Dirt_Possum [any, undecided]
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we had a kissinger emote. was it deleted? am I losing it? It’s not showing up at all in the emoji picker, it doesn’t appear when I start typing :kissi or even :henr. Wtf? I know we had one, so where did it go?
Really? They’re rare but seems to be at least one a day. Got one from programming.dev just a few hours ago https://hexbear.net/comment/3867997
Not sure why I’m jumping in here, but you are being completely incoherent. You’re saying people are saying things when they have said nothing of the kind. You are making weird moralistic arguments that not only have no material basis but make no sense.
I’m not the person you were responding to, but ok, let’s do as you say, do the same with incest. Incest is not wrong because it is “against nature” (what does that even mean? Incest happens as part of the natural world and it is well-documented in humans as well as other species, even humans’ closest genetic relatives). Incest is only wrong because of the harm it does to people being sexually exploited due to an almost inevitable power dynamic or because of the harm it does via potential genetic defects if there are offspring. It is not wrong because it seems “ew gross, sex with family yuck!”
Its wrong because you are having sexual intercourse with an animal, which is something against nature and just wrong in literally every way.
So you’re really doing the tautology that “it’s wrong because it’s just wrong” argument? What is “nature” and how is this “against it”? “Ew, gross, that’s just wrong!” may be a valid reaction but it’s not engaging the question of why, and it’s not addressing any of the arguments that have been made, but it’s like you keep pretending that you are engaging the question and addressing what’s been said. It’s not wrong to have a gut reaction and your gut reaction may not even be wrong, but don’t pretend that the problem is other user’s “ideological dung” or some batshit reasoning on their part.
Its one of the true taboos of humanity, you don’t do it.
People do do it, once again, it’s been documented in countless human societies. If it IS wrong (and I agree that it is wrong) it is wrong for the same reasons that artificial insemination of animals to produce more of them as food for humans is also wrong. The only way this would not be the case is by vague, meaningless phrases like “against nature” and “just wrong.” Artificial insemination, (which is forced pregnancy and (cw) the r-word) is much more “against nature” than members of different species having sex with each other, which once again, happens quite a bit in nonhuman animals and there is something like 3% and 8% of women and men, respectively, who have had sexual interaction with animals, including penetrative sex.
I swear I thought there were people with more than just vibes based politics here, but this shows that I will have to block a few fools in order to experience the site without crawling through ideological dung.
You are the one going off vibes-based reasoning here, which has been made very clear repeatedly by almost everyone who has responded to you. Block away, I have to do the same at times. But you’re not doing so because the people you’re blocking have bad arguments or are “vibes-based” or are even ideological (at least beyond the way that everything is ideological). You’re doing so because their valid arguments are putting into question the things you have always casually accepted as normal and ok.
As for crawling through ideological dung, everyone needs to be extra careful when they think they smell other’s. Some people don’t recognize when they’re just actually just smelling their own.
Are liberals incapable of discussing or arguing something without resorting to childish insults?
When you don’t have material reality as the basis for your arguments, (or if you tried to argue based on material reality, you know you’d lose) what else is there left but bullshit like childish insults?
I keep getting psychoanalyzed by them and being told that I’m supporting Palestine because I want to be part of a group
Pure projection. They can’t fathom having firm, reasoned, and consistent principles, so they assume that you, like them, are just being performative about who you support.
Possibly, but the article does mention that it jumped significantly even from 2020/2021 during “the height of the Covid-19 pandemic,” though they are probably discounting the cumulative effects of covid since everyone knows it’s all over and done with since Biden defeated Covid. Damaged immune systems could make sense at least for part of it:
Of the 10 leading causes of death for infants in the U.S., mortality rates increased for two: bacterial sepsis, or infection, and maternal complications.
I was assuming it probably has mostly to do with the sudden inability to access abortion (and other reproductive healthcare as a result) for so much of the US now. Here’s what the article said about it:
One question the researchers had was whether the Supreme Court’s decision to overturn Roe v. Wade, which guaranteed a constitutional right to abortion access, may have played a role in the latter. But because “maternal complications” encompasses a number of things that can go wrong in pregnancy, says Ely, the data aren’t granular enough to know if any specific state policies regarding womens’ health have impacted infant mortality rates.
I keep trying to reply to a comment on a post in the dunk tank, but even after canceling and retrying multiple times, it never goes through. I just get an infinite spinning bear head on the reply button.
nevermind. I’m a dork. The comment I was replying to was fine but the post it was on got removed.