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• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨How come there is so many commercials to make a guy hard but not something for women that will enjoy sex more? No pun intended in this but why are women getting royally fucked?⁩ ⁨⁨10⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago⁩:

  There’s a conflation of concepts here. Having an erection and enjoying sex are two separate things. Porn stars take Viagra to stay hard for uncomfortable sex for instance and men have been slipped Viagra to make it easier to sexually assault. It’s easy to give a man an erection. The mechanism is well known that you want to ultimately get vasodilation going on in the corpus cavernosum so blood pools there. Enjoying sex more is a much broader thing for women (and men). It’s possible that someone who had a pubic nerve injury or has cardiovascular problems would have better sex with Viagra. The problem might be elsewhere. Maybe it’s trauma. Maybe it’s pain/vaginismus. Maybe it’s not having explored one’s body yet.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨If Osama Bin Laden was given the option: commit terror acts against the US; or install trump as president. With full knowledge of the results of multiple trump presidencys which would he chose?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  If significant positive change were to come from this, it wouldn’t nullify Trump’s actions, but it would certainly look different years later.

  I hope given people are so disillusioned with Dems who run to the center and MAGA that leftism could have its moment in our lifetimes.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨What's up with all the captions on short form videos?⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  It’s probably great for the hearing impaired/deaf and ESL communities.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Why is the US so into Israel?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  US police departments also have a history of training with the IDF and the US is learning surveillance and profiling strategies from them too.

  https://www.amnestyusa.org/blog/with-whom-are-many-u-s-police-departments-training-with-a-chronic-human-rights-violator-israel/ https://www.congress.gov/117/meeting/house/115009/documents/HHRG-117-JU00-20220719-SD003.pdf https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2020/6/12/how-the-us-and-israel-exchange-tactics-in-violence-and-control

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨How did old-money people of color maintain their wealth through racist times?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  This is a super broad topic and is going to vary a lot by who the exploited and exploiters were and what type of society was present. I’m going to stick to Africa and the US white/black relations because that’s what I am the most read up on though I am nowhere near a historian.

  Generally, POC got to keep their wealth or amass it if they were performed some sort of function for whites or were not perceived as a threat which would invite confiscation. Sometimes Europeans were not interested in settling a territory but were interested in extracting capital from that territory. In such cases, Europeans would rely on a few natives to do their bidding and those natives may have even had some administrative role. Think the Dahomey raiders of Benin, the Tutsi of Rwanda, Americo-Liberians (although technically not natives). There were those like the Ethiopians who resisted conquest and colonization altogether but I don’t know much about them.

  When Europeans settled/colonized a land and thus extracted resources and administered that land themselves, IMO those POC’s best bet to maintain wealth was to not draw white ire. In the US, black people tended to do okay in DC as there was some access to well paying federal jobs and for the most part the federal government prevented race riots in the capital city. To this day, the DC and broader DC/Maryland/Virginia area tends to hold more successful black people. There were some black enclaves in Wilmington, NC ("The place for black opportunity"); Tulsa, OK(Black Wall Street); Atlanta (Sweet Auburn) and elsewhere where black people were well off financially. They made money through commerce with other black people until that white ire befell them. The Wilmington and Tulsa Riots destroyed those black communities. Atlanta had a race riot as well though successful black communities persist there.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Not to get into a debate. If God is so omnipotent and above humans why does he or she have emotions? Like smiting or being upset or wrath?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I don’t think it necessarily follows that omnipotence necessitates lack of emotion.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨How do I ACTUALLY get hired by the United States Postal Services (USPS)?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  The USPS is on Project 2025’s list to gut and privatize.