Robert Black
@hurricanexyz.bsky.social
Constitutional scholar, general law nerd, Izzet mage, bear lover, Mets fan.
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Introducing: Constitutional Perspectives!
Announcing a new project here at The Evening Constitutional!
As I wrote shortly after last November's election, one of my ambitions for this site is to create a library of materials explaining Americ...
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Introducing a new project at The Evening Constitutional: Constitutional Perspectives!
This is a series of explanatory essays aiming to be of use for readers with any level of prior knowledge of constitutional law
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Introducing a new project at The Evening Constitutional: Constitutional Perspectives!
This is a series of explanatory essays aiming to be of use for readers with any level of prior knowledge of constitutional law
eveningconstitutional.net/introducing-...
Ah, yeah. It's the English schism specifically that's still just shy of 500
Bleakly hilarious in hindsight that THAT was the tipping-point of history, when everyone at the time was convinced that it didn't really matter much who won
Like obviously that's not the only thing that knocked the world off-course, there was also 9/11 itself, but I feel like a President Gore would've had a much better shot at steering things toward something like normalcy
Friggin' Bush v. Gore
Rationally, the #1 thing on humanity's mind right now ought to be "okay so how do we get this prosperity to Africa, too"
Yeah, like it happens but, it doesn't JUST happen
The Reformation is coming up on 500 years!
Oh yeah, I take it to be about American conservatives in particular
And of course this is one of the key points of pedocon theory, that conservative Christian culture does this to children (girls, in particular) as an entirely regular matter! It is reinforced over and over that they are meant to do sexual performance for older men
Enjoying all of the "you do in fact have to deny utterly that minors are sexual beings or you're excusing child abuse" responses here lol
Yep this is kind of a defining quality of liberalism!
Pope Leo faces a crisis: the Church of England just appointed some new bishops and they didn't get papal consent 😲
Pope Leo faces a crisis: the Church of England just appointed some new bishops and they didn't get papal consent 😲
I could barely tell from the article what the crisis was supposed to be lol
Group that got immediately excommunicated in 1988 still exists?? Hate to break it to the Associated Press but splinter groups from the Catholic Church still exist that are way way older than that 😅
Group that got immediately excommunicated in 1988 still exists?? Hate to break it to the Associated Press but splinter groups from the Catholic Church still exist that are way way older than that 😅
Anime is great though
(Well, some of it)
(Well, some of it)
Do you think that I am justifying abuse, because to be clear, my intent is precisely the opposite of that.
Yes to all of this
LOL
And the idea that those borders entailed restrictions on freedom of movement was just like, unheard of
Now, you did have vagrancy laws and the like
Now, you did have vagrancy laws and the like
It's like a late 19th century invention, yeah?
Sexual exploitation of a 16-year-old is perhaps not as bad as sexual exploitation of an eight-year-old, but it is basically bad in the same sort of way
Yeah exactly
You saw this in like, the unhinged responses to TURNING RED
Was certainly my intent lol
We uhhhh, we struggle with this as a society
The idea that someone can be a sexual being (either in being desirable or in having desires) and nonetheless be Not For You
So we have to utterly deny that minors are sexual beings in order to maintain that exploiting them is wrong
The idea that someone can be a sexual being (either in being desirable or in having desires) and nonetheless be Not For You
So we have to utterly deny that minors are sexual beings in order to maintain that exploiting them is wrong
Yeah exactly
It's normal to think that Scarlett Johansson was very pretty when she was 16
Not only does that not make it okay for a significantly older person to pursue a relationship with her, it doesn't even *relate* to making that okay
Not everyone who's physically attractive to you is FOR YOU
Not only does that not make it okay for a significantly older person to pursue a relationship with her, it doesn't even *relate* to making that okay
Not everyone who's physically attractive to you is FOR YOU
Yes, @mattyglesias.bsky.social has also argued, in The Atlantic (of course), that older men pursuing sexual relationships with sixteen year olds is not pedophilia.
What's happening here, I feel like, is a conflating of two separate things
One is "pedophilia" as, like, an abnormal sexuality. And, yes, being attracted to 16-year-olds is not that. Plenty of 16-year-olds are hot in about the same way adults are hot.
The other thing is the abuse
One is "pedophilia" as, like, an abnormal sexuality. And, yes, being attracted to 16-year-olds is not that. Plenty of 16-year-olds are hot in about the same way adults are hot.
The other thing is the abuse
What do you do when he doesn't pay his taxes
Apparently she signed up for this!
Which makes me wonder about mental health stuff, tbh
Which makes me wonder about mental health stuff, tbh