@AdamAtSea I'm in one or two where I failed to get my middle finger up fast enough to insure a lack of representation among the ranks of the fodder (it was mandatory, therefore, I was opposed.)
@guizzy In general, St. Louis is to be avoided. It stands to reason they'd blaspheme baked goods and put their name on it. The good news is, only another generation has to put up with it: https://www.kansas.com/news/nation-world/national/article223049475.html (Look up the New Madrid quakes of 1811/12 for a preview of the fun!)
@dcgirl@HiroProtagonist@Johnny_of_the_swamp Occasional Cortex is a hero of the stupid. Stupid people see her antics and say, "she's one of us!" Plus, her superpower of emoting in left-authoritarian-ese convincingly makes her bulletproof relative to the stupid things pouring from her face within her milieu.
@leyonhjelm@mrmcmayhem The problem with execution is that it's quick. Presenting a lifetime of sitting behind bars with no escape -- a lifetime of boredom and potential trouble from other inmates -- seems a deterrent. If economics didn't favor it, then a life of labor followed by a lack of thanks, Stalin-style, to drill the message home: "the price of your desires are very, very, very high."
Right now, there's a culture of impunity around a lot of people who do it (Epstein & friends.)
@leyonhjelm@mrmcmayhem I'm not suggesting inaction. I'm suggesting using this nonsense to open a broader conversation in broader terms with broader implications.
Focusing on drag is not focusing on sexualized children -- drag kids are just a symptom -- I'm interested in using the symptoms to garner support for attacking the disease.
It necessarily reeks of Coventry 1940, 14 November, but I think it is a strategic mistake not to use this to go much further than drag shows.
@leyonhjelm@mrmcmayhem Honestly, I'm less concerned with them than the children; I think lifetime imprisonment with no possibility of parole is appropriate when the economy is good, firing squad after 20 years labour if not.
My reservation is that -- if 16 year olds shoot pictures of each other naked, or themselves naked and send them to another -- under US law, they're child pornographers, and distributors thereof.
I think we really need a long conversation and think about all this.
@ProfWorr@yukiame I would assume we all know better than that. Jeeves and Wooster require enough culture to be aware they exist before you can start screeching about the shoe-polish, so I think they're safe. :-)