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[Reelya]

Yeah, I got that after taking a more in depth look at the whole thing. What threw me was forgetting how conservative media frame these issues, which is to throw muck: "oh yeah, well you too!", rather than to seriously discuss the pros and cons of the actual bill under discussion.

Well let's check out how valid the accusations are:

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Singapore and Malaysia, where PayPal have centers, have these anti-gay laws, but they're a remnant of colonial British law. Remember that anti-sodomy laws were finally struck-down in 14 states by The USA's Supreme court way back in the dark ages of 2003! "Oh well we got rids of those laws a full 12 years ago, you savages" doesn't really fly.

Those laws are basically never enforced in Singapore whatsoever, rendering the point entirely moot. Nobody is crying out about gays jailed in Singapore because it basically never happens. There was one possible case of a guy jailed for 1 year, but in that case he was charged with infecting the other person with HIV, which he already knew he had and didn't tell the other person. No other charges were even leveled against him, basically showing that they turn a blind eye to those obsolete laws.

In Malaysia they do have a history of arresting transgender people. But that law was struck down by their version of the Supreme Court in 2014, not long after PayPal arrived in Malaysia. And the number of people in prison on the anti-gay laws is basically non-existent. This study of all anti-gay laws worldwide could only find 1 person in Malaysia held under those laws. And I'm pretty sure that one guy is Anwar Ibrahim, who was an upcoming political leader who had a falling-out with the president, and was arrested on what appear to be fake charges to defame him and remove him from power. I can find numerous references to people arrested under the laws (i.e. police harassment), but zero references to people actually in court over the charges, or sentenced over the charges. So, basically it looks like the police use the laws to generally harass people (which police will do even without laws) but those charges hardly ever escalate to an actual court case.

So, what's PayPal supposed to protest here, about the mere existence of these laws which never get enforced? The same laws were widespread in the USA until 2003. Adding new discriminatory laws is a different kettle of fish to the mere existence of obsolete laws that nobody really uses.

[Orange Wizard]

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[Frumple]

otome game for 2016 candidate lineup when

Actually, yeah, if they did that, Christi(n)e would have to be the main character, all the republican and democratic nominees the potential capture targets. When doing that sort of thing, the jowliest one goes in the frilly dress.

[itisnotlogical]

I wonder if I could get a Donald Trump kigurumi

[SalmonGod]

Spoiler: Couldn't not share (click to show/hide)

[Frumple]

That...

... why did they put her in Bulma's outfit? And bernie not in an appropriate suit. It hurts my brain just by how much it doesn't mesh with what it's riffing on.

E: +1 for effort, -(Everything) for execution. You can't pull that shit on the generations that actually grew up having watched the show

E2: Though... does that mean bill's vegeta? Trunks got 63'd, I guess.

Also it'd... kinda' fit better the other way around. Bulma actually had a notable relationship with someone else, whereas vegeta was fairly monogamous so far as I can recall. Which would fit with the text better! Except the outfits are all wrong. It'd have to be crossdressing for everyone to make this analogy fit.

Except bernie, I guess. Though portraying him as a (kinda' murderous!) high ideal idiot savant is...

[smjjames]

AND they should have gone with the over 9000 thing than 1000, just for the lulz.

[Orange Wizard]

That...

... why did they put her in Bulma's outfit? And bernie not in an appropriate suit. It hurts my brain just by how much it doesn't mesh with what it's riffing on.

E: +1 for effort, -(Everything) for execution. You can't pull that shit on the generations that actually grew up having watched the show

I dunno, it's like twenty years old at this point. I barely remember what was going on.

I wonder if I could get a Donald Trump kigurumi

Kawaii

[Frumple]

Look OW, just because early onset senility is setting in for you doesn't mean the rest of us have that problem

[Sheb]

AND they should have gone with the over 9000 thing than 1000, just for the lulz.

The joke is that he currently has over 100 delegates.

[Ibid Straydrink]

Toupe hell... like bullet hell, but with hair? Quick, someone go and replace every instance of Flowey with Trump. Game o' the year material, there.

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[Amuys]

Donald Trump has the best spellcards of all the candidates.

[Wolfhunter107]

http://www.usatoday.com/story/news/politics/2016/04/08/proposed-senate-bill-would-require-tech-companies-break-encryption/82798862/

Edit: If any of you guys are in North Carolina or California, please do us a favor and vote these people out of office.

[Strife26]

Will (hypothetical) Missouri tech companies be able to skip it if they can claim it goes against their definition of marriage as an institution between one man and one woman?

[mainiac]

Lol