the norm. My mom was fine, but due to the age gap she was functionally more like a big sister. My dad must’ve been going for the high score on the Dark Triad.

School was a fun one; I was regularly held out of school to the point I was nearly kept back multiple times for truancy alone, at one point my grandmother had to threaten to call CPS because I wasn’t even enrolled in school at all. Every day I’d have so many chores that homework was impossible, and that lack of structure kicked my ass in college. Bit of a mindfuck to constantly be told that school is for stupid conformists, and still get punished for bad grades. It’s a good thing I’ve got a great memory and phenomenal test-taking skills, or I never would have passed a single class.

Socialization was fun too. Between frequent moves and the pile of chores on my list, I didn’t have the opportunity to make many friends. Tried to get into Boy Scouts and sports to get some kind of social life, but those were for stupid conformists too. Combine that isolation with my dad’s attempts to turn me into his shadow, I grew up real weird and isolated. People think I’m sociable now, but that required years of focused work. And I’m still pretty weird.

Character and values, ho boy. I wasn’t exaggerating with “Dark Triad high score”. He literally tried to become a Latin American island dictator, it was a lifelong project for him. I was taught the values of doing anything you can get away with, exploiting rules, lying all the time to get what you want, emotional manipulation, and countless other Machiavellian, narcissistic, psychopathic behaviors. Fortunately, my grandparents were much more moral and ethical, so it was a bit easier to deprogram myself on that front.

I won’t even get into all the other little things, but I think anyone from an abusive household can tell you that all the little things can often have a more serious long term effect than the big ones. Daily whoopings suck, but they go away when you move out. Not so much a lifetime of being trained to treat every conversation like a competition.

On the bright side, I’m very resilient now. I joke to people that i never get stressed because my brain doesn’t produce the stress chemical, but really I just coped with so much stress growing up that none of the minor daily stresses register at all.

So yeah, others have definitely had it worse, -5 feels about right.

*Yor

I’ll go further, and say the text of the 2nd Amendment implies gun owners should be members of a well-regulated militia. I think every State Guard should accept anyone who applies, and give them basic training. In exchange for being part of the reserve, and passing firearm classes, you can keep and bear arms.

If you don’t want to be part of a well-related militia, no guns. If you can’t pass firearm training, no guns.

That’s part of the point. Destroy the government, and the public’s faith in it, so billionaires can do as they please sans regulations.

Pam Bondi said the list was on her desk to review. Then suddenly there was never a list. I wouldn’t call that a “total lack of evidence”.

Yes, I gave far finders.

The correct answer

How many times do you think graffiti writers will have to correct the signs before they start stationing guards?

Not really a true crime guy, but

Chaotic Good baby, love when the parking lot around the corral is vacant so I can go for distance without risking hitting anyone.

I mean, everything is part of the universe, including our brains and the chemicals inside them that manifest experientially as happiness and sadness. You can certainly take more control over what causes those emotions in you, but you’re still part of the universe.

Oh do explain, since it’s so easy.

I’m not going to explain the intricacies of the criminal justice system to someone who clearly doesn’t understand the most basic concept of due process. It’s also irrelevant; you don’t get to ignore the Constitution because respecting people’s inalienable rights is inconvenient.

But I thought America’s prison system was broken too?

It certainly is, but that’s a separate issue. Also, how much of a psychopath do you have to be to say “The prison system has flaws, therefore we should just abandon it and throw people in internment camps”. That’s fascist talk.

Finally you say something we can all agree upon.

Clearly not since you’re proudly advocating against due process as guaranteed by the Constitution.

Your analogy isn’t applicable.

Because you don’t want it to be… Sure it isn’t applicable to every single situation, but I’d be willing to guess it applies to a majority.

What I want has nothing to do with it, it’s inapplicable by the facts of the situation. It would be applicable to uniformed border patrol agents catching migrants in the process of crossing the border, or a uniformed police officer arresting an illegal migrant in the process some other crime. But these officers are not uniformed, and the fact that multiple legal migrants and US citizens have been rounded up proves that they don’t even have probable cause.

Isn’t being in a country when you’re not supposed to be “mid-crime”?

No. Entering the country illegally is a crime, residing in it afterwards is a civil offense.

Again, it’s not perfect, but nothing is. All I can hope is that the actual victims are compensated handsomely.

Nothing is perfect, but this isn’t even good. It’s flagrant disregard for the Constitution. Again, you don’t get to discard the Constitution because it makes your job harder.

No State shall make or enforce any law which shall abridge the privileges or immunities of citizens of the United States; nor shall any State deprive any person of life, liberty, or property, without due process of law; nor deny to any person within its jurisdiction the equal protection of the laws.

The Constitution is very clear. Doesn’t matter how they got here, every person in the jurisdiction of American law is guaranteed due process.

Maybe you should read the news, and stop getting all your information from your WASP neighbors in Bumblefuck, USA.

I’m convinced that if there’s a way to build a time machine, it’ll probably work like Primer.

How are you supposed to get a warrant for a person you can’t even prove is who they say they are?

The usual way. It’s not hard.

Further, if someone is actively avoiding law enforcement, wouldn’t you think it would make sense to not look like law enforcement?

Yes, much better to just look like anonymous armed kidnappers. The downside is that actual anonymous armed kidnappers can pretend to be undercover ICE agents, which has already happened multiple times.

Also, where are you supposed to send a criminal that is awaiting deportation?

A regular jail, where they have access to a lawyer and the other protections of due process enshrined in our most fundamental laws.

I understand it doesn’t feel good, but I know plenty of people that followed the process, and obtained citizenship legally, and you are all saying “fuck that, let’s have criminals do whatever they want” because it doesn’t feel good.

That might have a shred of validity if they weren’t also kidnapping people who were following the legal process and attending their immigration hearings. Not to mention kidnapping actual citizens. And you all are saying “Fuck that, if your skin is brown you’re going down.”

No one is saying for criminals to do whatever they want. We just want you lot to acknowledge that the law of the land ensures due process to everyone, not just citizens.

By your logic, you would speed down the road in your car, and when you got caught, it’s not fair because the cop was in an unmarked car, and wasn’t specifically looking for you.

These people aren’t being arrested mid-crime, they’re kidnapping them from their homes, off the street, at their jobs, and again, at their legal immigration hearings. And there are multiple accounts of mistaken identity, or no specific target at all. Your analogy isn’t applicable.

It’s much more like a man in street clothes and an unmarked car who refuses to identify themselves, kidnapping me at gunpoint as I get into my car because it’s a yellow sports car and yellow sports cars are statistically more likely to speed. Yeah, that’s not fair.

Or just maybe you made the choice to speed, so you have to pay the consequences if you get caught?

And when you make the choice of wiping your ass with the 14th amendment, you have to pay the consequence of real patriots calling you a fascist bootlicker.

Same as it ever was

Pedophiles are just people with an illness. Child abusers are irredeemable and pure evil. But not all pedophiles are child abusers (and for that matter, not all child abusers are pedophiles). Pedophilia is nothing more than an attraction. Some sufferers succumb to and act on that attraction, others seek psychological help to manage that attraction so that they don’t act on it.

This commenter was very obviously referring to the latter: those afflicted by pedophilia who are determined to keep themselves from acting on it, but face social challenges in finding psychological help.