Tankies do it with Marx

The guy who advocated for armed opposition to capitalism?

People should not be piercing their baby’s ears too.

People shouldn’t be arrested for piercing a babies ears either.

Having the police kick down your door and drag you to a cell over this shit is not an improved outcome

removing something like a lip, eyelid, or nose

That’s absurd and you should know better. Tell someone who had their nose removed that “it’s just like circumcision” and see how they respond.

US doesn’t want a Russian outpost

Is that what Guantanamo Bay is for? To beat back the Russian invasion?

Cause I remember it being used for something different

Cuba has been the end game for Trump since his first term. Any liberal who continues to endorse and support the blockade is as MAGA as the rest of these chuds

Christianity went down the shitter the day Constantine got involved

cannot consent, hell in some cases cannot talk yet because too young

Again, people get their baby’s ears pierced all the time. And that’s just the tip of the iceberg on parent approved medical procedures. If circumcision upsets you, how do you feel about ear tubes, tonsillectomies, and cleft pallet repair?

I agree about the black market but perfect is the enemy of good?

I would say the cost of criminalization far outweighs the benefit.

I mean, again, this joke gets made all the time.

But you do need to know your audience. OP seems to think “we’re trying to have a baby” is personally offensive, so I have to assume they have very thin skin.

It shouldn’t be any more illegal than any harmless cosmetic procedure.

The last thing you want is unsupervised and unsanitary procedures done by a religious zealot.

Outlawing circumcision sends you down the same road as outlawing ear piercings or abortions or transgender surgery. You’re guaranteed to do more harm than good.

There’s good, actually.

Smaller communities don’t fill up with annoying bots and toxic personalities

Communities driven by bots should die

The funny thing about the comic is that I’ve heard this exact joke from a gay couple, responding to a straight couple saying it.

“What’s your New Years plans?”

“This year, we’re finally going for it. We’re going to try for a baby”

“Oh honey… messy kiss with partner… we’ve been going in raw for years. But hope you have better luck.”

Basically the state of RedditLemmy atm

I guess I’m curious what “enlightenment” you felt you got out of it.

I met people from a variety of backgrounds, including people who’d grown up overseas. I had roommates for the first time, which gave me a taste of living with others who didn’t share my same habits or hygiene. I started dating seriously for the first time. Experimented with alcohol and a few other substances. A bunch of friends came out of the closet. I spent every summer doing a different low wage job - grocery store, teacher, assembly line worker, entry level paid worker on a political campaign. Put more miles behind the wheel in my freshman year than my entire life previously. Got to watch a particle accelerator fire and buy a homeless guy a drink at a local bar.

Idk how to really nail it down in simple terms, but I had such a broader exposure to the rest of the world in those university years.

Agreed but I get annoyed at people who have this idea of if we just educate everyone -> utopia and that conservatism is a function of undereducation

Oh, I agree. Some of the worst reactionaries are college educated. I don’t think college makes you liberal.

What’s the old saying? “A Conservative is just a Liberal that’s been mugged by reality”?

I had more than a few diehard Republicans in my friend group in college. Like, I got to meet the kind of people you just see shit talking on CrossFire IRL. People who unironically thought we should do genocide in Iraq because these were subhumans who had forfeited their right to life. People who were in Engineering because they wanted to build the bombs we were dropping in Afghanistan. People who used the hard-r at the end of the n-word just to prove they could.

Also incredibly enlightening.

american claim their country is worse than iran

The worst country in the world is the one that is oppressing me, personally.

nobody cared

Trump Threatens Iran Intervention. History Shows When Foreign Support Works

Somebody clearly cares

And then, despite finding out that Moody was in fact a Death Eater trying to kill him the whole time, somehow that didn’t taint his opinion on the Auror thing at all.

Moody wasn’t trying to kill him. He’d been kidnapped and replaced by a Death Eater in order to infiltrate the school. At the end of book 4, the deception is revealed and the death eater is arrested by the Aurors.

The real Moody returns in book 5 and serves as a loyal companion and mentor through the end of the series.

He had more experience by then end of the 7th book fighting Dark Wizards than most Aurors at the ministry would have. That job would have been boring as hell after Voldemort and the Death Eaters were defeated.

Voldemort is just the latest in a long line of evil wizards. They’re stubbornly common place.

I do think Harry’s career as an Auror can’t last. The best “old man Potter” story is going to read like a Harry Dresden novel - a washed up ex-cop turned private eye with as many enemies in the bureaucracy as the underworld.

But it’s reasonable for Harry to consider joining the Aurors after graduation, only to find out the hard way what being a Wizard Cop means in practice.

People who talk about how college makes you “Enlightened”, “Well Rounded”, etc. always baffle me.

Being a young twenty year old living apart from your parents among your peers with lots of free time to study and develop your talents enlightens you and rounds you out.

Universities are great because they facilitate that kind of social and intellectual development.

These elite prestigious institutions graduate some of the most evil and diabolical human beings driven purely by greed and prestige.

Evil people congregate in everywhere. I wouldn’t put this on universities specifically

They can’t even shut down the base in Greenland. There’s a reason DeGaulle kicked the US out in 1966. And why Okinawa residents have been lobbying to shut down the local base for decades.

Europeans have been under military occupation since the end of WW2, telling themselves the gun pointed at the back of their heads was aimed at the USSR, even after it dissolved.

Now they’re going to have to deal with a foreign hostile occupation whose roots have grown deep

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