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- Comment on lemm.ee is shutting down at the end of this month 9 hours ago:
:/ that’s not very nice
- Comment on A postal worker in Harlem attacked a trans woman. She fought back and fatally stabbed him in self-defense. This is how the NY Post framed it. 1 day ago:
Go back to Reddit.
- Comment on A postal worker in Harlem attacked a trans woman. She fought back and fatally stabbed him in self-defense. This is how the NY Post framed it. 1 day ago:
I saw no discussion of her being bigger than him, only that she was 6’5 in one article.
I saw no definitive evidence of who started it. In fact I saw lots of articles saying they didn’t know who started it.
I saw people claiming she has no remorse, but somebody who was afraid for their life and sick and tired of being hate crimed wouldn’t feel much remorse over deleting somebody to defend themselves. Could also be opposite performative.
She drew a knife after being back against a wall after being punched at least three times, and telling him not to go to her. Which he obviously did. That SCREAMS self defense.
Me trying to defend her could definitely seem like trans exceptionalism. But so could any dissent given to a trans person. Ive explained this previously, but I’ll say it again: my issue is with the condemning anger and belligerence here. Which to me, seems like anti-trans rhetoric and microaggressions. Which is why I doubted this at all in the first place. If she’s insane and did it in cold blood and unhinged, so be it, but the evidence and character judgements I’ve seen do not point to that at all, but rather that she was just a person like everybody else, and pushed really hard and decided to kill the person she was defending herself from. Which is the exact point of protecting people legally who are defending themselves.
And then on top of it, it’s a highly publicized story that’s basically about a scuffle gone wrong between two random ass people in a sandwich shop. They’re both nobodies. This is an obvious wedge story. Because if it was self defense or not, I think the greater interesting point is that so many people seem to be so passionate (belligerent) about it. It just FEELS so gross. Like… Is this a law community? Why are so many people up in arms about their anger being questioned? Did you know a postal worker? Are you falling prey to demonizing trans people? Do YOU have an agenda? Last I checked, doubting the optics of a case like this and questioning and looking for facts was a smart thing to do. We’re all on the same side here, of not wanting to be murdered or taken advantage or abused…
Like worst case, he was a violent transphobe who was angry and gonna hate crime her, or she was a drug addict looking for a fight and really wanted to just murder any person.
But that’s why I’m asking you for a source. Because yours obviously has different or more detail than the ones I’ve read.
Here, I’ll go first:
- Comment on I can't hear them 1 day ago:
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- Comment on A postal worker in Harlem attacked a trans woman. She fought back and fatally stabbed him in self-defense. This is how the NY Post framed it. 1 day ago:
Not with that attitude.
- Comment on A postal worker in Harlem attacked a trans woman. She fought back and fatally stabbed him in self-defense. This is how the NY Post framed it. 1 day ago:
You’re right she was taller…
But after reading many articles, it still sounds like self defense to me. It sounds like two people got into a petty altercation, and hate speech amplified emotions greatly. I don’t know if you know, but trans women are VERY often victims of abuse and murder simply for being trans.
And going off the guy’s gate speech and throwing the first punches, and that she gave him a final warning while supposedly backed into a corner, it sounds like she came out on top and went a little crazy over it.
Honestly, if I were in her situation and a guy cut in front of me and started calling me hate speech AND started attacking me, I would be both furious and terrified. I’m not nearly as abused as she was, but after going over what still feels like incomplete facts, I really don’t blame her. My issue lies with the quick condemnation voices of her, here, and the heavy bias it feels like it stems from.
Like I could very well be wrong, but judging by everybody who wants blood here being shockingly belligerent, I’m approaching with caution and skepticism.
Maybe you have a source of facts that I’m not aware of that you could share?
- Comment on Avocado 2 days ago:
Gonna eat some guac and wash it down with some pool water.
- Comment on Avocado 2 days ago:
I dated a girl who would wash her pp every time she went to the bathroom.
I miss her. She had a very nice (and clean) pp, but gods, she did things with her fingers 🤤 fifteen minute straight, actual screaming orgasms. I’ve never been so embarrassed of being at a loss of control of my entire body. Just with her fingers 🤌
…Nothing else has or ever will compare 😣 … Especially dirty dick people ☹️
- Comment on A postal worker in Harlem attacked a trans woman. She fought back and fatally stabbed him in self-defense. This is how the NY Post framed it. 2 days ago:
No need to be a dick. I get that you’re frustrated, and that’s okay. Being a dick, though, that’s on you.
But my point of being factitious is to point out the dishonesty or heavy bias in framing it as murder, when the discussion really is all about whether or not it was self defense.
