ObjectivityIncarnate

Why link this article instead of the CNN article all the info actually came from?

https://www.hrw.org/news/2025/11/04/us-ice-abuses-in-los-angeles-set-stage-for-other-cities

Does that hand on the left look white to you?

don’t know what subjective is lol

No, you don’t. Subjective means an opinion, a value judgment that’s not tied to actual facts. For example, someone liking the exact same food more than another person. It’s the same food, neither of you are “correct” or “incorrect” about how delicious it is, because that’s subjective.

Nothing I said was subjective. Condoms are objectively less convenient than any of the other methods I mentioned, for the factual reasons I stated. No method of contraception is less convenient than one that is a separate object that you need to physically possess on your person at the time of the sexual act. Barrier methods are objectively the least convenient method to prevent pregnancy.

You invented some arbitrary metric of “birth control is only convenient and effective when you don’t have to carry it with you,”

No, you made that up. I’ve only ever been talking about relative convenience. You entered this conversation when you responded to my stating the fact that female methods are more convenient than the one male method.

However, it is a fact that even if all other things were equal, ‘have to carry it with you’ is objectively less convenient than ‘don’t have to carry it with you’. Any condition, any “have to”, that applies to a method is a mark against its convenience. Obviously.

As if it’s such a strain on your gentle countenance to bear the massive weight of less than 2 grams.

What a ridiculous straw man, I never said one word about the weight being a factor. It costs nothing not to be disingenuous, you know.

Do you not carry your phone, wallet, keys, and trousers with you?

I’m going to set aside the idiotic false equivalence for a second, to point out that you’re inadvertently agreeing with me.

You carry your phone, wallet, and keys, because you have to—it’s literally an inconvenience. If your locks were biometric and therefore you didn’t have to carry your keys around, that would be more convenient. Being able to use Google Wallet et al to purchase things without having your wallet on you is more convenient than having to carry your wallet around.

You’re an absolute tosser. Just say you hate women, mate. that’d be easier.

I understand that you’re very aware dishonesty is easier (as you demonstrated with all of the disingenuous nonsense above), but I’m not a dishonest person.

Imagine being so outraged over someone stating the fact that condoms are less convenient than contraception methods that are one and done for weeks/months/years, that you’re literally insulting them and have actually convinced yourself that they hate women!

How foolish.

That “theoretical value” is used as collateral to borrow money for billionaires expenses.

And unless the loan is defaulted on, it never stops being theoretical.

Why is it theoretical only for taxes purpose, but very real when you talk to a bank?.

Loaded question, it’s not any less theoretical in the latter case.

Also, it’s entirely possible for some scandal to plummet the value of a stock overnight, such that the value that was used as collateral is now not worth nearly that much. But it is the lender’s prerogative to decide to take that risk, it’s no one’s business other than the lender and the borrower, both private entities.

Is that your opinion on properties taxes?

Yes, property taxes should not be a thing.

Hypocrisy detection failed, lol.

And at this scale, it’s not “stuff you own”. You may have an issue assessing what a billion is. Do you know the difference between a million and a billion? It’s roughly a billion…

You may have an issue understanding the simple phrase “stuff you own”, since you’re here apparently arguing that beyond a certain valuation, assets are no longer assets.

I see what you mean now; your wording was ambiguous, specifically “do”.

anyone impersonating gestapo would post anything worse than they already do

sounds like you’re saying ‘would post anything worse than they already post’.

I’m afraid you’ve been propagandized successfully. There are plenty of non-white ICE agents.

You haven’t been on the Internet very long, huh?

they’re platforming and subsequently legitimising them.

You could make that argument about them being allowed to have an account at all, but simply marking that account in such a way that informs the userbase that it’s not a troll/parody account or something, but the actual organization?

That doesn’t “platform” them, they’re already on the platform at the time this happened. And confirming that something asserted to be true, is in fact true, is a good thing.

It’s basically giving uncle Sam a list of targets to hit next.

How, exactly? Even if you use your real name as your username (which no one does), unless it’s very uncommon, that still won’t uniquely identify you.

So, was it deliberate for you to assign the ‘reddit stereotype’ to the exact opposite sentiment it’s actually associated with, or?

Two males have any sort of positive interaction with each other
Weirdos: Wow so GAY

Saying it in a positive way doesn’t really make it better. Normalize men being able to enjoy each other’s company without assuming they’re falling in love or lusting after each other, sheesh.

The classic analogy is the jar of 100 sweets.

Classic, but deeply flawed.

This is literally the same way white supremacists ‘justify’ being distrustful/suspicious of black people in general.

The mental stress that this level of paranoia inflicts on you is likely going to be more harmful on average.

You’re best off overall if you take reasonable precautions (having a small weapon/pepper spray), and just go about your day without stressing about it all the time.

Not to mention that rape by a stranger is literally the rarest type of rape, re relationship to the victim.

Source?

Threatening to shoot and kill someone if they don’t give you what you want, even if the victim is not aware you’re not actually armed, definitely counts, don’t know what point you’re trying to make.

Also, I quoted that exact line in my own comment, why are you bringing that up in your reply as if it’s information I concealed/withheld or something?

I did some digging, and the mastermind of the scheme Allen was involved in (who he helped investigators nail, one of the main reasons his sentence was reduced) was sentenced to 30 years. However, he was only forced to hand over a paltry $38.5 million, out of $3 billion?! Barely 1% of the defrauded amount!

Seems like it’d be pretty straightforward to, as a rule, penalize for the entire ‘profit’ of the fraud as a baseline, then you can add the fee (otherwise, you’d still just be breaking even if caught) on top of that.

Some things to consider, for those interested in objectivity:

• We have basically no background info on Roy Brown (the homeless guy), no idea about prior convictions etc. that may have influenced the sentencing. Bizarrely, the actual crime on the books in Louisiana, where he committed it, has a massive sentencing range, of 3 to 40 years. This seems to be the one and only primary source for this info at all. Also, his was a violent crime,^[1] which tend to carry harsher sentences compared to non-violent, regardless of the type of crime.
• Allen took one of those ‘help us fry the bigger fish and we’ll go easy on you’^[2] deals from investigators, and as a result, prosecutors weren’t even seeking anything close to 15 years. Said bigger fish got 30 years.
• The laws, including sentencing minimums etc., aren’t exactly the same in Virginia (Allen) and Lousiana (Brown).

P.S. The Snopes article on this is 15 years old, so imagine the age of the actual screenshot.

they’re easy to carry around

It doesn’t matter how easy they are to carry around, having to carry them around is by definition less convenient than not having to carry anything around.

your “argument” is entirely subjective.

You don’t know what “subjective” means. There’s nothing subjective about ‘having to carry this thing around and have it with you every time you have sex is less convenient than doing something once and being set for months/years’. That’s just a fact.

A batch of private GOP polling data obtained by Axios revealed that President Donald Trump’s mass deportation policy is wildly unpopular with independent and undecided voters

Bullshit clickbait:

1. The headline is clearly trying to imply that Republicans are the ones not supporting the policy
2. No sign of Trump ‘panicking’ whatsoever

What an idiotic article, from the headline down.

Locally replacing some letters with some other letters is going to make Microsoft’s CEO cry? Really?

Also, I’ll not be using Chrome, lol.