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Exactly! 😁

Not all coercive, non-consensual sex rises to the level of aggravated rape. Sometimes girls and women give in to sexual coercion when they don't want to, just to get past the moment with as little harm as they can manage to.

How do we prevent a full-grown man from imposing himself sexually on a woman or girl a third or half his size?

After Roe is overturned, how soon will it be before we see states try to pass legislation that criminalizes women who travel for abortions in legal states and then return home? I could see something like that being tied up in federal courts for years, which by itself would give the idea the imprimatur of even-handed legitimacy.

He was caught on the phone already trying to!

Randy Quaid looks like he’s been dealing without electricity, heat, and water for some time now.

Here’s my link: https://www.brennancenter.org/our-work/research-reports/its-official-election-was-secure Now let’s see yours.

Apologies if this was posted here last week because I don’t remember seeing it, but: my new favorite news anchors.

We already have that, in spades.

It's true Chicago was 28th on a list from 2019. Chicago wasn't even in the top 30 on Bunker's updated 2022 list. But whatever. Go ahead and parrot Trump's Chicago Worse Than Afghanistan trope. Feel free to believe that. Here, I'll help you: you don't wanna come here. Stay away. It's worse than Afghanistan. Stay in Detroit. 😏

Good luck with that.

What city is missing from that list? 🤔

The irony about many people who want to “know as much about this virus as possible” is that the “knowledge” they’re are obtaining from their various sketchy sources is not making them more knowledgeable about the virus at all.

And those other 28 cities would have more. Some way more.

If they all had three million people there'd be a lot more killed in these cities than in Chicago!

I guess I'll stay out of grocery stores and side streets around there, then! This'll cheer you up: just this summer I was riding north on Sacramento one afternoon, approaching that MLK boys club at Washington. I saw three kids, maybe mid-teens, walking south on the sidewalk alongside the club in the approaching direction. As I drew within a few dozen yards I saw one kid kind of notice me and look like he was 'fi'na do something, so I got a notion. And as I was passing them, sure enough, the one kid kind of lerched a step toward me raising both arms up and shouted EEEYAH! And at the same time I leaned toward them and shouted "BOO!" and grinned. And as I was biking away I could hear peals of laughter receding into the distance behind me. Wouldn't it have been funny if they pulled out a gun and shot me? Because, you know, that's exactly what you would expect mid-teen kids in the city to do to a guy riding a bike on a major street in the middle of the day, amirite? 😆

You seem to be fine that hundreds of thousands people are being killed in America when comparable countries in the world aren't having such a problem. As long as you don't feel endangered though.

What do St. Louis, Baltimore, Birmingham, Detroit, Dayton, Baton Rouge, New Orleans, Kansas City, Memphis, Cleveland, Richmond, Miami Gardens, Washington, North Charleston, Peoria, Philadelphia, Columbia, San Bernadino, Cincinnati, Columbus GA, Tuscaloosa, Atlanta, Indianapolis, Little Rock, Shreveport, Montgomery, and Buffalo all have in common? https://www.cbsnews.com/pictures/murder-map-deadliest-u-s-cities/

I suppose I can see why you infer that I said that, although I didn't say that. My original point was that unless you see all this crime first-hand, which most people even in city of Chicago do not, then the only way to conclude that crime is out of control is that you're being told that it's out of control. It would be the media most people would hear such a thing from. Because I haven't seen crime first-hand, and because I haven't had to change anything about the way I live my life here due to crime, I don't perceive crime as being out of control. I suppose if I were to see a few instances of crime first-hand—a gang beating on the street, being in a store that gets held up, witnessing a shooting, getting car-jacked—that would change my perception of my vulnerability to crime here. And who knows, maybe that will happen sooner than later. But until then, I'm going to take the same precautions I have been for 25 years here, and not worry about it any more than I have. In the meantime, I don't agree that I should be made to feel guilty for not feeling freaked out by crime here.

Actually, I do ride my bike through there a lot in the summer! When the wind is coming in from the south to southeast, I'll ride over to California, down to Augusta, across to Sacramento, then down Sacramento straight through East Garfield and Douglass Park. Sacramento swings back out to California, I go past County, to 35th, all the way across to the lake, back up the lake to Fullerton, then down Lincoln Park West to Armitage, across to Racine, jot down to Cortland, pick up the 606 at Marshfield, then on home. It's a good ride. The only problem I have is how tore up the pavement is between County and 35th, mainly because the Stevenson comes through there and no one lives along there, so there's no money in it to fix it up around there. So gotta be careful for the tires.

Man, so much going on here ... I didn't say this. You're making this up. They can say crime is out of control any time they want. Applying the phrase "out of control" is as much a narrative decision in service of their business as it is an objective reflection of reality. What are you talking about? I answered your question multiple times! I even gave you a number like you wanted! How can you say I'm still going around in circles! 😅 Well, as it turns out, the final number of murders in Chicago as reported by CPD was 797, which is less than 800, so, by the number I gave you, and that you appear to accept, Chicago's crime rate is not "out of control". I know where your calculation came from. I told you where it came from. Now this statement looks like you're trying to make me feel guilty about something. I have no idea what I should be feeling guilty about. In the end, it occurs to me that the source of your frustration with me is that I don't view this through the same lens that you do, and you can't understand how that could even be possible.

I see, OK. Although you're basically saying here you've already given up on me giving you a number, anyway. I've never had a number for this. I've never thought about it in those terms. I believe "out of control" is a subjective perceptual condition, and my subjective perception is that crime in Chicago is not out of control. If I perceived crime here to be out of control, I'd probably be planning to move, because I wouldn't continue living in an environment that I felt endangered me and my wife on an everyday basis. If you want to believe that 175 is the maximum number of murders Chicago can experience and still be within control, that's your perception. Whether it's based on a calculation you made from another city's number, or whether you're pulling it out of your ear, that's up to you. Although as I said, it hasn't been as low as 175 for some eight or so decades. But OK, if you want me to put a number on it ... mmm, I don't know, let's say ... 800. Anything over 800 murders is out of control. So if Chicago had over 800 murders last year, it's out of control. If they had 799 or fewer, it's within control. How's that? Now what?

Oh, I see, OK. I thought you were being serious about the attack thing. lol. Anyway, I did a post saying the only indication I have that crime in Chicago is out of control is from the media telling me it is. I also posted what I personally consider to be out of control, and you had your fun with it, and I'm sure you will again, and that's pretty cool, right? So what else do you want from me?

lol at I'm doing some attack on you! Where did I do that? I'm not the one passive-aggressively dismissing the other guy to other people here. Or is asking for clarification considered an attack now?

I guess I'm a very bad man because I'm not frightened out of my wits at walking out of my house into the lawless urban hellscape that is Chicago, I guess. Who knows what you want from me here, although I suspect I'm giving you what you really want all along. 😁