@AngelCelt nah it was someone else, although of course the indian didnt contest it despite claiming to love his own history and people

@technolyze I dont believe so she told me she stopped doing that, not like I'd be so offended if she did

@technolyze my mom does my taxes thank God

@AngelCelt maybe he means an indo european people before it became syncretic? but hinduism got better over time, going from polytheistic to monistic or monotheistic

@AngelCelt @coolboymew ive always found it really difficult

@technolyze revenge for what? my SSRI?

@coolboymew a once incredibly important friendship ended although frankly it has been waning for some time now

@risperdoll I feel the same way. the tyrant of my mind is its internal dialogue

havent been this sad in a long time

@risperdoll my nana got expressive aphasia after a bad stroke. its not fun

@risperdoll thats a good question I wish I knew the answer

@risperdoll you'd still think in words and understand words you just wouldnt be able to produce them

@feld what does it entail

lowkey tormenting myself at this point

@lizzie seems like being a jain would be really good for him then

@nerthos @scathach those are mostly good points except the first one about a war between the sexes. I dont think letting women carry guns in edge cases where their lives are in danger but giving men a sword would cause a war between the sexes at all. I'm also sure I'd disagree when you say women have abused certain legal advantages. and finally the notion that women are equally violent but just get men to do their violence is unsubstantiated. women are genuinely less violent.
about your other points, theyre mostly much more rigorous. my question is, what do societies with less gun violence do differently? restricting guns has to be a part of it, even though you say criminals would get their guns in other ways (which I'm not denying).

@lizzie is he nonviolent thats pretty important

@nerthos @scathach I agree about equality of outcome philosophies being evil, but I dont see letting only women have guns as equality of outcome any more than letting only adults have drivers licenses or disabled people have parking spaces. women are much less likely to use guns for evil and much more likely to need them.
we envision the outcome of such a thing very differently, and I agree that if your vision of a gender apartheid society of every woman carrying a rifle and benefitting from the current arms industry and men being at their mercy came true it would be monstrous. but my vision is of a society where guns are almost anathema, and a few small handguns are used only by the weak who are in personal danger but can't defend themselves any other way. they would be used only in extreme cases where mace and tasers aren't enough. ideally they wouldnt exist at all of course and would be replaced by swordsmanship. such a vision in my eyes is better than what currently exists, which is a society at inner war between the gun toting members of the state apparatus, criminals and gangs, and citizenry who like guns or want to defend themselves from criminals and gangs. guns havent made the world a better place at all.
even if what you say is true and guns are readily manufactured, these would be crude things. you dont see people making their own cannons despite the ease of it.

@lizzie he believes in an unchanging self but not an ishvara? he should be a Jain. but the dietary rules are pretty hard lol.

@nerthos @scathach you really consider that and me evil? you say that villains should be branded to protect people but youre opposed to such a radical measure of anti-violence that would save countless lives? men could use other means to defend themselves. my concern is more rooted in a desire to see guns become rare in society along with all modern tools of mass murder than it is in any feminist militancy you think I possess. frankly if you consider "leave weapons for the weak to the weak while the strong can have weapons for the strong" evil I dont know what to tell you. you dont like me so why do you even follow me.