Sarah Valentine

Did you not read a word of what I just said, or do you just not care and want to have this argument anyway? Either way it isn’t going to happen. Bad faith arguments will only get you blocked. Bye.

No, because it’s all made up bullshit with no basis in fact. What is or isn’t “masculine” is determined entirely by the whims of society and has no meaning beyond that.

This assumes everyone works with the same healthy boundaries to know when they are reasonable.

No, it holds everyone to that same standard and if they don’t meet that standard, they get blocked.

Frazier’s identity brought an additional connection that caught public attention. She is the sister of Darnella Frazier, the teenager whose cellphone video documented the 2020 killing of George Floyd in Minneapolis and became a defining piece of evidence in the national reckoning that followed.

There it is. That’s it right there. Fucking petty fascist scum don’t like being recorded.

Moms protecting their babies is masculinity now?

This thread is a dumpster fire.

You just described basic human decency that all people should strive for. Attributing these things to masculinity is counterproductive.

In 4d hyperspace it is flat. That’s how gravity works. Orbit is a straight line ;)

It’s disturbing to me how you can think of no other thing for me to mean than that I want to either murder criminals or let them commit murder. This discussion is over.

I get you: tell yourself they’re “just animals” so you can cage them without a guilty conscious.

Actually, no. Quite the opposite. Treat them like people who have chosen to abrogate their responsibility as humans in order to fulfill animal impulses. I’m definitely not okay with putting people in cages. Irresponsible or not, they’re still people.

It sounds like you’re both missing the core concept here: Freedom is responsibility. Responsibility for one’s self and actions. If someone is refusing to take responsibility for themselves, they are lacking self control and are not free in the first place. They are beholden to animal impulses. You get me? By not taking responsibility for their actions they are disqualifying themselves from freedom regardless of whether they’re physically arrested and incarcerated. We need to stop pretending that everyone just has freedom as an intrinsic quality instead of it being a right to which they are entitled.

The industry is not a monolith. It’s up to individuals and individual organizations to use TV for whatever purpose they choose. People like Mr. Rogers chose to turn television into an instrument to teach children about life and how to live it, about themselves and others, how we’re different and alike. To look at that and still be mad because every other individual or organization that ever went on air didn’t do the same thing is just mind-blowingly out of touch with reality.

Whatever fight you’re looking for, I’m not interested.

Shit, I’m still waiting for you to make a valid point. Get blocked then, I guess.

people had been developing good values for thousands of years, without degrading their attention spans or other mental functions

Okay, so? That doesn’t prove TV doesn’t help with that. We got along wiping our asses with sticks just fine before toilet paper, I’m sure.

in the 75 or so years of its history I really don’t see any evidence that the industry is working toward putting it to any better use.

I literally just explained how, and you agreed with it. Are you sure you’re having the conversation you think you are?

Just admit you don’t have proof and you’re not going to do your due diligence to obtain it. How dare you blather about the importance of education while shitting on one of the first and most important things you learn in college. Correlation does not equal causation. Experiments are required to prove a causal relationship, not just statistics. Get that into your head. End of discussion.

People being poor because they don’t have a college education is something that needs proof now?

Every claim needs to be backed up. Correlation does not equal causation, period

Show proof of causation and stop bringing up correlation like it means the same thing. Braindead takes like yours would see us ban ice cream just because ice cream sales are positively correlated with violent crime.

Having tits like hers would fix me.

Ah yes, correlation. The last stop of the fascist mind.

What an honor!

Go pretend shitpost literally means shitty posts for someone dumber than me, chief. This isn’t a shitpost, it’s bad pro religion propaganda.

The people who claimed to have values and claimed to guide me turned out to be narcissistic sociopaths who refused to teach me independence so they could keep extracting value from me and living at ease off my labor. Then they died and I was left with nothing and no understanding of how to live on my own. Because of their “values”.

This meme is dumb and your propaganda sucks.