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#71

Off the Record / Re: What does a TRUMP presiden...

Last post by DGuller - Today at 12:24:09 AM

If they don't care or expect impunity for legal age trafficking, why would they give a shit for underage rape?

Because every sense of impunity has a backstop:  if worse comes to worse, what's your plan B?  Legal age trafficking can be explained away with various degrees of plausibility, both in court and in public opinion.  Underage sex is strict liability:  if you did it, you did it, there is no gradation, so nothing for your lawyers or your PR team to sink your teeth into.  Unless a couple of years in your sex partner really makes such a huge difference to you, why would you give someone permanent non-negotiable leverage over you when you're on top of the world?

#72

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Last post by crazy canuck - Today at 12:14:14 AM

Impunity seems to be a hell of a drug.

Interestingly enough, and somewhat unsurprisingly, a lot of good thought about it from 18th century moralists and abolitionists.

Indeed

#73

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Last post by Zoupa - December 21, 2025, 11:31:39 PM

If they don't care or expect impunity for legal age trafficking, why would they give a shit for underage rape?

#74

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Last post by Razgovory - December 21, 2025, 11:17:43 PM

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Also men who dislike Transmen are misandrist.

#75

Gaming HQ / Re: Europa Universalis V confi...

Last post by jimmy olsen - December 21, 2025, 10:41:10 PM

Or it is just needlessly complicated to code to cater to a niche group.  Better to spend those resources elsewhere.

No it is pretty shitty coding if clicking between start dates causes the game to load improperly.

I totally understood their stance that maintaining many little used start dates (let alone history of everyday in the period) was not worth the resource. But if you do have more than one, game shouldn't break as you browse the different scenarios.

For EUV, I think time will tell if they need to budge or not. Difference with EUV is it picked only start date in a century none of the others covered. Could possibly be there are enough legacy fans who would actually play a 15th century start date.

Pretty sure I do remember a dev report where they looked at the data and said basically nobody chooses any dates but the earliest ones.

I pick the 1066 date in Crusader Kings like 95% of the time.

#76

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Last post by DGuller - December 21, 2025, 10:35:46 PM

Impunity seems to be a hell of a drug.

Interestingly enough, and somewhat unsurprisingly, a lot of good thought about it from 18th century moralists and abolitionists.

I have a hard time believing that even people of Bill Gates level of power would expect impunity for underage sex, it's just such a nuclear topic that is totally binary, and they know that it is.  What does seem very plausible is expecting impunity for legal-age trafficking.

#77

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Last post by HVC - December 21, 2025, 10:35:25 PM

Something I still don't get about the whole Epstein story is, why did so many powerful men want to hang around him?  Is pedophilia really that common of an interest, and Esptein was a high-end dealer?  Or was Epstein running a honeypot operation where the powerful men didn't know how young the women really were, until they got trapped and had to become regulars?

My assumption is many were there for the girls, a smaller portion were there because they knew they were young but most were there for the cool trips and island. Part of all the cool kids are doing it so I want to do be there too to be in the in group. The new money trap. I mean if you're rich getting pretty girls can't be that hard, can it?

But you know what they say about assumptions.

#78

Gaming HQ / Re: Europa Universalis V confi...

Last post by jimmy olsen - December 21, 2025, 10:33:49 PM

I noticed the Ottomans were called "The Kingdom of the Ottomans." I found this very confusing. Then I clicked on them. They had converted to Orthodoxy 

Not even the most deranged alt-hist freak would talk about what would happen if the Ottomans had embraced Orthodoxy. Paradox has make sure totally deranged things like that would ever happen.

Now maybe Bulgaria just really kicked their ass and forced converted them during a war but I don't think so.

Wouldn't people just call them the second Eastern Roman Empire if they converted to Orthodoxy?

#79

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Last post by Oexmelin - December 21, 2025, 10:25:19 PM

Impunity seems to be a hell of a drug.

Interestingly enough, and somewhat unsurprisingly, a lot of good thought about it from 18th century moralists and abolitionists.

#80

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Last post by DGuller - December 21, 2025, 10:18:45 PM

Something I still don't get about the whole Epstein story is, why did so many powerful men want to hang around him?  Is pedophilia really that common of an interest, and Esptein was a high-end dealer?  Or was Epstein running a honeypot operation where the powerful men didn't know how young the women really were, until they got trapped and had to become regulars?