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Which happens extremely rarely, likely why there is not a major push for legislation on the matter.
Nope, a notable amount of rapes that get reported are actually false claims that have the liar receive relatively light punishments and it is such an issue in fact that there's been a notable decrease in female-male socialising in the workplace out of fear of such claims. Even then you wouldn't need a legislation or a written decree, you'd just need the jury and judges to stop being so bias when it comes to women committing crimes, something they're notoriously known for in fact.
 
Nope, a notable amount of rapes that get reported are actually false claims that have the liar receive relatively light punishments and it is such an issue in fact that there's been a notable decrease in female-male socialising in the workplace out of fear of such claims. Even then you wouldn't need a legislation or a written decree, you'd just need the jury and judges to stop being so bias when it comes to women committing crimes, something they're notoriously known for in fact.
Citation please. And no, conviction rates in rape cases don't count. "Not enough evidence to convict" does not equal false report, especially when it's a crime that by it's nature will almost never have witnesses outside the perpetrator and the victim.
 
A huge chunk of the issue with false rape accusations is that the high-up stuff actually often never lands in court in the first place, or at least not before lives are ruined. Because we live in a society where most of the potential benefit to it (the destruction of the life of someone you hate and widespread sympathy) doesn't actually require getting the courts involved. Like, look at how utterly wrecked Vic Mignogna got without anyone taking it to court against him. His reputation wasn't even actually destroyed, since a huge chunk of the fanbase called the accusations a pile of horseshit, but some sad words is all it took to get the people employing him to knee-jerk his ass out the door. Twenty year career gone from little more than sob stories on Twitter, without any legal proceedings of any kind.

Also, "not enough evidence to convict" applies equally to covering up the magnitude of false accusations as it does to depress the rate of proper convictions. Which is to say, it is by definition inapplicable, statistically, because it's inconclusive data. Which makes the proven-false ratio go up quite noticeably.

Also also, so fucking what if false accusations are rare? Our legal systems, to the point of widely recognized human rights, operate on a presumption of innocence. Unless it is proven it did happen, punishment should not occur, fuck public opinion. And companies better damn well need to show they're taking damages if they're firing people over outrage, because the funny thing about outrage is that the complaints of a handful of well-off assholes can look an awful lot like a large mob, out of persistence if nothing else.

Fuck. The. Outrage. Mobs. May they rot in fucking hell. Once again, go unfuck the legal system if you think it won't work, don't throw out rule of law.
 
I have a solution to the political chaos across the globe.

Give me all the power
Let me rule the world. I'll manage it well.
 
A huge chunk of the issue with false rape accusations is that the high-up stuff actually often never lands in court in the first place, or at least not before lives are ruined. Because we live in a society where most of the potential benefit to it (the destruction of the life of someone you hate and widespread sympathy) doesn't actually require getting the courts involved. Like, look at how utterly wrecked Vic Mignogna got without anyone taking it to court against him. His reputation wasn't even actually destroyed, since a huge chunk of the fanbase called the accusations a pile of horseshit, but some sad words is all it took to get the people employing him to knee-jerk his ass out the door. Twenty year career gone from little more than sob stories on Twitter, without any legal proceedings of any kind.

Also, "not enough evidence to convict" applies equally to covering up the magnitude of false accusations as it does to depress the rate of proper convictions. Which is to say, it is by definition inapplicable, statistically, because it's inconclusive data. Which makes the proven-false ratio go up quite noticeably.

Also also, so fucking what if false accusations are rare? Our legal systems, to the point of widely recognized human rights, operate on a presumption of innocence. Unless it is proven it did happen, punishment should not occur, fuck public opinion. And companies better damn well need to show they're taking damages if they're firing people over outrage, because the funny thing about outrage is that the complaints of a handful of well-off assholes can look an awful lot like a large mob, out of persistence if nothing else.

Fuck. The. Outrage. Mobs. May they rot in fucking hell. Once again, go unfuck the legal system if you think it won't work, don't throw out rule of law.
In other words, you have no proof and are repeating the standard alt-right incel lines.
 
In other words, you have no proof and are repeating the standard alt-right incel lines.
Not exactly. @Morphile has a point in that just the accusation of rape today is enough to cause people to loose their jobs and wreck (if not outright destroy) reputations. So I agree with his 'Fuck the Outrage Mobs'. The rest I'm going to need more data on.
 
Not exactly. @Morphile has a point in that just the accusation of rape today is enough to cause people to loose their jobs and wreck (if not outright destroy) reputations. So I agree with his 'Fuck the Outrage Mobs'. The rest I'm going to need more data on.

And historically, accusations of rape were enough to get black people hanged from trees. It's an outright miracle that Metoo hasn't led to a racist murder so far.

