I'm not saying I don't like Bush but it's a little silly to call me ungrateful after the whole Iraq and Afghanistan debacle.

Yes. I've see the Kate Bush.

Not how we’re wired, how patriarchy views both forms. Seriously, you can’t just put up a study that confirms an assumption of patriarchy without acknowledging that it is, on some level, circular logic.

This is a wonderful idea, it's not a falsifiable theory though. This makes assumptions that Patriarchy in its current form is so deeply ingrained it affects every study on nudity preferences done at the subconscious level. So the only way your idea could ever be proven is if we, in a vacuum, develop cloned humans and developed a specific matriarchal society for them that we some how teach them without any possible contamination, and then repeat tests like these and see if there's a difference.

Patriarchy is the dominant worldview, patriarchy says that beauty is a feminine trait, most people agree that women are more beautiful than men. All that proves is that most people accept the patriarchal definition of beauty.

Or alternatively, Patriarchy developed from common human traits in majority, which resulted in a preference for the female form in regards to beauty (it didn't), which associated beauty as a feminine trait (it didn't), and thus it's not the tail that wags the dog, but indeed the opposite.

If you conducted this same study in ancient Greece, would you expect the same result? If no, then cultural views of beauty play a big role in this. If yes, then why were the ancient Greeks obsessed with male nudity?

Yes, actually. And more specifically it would benefit your argument if that study was done -- since Ancient Greece was a heavily patriarchal society regardless of which period you pick and which society you want to pick within Ancient Greece. Arguably it was a more patriarchal society than today; with the fact women were not seen as sexual partners (Athens, Sparta, etc), just spouses meant to produce children.

We'd also have to broach the fact that outside a few renaissance artists imitating an ignorant variance of ancient Greece, there was not an obsession with male nudity over female nudity. They were just more open with both compared to later western societies that built themselves with Greece as a template.

In most studies most women and most men prefer looking at female nudity.

The "male gaze" is objectively just an unfortunate condition of how we're wired. We all like looking at conventionally attractive women. Even straight women. So that will always be the default in any game with artists selected at random from the general artistic population.

Pretty much all steam games that don't have secondary DRM can be made to be steamless with tools like the Goldberg emulator (Disclaimer this project is meant for games you own and have permission to replace steam on, it's not a piracy tool, but you can use it to archive installed games). PS5 games are two decades out, at minimum, to be emulated.

Thanks to collectors and scalpers, the secondary games market is pretty much nonexistent for modern consoles. So reselling isn't going to get you enough to buy anything really.

You need to reevaluate where you get your mods. There's plenty of mods specifically changing the sex scenes, expanding them, and allowing ridiculous things to happen within them.

Headline within the decade:

Study says AI in schools may be doing more harm than good

Because why would removing all creative and high paying proletariat jobs leaving only the worst and lowest paying ones, offloading all critical thought to shitty machines based in drought stricken areas that are destroying water availability, and eliminating online discourse, ever possibly backfire for the proletariat.

Don't worry, soon police will stop getting arrested for it.

And remember, in any country where these cameras exist police do not need a warrant to access this informaion.

No, things outside the player's field of view are unloaded to save memory, obviously.

One of the most evil men in world history. Hopefully his grave is found soon so we can Thatcher it.

The argument is based on the relationship between legal porn and prevalence of sex crimes against adults; as pornography becomes easier to access, sex crimes go down.

Also supported by the negative correlation between violent video games and real world violence.

This is also supported by the negative correlation of violent media in general and violent crimes.

While one could make the argument that because pedophiles have different brain chemistry that they would not be as affected as the general population, there's no actual evidence of this. Additionally is the curious fact that most child sex offenders are not pedophiles, so there would be a limited reduction in actual crimes against children while allowing obscene material that could harm the general public.

The majority of Russians still support this war.

You mean in polls conducted in a country where secret police have literally posed as pollsters and arrested people, and where police just openly arrest anyone that speaks out against the regime, there isn't a large consensus speaking out against the regime?!

My God, they're all monsters, even the children!

Well it's good you support vulnerable populations. Say did you hear about this guy pretty much universally called a dictator who forcibly conscripts innocent poor kids and ethnic minorities into his foreign war for power while keeping most of his military at home in order to ensure tight control over the domestic population so they can't meaningfully rebel and even when they do international media spins it as the enemy country in this dictator's war having a successful attack even when it's obvious domestic sabotage that likely has nothing to do with the war except, obviously, the forced conscription and increased domestic military presence?