People are loudly saying how punishment should be, or taking things out of context or loading the presentation emotionally with other circumstances. All of which are intellectually dishonest. Everyone’s welcome to their opinions, but we all need to try to focus more on constructive discussion, rather than infighting over a news story because nobody can stay on the actual topic, resulting in everybody being frustrated and arguing about different things.
The subject is, “self defense or not?”
Obviously, you and I differ on our opinions, but we have also neither gone over all the evidence nor even discussed what evidence or suspicions we have. So saying your equally uniformed opinion is going over my head is not just rude and self centered, but it’s also… Potentially just wrong.
So in the theme of olive branches and keeping it mature and civil:
I say it could have been self defense because she was being beaten by a guy bigger than her who was throwing out hate speech.
You say it was not self defense because…?
- Comment on Avocado 2 days ago:
Like a pp corndog
- Comment on Avocado 2 days ago:
No.
My the expert.
- Comment on Avocado 2 days ago:
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- Comment on Avocado 2 days ago:
You’d be surprised.
- Comment on Avocado 2 days ago:
Like what it smells like but pissier and salty af. At first. After you slather on it for a while it all just tastes the same because you’ve cleaned it with your mouth and throat. I do not enjoy unclean penis. It is not fun, it is not hot. Please clean your nasty cocks for the love of god. Hygiene, people, hygiene!
- Comment on Avocado 2 days ago:
Oh god I’m close keep going
- Comment on A postal worker in Harlem attacked a trans woman. She fought back and fatally stabbed him in self-defense. This is how the NY Post framed it. 2 days ago:
Do you want to know what I actually think?
- Comment on Hit it and quit it 2 days ago:
I never go out. Only in.
- Comment on Hit it and quit it 2 days ago:
Le’what?
- Comment on Hit it and quit it 2 days ago:
Fuck. I was so thrown by the weird preview picture that I didn’t even register that there’s an entire Wikipedia article for it.
- Comment on A postal worker in Harlem attacked a trans woman. She fought back and fatally stabbed him in self-defense. This is how the NY Post framed it. 2 days ago:
I think that’s what cops do.
- Comment on A postal worker in Harlem attacked a trans woman. She fought back and fatally stabbed him in self-defense. This is how the NY Post framed it. 2 days ago:
Actually, I think you do. It doesn’t matter who started it, if you’re afraid for your life, I think you have the right to defend your life.
- Comment on [deleted] 2 days ago:
No. Most people don’t care about that age gap.
Though, if there’s a clear power imbalance in a way thats exploitative, that could be a problem.
20 years is worthy of other conversations though. Considerations about genuineness, compatibility, and practicality do arise, but those are all personal and situational.
If you don’t feel comfortable, you don’t have to do it. But, being lonely is super toxic for us and I opine that your daughter’s heart is in the right place.
- Comment on Hit it and quit it 2 days ago:
The teenage mom strategy
- Comment on A postal worker in Harlem attacked a trans woman. She fought back and fatally stabbed him in self-defense. This is how the NY Post framed it. 2 days ago:
Which will up the rate of self defense.
- Comment on A postal worker in Harlem attacked a trans woman. She fought back and fatally stabbed him in self-defense. This is how the NY Post framed it. 2 days ago:
Damn. I gotta up my self defense game then. She’s a paragon.
- Comment on A postal worker in Harlem attacked a trans woman. She fought back and fatally stabbed him in self-defense. This is how the NY Post framed it. 2 days ago:
Wait it’s self defense though.
- Comment on A postal worker in Harlem attacked a trans woman. She fought back and fatally stabbed him in self-defense. This is how the NY Post framed it. 2 days ago:
It was self defense though.
- Comment on I feel attacked 2 days ago:
At avoidance of being real: no it means Japan.
- Comment on A postal worker in Harlem attacked a trans woman. She fought back and fatally stabbed him in self-defense. This is how the NY Post framed it. 2 days ago:
Holy shit she emptied two mags into him and then stabbed him 14 times and then claimed self defense? That’s actually insane.
- Comment on Delicious 4 days ago:
sigh… Yeaahhhhh…
… Yeahhh… Okay, that’s fair. Mini me and fatjokes and racism… And ageism… Yeah It’s not good.
Love guru though, I wiped that pos from my memory. So, my humblest appogies on that mistake.
And don’t get me wrong, now thinking back to when I last watched the austin powers movies, I remember thinking “these still actually hold up at all, but won’t last a ton longer”.
Damn.
My memory even of like three years ago had me only remembering the good parts.
What about Ace Ventura? Surel- fuck. I mean. There’s gotta be an amount of space for accepting some parts of movies that would otherwise not hold up, right? Like, I’m sure these people have come with us in society and learned better as society has…right? 🥹
