Oceans Yet to Burn

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Anonymous asked:

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You know, I got that on [other platform], too.  In fact, someone once approached my girlfriend at the time because they were too cripplingly socially anxious to approach me.

…and also my other ex described my dating profile as a bit that way, once…

A-am I not moe enough?  * hides pile of guns under strawberry plush pillow *

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[argumate]

mafia protection rackets are so infuriating, probably because all the incentives are to just pay up, which is how they work.

it’s so tempting to try and imagine impractical ways of breaking the system.

[flakmaniak]

It always impresses me how these gangs can be “more powerful than the police” and operate with relative impunity even in first-world countries.

I mean, you’d think the way to beat them would be to tell the cops. And yet, the government, for all its power, is often not the biggest force, and not just in an “I can shoot you and they can get me afterwards but not stop me” sense.

And of course, the “people fled the country rather than testify” thing seems… Like something you have to have an answer to.

[argumate]

infuriating! I think it’s easier to stop drug smuggling than protection rackets, as that involves a physical object that has to be shipped around distributed and can be intercepted at various points in the process.

but protection rackets are just this diffuse cloud of seemingly unrelated activities; people talking to each other over here, money changing hands over there, the occasional shop burning down or dude getting whacked somewhere else.

since police can’t offer 24 hour protection for every single person in town, there is always going to be someone vulnerable to extortion, and the incentive is always going to be to pay a small fee rather than risk defying them.

maddening!

[mitigatedchaos]

Secret police, but instead of enforcing ideological conformity to the Party, they attempt to catch politicians with kickbacks, investigate labor and environmental regulation violations, and crash protection rackets.

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When talking about monstergirls, we are talking about something that is both greater and lesser than human.  More powerful, sometimes overwhelmingly so, while also more animalistic and wild.  Sexual, enthusiastic, playful.

What men want, the longing in their hearts, is to be wanted.  To be validated, in the only way that masculinity can be.

The straight female fantasy of her own overwhelming desirability taming a terrifying and powerful, yet handsome and charming creature, more masculine than any mere man, and monopolizing it to her own ends, is matched in its male mirror.

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It’s gonna suck when all the dudes start gene modding themselves to be taller, setting off the Basketball Arms Race.