That being said, the people who complain about anti-intellectualism being too widespread are falling into the trap that a Philosopher King or some other form of technocracy will solve their problems, when that really hasn't worked out in history. It's practically a reskin of "The Mob doesn't know what's best for them, so we enlightened nobles shall lord over them, for their own good!"
 
In other words, you have no proof and are repeating the standard alt-right incel lines.
...Can you actually point to a part of my statement that requires proof not within prior discussion? Are you asking for citations on Vic getting fired while large parts of the consumer base for the products he worked on continue supporting him? Or do want me to give you the exact numbers on rape reports that go through the legal system? Do I need to pull up the timelines on high-profile #MeToo cases to demonstrate my point of life-ruining happening before the conviction, if it ever occurs, making the legal process largely irrelevant?

What I actually said with that is that your argument about there being a lot of inconclusive cases is actually data that undermines your point because it means the ratio of true to false is dragged toward 50/50 by removing inconclusive data, therefore making it so that false rape accusations are more of an issue than the simple rate in court suggests. Nothing about that actually needs my own citation, it's just how the numbers you mentioned work.

It's practically a reskin of "The Mob doesn't know what's best for them, so we enlightened nobles shall lord over them, for their own good!"
I hear Confucian meritocracy has a good track record of handling stupid huge population/bureaucrat disparities without locking the lower classes away from upwards mobility. Since the whole thing about it is that you get promoted by doing a good job. Of course, it also got stuck in the Malthusian Trap for double-digit centuries, so...
 
I hear Confucian meritocracy has a good track record of handling stupid huge population/bureaucrat disparities without locking the lower classes away from upwards mobility. Since the whole thing about it is that you get promoted by doing a good job. Of course, it also got stuck in the Malthusian Trap for double-digit centuries, so...
Given what I've read from the Articles of Confucius... I can see why it developed that reputation. It has this dynamic between respect and doing what's right oddly enough.
And historically, accusations of rape were enough to get black people hanged from trees. It's an outright miracle that Metoo hasn't led to a racist murder so far.

That being said, the people who complain about anti-intellectualism being too widespread are falling into the trap that a Philosopher King or some other form of technocracy will solve their problems, when that really hasn't worked out in history. It's practically a reskin of "The Mob doesn't know what's best for them, so we enlightened nobles shall lord over them, for their own good!"
Problem is that in the US, anti-intellectualism is really bad, it also doesn't help that people have used democracy (and the freedoms it provides) as a way to say that their ignorance is just as valuable as an intellectual's insight. Issac Asimov -Grandmaster of Science Fiction and one of the most prolific writers of nonfiction ever (there is at least one book that he penned in each nonfiction section, at least)- actually did an article on that which gives us his anti-intellectualism quote.
 
Ground up the [insert people I don't like] to fertilizers! Then sell them overseas because I don't want to give them semi-dignified burial.
 
Given what I've read from the Articles of Confucius... I can see why it developed that reputation. It has this dynamic between respect and doing what's right oddly enough.

Problem is that in the US, anti-intellectualism is really bad, it also doesn't help that people have used democracy (and the freedoms it provides) as a way to say that their ignorance is just as valuable as an intellectual's insight. Issac Asimov -Grandmaster of Science Fiction and one of the most prolific writers of nonfiction ever (there is at least one book that he penned in each nonfiction section, at least)- actually did an article on that which gives us his anti-intellectualism quote.

The South loved using "black people are too ignorant to govern themselves - the numbers prove it!" As an excuse to maintain jim crow laws. Hell you see chuds today argue about "race and iq statistics" and you have academics openly support bringing back literacy tests.
 
Ground up the [insert people I don't like] to fertilizers! Then sell them overseas because I don't want to give them semi-dignified burial.
And that's why your agricultural produces will always be second rate to ours. Here, we literally have fertilizing advice in our anthem:

"Let impure blood
Water our furrows
"

Here, everyone can contribute in their own way, even invading armies! :p
 
And that's why your agricultural produces will always be second rate to ours. Here, we literally have fertilizing advice in our anthem:

"Let impure blood
Water our furrows
"

Here, everyone can contribute in their own way, even invading armies! :p
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You know sometimes I forget that the French were once the terror of Europe.
 
Monarchy could make a comeback, women in power

Humans deserved to be ruled by AI, cant fight progress
 
All forms of politics, no matter the affiliation or what type, come off as incredibly petty.

To me it seems like the modern form of tribalism. It's part of the "us and them" mentality we have, the idea that one needs to enforce views on others for the good of themselves and other people. Much of what politics is seems akin to that Puritanical "haunting fear that someone, somewhere, may be happy" or has a different viewpoint and that it needs to be corrected.
 
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