Man that seems like a target rich environment full of blood thirsty enemies for you to root for the complete and total genocide of and not at all a vulnerable population.

You know it's hard to not believe the 'Ukrainians are nazis' propaganda when you tend to advocate for genocide as often as literally any Israeli twitter account.

Unlike Russia, China doesn’t even pretend to have elections

Wtf did I vote in then?

is actively conducting ethnic cleansing in Tibet

You sure about that?

Inner Mongolia,

You sure about that?

Xinjiang

You sure about that?

Edit: To clarify all three links, the only claim of ethnic cleansing for the former two are that China is "erasing culture" by teaching kids Mandarin so they're not trapped forever in Tibet or Inner Mongolia and have a chance at a normal life of social mobility in the rest of the country where most the jobs and education are; China still teaches, by law, ethnic languages and culture. This includes Cantonese in that area, which is never brought up because they're not brown enough I guess. All other claims about Xinjiang are also wrong or misleading, and I can address those as needed, but given you grouped them together it's better to do the Rock meme instead of taking someone like you seriously until you start learning to accept at least some of the information people have paid to have you know is wrong.

illegally claiming territory from India and in the South China Sea

The name's a clue. Also no, no territory has been claimed from India, despite what the fascist Modi thinks.

applied pressure on independent Mongolia for recognizing the independent authority of the Dalai Lama,

You mean the pedophile who adovcates for child sex slavery?

has a heavy censorship regime in place

Yes, because propaganda works, since you believe the things the US paid for you to believe.

(including non-recognition of the Tiananmen Square massacres),

Then this link shouldn't exist, right? (note to people other than the person I'm replying to, yeah I could've searched longer on Baidu or even used a VPN to access the actual government info page for it, but I'm lazy, not currently in China, and that would be useless to an American this far gone.)

has rolled back most of Hong Kong’s freedoms

Name one. A single one. I think more affordable housing, food, and actual transportation seems to be a key to more freedom, not less.

uses its own citizens to spy on its nationals living abroad

This is a conspiracy theory created entirely by RadioFreeAsia. There is no actual source of this information that does not link back to it.

and continues to seek the annexation of Taiwan and the end of its democratic government.

The government born out of fascism, had no elections until the US forced them to in the 1990s by threatening to get rid of its support if it didn't?

It's not annexation if it's reunification of a land illegally held by a fascist group that committed genocide of the Taiwanese in order to occupy their land illegally.

Also, while its form of imperialism does not have the overtly militaristic character of Russia or the affinity for regime change of the U.S., the Belt and Road Initiative is not merely an altruistic means for China to facilitate exports, but rather a form of neo-colonialism that gives China substantial and unbalanced access to natural resources in the Global South. Taking on substantial debt from China leaves many countries over-leveraged and dependent on China for further investment, for which China expects political support on the international stage, including express non-recognition of Taiwan by any means.

Weird, then, that they forgive debt constantly, stopped imposing tariffs as they allowed African countries as the relationship deepened, and leave countries when asked.

If Imperialism was like that, we'd all be better off as colonies of such an empire. Only it's not imperialism, objectively, by any definition from the man that defined it.

Anyone calling China a dictatorship or that puts it on the same level as Russia is either intentionally misinformed or being paid to promote misinformation.

Which is it for you?

> Attack Iran because Bibi said a meme

> Get ass whopped, several tens of billions of dollars in military infrastructure damage,

> several tens of billions of dollars in stockpiled air defense missiles gone in three months,

>several tens of billions of dollars in ship defense munitions gone to trying to defend Israel

>show the entire world American and Israeli air defense is completely useless

>show the entire world that either China or Russia could eliminate the US one-sidedly if nukes were off the table

>pay Iran $300 billion to stop crashing the western economy

>agree to allow Iran and Oman to charge for passage through the strait in perpetuity permanently increasing oil prices for allies while not harming enemies at all

>agree to allow Iranian development of nuclear weapons without intervention

>mission accomplished.

I'm pretty sure they're still proud of the war, given their attitudes towards apologizing to Korea and China.

Left out of the story: He said it in Japanese and the Germans had no idea what he was saying.