This bit is easier to identify if your site interface language isn’t in English.

I get that, and the feeling childish about it, but I don’t think it’s a bad thing. Like the other thread mentions, it’s a bit acephobic that it feels unacceptable to not want to have anything to do with it personally.

That’s an interesting point to consider… I wonder why it is like that

I wasn’t trying to make a broader claim about Japan, just on that one thing specifically, and there are surely plenty of other examples like that Denmark children’s TV show that apply equally well to make the point I meant to make.

I see your point about the patriarchy. There are definitely concerning things which I would prefer not to learn more about if possible.

I think consent is very important in this discussion, so much stuff happens involuntarily.

This. Consent goes both ways…

Asexuality is a spectrum and there are quite a lot of gradations in between completely sex-repulsed asexual and extremely active allosexual

Whenever I personally referenced the “volcel poIice” meme it was intended to be lighthearted, a friendly reminder that it got weird in a way that could give a chuckle.

I’m also asexual, and I think I always saw it that way?

I think it’s helpful to frame it in terms of a cultural context.

For instance, Japan has a squeezable tanuki testicle toy for kids, whereas that probably wouldn’t fly in the US (admittedly, the US doesn’t have very many tanuki either) because the culture sexualizes just the mere existence of genitals, so people start acting weird if you bring it up that things like that exist in other countries.

I would guess “normalizing sex” is probably more about the euphemisms and weird ways to talk about it while pretending to dance around it. As much as we should fight against compulsory sexuality that not everyone needs to have sex all the time, I think it’s counterproductive to take the Texas “abstinence only STD roulette wheel” sex ed approach that isn’t really helping anyone.

In any case, I think that the meme’s intended function of filtering out creeps is probably a good thing if it works, but I’m probably least qualified to speak on that.

I feel this way about most things.

I was literally struggling to answer 2 * ? = ¾ when being watched.

Then the cops turn out to be useless lmaoooo

Ah, finally a realistic TV series

Based on the one 3 weeks ago, my instinct is that the results would tell a different story if more third world countries had been included.

See this post: https://hexbear.net/comment/6089310

Of course, if you’re going to use US foreign policy, you have to include things like the 1973 coup in Chile when the US overthrew a democratically elected leader to install a dictator, because the US didn’t agree with the democratic leader’s politics

I think it’s confusing because we know the war on drugs created more drugs, so you expect the war on drug prices to create more drug prices

Relevant article text:

💊 Trump already disarmed the war on drug prices. This morning the president signed a new executive order instructing Health and Human Services Secretary RFK Jr. to use Medicare to buy drugs at the lowest world-market prices. Big Pharma and its investors seem unconcerned, likely because RFK Jr. has already flip-flopped and declared he won’t use a far more powerful price-reducing tool: a law that says regulators can “march in” and license lower-priced versions of government-developed medicines that Big Pharma does not make “available to the public on reasonable terms.” In his first term, Trump tried to permanently block the government from ever using that law.

Under pressure from Democrats, the Biden administration explored using march-in rights, but (like Obama’s administration) backed off amid Big Pharma’s flood of lobbying and campaign cash. A 2018 study found that U.S. government funding contributed to the development of nearly all FDA-approved medicines, and yet Americans are charged the world’s highest prices for those drugs (including GLP-1 weight loss medicines).

I wanted more, so I went to the BBC article which among other things, had this to say:

Stephen J Ubl, president of the Pharmaceutical Research and Manufacturers of America, said in a statement that “importing foreign prices from socialist countries would be a bad deal” for American patients.

I think you’re referring to the US. Alternatively, you might be confused and be thinking about Palestine, which does not deserve to be on the list as it is currently under invasion from US forces.

I was going to mention some of the other but it looks like they’re just the US in a trenchcoat

Ackshually, xiaohongshu2 hacked her account¹²³⁴

Sources:

The President of the United States is doing a genocide denial right here.

Your so-called moral authority, which was always just military might, is so obviously just , again

Y’all don’t quote me on this. You start out in 1954 by saying, “N*****, n*****, n*****.” By 1968 you can’t say “n*****”—that hurts you. Backfires. So you say stuff like forced busing, states’ rights and all that stuff. You’re getting so abstract now [that] you’re talking about cutting taxes, and all these things you’re talking about are totally economic things and a byproduct of them is [that] blacks get hurt worse than whites. And subconsciously maybe that is part of it. I’m not saying that. But I’m saying that if it is getting that abstract, and that coded, that we are doing away with the racial problem one way or the other. You follow me—because obviously sitting around saying, “We want to cut this,” is much more abstract than even the busing thing, and a hell of a lot more abstract than “N*****, n*****.”

— Gavin Newsom, probably, after

has cancelled all reciprocal tarrifs on China

Source? I thought it was going back to 30% which is still very close to the initial “reciprocal” tariffs

China expected to intervene to save the Earth from becoming uninhabitable in 99 years, much later than previously thought

How do you explain this then?