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In NNY it’s called momcorp.

included sending a preserved fetal pig, a bloody pig Halloween mask and a book on surviving the loss of a spouse… Their home address also was posted online with announcements inviting strangers to yard sales and parties. Some of the defendants also sent private Twitter messages and public tweets criticizing the newsletter’s content and threatening to visit the victims … The third phase of the campaign involved surveilling the victims in their home and community. The victims spotted the surveillance and notified the Natick Police, who began to investigate. … also sent live spiders, cockroaches and other disturbing items to the couple’s home

Executives are involved in doing this, to silence the creators of an e-commerce newsletter.

You could just as easily say nature wants empathy, cooperation and collective action. Also that tool use that Mr Frum seems so fond of, nature wants that too.

But of course the nature doesn’t want, it just is.

This is part of Leonard Leo’s plan to re-mccarthy-ize US society and purge anyone left of fascist, same way he orchestrated the right wing take over of our courts.

These are all excellent and effective strategies for most human brains, but just not all. Very difficult to deal with teenagers aren’t solely a product of ineffective parenting - it’s not a 100% preventable problem. There’s neurodivergences like ADHD or ASD, hormone-affecting conditions like PCOS, and more severe behavioural health problems like schizophrenia - these are all incredibly difficult for well-adjusted, materially comfortable adults to deal with.

I definitely agree that not abusing kids will help reduce the amount of un-deal-with-able issue that those kids have as teens, but you can’t just wave a wand and make abuse stop. Unless we as a society allocate a large amount of resources to break cycles of abuse and eliminate the kind of poverty in which abuse festers, there will still be noteworthy amounts of childhood trauma.

I think some kind of state-run teenaged-care facilities is the best, most realistic option. It’s still a lousy option, but there would be more accountability than the private-run troubled teen industry, which is itself an abuse factory.

That’s definitely how I try to be! 😊

Yeah, for sure - climatic upheaval always means large scale human migrations, as we can see today.

Some of groups listed by Ramesses III had been recorded as raiding egypt multiple times going back 50+ years before the raids/migrations mentioned at Medinet Habu. So while migrations were almost certainly going on, straight up piracy and raiding were probably also going on.

It’s easy to imagine mercenary groups that used to work for Mycenean or Hittite interests or local warlords who had been vassals to lords of collapsing states realizing that there was more profit elsewhere. The Sherden in particular seem to have been raiding Egypt for a while, with more and more groups listed as joining them on subsequent raids.

I’d presumed that the comments section of this sub was the ideal place for overly pedantic fun-ruining.

I would take issue with “cause” - the general increase in organized violence that the ‘sea peoples’ represent seems more like a symptom of the retreating power and capabilities of the great states than a direct cause. You can’t really have a single cause when you’re talking about the breakdown of a robust international system with that many interlocking pieces.

This just sounds like post partum depression to me.

Even if you’ve given kids good independence skills, there will always be a certain percentage where hormones just hit them like a ton of bricks and they go kinda wild. A lot of serious mental illnesses can emerge at this time as well.

Teenagers are a problem that predates cars or suburbs.

I heard that some abbot wrote that you should choose the dullest, least intelligent monks to be scribes since it’s just copying other’s work over and over again. I’m not surprised some of them got a little bored.

Thank you, you sweet voice of sanity!

Yep! It’s bonkers stuff. And it almost certainly represents a widespread cultural practice, since they felt the need to regulate how and when you could do it.

It really highlights for me not just how irrelevant and detrimental the bible is to our world, but how disruptive teenage hormones can be to a society. Thousands of years later and exclusion, abuse and killing are still the tools that the troubled teen industry uses.

Giving birth to someone does not give you the right to murder them.

Obviously not.

It just highlights how much of a problem teenagers can be that the only solution canaanites could find was “I guess sometimes killing them is ok?” It’s not. Throwing teenagers into the wilderness to pillage and rape is also quite obviously not on, nor is abusing them in a blizzard in Utah.

My point is that for thousands of years, we’ve been failing to find a reasonable way to deal with the problem of teenagers.

This is obviously brutish and inhumane, but it also highlights a real problem that we don’t have a great solution for: what the fuck do you do about teenagers? They’re often just unbearably awful. I know I was.

In the bible you get permission to declare your teenager wayward, take them outside the city gates and stone them to death.

Many Indo-European groups sent them off into the wilderness to harass and steal from distant or enemy towns, or to act as defensive scouts around your territory.

These teenagers sound like their behavior was pretty tame, but hormones are a hell of thing. Teenaged care facilities that aren’t just jail or a cult should probably exist.

“Violence” in that sentence means specifically violence against elites.

Violence is absolutely central to politics, since electoral politics is about who controls the state’s monopoly on legitimized violence.

The sentiment “Violence has no place in politics” is calling for violence to be kept where it belongs - directed at the poor and anyone with resources our elites want.

“Registered republican/democrat” is a very common phrase. I don’t think that expression does anything to whitewash anyone, it’s just a normal thing to hear.

When you register to vote you can register yourself as a member of a political party which allows you to vote in their primaries.

Every time someone tries to convince me that apples aren’t just garbage fruit they ask, “but have you tried honey crisps?” Yeah, have you tried any other fruit? The worst fruit from the tropics is just way better than the best apple.