Zombie-Mantis

So… There’s at least one border, then.

Edit: not complaining, just amused because of the name. Its probably a good call on their part, given the circumstances.

Lmao I read that as “Biden not doing enough to secure Gaza hostage deal, says Biden,” and got real confused.

Their religion is Islam, which has no race or ethnicity. There’s more Indian, Pakistani, and Indonesian Muslims than anywhere else.

Red states will demand funding from the Federal government to find land reclamation projects, and when that fails and the mass migrations happen, Republicans and red states will demand another bail-out to pay for their moves, their new homes, and repayment any lost property.

For them, there is no standard, but the double-standard.

We need to lift that damned embargo and start working with them to get the Cuban people the supplies they need. There’s no reason they should suffer artificial shortages in essential goods and services.

Why do you think they want that damned stupid wall for?

Hopefully this move will incentivise the west to offer up more cash and support for them.

Neat.

Fascist society.

I… Hate that this wiki page exists.

I am reminded, far to often, that there is no end to the depths of possible human depravity.

It means, “listen up, this is your last chance to hear their words, from their mouths.” People have been documenting their thoughts for a long time, but their time is coming to an end.

Your heart is devoid of joy, darkened to the wonders of life. Let this man have his damn maccy cheese in peace.

Let’s ban the Dutch guy, and also the rest of the Dutch, until they reform their horrendous laws there, so that child rapist actually get some kind of punishment, rather than the tiniest slap on the wrist.

Fucking finally. Price of shit rapist. Maybe the Dutch will reform their legal system in-time for the next Olympics?

I think this comment has gotten the most responses out of any I’ve made in the time I’ve been on this platform. It’s also the comment with the most negative reaction.

I’m sorry, I understand there are significant cultural differences between Europe and America, but my conscience demands that I dig in my heels with this one: The age of consent must be at least 18 (with much lighter penalties for minors, and exceptions for near-age relationships, the aforementioned "Romeo & Juliet Laws), if not a little higher, as high as 21. I do agree that American law is distressingly inconsistent, and there are some states (notably southern/Republican-controlled states) where the age of consent and marriage is disgustingly low. I comdemn them as well.

My foot is down. 18. No lower. In fact, for every negative reply from some European defending this morally repugnant practice, I’m adding another year!

I wholeheartedly agree about abstinence-only education being an absolute failure of a policy, though I should also point out that it’s a state policy, and states outside of the deep-south generally have at least basic sex-ed, and some states are fairly comprehensive.

Funny enough, when living in Tennessee, it was the class teaching the course, because the teacher was unable to tell us about condoms, how to use them, or where to discretely get them for free. She didn’t stop up us, I think because she wanted the class to know, but wasn’t allowed to teach us proper sex-ed by law.

I do also think there’s a meaningful difference between juvenile criminal law and adult criminal law, in that we treat children’s ability to make informed decisions differently than that of adults’.

You’re old enough to stand trial

Generally, you don’t get charged as an adult until you’re 18 in America, so, not applicable.

I’m having difficulty parsing this first dotted point… Here, we don’t generally prosecute minors who have relationships with each other, as while the law (and culture) does discourage that, it’s primarily there to protect minors from sexual exploration by adults; hence our “Romeo and Juliet” laws, which protect relationships between minors and adults of similar age (such as for people born within 2 years of each other, but this varies by state).

The rest of this seems nonsensical to me, even America’s laws around adulthood (16, 18, 21) are more clear-cut. I think there’s a very fundamental difference in how law is conceptualized here, so I can’t really understand how or why you would have a law saying 14 years is old enough for sex, but 18 for porn, but 21 for prostitution, as a premise.

Dunno if I’d call 16 “surprisingly high”, here in America, at least, it’s 18. To the extent anyone thinks we should change it (it’s not a common point of discussion, except that there’s legal inconsistency between ages of consent for sex, smoking, drinking, driving, owning firearms, etc.), they think it should be 21. We also have Romeo and Juliet laws, which protect relationships between minors and people of very close ages (such as between 17 yrs and 18 yrs) from the same level of punishment as an adult assaulting a minor.

It’s 14 in Germany? Yuck.

Oh, I didn’t know this! Thank you for that information. I hope the new government can materiality improve the lives of the public.

The Finns are all too aware of what far-right government means, they’re living next to it, and it’s threatening their very existence.

Congratulations on the Fins voting against barbarism! Here’s to hoping the upcoming election here in the USA follows suit, and continues to reject reactionary nationalism.