I believe in the right to make decisions you regret, it’s better than someone else making them for you

Oh maybe if they want people to care about terrorism against the people of Iran the Iranian government should stop doing so damn much of it

They sided with the pandemic because Putin said so. They’re welcome to jobs outside the public eye, but not in it after that

We should preemptively offer to extradite

But also what happens in Brazil and Brazilian airspace is recognized to be within Brazilian authority. Calling their bluff they won’t shoot it down may be correct but it’s also exactly the shit that gets Americans our bad reputation

Ok, but then you can get into the diplomatic capacity. An American company is subverting the sovereign capacity of Brazil. Now, this is South America so it could go either way here, but this is an area where it’s reasonable to request the host country to stop this behavior or face strained relations.

And for the “they can put them up faster than we can take them down”, that’s absolutely true if we only take them down rather than stopping them from putting them up.

Brazil is a sovereign nation, the bearer of the force from which these rights derive and the one who has the power to change them. Sovereign nations very famously have the right to control their airspace by force and while none have tested it I don’t doubt they can remove satellites from their low earth orbit if they give sufficient time to remove them.

The difference between musk and Brazil is that Brazil has an Air Force in addition to just a space program.

Yeah, he knows we’re doubting his capacity and isn’t doing underground detonations

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sigh I stop paying attention to my state government for five fucking minutes…

Wait? Japan pays high prices for food? It was mind bogglingly cheap when I was there.

I’d be soooooo triggered if they accepted. And remember, the US is the only country that taxes citizens on foreign earnings. So you’ll have to renounce your citizenship

But she isn’t one of those people. She only cares when she’s the one affected

Yeah one of the common ways victims are dismissed by the police is by asking “do you really want to ruin their life over this”. Now this man repeatedly engaged in statutory rape of an underage individual as I’ve heard, he definitely deserves to be punished more, but also even the guilty and unrepentant deserve a fair hand administering their punishment. But even if they didn’t, that’s the same hand that will punish the repentant and the falsely convicted. The three cannot be separated completely and so we must strive for what we can be comfortable with all three enduring

As a woman who has been victim to sexual violence, I fear over punishment of rape because if their life can’t get worse there’s no incentive not to murder their victims. He got off too easily for certain, but the goals of Justice should be to protect the victim and ensure the perpetrators don’t do it again as well as to disincentivize those who may commit such crimes with the least amount of harm done to achieve this.

One month sounds like far too little, but “your life is over” means even if they don’t kill their victim victims and police are both less likely to act on legitimate cases. Most rapes are from someone the victim knows and trusts.

That said the team definitely should’ve chosen to not accept him on it.

Yeah she’s quite possibly the most attractive Brit I’ve seen. Though that’s not the point here, she’s been through fucking hell and I hope the British military pays for what it did to her

Suddenly the people who spam 41% at inboxes will forget what a statistic is

How easy it is to say my life is not worth living when you aren’t the one who gets to live it

So have you ever met an Iranian trans person? I’ve actually had a few lovely conversations with one. Is it not the death penalty to be a straight trans person? Yes. That’s actually why this lady was in America, as a lesbian she had to flee after transitioning. Also as a woman she’s treated like shit and while officially the government allows straight trans people (which btw the history and theology that led to this is wild) if you don’t transition perfectly in no time at all you’re at serious risk. I’d go so far as to say it is settled but not accepted doctrine.

And so as an American trans woman, trust me, I’d rather be in Alabama than Tehran, as would most of the trans women in Tehran.