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2/3/2025 - Trump Orders Schools to Ease Sex Assault Rules
  • How many false rape accusations are there compared to unreported rapes?

    One in five women have been sexually assaulted. Do you know five women? Have a mom and a couple sisters? At least one has been assaulted.

    I disagree with you because I look at the actual numbers.

  • 2/3/2025 - Trump Orders Schools to Ease Sex Assault Rules
  • Ok good. Almost there.

    So both systems (current and previous) are horribly unfair and prone to abuse by the administration. Right? We now agree on that, yes?

    If I have to pick between an unfair system with extra rape, or an unfair system with extra kids getting kicked out of school for no reason, I'm picking the one with less rape.

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    Our town's water keeps failing to meet DEP standards, so I'm investing in a filtration system for our drinking water. What I think I'm looking for is:

    • Has a tank, since there are 5 of us
    • Filters out lead, PFAS, PFOA, etc. (Which is why I'm leaning towards RO)
    • Good warranty and customer service, for when something inevitably goes wrong
    • Remineralization (picky about water taste)
    • UV (maybe?)

    Does anyone have recommendations for a quality brand, or one that they've had for years that they like? I'm not sure where to even start.

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    2/3/2025 - Trump Orders Schools to Ease Sex Assault Rules
  • Ah, okay. I'm sorry that I assumed you meant the word that you said and couldn't read your mind. I'll keep working on that telepathy, and you keep working on being accurate. One day we'll understand each other.

    Now if what you want is fairness, explain to me how the administration on these panels can be unbiased when their salaries and jobs rely on the fact that they're not known as the "rape university". Explain to me how these victims could appeal an unfair judgment made by biased administration.

    Our legal process is filled with ways to make sure you get a fair trial, and even then not everyone does. This kangaroo court they're setting up does not have any of those provisions and will not be fair. All it does is dissuade people from reporting.

  • 2/3/2025 - Trump Orders Schools to Ease Sex Assault Rules
  • I honestly can't make you understand this.

    Just because a law says you have to do something doesn't make it due process. Registering your car isn't due process. You don't get due process unless you're in court. This isn't that. There is no court. A "hearing" of school officials isn't due process. There's no sentencing. There's no lawyers. There's no guilty or not guilty. There's a bunch of school admins doing a dance and then picking if you get kicked out.

    How are they being silenced? Because anytime you make something harder, more embarrassing, or riskier, people won't do it. This is also not hard to understand.

    Again, I can hear it in your words and tone. You WANT this to be true. You want women to be brave enough to always stand up for themselves. You WANT a fair process with legal style standards to impose true justice based on facts. This isn't that. It doesn't get you closer to that. All it does it shut women up by making it harder for them to do the right thing.

  • Trump signs order establishing a sovereign wealth fund that he says could buy TikTok
  • The funny thing is, if just won't work. Ok, he says to do it. Some lackey goes off to do it. But someone has to sign the check. The money has to come from somewhere. That's when the shit hits the fan.

    Unless Congress does whatever he says like little lap dogs. Ok, yeah, I convinced myself now that it'll happen.

  • 2/3/2025 - Trump Orders Schools to Ease Sex Assault Rules
  • Ok, so you agree there aren't things in place to prevent rape. Only that there could one day be. Great. Go do that. The lack of its current existence makes it irrelevant to the conversation. That's my point.

    Due process is very very clearly a legal term. Private institutions aren't required to follow anything like it. You need to differentiate between what IS and what you wish were the case.

    I don't care who made the rule. Fuck the Democrats. I care that women who are raped are being silenced. It's literally that simple.

  • 2/3/2025 - Trump Orders Schools to Ease Sex Assault Rules
  • If there were other ways to prevent rape, they would be there already. So you're clearly wrong.

    I agree we should provide free law services to people without money so they can get justice just like the rich people. Let's do that. And we can do that without endangering young girls.

    There is no due process being thrown away. These people aren't going to jail. They're being kicked out of school. A school can kick out a child for literally anything that isn't a protected class. Rape allegations seems like a pretty good reason to kick someone out, especially compared to some other reasons people have been kicked out, like protesting.

  • 2/3/2025 - Trump Orders Schools to Ease Sex Assault Rules
  • Which would you rather have: more rapes, or more kids kicked out of school for false allegations?

    If this is a hard question, then I hope you gain experiences that make it easier to decide. Learning is important.

    Plus, the false allegation thing is kinda bunk. If it happens, then sue them for libel. Since there isn't a lot of that going on, I think it's less of an issue than, ya know, rape.

    Anecdotally, I know four rape victims that didn't come forward. I know zero men who were falsely accused. I'm sure I'm not special in this regard.

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  • Oh yes. It's quite horrible that adult animals need to work to survive.

    It's also quite horrible that I had kids and doomed them to a life of work, suffering from wrestling with mortality, and ultimately ending in death.

    Treating animals like people isn't the great thing you think it is.

    At least chickens don't have to do taxes.

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