"(a) A person commits the crime of rape in the second degree if, being 16 years old or older, he or she engages in sexual intercourse with another person who is 12 years old or older, but less than 16 years old; provided, however, the actor is at least two years older than the other person."
without knowing anything about the case, just sayn...
What are you trying to say? That it is ok to have sex with minors? What the fuck stance is this...
this would cover a 15 and 17 y/o screwing - which yeah i'd think is debatable to refer to as "rape"
anyway i bothered reading up on it and he was 20 at the time so i'd agree to some statutory rape charges, which if convicted would mean prison time and obvsly not a debate on how long he should've been suspended from football...
chris1089 wrote:What is this whole outflanking thing?
Someone in this thread said that phrase a few hundred pages ago. Ear has a form of compulsory obsessive disorder, so he will continue to repeat certain phrases until the end of time. Notice the toon world a few posts above this one.
chris1089 wrote:What is this whole outflanking thing?
Someone in this thread said that phrase a few hundred pages ago. Ear has a form of compulsory obsessive disorder, so he will continue to repeat certain phrases until the end of time. Notice the toon world a few posts above this one.
I think the origin is more from "journalists" that have no rights being journalists saying the outflanking and making generally terrible commentary about the political sphere. A few tweets got posted here and started using it to satirise the journalists. Which I tend to laugh at everytime tbh.
“To love the journey is to accept no such end. I have found, through painful experience, that the most important step a person can take is always the next one.”
Some people on here and many people on Twitter who call themselves leftists but actually just hate Democrats and want Republicans to win point to things a few Republicans vaguely say/gesture at and say stupid shit like "Republicans are going to run on Medicare for all and crush Democrats" and I'm making fun of them. One good example of this is when idiots like Josh Hawley complain about big tech companies, leftists trip over themselves to talk about how great that is, but it's not because Josh Hawley wants to break up big companies, it's because he pretends they censor conservatives
And almost as funny as people voting for Obama instead of Hillary in the 2008 primaries. Like, wtf was their problem? Is it Americans' embedded hate for women or what. They already rejected her twice, it's gotta say something
gibson wrote:It’s almost as funny as people who would have voted for Hillary if Obama hadn’t bailed out the banks
Is there even a strong argument as to why you should not bail a bank out?
I can understand proposing a system where the public doesn't have to underwrite the liability or introducing legislation to reduce the risk (and behaviour that causes the risk) ...
gibson wrote:It’s almost as funny as people who would have voted for Hillary if Obama hadn’t bailed out the banks
Is there even a strong argument as to why you should not bail a bank out?
I can understand proposing a system where the public doesn't have to underwrite the liability or introducing legislation to reduce the risk (and behaviour that causes the risk) ...
By its nature, financial speculation will find a way around any such risk-mitigating measures. In fact, it's already happening despite all the legislators' best (or less than best) efforts.
If private losses are socialised but profits are privatised, this will incentivise risk-taking, since banks will assume the state will always jump in to bail them out. They will think "they can't afford to see us collapse, they will do whatever it takes to save us". And they would be right. Which will perpetuate this vicious circle forever. We're already seeing a return to risky financial bets and re-leveraging.
gibson wrote:It’s almost as funny as people who would have voted for Hillary if Obama hadn’t bailed out the banks
Is there even a strong argument as to why you should not bail a bank out?
I can understand proposing a system where the public doesn't have to underwrite the liability or introducing legislation to reduce the risk (and behaviour that causes the risk) ...
I think the argument would be you give the money directly to the people instead. @n0el can certainly give a better and more nuanced answer.
gibson wrote:It’s almost as funny as people who would have voted for Hillary if Obama hadn’t bailed out the banks
Is there even a strong argument as to why you should not bail a bank out?
I can understand proposing a system where the public doesn't have to underwrite the liability or introducing legislation to reduce the risk (and behaviour that causes the risk) ...
I think the argument would be you give the money directly to the people instead. @n0el can certainly give a better and more nuanced answer.
The counter argument to that though is the cost of giving people the money directly is orders of magnitudes higher.
The first component is that when banks are bailed out they are loaned the money from the government, it's not a donation like most people assume. I know in the UK over 100 billion has been paid back without around 25 billion remaining from the 2008 financial crisis.
The second component is that banks only need to be loaned enough to meet their reserve levels (or well a little bit more but I don't know the full economics of it) - which is something like 1-3% (in most countries) of money actually held with the bank. If the bank fails (e.g giving money directly to people) the government has to deal with the fallout of 100% of the banks liabilities which is obviously a greater cost.
To Dolans point I think you can drive down risk and not even remotely enough was done on this front since 2008 due to .. well ... "politics", but yea it's probably the strongest point. I don't exactly know what can be done here but I'm confident we haven't seen anything to close to what's possible.
started using it to satirise the journalists. Which I tend to laugh at everytime tbh.
